Brazil will return to the field of play in a friendly encounter against another South America side Colombia on the 7th of September,2019.
Brazil will be playing for the first time after winning the Copa America on home soil back in July with an unbeaten record without the help of their poster boy Neymar Jr. due to an ankle injury.
The big news is that Neymar is set for a return to feature for the Samba Boys with the likes of Dani Alves who will be captaining the team, Thiago Silva, Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho as they square it out with Colombia.
Vinicius Junior has been invited to stand in for Manchester City attacker Gabriel Jesus who suffers a hamstring injury.
Manchester City shot stopper Ederson will be standing in for injured Liverpool's goal Keeper Allison, on the opposite side Liverpool's midfielder Fabinho will replace City's Fernandinho.
Colombia
Colombia on the other hand will also be making a return to the field of play after crashing out at the quarter finals of the 2019 Copa America after losing to Chile on penalties.
Colombia maintained a 100% record at the group stages but couldn't make it to the final.
So this is a strong test as they wish to bounce back to winning ways.
Colombia will be missing the services of their veteran strikers Falcao and James Rodriguez as they both suffer ankle injury and calf injury respectively while playing for their respective clubs.
With the absence of this duo coach Carlos Queiroz has invited Atlanta duo Zapata and Luis Muriel as a great replacement for the veterans strikers.
Zapata has been in good scoring form scoring 2 goals in two Serie A matches.
With a very composed defense line up Colombia has only concerned once in their last 8 matches.
Form
Brazil
Brazil went all the way to the final of the just concluded Copa America on home soil without losing any match, with five (5) win and one(1) draw scoring a total of 13 goals and conceding only one (1).
Brazil haven't lost in their last 16 games with a winning streak of 4 matches.
In international friendly games the Samba Boys have a winning streak of 3 matches.
Colombia
Colombia will be hope to return to winning ways after losing 4-5 on penalties to Chile at the Copa America quarter finals.
They won Argentina, Qatar and Paraguay 2-0,1-0,1-0 respectively at the group stage of the competition.
Colombia has only lose only once (to Korea 2-1) in their last 8 international friendly matches highest being a 3-0 win over Panama and Peru respectively.
Head To Head
Both sides has meet on 31 occasions with Brazil enjoying an upper advantage in terms of win, 19-3 and 9 draws.
In their last 6 encounters, Brazil has won 4, draw 1 and lose 1.
In the last 28 years Colombia has only been able to defeat Brazil only once, at the 2015 Copa America.
Betting Tips
1×
With the return of Nermay Jr. to the squad, Brazil will be favorite to come out victorious as they continue their dominance over Colombia.
Under 2.5
With both teams parading a composed, discipline and impressive defenders, so it will be actually very hard to witness so many goals against these top defense therefore we are expecting a relatively low scoring encounter.
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