Flamengo will host Juventude at the Estadio do Maracana on Wednesday in the fourth round of the 2025 Brasileirão Serie A campaign. The hosts will be hoping to continue their fine start to the season and maintain their place at the top of the table.
The Urubu picked up a largely comfortable 2-0 win away to Gremio during the weekend to make it two wins out of three, having drawn their opening league game. The hosts, who finished in third place last season, have started the campaign brightly and will be keen to remain in such form to establish themselves high up on the league table early on in the season.
Juventude created a flurry of chances to come back from being a goal down in their 2-1 win when they hosted Ceará on Saturday. The visitors, who only narrowly escaped relegation last season, have also won two of their opening three but lost to Botafogo in the second round and will be looking to get as many points as possible in the early stages to help their campaign.
Flamengo vs Juventude Head-to-Head and Key Numbers
- This midweek’s fixture will mark the 30th meeting between these two sides. Both teams are evenly matched across their previous 29 games, with both sides registering 11 wins apiece and their remaining seven contests ending in draws.
- The hosts have an impressive goal-scoring record in recent editions of this fixture, with 14 goals scored across the last five meetings with Juventude.
- The visitors have only failed to score in one of the six meetings between the sides since the 2007 season.
- Mengao finished last season with the best offensive record in the league (61) and are already the joint-highest-scoring team (5) after the opening three games of this campaign.
- Alviverde had the second-worst defensive record in the Brazilian top flight (59) last season and have kept one clean sheet in their opening three games.
Flamengo vs Juventude Prediction
Flamengo are heavy favorites going into Wednesday's game thanks to their much better quality and remarkable attacking threat and will only need to avoid complacency to get the win.
Juventude will be satisfied to get a point against one of the league's best sides but will need something special to avoid defeat at a ground where they last won in 2005.
Prediction: Flamengo 3-1 Juventude
Flamengo vs Juventude Betting Tips
Tip 1 - Result: Flamengo to win
Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Over 2.5 goals (Each of the last five matches between the two teams have produced than 2.5 goals)
Tip 3 - Both teams to score: Yes (Both sides have found the back of the net in four of their last five matchups)