Newcastle United’s Bruno Guimaraes has impressed quite a bit for his club in the past couple of seasons.
Ideally, that would directly hand him a spot in the Brazil national team line-up but for the game against Chile, Selecao boss Dorival Junior had excluded him from the XI.
The Brazil manager had explained that it was a tactical exclusion and nothing more than that.
Dorival is keen on having Guimaraes back, with the Wolves star putting in a ‘poor performance’ against Chile and it clearly wasn’t enough for him to play in the game tomorrow.
A win for Brazil wil ease tensions in the camp about their qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. They are currently fourth in the qualifiers, with seventh-placed Venezuela only two points behind them.
As things stand, Guimaraes will most certainly have a key role to play in the key game tomorrow.
