Brasil de Pelotas vs Grêmio – Preview, Prediction and Betting Tips 28/01/2024

Brasil de Pelotas and Grêmio enter the field this Sunday, in the third round of the state championship in Rio Grande do Sul.

While Grêmio is looking for regularity and a victory to get closer to the first placed, Brasil de Pelotas is trying for its first victory in the competition.

Brasil de Pelotas

The Pelotas team is once again having a very weak championship, and maintaining its absolutely poor playing characteristics in the offensive aspect.

In 2 games the team has still not managed to find the net, as they have drawn both games without goals.

In the first game, at home it was a draw against Novo Hamburgo. In the last round it was time to visit Avenida in Santa Cruz do Sul, also ending the game with a blank score.

An absolutely poor game from side to side, both teams very afraid of playing offensively and ending up exposing themselves to their opponent.

Brasil de Pelotas has less and less investment in its football, the team that competed in the second national division is increasingly weakened in the championships it participates in.

If logic takes the field against Grêmio, the tendency is that even at home Brasil de Pelotas will be a totally reactive team, looking for a game with low lines and some counterattacks.

Grêmio

Grêmio, in turn, managed to recover in the second round, after having made a very bad debut against Caxias, losing in the mountains of Rio Grande do Sul by the score of 2-1.

On that occasion, the Grêmio team was the starter, but had many problems with offensive construction and ended up giving up a lot of space to Caxias, mainly due to the lack of more adequate physical preparation.

The team managed to recover at home, playing against São José in the second round, beating the Porto Alegre team 4-1.

Once again with its starting team, Grêmio imposed itself throughout the match, purposeful, very voluminous offensively, and could have created an even bigger rout.

The team’s highlight this season has been striker Soteldo, who even scored his first goal with the Grêmio shirt against São José, and also provided an assist.

However, for this weekend, Grêmio can include some players who have not been in the starting lineup, and even give opportunities to some youth players.

Renato Gaúcho knows that if Grêmio fluctuates too much, the tendency is to be very far from Internacional and this could be bad in the final stages.

But against Brasil de Pelotas, on Sunday afternoon, with high temperatures and a very limited opponent team, the tendency is that in this round, some starters may not start the game.

Still, Grêmio seems to be the favorite, but mainly due to the fragility of Brasil de Pelotas, not because it has already consolidated a game model.

Conclusion:

In the bookmakers, Grêmio is a big favorite and will be my betting choice, believing that the tendency is to dominate the actions of the confrontation against Brazil.