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Flamengo vs Bayern Munich Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup | Round of 16

by Alex Lawes · June 25 2025, 17:13
Flamengo vs Bayern Munich Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup | Round of 16
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Flamengo have perhaps been the most impressive non-European side in this summer’s FIFA Club World Cup as they take on German giants Bayern Munich in the Round of 16.

Kick-off date/time:

How to watch on TV & online: UK – DAZN & Channel 5 / US – DAZN

Flamengo team news: Back to full strength

Flamengo made a few changes for their final group game the other day, with Jorginho and Erick Pulgar rested from the start. They will go back to full strength here, but Uruguay international midfielder Nicolas de la Cruz remains an injury concern.

Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Rossi; Wallace, Danilo, Pereira, Ayrton Lucas; Erick Pulgar, Jorginho; Gerson, Giorgian de Arrascaeta, Luiz Araujo; Gonzalo Plata

Unavailable: 

Questionable: Nicolas de la Cruz (Injured)

Bayern Munich team news: Going full strength

Jamal Musiala has struggled for full fitness in this tournament, despite a hat-trick against Auckland City, but is expected to start here. The Bavarians remain without Kim Min-jae, whilst Alphonso Davies missed out on the squad due to injury.

Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Neuer; Laimer, Stanisic, Tah, Guerreiro; Kimmich, Goretzka; Olise, Muller, Musiala; Kane

Unavailable: Kim (Injured)

Questionable: 

Key stats

  • This is the first FIFA competition match between Flamengo and Bayern München.
  • Flamengo defeated European opposition in the group stage – 3-1 vs Chelsea – while Bayern overcame their opponents from South America – 2-1 vs Boca Juniors.
  • This is Flamengo’s first game against German opponents at a FIFA tournament, and Bayern’s first against a team from Brazil. The German club did face Cruzeiro in the old Intercontinental Cup in 1976, winning 2-0 at home and drawing 0-0 away.
  • Flamengo have now won eight and drawn three of their last 11 matches across all competitions (W8 D3 L0).
  • Prior to their loss against Benfica, Bayern München had won six and drawn three of their last nine matches in all competitions (W6 D3 L0).
  • Wallace Yan has scored in the last ten minutes of Flamengo’s last two matches after coming off the bench both times.
  • Three of Flamengo’s roster have played football in the German Bundesliga; Allan (Hertha BSC, 2016-17 and Eintracht Frankfurt, 2018-19), Bruno Henrique (Wolfsburg, 2016-17) and Guillermo Varela (Eintracht Frankfurt, 2016-17).
  • Flamengo defender Alex Sandro faced Bayern as a Juventus player in the second leg of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League round of 16, which the German side, featuring Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Joshua Kimmich and Kingsley Coman, won 4-2 after extra time to advance 6-4 on aggregate.
  • Alex Sandro and Danilo were both starters for FC Porto against Bayern in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg, which the Portuguese side won 3-1 at home, but both were absent when Bayern came back to take the tie with a 6-1 second-leg win in Munich.
  • Flamengo’s new signing Jorginho played for Italy in the UEFA EURO 2020 final against an England side featuring Harry Kane. Italy won on penalties after a 1-1 draw, despite Jorginho’s missed spot kick and one successfully converted by Kane.
  • Jorginho has been on the losing side twice against Bayern in UEFA Champions League knockout ties – for Chelsea in the 2019/20 round of 16 and Arsenal in the 2023/24 quarter-finals.
  • Bayern’s Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller both started in Germany’s 7-1 win against hosts Brazil in the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final in Belo Horizonte, Müller opening the scoring. They went on to beat Argentina 1-0 in the final at Flamengo’s Maracanã stadium.
  • Flamengo head coach Filipe Luís was a member of the Chelsea squad that won the 2014/15 Premier League, his opposite number Vincent Kompany finishing as a runner-up with Manchester City.

Flamengo vs Bayern Munich prediction

Coached by former Chelsea defender Filipe Luis, Flamengo began the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup with a comfortable 2-0 defeat of Esperance de Tunis to begin their group stages before coming from a goal down to dispatch of Chelsea by three goals to one. They then shared a 1-1 draw with LAFC in their final group game.

Vincent Kompany’s Bundesliga winners Bayern Munich began the group stages with a 10-0 annihilation of semi-professional outfit Auckland City. The Bavarians then managed to defeat Argentine giants Boca Juniors with a hard-fought 2-1 victory before suffering a surprising and frustrating 1-0 loss to Benfica.

Flamengo play with an intensity with the ball and will seek to play through an often susceptible Bayern side so this may well be quite a fun watch for the neutral in the knockouts.

Flamengo vs Bayern Munich tip: Over 2.5 goals

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