Fluminense × Palmeiras · Brasileirão
Goals
Match report
Fluminense beat Palmeiras 3-2 at home on Saturday 15 August, with kick-off at 20:30, in a tightly contested Brasileirão Série A fixture. Five goals were shared across the ninety minutes, and the home side were required to defend their lead until the final whistle, making it a narrow rather than comfortable victory.
The result carries clear qualitative weight in the Série A table, handing Fluminense three points against one of the division's traditional heavyweights while denying Palmeiras any return from the trip. In a competition decided by fine margins over the course of a long season, victories of this kind against direct rivals tend to matter beyond the immediate scoreline.
For anyone revisiting this fixture months or years later, the record is simple: Fluminense defeated Palmeiras 3-2 at home on Saturday 15 August in a high-scoring Brasileirão Série A clash, with the hosts closing out victory by the narrowest of margins in a match that never settled into calm until the final whistle sounded.
Table
- 2.Palmeiras57 pts · 28J · +26
- 4.Fluminense48 pts · 28J · +8
Match events
FluminensePalmeiras
- 10′Palmeiras: Goal: Gustavo Gómez (Assists: Joaquín Piquerez)
- 34′Palmeiras: Yellow card: Joaquín Piquerez
- 42′Fluminense: Goal: Hulk (Assists: Agustín Canobbio)
- 46′Palmeiras: Substitution: Arthur Gabriel on, Joaquín Piquerez off
- 46′Palmeiras: Substitution: Ramón Sosa on, Vitor Roque off
- 54′Fluminense: Substitution: Julián Millán on, Igor Rabello off
- 61′Fluminense: Yellow card: Guga
- 63′Fluminense: Yellow card: Agustín Canobbio
- 69′Fluminense: Substitution: Luciano Acosta on, Ganso off
- 69′Fluminense: Substitution: Germán Cano on, Hulk off
- 73′Palmeiras: Yellow card: Arthur Gabriel
- 73′Palmeiras: Substitution: Emiliano Martínez on, Jhon Arias off
- 73′Palmeiras: Substitution: Mauricio on, Andreas Pereira off
- 78′Fluminense: Yellow card: Luciano Acosta
- 79′Fluminense: Substitution: Nonato on, Hércules off
- 79′Fluminense: Substitution: Kevin Serna on, Yeferson Soteldo off
- 80′Palmeiras: Substitution: Felipe Anderson on, Ramón Sosa off
- 82′Palmeiras: Goal: Mauricio (Assists: José Manuel López)
- 85′Fluminense: Goal: Kevin Serna
- 86′Fluminense: Yellow card: Martinelli
- 90+2′Fluminense: Goal: Germán Cano (Assists: Martinelli)
- 90+5′Palmeiras: Yellow card: Gustavo Gómez
Match statistics
All match statistics42
Lineups
Fluminense
- 1Fábio
- 23Guga
- 21Igor Rabello
- 44Jemmes
- 6Renê
- 35Hércules
- 8Martinelli
- 17Agustín Canobbio
- 10Ganso
- 30Yeferson Soteldo
- 7Hulk
- 2Samuel Xavier
- 3Thiago Silva
- 11Jefferson Savarino
- 14Germán Cano
- 16Nonato
- 19Rodrigo Castillo
- 29Julián Millán
- 32Luciano Acosta
- 46Julio Fidelis
- 90Kevin Serna
- 94Otávio
- 98Vitor Eudes
Palmeiras
- 1Carlos Miguel
- 4Agustín Giay
- 26Murilo
- 15Gustavo Gómez
- 22Joaquín Piquerez
- 40Allan
- 8Andreas Pereira
- 17Marlon Freitas
- 11Jhon Arias
- 42José Manuel López
- 9Vitor Roque
- 3Bruno Fuchs
- 7Felipe Anderson
- 14Marcelo Lomba
- 18Mauricio
- 19Ramón Sosa
- 21Kaique Pereira
- 30Lucas Evangelista
- 32Emiliano Martínez
- 39Heittor Vinicius da Silva Nunes
- 43Luis Benedetti
- 50Luis Pacheco
- 56Arthur Gabriel
Head-to-head
Of the last 10 meetings: 4 wins for Fluminense, 3 draws, and 3 wins for Palmeiras. Across those 10 meetings: 19 goals in total, 1.9 per match; both teams scored in 6 matches.
Match officials
- Anderson Daronco
- Rafael da Silva Alves
- Michael Stanislau
- Gustavo Ervino Bauermann
Venue
Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho
- Rio de Janeiro
- 78,838
Other matches
Same referee
Same referee, away side ahead on points
- São Paulo × Bragantino
- Coritiba × Corinthians
- Coritiba × Palmeiras
- Vasco da Gama × Atlético Mineiro
- Corinthians × São Paulo
Yellow Card and Red Card Rules: Bookings, Accumulation, Bans
Same away side, ahead on points
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