Fluminense × Vasco da Gama · Brasileirão

Fluminense host Vasco da Gama in the Brasileirão Série A, and British viewers get it at an unsociable hour: Sunday 6 September at 01:00 BST. Both clubs belong to Rio de Janeiro, so this is a city derby before it is anything else, one of those fixtures where the league points and the neighbourhood argument arrive at the ground together.

What is at stake is what a national league always puts up: points in the top division of Brazilian football, gone for good once the whistle goes. Each side arrives with its own season to manage. For anyone willing to stay awake in Britain, the interest is in how a derby handles that ordinary league weight when the rivalry refuses to treat it as ordinary.