{"id":672050,"date":"2026-07-05T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672050"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:38:18","slug":"brazil-vs-norway-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/05\/brazil-vs-norway-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil vs Norway: Confirmed Lineups and Team News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/29\/brazil-vs-japan-lineups\/\" target=\"_self\"><span>latest team news<\/span><\/a> and the confirmed lineups for <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/2073708464468267459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Brazil vs Norway<\/span><\/a> at the MetLife Stadium, in a 21:00 GMT kick-off on July 5. Brazil had to dig deep to get past Japan in the previous round, while Norway will come into the game full of confidence, led by Erling Haaland and Antonio Nusa. Can the five-time winner progress to the last-8 once again?<\/p>\n<h2><span><strong>Brazil vs Norway<\/strong>, Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe width=\"430\" height=\"335\" style=\"border: 0; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 0; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/worldcup-odds-service-1086219671413.europe-west2.run.app\/embed\/30181267\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Brazil Team News<\/h3>\n<p>In the build-up to Brazil vs Norway, Ancelotti discussed the importance of Lucas Paqueta: \u201cWe don\u2019t have a player in the squad with Lucas Paqueta\u2019s quality, so we have to replace him with another player,\u201d <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/soccer\/ancelotti-hopeful-raphinha-return-brazil-plot-haaland-shutdown-2026-07-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Ancelotti said<\/span><\/a>. \u201cThe characteristics are different. Danilo is different from Gabriel, who is different from Matheus Cunha and Ederson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paqueta will miss the Norway game, and the Brazil boss discussed the process of selecting a replacement: \u201cI will choose the player based on our game plan, obviously taking into account the strength of the opponent, but also what is functional to the idea we want to implement tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha returned to training on Friday, giving Ancelotti a boost ahead of the Norway match:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaphinha is progressing very well,\u201d Ancelotti told reporters on Saturday. \u201cHe is still not at 100%, but he is available to be on the bench and to be able to play a few minutes or be useful at certain moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB4NkONXSz\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3396px; aspect-ratio: 3396\/2351;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h3>Norway Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Norway boss Stale Solbakken will not likely risk <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/world-cup\/brazil-vs-norway-team-news-injuries-predicted-lineups-05-06-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Julian Ryerson<\/span><\/a>, who has missed the last two games through injury, with Marcus Pedersen set to continue at right back. The rest of the Norwegian defence will likely remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Norwegian fans will be relying on Antonio Nusa, Martin Odegaard, and Erling Haaland to upset the Brazilians.<\/p>\n<h3>Brazil Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/en\/match-centre\/match\/17\/285023\/289288\/400021532\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Starting XI<\/a>: Alisson, Marquinhos, Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es, Danilo, Douglas Santos, Casemiro, Bruno Guimar\u00e3es, Rayan, Matheus Cunha, Gabriel Martinelli, Vin\u00edcius Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Norway Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Starting XI: Orjan Nyland, Kristoffer Ajer, David Moller Wolfe, Torbjorn Heggem, Patrick Berg, Sander Berge, Martin Odegaard, Alexander Sorloth, Erling Haaland, Antonio Nusa, Julian Ryerson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the confirmed lineups for Brazil vs Norway at the MetLife Stadium, in a 21:00 GMT kick-off on July 5. Brazil had to dig deep to get past Japan in the previous round, while Norway will come into the game full of confidence, led by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":671691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1831,2132],"tags":[32870,1393,32883,3017],"class_list":["post-672050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-world-cup","tag-brazil-team-news","tag-erling-haaland","tag-norway-team-news","tag-vinicius-jr"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672050"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672082,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672050\/revisions\/672082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}