Brazil vs Russia Live Stream: Watch Free Online International Friendly at Stamford Bridge

Mar 25, 2013 02:11 PM EDT

After an entertaining international friendly against Italy, Brazil will next stop over at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground to take on Russia Monday.

The 2014 World Cup hosts drew 2-2 against the Italians on Thursday, and will be keen to better that result when they take on a Russian side, which saw their own World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland postponed due to bad weather.

"I think there will be no problems because we trained really well yesterday and today, we are in good form and we are fresh," Russia coach Fabio Capello told reporters. "I think tomorrow we will be at 100 percent.

"It's not an official game, but it will be really important for me to know our value, especially of some of the young players who haven't played at the top level but will play tomorrow. It's a good test for us to improve.

"I watched the Italy game on TV. It was a really interesting game. They (Brazil) suffered sometimes on the counter-attack against Italy, but tomorrow (Monday) I read they will play Thiago Silva. He's one of the fastest defenders in the world, and so they probably won't have the same problems they had against Italy.

"I saw the Brazilian forwards on the counter-attack are very fast and good technically. We need to be compact in every moment, because if they find the space they will be very difficult to stop."

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari will return to the ground where he coached Chelsea during a forgettable spell in 2008-09, while the likes of David Luiz, Oscar and Ramires, if passed fit, will play in the familiar surroundings of their own club.

"Mr. Scolari is an excellent professional," Luiz said. "He has been a coach in many clubs all over the world and also national teams.

"I'm sure he is happy to come back here because regardless of what happened here he has very good memories. He has got history here as well so I believe what he wants here is to put the cherry on the top of the cake by winning the game at the stadium where he was manager.

"When somebody doesn't do well everybody outside always talks about the negatives not positives. What I have heard, having asked around, is Scolari had a great time, regardless of what happened."

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Expected lineups: Brazil: Cesar; Alves, Silva, Luiz, Marcelo; Fernando, Hernanes; Oscar, Kaka, Neymar; Fred.

Russia: Akinfeev; Anyukov, V. Berezutsky, Ignashevich, A. Berezutsky; Faizulin, Tarasov; Bystrov, Dzagoev, Shirokov; Kerzhakov.

Prediction: 3-2 to Brazil

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