In a balanced match, as expected, the Brazilian team, in the details, beat Colombia 2-1. The victory was important to improve confidence, but it does not erase or diminish the chronic problems of the team.
Faced with a pressure marking from Colombia, as was expected, the Brazilian team with only two players in midfield had a great time difficult to transition from the defense ball to the attack and to connect the two from the middle with the four from the front.
Also, in the loss of the ball near the area, the goal of Colombia took place. It could have occurred another if Colombia had a better center forward, risky more and if Alisson did not realize the difficulties. The goalkeeper started to give long passes and kicks.
Bruno Guimarães and Joelinton, accustomed to Newcastle to score and move forward, with the protection of a centrally steering wheel, spent most of the game close to the defenders. So Bruno always played better on the English team than in the national team.
Raphinha, who at Barcelona has the constant and brilliant support of a midfielder trio, was discreet against Colombia. So it shines so much in the Catalan team. Something similar occurs with Rodrygo and Vini. At Real Madrid, Bellingham manages to be both midfielder and half striker, which facilitates the two Brazilians. Even so, Vini conceded a penalty in the first goal and with a beautiful kick scored the goal of victory at the last minute.
Savinho’s entrances, Matheus Cunha and Wesley improved the team for their qualities and why Colombia was already quite tired due to pressure marking.
The selection needs to improve. All selections in the world have the same problem as the lack of more time to train. However, more important than time is the presence of talent players, with styles that complete themselves and the ability to perform well what was planned. Good teams do with a lot of training. Great teams come in a short time. There are numerous examples in the history of football.
Only near the 1970 Cup Zagallo defined that midfielder Piazza would be a defender, that midfielder Rivellino would be a shipowner on the left, and that striker midfielder Tostão would be the center forward. I was a center forward, as the national team did not need a scorer center forward, as it had two cracks to score goals, Pelé and Jairzinho.
Time is relative. Wisdom is to know how to use it at the right time. Cruyff tells of his book that days before starting the 1974 World Cup Rinus Michels told the Dutch team players: “How rare are the chances of being champion, let’s do something innovative.” Where was the ball, there were several Dutch to recover it. It was the organized naked. With few training was born, the Dutch carousel that enchanted the world and is a source of inspiration for modern pressure marking.
As we saw in the middle of the weekend, all major selections in the world have disabilities. Regardless of Brazil’s performances and results against Colombia and Argentina, the Brazilian National Team is one of the candidates for the title of next year’s World Cup.
However, to get closer to the achievement, you need to have the option to do something different, show a breath of originality.
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