A On Tuesday it was a surprise even for the Argentines. Javier Milei, president of the South American country, classified as a “morbid ball” the performance of his selection against the biggest rival, by the World Cup qualifiers at River Plate’s Monumental Stadium.
“I don’t remember seeing a match in which we had such a morbid ball against Brazil”Milei told Radio Miter, on the morning of Wednesday. “It seems to me that it was something huge, not only for the amount of goals, but for the performance of the Brazilian goalkeeper (Bento), who had an important participation. It could have been much worse for Brazil.”
In Buenos Aires, Dorival Júnior’s team failed to put themselves as a threat to Lionel Scaloni and his commanders, becoming an easy prey in the 4-1 win at Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires for the qualifiers.
Hired in 2024 to succeed Fernando Diniz in the technical command and shortly after the failure in the project of bringing Carlo Ancelotti, Dorival Júnior is already under pressure to be discarded after failures and bad performances in the World Cup qualifiers. Filipe Luís, who has more titles than defeats in Flamengo’s technical command, has his name ventilated to the Brazilian team.
At the end of the 14th round, Brazil appears in fourth place, with 21 points, six points above the seventh place placed Venezuela, which today would compete for the worldwide recap of the qualifiers. The first six teams of the South American qualifiers qualify directly to the World Cup and the seventh goes to the recap. There are four rounds left to be played for the competition.
