All it took was the final whistle to discover that a draw sometimes causes the same feeling as defeat. The 1-1 with , in which the team was saved by one after coming up behind on the scoreboard, did not deliver what is expected from a team fighting for the title. And, as usual, , but it was also shared in , where Brazilians criticized players like , , Danilo and Igor Thiago.
The most mentioned names of the night, however, were players who did not leave the bench. The numbers help measure the size of the outburst. On the day of the game, talk about the team almost quintupled compared to the average for the day itself, with the peak precisely in the minute of the opening whistle, according to Palver, which carries out real-time monitoring in more than 100,000 public WhatsApp and Telegram groups. Among the messages that took a clear side, the majority were demanding, with around 55% of messages having a critical tone, against 45% defending. and Rayan, with 88% of mentions of them showing outrage at not leaving the bench.
Ancelotti, alone, was responsible for almost a fifth of everything that was said in a negative tone, accused of not pushing the team forward and of using up the five substitutions without putting the youngest players on the field. There were also those users who were nostalgic, making allusions to selections from the past and competing with the present. A third billing line. Casemiro was treated as “almost an ex-player”, Igor Thiago with his title contested, Ibañez and Paquetá blamed for mistakes. This third line had as its backdrop a desire for renewal of the national team, and was dominated by questions like: “Where’s Endrick?”
In addition to the criticism, a portion of users adopted a tone of patience. The most frequent narrative appeals to the calendar and also to hope, with messages such as “calm that classifies” accounting for almost a third of the positive messages. In this line of defense for the team, users remember that Morocco finished fourth in the 2022 World Cup and treat the draw as a predictable stumble against a strong team. A smaller portion, but one that was heard, was of exaltation at the only flash of brilliance, Vini Jr.’s great goal.
While football exploded, political talk about and fell by half in the game’s window, confirming that the World Cup does not add audience to the political debate, it turns it off — at least that’s what the data shows so far. But the truce is partial. Around 1 in every 20 messages about the team still dragged the polarization into the field, almost always as a form of mockery, from “Lula’s team” to “Morocco is PT”. The debut itself was used by the presidential candidates who expressed their guesses, and it was up to , from the Mission, to score 1 to 1. Lula bet 1 to 0; Flávio Bolsonaro, 2 to 1. Zema hit the scorer, but missed the score by betting on 1 to 0.
The Brazilian team debuted under suspicion, and the support that circulates in the groups, although it exists, is today suppressed due to dissatisfaction with the choices made by the coach. Ancelotti saw how much pressure it is to coach the only five-time champion team in the world and how difficult it is to be at the center of the passion of millions of Brazilians. On Friday (19), against , the coach will have another chance to break what users are calling the “pot” of the selection, and field a team that represents the power of hopscotch.
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