They took a while to get going, but Brazil & Richarlison turned on the style to see off a determined and stubborn Serbia team. twoht
This was the reason they bidded to host the tournament in the first place. The sunshine yellow shirts. The hands on hearts for the national anthem. The smiling, face-painted supporters waving for the cameras in an air-conditioned enorm-o-dome in the edge of a desert. All those archive shots of Pele and company tearing everybody apart, more than half a century ago. When Qatar decided to spend £200bn on hosting the World Cup, they were thinking of these sort of moments.
And then, of course, there’s the burden of expectation. That can do funny things to a team, all the more so given that it’s now been two full decades since they last won it. Brazil have failed to beat European opposition in the knockout stages of the World Cup since beating Germany in that 2002 final, and with every four-year cycle that has gone by with the trophy returning there that clamour has only grown all the greater.
leksandar Mitrovic has finally cracked the code of how to score goals in the Premier League and was the fourth top scorer in the division when it broke up for the winter.‘will-he-won’t-he’ storyline But almost immediately from the start of the second half, something about them felt different. Within a minute they were almost gifted the lead by a catastrophic pass from Milinkovic-Savic which Raphinha couldn’t capitalise upon. But the engine was starting to rev, nevertheless. Neymar snatched a shot, Sandro hit the crossbar, and then the dam finally broke after 63 minutes, when Vinicius Junior’s shot was saved and Richarlison scored from the rebound.
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