10/11/2021 06:00 . posted to
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The Brazilian team still owes good football. Yesterday, they drew only 0–0 at Barranquilla with Colombia, in a match in which Tite’s team again sinned for lack of intensity. There is nothing to affect virtual qualification for the Qatar World Cup, as Brazil quietly leads the South American qualifiers. The fact of losing 100% success in the 10th game is also not a cause for concern. What is the worry of bad football.
To make matters worse, Neymar, who returned to the team after serving a suspension, remains unwell. He missed almost everything he tried, especially in the second half. It’s bad technically and apparently physically too. On Thursday, in Manaus, Selecao ends this month’s triple round of October, facing Uruguay, at 9:30 p.m., Arena Amazonia.
Neymar serves Ospina with a shot from the edge of the field in the first play. On the 12th minute, he dropped Pacqueta in the goalkeeper’s face, but Shirt 17’s kick was crooked to the left. The Brazilian team failed to give more space to the Colombian midfielders. At the same time, he started forcibly entering from the middle, which was always crowded. Due to this I could not complete the plays.
There was a lack of fairness in Brazil. Still, he had a big chance when Neymar left Fred on the edge of the field facing a goal, but the kick from the wheel was terrible.
After the break, Brazil came back to play the ball a lot, but what grew out was Colombia, who were intimidated by Uribe’s shot from outside the field: Alisson deflected it into the corner. Then, Quintero’s two dangerous finishes – the first of which began with one of the many passing errors made by Neymar.
Rafinha, in the 30th minute, after clearing two opponents, with a shot from outside the area, forced Ospina to stretch the ball all the way to a corner.
Brazil did not have a collective game and still gave room to counterattack. With the teams tired and disorganized, the confrontation was tenuous. At 38, Rafinha crossed over to the right and entered Antony Medina’s back and deflected him, but Ospina made a big save. stay on it
Neymar: “Last Cup”
The 29-year-old striker said he is facing the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as the last of his career, as he does not know how to “endure more football”, according to an interview with DAZN that aired yesterday. Will have a “mental state” or not. .
“I see this as my last, because I don’t know if I’ll be better able in my head to face more football”, he said in an interview with the documentary Neymar Jr., Dynasty of the Kings, on Available Platforms. “So, I will do everything to get there, to win with my country, to fulfill my dream when I was young. I hope to make it,” added the Paris Saint-Germain striker .
In the 2026 World Cup hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, Neymar will turn 34. Since his debut at Selecao in 2010, the player has won the 2013 Confederations Cup, a gold medal at the Rio-2016 Games, and became the second top scorer in the Brazilian team after Pele.
He played in the World Cup in Brazil-2014 and Russia-2018, with a slight shine. He was not on the field due to injury in the historic 7-1 loss to Germany in the semi-final of the World Cup played at home.
Due to another injury, he did not participate in the 2019 Copa America victory. Two years later, he was runner-up in the continental tournament for national teams, after Argentina’s defeat at the Maracan. With PSG, he won 10 titles, no internationals.
Messi shines and orders Argentina victory
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With yet another scintillating performance from Lionel Messi, Argentina beat Uruguay 3-0 in the final game of the fifth round of the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers at the Monumental de Nez Stadium in Buenos Aires yesterday. A very busy game, which ended in a safe victory for Argentina with goals from Messi, De Paul and Lautaro Martínez.
With the result, Argentina reach 22 points and are close to the World Cup, in the runners-up, six points behind the leader of Brazil. Uruguay continues in fourth place with the same 16 points.
Uruguay started the match with excellent submission attempts in the first minute. The Argentines responded with good works in the beginning as well. On the 20th minute, Luiz Suárez scored a beautiful volley, but goalkeeper Martínez made another fine defense. Both the teams continued to present aggressive posture and came close to opening the scoreboard. At 32, Lou Celso hit the Uruguay crossbar in a graceful move.
After several dangerous moves, at a time when Argentina were beginning to dominate the game, the score finally opened. Messi tried a beautiful Trivela pass to Nico Gonzalez, but the ball deceived goalkeeper Muslera and ended up in the back of the net on 32.
Since then, Uruguay was no longer in the game. Argentina had time to score another run at 43 in the first half. After a sequence of mistakes by Messi and Lautaro, the ball was clean inside the field for de Paul and scored 2–0.
Uruguay put Cavani in one of their attempts to respond in the second half, but Messi was inspired. At 16, the Paris Saint-Germain forward made a major upset for de Paul, who passed Lautaro Martínez from first to complete the goal, making it 3–0.
With a good advantage on the scoreboard, Argentina were closer to finishing fourth than Uruguay. Muslera had to intervene more than once for not extending the score until the final whistle.
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In a duel that opened up disputes over the rescheduled round due to the new coronavirus pandemic, Bolivia continued to fight for one of the vacancies yesterday, continuing a good result at home. Playing at the Hernando Siles Stadium in La Paz, they beat Peru 1–0. Ramiro Vaca scored the only goal of the match in the second half, when the team was one player short.
Venezuela broke a four-game losing streak in the qualifiers after beating Ecuador 2–1 at the Estadio Metropolitano de la UCV in Caracas. On the field, the home team fared better during the 90 minutes, overtaking the scoreboard, but managed to flip it in an open game.
