Analysis: start of hike shows alternatives for a safe and balanced selection in the field | Brazilian team

Even against Uruguay, Luis Suárez is missing, it is true, the Brazilian team knew how to control the game in the 2-0 victory against Celeste, at the Centenário stadium, goals from Arthur and Richarlison, this in a rehearsed play.

After some tests and newcomers on the way to the Copa América until the first call of 2020, Tite ends his fourth year of work in the National Team with good news. The interaction of the defensive system is remarkable with Danilo, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, Renan Lodi, with the protection of the socks and the tireless work of the tips in the recomposition – even clearer against Uruguay, with shots and a lot of attention from Richarlison behind Lodi’s back.

Brazil is a team thatIt works well and has the ability to take long casts to find its ends. – This is how this team plays when it has more space. This condition appeared against Peru and Uruguay, away from home.

It is not surprising that the Brazilian team reaches the fourth round with only two goals conceded, both from shots from outside the area. Against Uruguay, he conceded only five submissions – in the four games, by the way, the average is low: 4.75 – in attack, he finished 12.5, on average in four games.. The numbers are from the Sofascore website.

In the Centennial he was lucky with two balls on the crossbar – the first of them, in a beautiful shot by Darwin Núñez, which left Danilo on the ground – and the deflected goal of Arthur.

In four rounds, the team exchanged an average of 587 passes, twice as many opponents, always very fast in recovering the ball (average possession 66.7%). Without Neymar and Coutinho against Uruguay, the attack with Gabriel Jesús, Richarlison and Firmino was more combative

Tite played Arthur, after a bad ending at Barcelona and still adjusting to Juventus, and saw a tough and more daring player at the Centenario stadium. The goal, with a rare kick from the midfielder revealed in Grêmio, the pass to Roberto Firmino, who missed a good opportunity, and a more intense participation were good signs of Arthur’s return..

Even exhausted, Ribeiro grows

In front of the defense, without Casemiro and Fabinho, Douglas Luiz won most of the duels and corrected inaccuracies in the match against Venezuela. He seemed more confident and less nervous. At the press conference before the game, Tite said that he would continue with the player. Assistant Cléber Xavier said they wanted to correct, both Douglas and anyone else, with the athlete on the field.

Tite avoided dealing individually with a player’s promotion, but he will probably return to Brazil – and go four long months without games – with a twist: Everton Ribeiro managing to keep up until the next call-up. The player only took to the field on Wednesday, after two days of regenerative work. He completed 3,000 minutes on the field in 41 games when he was substituted at the end of the game in Montevideo, that is, 61% of the 4,855 minutes he did in 67 games in 2019.

At the age of 31, Ribeiro lives an unprecedented situation in his career: he dressed at 10 and joined Tite’s group permanently. Philippe Coutinho is one of the players most used by the coach in the national team, but Everton, if they sometimes have less vision of the game -and the old natural connection with Neymar- appeared well with plays from both ends, tables, first touch .

The structure proposed by Tite, with four offensive players in attack and Renan Lodi as fifth man, needs to be tested in more games. Sometimes he can demand an alternative on the right side, who has Danilo more in jail, but with a good participation in two goals, in the first of the Qualifiers against Bolivia and in Arthur, who opened the scoring on Tuesday night in Montevideo.

And also variations in infiltrations through the attack center. Tite still has at least one of the two most fixed socks – in the case of this Tuesday, Douglas and Arthur – but with a small offensive participation. The coach realized this against Venezuela and joined Paquetá. But the team has reached the opposite interval with a good number of players. In Arthur’s goal, for example, there were six in the siege, and Douglas behind, Danilo on the right. It was filling the area that Lodi and Jesus fought and the ball remained for Firmino in the victory over Venezuela.

The National Team only returns to the field in March of next year. PFirst, he travels to Barranquilla to face, on the 25th, the pressured Colombia – who drew 3-0 at home for Uruguay and no less than 6-1 for Ecuador, abroad. Then, on the 30th, he goes to Recife to receive the current Argentine vice leader.