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Gabriel Jesus is out of the Brazilian team’s first two games in the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers. The forward suffered an injury in the match between Manchester City and Wolverhampton last Monday for the English Championship. For his place, coach Tite called up forward Matheus Cunha, from Hertha Berlin, Germany.
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Matheus Cunha was called up for the Brazilian team – Photo: Lucas Figueiredo / CBF
This is the first call for Matheus, 21, for the main team. The youngster was the top scorer in the pre-Olympic competition earlier this year and was already being monitored by coach Tite, even receiving praise from the coach. For the U23 team, Cunha played 16 games and scored 14 goals. He has been standing out with the shirt of the Berlin team, where he arrived at the beginning of the year, from RB Leipzig.
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Gabriel Jesús, meanwhile, will be out of the confrontations against Bolivia at the Neo Química Arena on the 9th, and Peru, in Lima, on the 13th, at a good time in England. The Manchester City forward had the best season of his career, with 23 goals scored in 53 games, starting in 34 of them. The Brazilian had made his 2020/21 debut moving the nets in City’s 3-1 win on Monday.
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Gabriel could not act in the clashes if they were held on the original date, in March, but the long hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic led him to prescribe his suspension due to expulsion in the final of the Copa América last year. At that time, he received a two-month hook for hitting the reserve bench and nearly dropping the VAR team in Maracanã.
- The Uruguayan Leodán González and the Chilean Julio Bascuñán will referee the matches of Brazil in the qualifying rounds
Thus, Tite now has options for the attack on the October Fifa Date Rodrygo (Real Madrid), Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain), Everton (Benfica), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool), Richarlison (Everton) and Matheus Cunha (Hertha Berlin ).
Brazil makes its debut in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup on October 9, hosting Bolivia, in São Paulo. Four days later, Tite’s team visits Peru in Lima. In November, matches are scheduled against Venezuela, at home, and Uruguay, away, in the last matches of the team in 2020.
