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Brazil began its journey in the South American qualifiers of the Qatar 2022 World Cup this Friday with an incontestable 5-0 victory over Bolivia, who gave up with goals from Marquinhos, Roberto Firmino, twice, Philippe Coutinho and one on Carrasco’s own goal.
Under heavy rain, Canarinha exhibited its strength and solidity at the Neo Química Arena stadium in Sao Paulo and continues without losing at home in a World Cup qualifying match.
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Everything went perfectly for Tite’s team, which once again had the aggressiveness it lost in the friendlies that followed the title of the America’s Cup that it won in 2019, and he recovered the best version of Neymar, recovered in time from his lumbar discomfort, although somewhat anxious in front of the goal.
Bolivia was harmless, overwhelmed by Canarinha’s wing play, which cemented its triumph in the first half hour with Marquinhos goals, in a rehearsed play, and Firmino, a pass from Lodi, and sentenced at the beginning of the second half with the second of the Liverpool forward.
In the last half hour, Carrasco scored on his own goal after the diversion with the head of Madridista Rodrygo, and Coutinho he closed the account in the 73rd minute. Goalkeeper Lampe avoided a major disaster. With this win, Brazil is the leader of the qualifying rounds on the first day with three points, the same as Colombia, Uruguay and Argentina.
Next Tuesday he will face Peru, his rival in the final of the last Copa América, in Lima. Before the opening whistle, the game was already loaded with historical milestones. It was the first time that Brazil began a qualifying round at home and the first time that it played without an audience in the stands, due to restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The referee, the Uruguayan Leodán González, who had never whistled a duel between senior teams, also debuted. What was not a novelty was the overwhelming dominance of Canarinha, who played practically the entire match in the opposite field, with possession that, at times, touched 90 percent.
The first opportunity for Tite’s box came even before the first minute of play was over, in a temperate center of Neymar that Lampe cleared badly and it fell on the boots of Everton, who free of mark, sent the ball out.
Brazil kept trying endlessly. The break of almost a year without playing a game was not noticeable. The game was light-hearted, fast-paced and open to the wings, where wingers Lodi, on the left, and Danilo, on the right, found a freeway.
However, the first was thanks to Tite’s slate, in a rehearsed play at the exit of a corner taken short. Danilo centered unopposed from the right and Marquinhos, in the heart of the area, he finished off with a header to score his second goal for the national team. It was the 16th minute and the can was already open.
La Verde was trying to reduce the water to avoid a shipwreck that seemed inevitable. The illusion with which they had arrived after 50 concentrates was dissolved with the gale of the Brazilians. The six-man line in defense of the Bolivians didn’t stop a five-time world champion who wanted more.
The second blow would come again from the wings, this time from the left. Lodi rushed the baseline and gave Firmino a death pass, that he only had to push the ball to make it 2-0. Tite’s men were able to go with a higher income at halftime, but Lampe was correct in clearing the shots from Coutinho, Casemiro, now captain, and Neymar, who was looking for his 62nd goal with the national team and equalizing Ronaldo Nazário.
In the resumption the same script was repeated. Firmino sentenced as soon as the second half started at the end of a good individual play by Neymar on the left that he resolved with a shot that slipped between Lampe’s legs.
The Liverpool striker was still able to score yet another in a counterattack again led by Neymar, but the Bolivian goalkeeper prevented it. The Paris Saint-Germain attacker kept trying, with some Maradonian moves, but nothing.
Today was not the day of shirt 10, at least in the scorer facet. The Andean team timidly stretched with a powerful shot from Miranda that Weverton cleared. It was the clearest opportunity for César Farías’s men in the entire duel.
To round off his bad night, the young Bolivian central defender Carrasco would help Brazil to extend his advantage inadvertently in a failure caused by Rodrygo. Coutinho would put the finishing touch to Neymar’s head to center.
EFE
