At the closing night of the 974 World Cup stadium, the
audience enjoyed a wonderful show of Brazilian stars, who did not allow the
South Korean team an outlet.
Brazil defeated South Korea 4-1 in the round of 16 of the
2022 World Cup in Qatar, to advance to face the Croatian national team, the
runners-up of the previous edition.
A wonderful display in the first half gave coach Tite the
complete luxury in the second half to use more options available to him on the
bench, which gave him the opportunity to use the 26 players available to him in
the list after the expiry of 4 matches.
The return of Neymar was a catalyst for Brazil's attack, as
more freedom appeared for the two wings of the team, as the main star of the
team focused on distributing play from the depth of the field, giving freedom
to his colleagues and freeing them from individual control.
The return of Brazil's main star is one of many elements
that ensured an early superiority for Brazil without trouble, and caused the
collapse of South Korea, whose Portuguese coach, Paulo Bento, prepared for the
match in an offensive manner, and received swift punishment.
A perfect night for Brazil, fantastic goals and messages of
support for the legend Pele from the players after the match, and from the fans
before and during it, only to be disturbed by a single, magnificent long-range
effort from South Korea.
The return of Neymar
Neymar returned, and Brazil became more and more fun.
Despite the many options that Tite has in his offensive line, Neymar's presence
in the depths of the field gives more solutions and facilitates the spread of
the offensive wings.
During 81 minutes of play, the Brazilian star scored his
first goal in the tournament, becoming the third Brazilian to score in 3
different versions of the World Cup, and he also made a wonderful goal for
Richarlison in a smooth attacking move, as happens in the “PlayStation”
matches.
Other than that, Neymar completed two successful dribbles
and 36 accurate passes with an 86% success rate, created another dangerous
opportunity, and gave free rein to the wingers of the team, Rafinha and Vinicius
Junior.
South Korea's offensive rush granted vast spaces to the two
wings of the team, and facilitated Neymar's task in moving them as he wanted,
to create a successive Brazilian danger throughout the first half, which ended
with a clean four, that could have increased.
Double potency
According to Opta, the Brazilian national team's
effectiveness in the Round of 16 match has doubled significantly compared to
the 3 matches in the group stage.
During the group stage, Brazil took 57 shots past their
three opponents, scoring only on 3 occasions.
And from only 10 shots during the first half against South
Korea, "Samba" hit the net of Son Heung-min's comrades 4 times, to
settle the matter of the confrontation early and the remaining minutes of the
show continue.
Tete luxury
The match was decided early, so the Brazilian coach decided
to give more minutes to veteran Dani Alves, who almost scored a remarkable goal
in the last minutes of the match.
Tite decided to rest the majority of the main players in the
last quarter of an hour of the match, including Allison, who shone during the
awakening of South Korea in the second half on several occasions, and instead
of Ederson, who played the entire Cameroon match at the end of the group stage,
Tite gave 10 minutes to third goalkeeper Weverton.
Thus, Tite has used the 26 players available on his list in
the entire tournament, in a luxury that gives full readiness to the Brazilian
team, especially with the loss of Gabriel Jesus and Alex Telles to injury.
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