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Brazil and Belgium meet in World Cup next Friday (6), at 15h, at the Kazan Arena, this time in the quarter-finals, in a situation different from the one in which they have competed in the octaves, Neymar dribbles the goals of the World Cup: "I came to win"
Now, the Belgian team has one of its best generations and arrives in the fight with the best attack of the 2018 World Cup
Brazil, on the other hand, does not have the best attack, has the weakest defense alongside Uruguay, having conceded that Only one goal in four games, 1 against 1 against Switzerland; 2-0 against Costa Rica and 2-0 among the Serbs, reaching the quarter-finals after beating Mexico 2-0.
Defender Thiago Silva, who was captain in two World Cup matches world, played with a lot of category and efficiency, being one of the highlights of the competition. But in the results of the Brazilian team, it is also clear that their attack is far from ineffective, having made 7 goals in these matches.
In 2002, Belgium, formed by players like Daniel Van Buyten (24), striker Mbo Mpenza (25) and veteran Marc Wilmots (33) claimed a bigger spot on the international stage and faced Brazil, which had the best attack of the competition.
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But he left the field complaining that the Jamaican Peter Prendergast missed when he missed Wilmots in Roque Júnior, when the Belgian had a goal in the lead canceled.
The generation of big names such as Michel Preud's Man, Stéphane Demol, Georges Grün, Franky Van der Elst, Franky Vercauteren, Enzo Scifo and Roque Júnior, and Jan Ceulemans, in the 90s, was revered during many years in the country. And only the current generation, with Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard and Romelu Lukaku, among others, came back to fill the hopes of the Belgians.
To reach this stage of the 2018 World Cup, the Belgians beat Panama 3-0; by 5 to 2 in Tunisia and 1 to 0 in England, before victory, in suffocation, in Japan by 3 to 2 .
The next Friday's duel (6) promises to be electrifying. The Belgian coach knows that if he arrives with little defensive precautions, he will tend to take a lot of goals in the game. That is why he should approach one of the (probably Alderweireld) defenders of the Witsel midfielder, so as not to miss the midfielder's challenge.
For the current Brazilian team, facing a team like the Belgians is something very rare, since the European team plays a good part of the time in a 3-4-3 clbadic, with Mertens, Lukaku, one of the Assistant Gunners of the Cup, and Hazard. Coincidentally, Mexico played this way at several points in Monday's game, when Brazil took advantage of the space in the attack.
De Bruyne will also ask all the attention of Paulinho and Fernandinho in marking.
The current Belgian system is similar to that of the Netherlands (1994 and 1998) and it is only towards the end of the season that the Belgian team began to play. More recently, in 2010, Brazil was beaten by the Dutch in the quarterfinals, but the opponent, then led by Bert van Marwijk, was in the 4-4-2.
Neymar should meet his PSG colleague Thomas Meunier, 1m90, as one of his markers. The movement of the players in the attack, facing a defense deemed slow, should be one of Titus' strategies to overcome the opponent's zone marking.
In this sense, the match against Mexico, which also featured offensive variations, coming to play in 3-4-3, was an excellent demonstration of how Brazil can be in defense and in offensive move in front of a versatile team.
In these octaves, despite the Belgian heroic reaction, the Brazilian team was more balanced than its next opponent.
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