Tite confirms Marcelo's return to the starting lineup and hosts a clash against Belgium

The Brazilian national team landed in Kazan, the venue of the quarter-finals of the World Cup against Belgium, on Friday (06 ). The Tite team performed an activity at the Arena, game board.

Before the start of activities, Titus gave a press conference and spoke of the decisive duel in front of the Belgians. The coach was questioned about Neymar's performance and over praised the shirt.

"I've already talked about Neymar, and in a very specific way of his happenings.This is not just with a ball and dribbles, there is defensive transitions actions, you will see how he participated in collective terms., occupation of spaces, up to disarmament, which is not the feature, and I do not want that Attacker disarms, but the sense of the team he's developed. "

Below, find the main excerpts of the press conference of Tite:

HOW SELECTION ARRIVES

The characteristic of the athletes confers on the team this creativity, this repertoire of games which can make a goal. It was a movement built the first goal against Mexico, we started playing, with the initiation, the transition and the goal. Without the opponent touching the ball. He has a very strong counterattack with low pressure, the speed of the players to come out in a fast transition. It has a striking feature, in the last third of the field has a lot of dribbling. The players, Douglas, Neymar, Gabriel Jesus, Taison, Coutinho, Willian, all have a striking feature. The technician works to organize without balloon, the construction and the middle part, so that in the last third we can have these different forms and encourage dribbling, feint, magic.

ABOUT BELGIUM

I do not have the complete reference of what the opponent may have. What I'm looking for, as an idea, and challenge the athletes, and challenge myself, is to maintain and grow. Keep and grow. Get the feeling of having done one's best, if you will be superior to the other is a game situation. Sometimes there were games that I won, which were chosen as the One of the highlights of the match, and I fell asleep thinking: no, I play more than that. And they know that, this self-criticism of maximum performance, that's what I want. In the last two games, all the athletes who have entered the field have played well, which strengthens the team. But it is not possible to measure if it is enough to win because it also has another side with the quality.

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FIRMINO OR JESUS ​​

] The game will be drawn and the circumstances according to the game. The versatility of Gabriel allowed us to adjust the team, and all the athletes were decisive. The Firmino is like that. After the match against Serbia, when we qualify, I have the habit of squeezing each one of them and I do not say much because locker rooms are not the moment. I hugged Firmino and said that he deserved to have entered, but the technician must know how to read the need for the game. He said: "Master, I'm really happy. & # 39; 39; There are athletes with different characteristics and equal amounts that they can play at any given time

TIME THAT PLAYS

I spoke with Marcelo and Filipe Luís Marcelo left because of a clinical problem, a physical problem in the second game. Filipe Luís played a lot in both games, compared with both, leaves the head to the man. And by criterion comes Marcelo. In the place of Casemiro Fernandinho plays.

FACING BELGIUM (CLEBER XAVIER)

Coincidentally, we should not have faced only three in this phase: Belgium, France and Sweden. This reinforces us as a team in a tough tie, these games against different schools. They are athletes of very high level and they help us a lot in the knowledge of the adversaries. Tactical and technical reading very high, Willian works with Hazard, a great player, spends a lot of details. Just like the opposite. NEYMAR DEVELOPMENT

I do not need to be very qualified to know that Neymar would have his development, we follow his work, Ricardo (Rosa) and Rafael (Martini) accompanied much, the doctor with injuries. The moments that he's deprived of investing in this evolution. I knew from the experience of an athlete that a game sequence would give him. It would be a natural situation, and he was faster because he is a player of excellence

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CONDITIONS OF PAULINHO

Paulinho less physical state, left in the last game because he took a shot and had trouble moving. For those who have the options that have the Brazilian team … Fernandinho will now play. Being specific in the possibilities, Marquinhos can play as the first midfielder, he played with me that way. His first professional match was against Palmeiras, as a midfielder. He has the tools to play there.