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Originally Posted by Beninho
I’ll sound bias here but so could’ve Brazil. Brazil created more chances vs Belgium and Belgium created more chances vs France. That’s football and that’s the World Cup. France found ways to win their games and defended extremely well.
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Brazil....I have to say the thing that really seemed off to me about Brazil was that despite all of the glowing remarks about their coaching I found them very tactically naive.
Pretty much what I expected from France was a technically talented but tactically naive team (Giroud, etc.) and that coaching and tactical decisions would be their downfall, but they persevered through and thats pretty much the opposite of Brazil.
Brazil had the talent but they seemed obsessed with driving everything through Neymar which was really naive and the better teams knew how to counter it and then Brazil had no backup plan. No formation change, they had great players to bring on but there was no Plan B.
Why on earth cant a team like Brazil allow some of the rest of their talent to do some of the heavy lifting instead of leaning on Neymar the whole time? Thats ridiculous to me and a flawed strategy to stifle creativity and talent everywhere just to appease Neymar.