Prior to the fight with Peruvian National Team By 2026 World Cup QualifiersTechnician Dorival Jr Confirmed order Brazil This Tuesday night at 9:45pm at the Arena BRB Mané Garrincha in the federal capital. The coach also spoke about Danilo's importance as a defender in the team, and compared the criticism received by the 1982 team, which became memorable for its stars, beautiful football and defeat at the World Cup in Spain, to the moment the team is enjoying. .
Dorival Jr said that the training days at this FIFA date helped him work on attacking and penetrating movements and he hopes the result will show against Peru this Tuesday. “When we have the ball, someone has to penetrate and make counter movements to create space for the opponent's defence,” he said.
The coach said the situation was already very noticeable in Friday's win over Chile. “I hope it will happen again tomorrow and we will get another good performance.” Changes to the squad, with Wanderson replacing Danilo, Bruno Guimaraes in place of Andre and Gerson in place of Paqueta, should help the attacking movement according to the coach. “Wanderson has impressive attacking power. We are making progress in this regard. Despite not having a reference man like Pedro, I see freedom of movement.”
Brazil should enter the field with the following formation: Ederson; Wanderson, Marquinos, Gabriel Magalhas, and Abner; Bruno Guimaraes, Gerson and Rodrigo; Rabinha, Savinho and Igor Jesus.
Dorival again avoided talking about taking the team to the 2026 World Cup finals
Despite not mentioning the words “World Cup final”, Dorival again showed confidence in leading the team to the final of the next World Cup, something he predicted in the last FIFA data. “It's a challenge for me. Hope is high and we are in an assembly process that demands time and patience. The team will fluctuate, but I have no doubt that we will find a way and, with a little more confidence, once again, reach the crucial moment of the selection.” The last time Brazil reached the final of the World Cup was in 2002, beating Germany to win the title.
With the coach's assessment, the players begin to understand his idea of the game. “We're going to attack the opponents' back line a bit more and create more. Everyone realized the ball couldn't be at our feet. We have to do the dirty work that caused the intrusion. Difficult.”
According to Torival, Danilo's importance in the Brazil team
In addition to movement in attack and penetration, Dorival spoke highly of full back Danilo, who left the team for Wanderson. “It's impressive that he (Danilo) helps in every way. “Yesterday, he had a long conversation with Wanderson”, he said of the Juventus full-back, who has not played much for the Italian side.
Dorival Jr. talks about the importance of the defensive organization to the team's offensive success. “One of the two full backs has to be a part of it. We're not going to change that. We changed the attacking movement, the range of movement, but we can't leave the 3-man clash.”
Comparison with reviews of the team that played in the 1982 World Cup
Dorival recalled that stars who played for Brazil had been the target of press criticism in the past and later proved to be great players. “I remember reading an article the other day where some journalists pointed out the inferiority of the Brazilian team. The lowest level of all that had represented Brazilian football up to that point. Suddenly he said: I am not speaking. We had here about the current team: Zico, Sócrates, Falcão, Cerezo and Zé Sergio There is an article that you can find.
“Our team's performance was challenging for the fall and we didn't have stars at that time. Zico, Sócrates, Falcão, Cerezo and Zé Sergio. We have no more stars. That was the initial approach”, he said with mild anger. “You can see the years go by and we keep pushing the same buttons. The only thing I feel here is not venting or anything like that, I just want Brazilian football to grow. We will achieve all this. We step on what we sell. This is the great reality of what is happening. And it's not just in football. We do this with all of our products at Brazilian. We step on everything that stands out. We are seeing what is happening in our country in general. We have to reflect a bit and it is no different in football,” he concluded.
Despite facing the second-to-last ranked team in the South American qualifiers at home, Toriwal said the match would not be easy. “They played a tough game against Uruguay (1-0 win) and since the end of the match against Chile we have been talking to the players about Peru's quality.”
After 9 rounds, Brazil is fourth in the qualifiers with 13 points. The match against Peru starts at 9:45pm (Brasilia time) at the Mane Garincha stadium in Brasilia.
