Brazil mentor Tite should think he is time-traveling. In Doha, Qatar, Brazil was drawn with Serbia, Switzerland, and Cameroon in Gathering G, and in the quarterfinals, they could meet Belgium. The Brazilians experienced three out of those four countries at the last World Cup in Russia in 2018.
In the gathering stages, the Serbians and Switzerland presented Tite with an issue that he had looked at all through the development of the competition in Russia: rivals that sat profound and protected. Brazil battled to separate profound lying groups. The Swiss held Brazil to a draw and his group required until injury time to conquer Costa Rica too.
However, it was the match against Belgium that characterized Brazil’s Reality Cup and the period of Tite. Roberto Martinez’s group thumped the five-time title holder shaky in a wonderful box-to-box quarter-last between the competition’s two most exciting groups.
The Spaniard posted focal striker Romelu Lukaku on the right, astonishing Brazil, whose last part reaction came past the point of no return, regardless of whether the game turned on subtleties and the fingertips of Thibaut Courtois. Brazil left the competition rashly. In 2002, Brazil was the last South American group to win the World Cup.
The loss shook Tite, in any event, keeping him up around evening time. The primary mentor since Claudio Coutinho in 1978 to remain on after a World Cup, Tite answered after the World Cup in course book style: he built up the midfield, thus something of the old Tite, a guarded mentor during his most memorable spell with Brazilian monsters Corinthians, returned. Where it counts, the logical and protective leaning mentor is still there. Tite is a mentor with standards, yet he will not focus on beliefs, the manner in which Jorge Sampaoli and Marcelo Bielsa do. The explanation is basic: vision can’t bring down the balance.
Balance has always been key to Brazil’s success. With the figure of Mario Zagallo Brazil won three world crowns between 1958 and 1970. Zagallo shuttled down the left wing at the Sweden World Cup to provide the Seleção with balance. As a coach, Zagallo maintained that success recipe with a 4-3-3 formation to win the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. To see Brazil is precisely to revel in the memory of Pelé, Jairzinho, Garrincha, and, more recently Romario and Ronaldo, and believe in the idea that Brazilians play the beautiful game differently.
And since that Belgium game, Tite has been forever tinkering with the balance of his team. Brazil has often failed to rekindle the fluency from Tite’s first World Cup qualifying campaign. Even so, they went unbeaten in the qualification for Qatar. They hardly conceded a goal.
It recommends that Brazil may be more grounded than quite a while back. Then, at that point, Tite’s group had issues across the field: chopping out Marquinhos was a mix-up, Renato Augusto got harmed and Gabriel Jesus fizzled forthrightly. Since Jesus has attempted to recapture structure, Tite can depend on Roberto Firmino and Matheus Cunha also.
The Brazil mentor has an extravagance issue forthright. In a new qualifier against Uruguay, he played Raphinha, Neymar, and Lucas Paqueta behind striker Gabriel Jesus. In any case, how can he coordinate Vinicius Junior, who has been in remarkable structure to secure himself at Genuine Madrid? In the midfield, Tite maintains that Fred should supplement Casemiro, who will in general be sluggish. He has no faith in Paqueta to track back. The midfield piece is an immediate outcome of the Belgian disposal. His group should not be uncovered.
For a drawn-out period after the World Cup, maybe Tite was playing out the Belgium match again and again, in his mind and on the field. Marcelo at no point ever highlighted in the future. Lukaku took advantage of Brazil’s going after the left half of Marcelo, Coutinho, and Neymar. Tite won’t misstep the same way all over again. Qatar 2022 could well offer the opportunity to kill the phantom from Kazan. That is, obviously, assuming Brazil first loses different groups in the gathering stage that are excessively recognizable.
