You score the goal in 105 minutes and with 15 minutes left, you attack with five players where you think that you will score again against Croatia. Really ? You did not score in 90 minutes, but you will score two goals in overtime against Croatia ? Sure. Croatia had only one shot, but one shot is all they need. Difference.
Brazil should sit deep, wait for counter attack. But in reality, that what Croatia did. The game only left like 15 minutes. With all their defensive upper hand, it was an abysmal move from Tite last night. Just reminds me of Holyfield tried hard to KO Riddick Bowe and got caught in Bowe upper cut.
This Brazil team had the 2nd best defense in the competition going into the match.. They held Croatia to 1 shot on target the whole match. Problem was they were too naive at the end
Give Croatia their credit! With that being said Brazil defeated themselves. All they had to do was defend and keep possession of the ball poor decision by the manager.
Park the bus for 120 minutes congratulations had brazil taken theur countless of chances you jammy manager would have been berated for being negative .you rat bags got out of jail through brazil poor finishing nothing else
@@Adrian-fj7bd Ill take that as a compliment since Morocco is in semifinals aswell.And we are shameless cause we beaten Brazil that is much stronger on paper? Ok
@@Michael-st9ky Its not like we dont want to attack but we have attackers that need to have good day to be effective. If we had Richarlison pretty sure we would have beaten Morocco and Japan cause our attackers messed clear opportunities. We play smart and we play our strenghts and that is defence ,ball control.Maybe try to watch how we approach a game in a strategic way to outclass stronger opponent maybe it will be more interesting to watch. For me all matches were too exciting. I was on the verge of heart attack every game , but Im Croatian fan. Honestly couldnt care less if we play boring as long it gets us results. Look England. They were better team,played exciting but they made terrible mistakes in defence,their goalkeeper didnt save 1st goal which he could imo, their mentality was bad and they are going home.
@Yoshi’s Woolly World How are they not difficult to beat when they lost only 1 game in their last 20 matches and that game they played with their B team
they lost to their coaches substitutions. he replaced his right back (Militao) and Sandro was nowhere to be seen when the croatia broke out with acres of empty space on their left channel.
Before this game I said that Croatia will beat Brazil because Brazil have reached their peak against Switzerland before this. And it's clearly show when they struggle to score.
These ESPN Pundits should eat their words. We heard from them a million times that Brazil are the perfect team because they are well-balanced. Looking at the facts, Germany and Spain are close to Brazil. When I watched Brazil, I realized that opponents could exploit their right back and the midfield because Vinicius Junior and Neymar have zero interest in defending, thereby making Brazil vulnerable to counterattacks.
@@davidogola8384And 3 shots barely off target that could have been a goal,while Brazil had 6-7 shots outside the box that went straight into goalkeeper's hands,essentially just boosting stats,and not posing any danger.I can tell you haven't watched the game or you are a biased brazilian.
I was worried from the first game that if they faced a team with a good midfield like Spain, Croatia or even England that they would see their downfall. You can't have 5 attackers on the field, midfield battles in modern football is where games are won most of the time and they played without a midfield.
Brazil will always be favourite in every world cup. But it Doesn't guarantee you lifting the trophy. You need a bit of luck also. Croatia 1 shot on target, one goal.
Among all e 4 Quarter Final matches, this match was chosen as e easy path for Brazil...a walk over for them ...as compared to France vs England, Argentina vs Holland n even Portugal vs Morocco....But not many pp will expect Croatia to defeat e Brazilians!!! What a upset but credit must go to Croatia for making that impossible into possible!! Brazil had really let many pp down!!!
You can debate until you become blue in your face....but the fact remains-Croatia is in the semi-finals!From the coach,assistants,,,,all the way to the players,,,,perfectly executed!
brazil lacks a proper midfield trio .....casemeiro cannot do it all.... it was evident from copa america 2021 when Argentina comfortably defeated brazil 1-0 ....lucas paqueta and raphinha aren't that midfield players who can win you titles....omitting firmino , not bringing on martinelli ,fabinho also played a big part in the defeat
Lol. Croatia played well but Brazil created plenty of chances and Croatia created almost none. Their 'keeper was MOTM and made half a dozen top saves. Brazil had a moment of madness not managing the game and Croatia scored a fluke deflected goal.
How can u boss a team when it ended in penalities with ur team having 1 shot on target? Credits to Croatia for the victory, but saying Croatia bosses Brazil is straight up not true
@@alanjames2889 o yeah,Croatian midfield for the most of the time were playing with Brasilians like some kids on the playground...they made them look like a muppeds....🤣
You literary did not watch a single Bruno Petković’s game. That honest suprise with his ‘tekker’ moment just show how ignorant you really are towards him. Far from saying he is a perfect striker, but a ‘channeling his inner Boufal moment’ is a completely ridiculous statement. At least check some of his highlights.
@@mynick937 Really you should stop doing this. It's really disrespectful. But they started the game without of focus, sometimes this happens when the player has a bad day.
@@leandroiuki4337 If they didn't think it's game over, they would win. Game is on for 90 min, regardless of the score. Well, 120 min when Croatia plays😅 I've ment no disrespect for Brasil. It happens often to celebrate before the end.
@@mynick937 No, they didn't think it's over, it's the same problem for 2018 world cup. The midfield gone crazy and goes full attack, giving the oppening, Fred left the position and went to the opponent's back line, the most far away position a midfield he can reach. But this time, it's not just the midfield, but 6 players going to the upper direction when they are winning by 1 goal and 5 minutes left to end. And the coach screaming to go back, pointing "you go back, you, you both go back", 1 min before the counter attack from Croatia.
Honestly he is terrible. He just had lucky day and thats what I was saying pre match. We need striker with a good day and we will win and that was exactly what happened. Hopefully this will give him enough confidence to perform better in next matches so we wont have to count on "good days".I believe the difference between average and amazing is in tiny details which are mostly psychological. In the end that was exactly what made us come all the way to top 4
Fred attacked in the right side. Neymar gave him a good pass, but he doesnt know how to attack properly. He is a defendind midfielder, and just that. He was the main reason that gol happened
I said it before Brazil was dominant due to their crazy individual talents. European teams are well oiled fundamental machines. They play their roles, stay in their zones and play smart futbol
The first half was all about Croatia, the second was all about Brasil. The 1st extra game was all about Brasil, the second extra was all about Croatia. The penalties was all Croatia!! And it was great how calm they stayed. Croatia was better and that is end of the story. What once was Brasil, now is Croatia! And with this experience, mentality, correctnes, discipline and strength they can achieve anything. Maybe in future they will have even better attackers! One thing from history. There are many stories from the past, in one qoute Napoloen said: "Give me 100.000 Croatian warriors and I will conquer the whole World!" They were one of the most feared soldiers. So the genes are why Croatians are so good in sports... Roman Empire fought 150 years to conquere the Serbo-Croatian ancestors, the Ilyrians. Then few Roman Emperors were born in Croatia, and 18 in Serbia! We are not small. Its You, not knowing history.
I cannot blame the players. Tite on camera told the players to push forward for a second goal, and in the penalty shootout Tite left Ederson on the bench and asked rodrygo to shoot first. Tactical blunder
"Croatia lured Brazil to the deep end of the river and drowned them just like they did Japan. Croatia is the old experienced hitman who is not flashy and just gets it done."
I echo Juls' sentiment. Credit to Croatia , but never in any world should any 21/22 year old player have to bear the responsibility of taking a penalty, at the quarter finals of his first world cup.
Brazil is passe. It can produce 2 or 3 national teams but their glorious days are gone. They won 3 WCs in the 50's and 60's cuz Europeans had not completely recovered from World War II and they had Pele. Now Europeans are back. Congratulations Croatia.
@@harishg1507 I like that about Argentina but it’s just that they can’t hold on when they are leading. I know they have been working on their defense though.
They said in 6 min what really mattered in 120 minutes. How could Brazil make such a silly mistake? This is for the players and ofcourse for the coach; this loss will haunt you for the rest of your lives. Focusing on dancing, hair dye, tattoo and other extra things were what they are doing. The next day you are knocked out, you are nobody. Please don't do similar mistakes every four years. From your die hard fan across the Atlantic.
@@roky7772 i would love to see a underdogs finals Croatia vs Morocco Enough with football favourites in Europe and south america they ruined football with big money , Small countries with dedicated players and passionate fans deserve WC too
Orsic is the one guy who every time I see him play, I wonder how he’s still at Dynamo and not a big club in a top league. Awesome player. I’d have him competing for a LW spot with Saint Maximin any day at Newcastle. Maybe he just loves playing in Croatia…
Tite fxckd up by subbing on Fred instead of Fabinho... Fred came on and thought he was an attacking midfielder. Plus Fabinho is an excellent penalty shooter.. Wasted opportunity for Brazil
What, defend for 10 mins? They had casemiro in the game, and they could've bought on Fabinho. Nobody coulve scored if they had played like they were supposed to
Argentina didn’t play suicide defensive tactics, they got beaten by long ball desperation and a mesmerising free kick. How Brazil allows a counter up 1-0 in 2ET against a side with hitherto 0 shots on target is ridiculous and unacceptable. You can’t intelligently compare the 2.
Croatia should have won in 1998 but a lot of terrible calls vs France and then again in 2018 we're just unlucky vs France, seems to be turning into a curse. Hype. Croatians are great at sport, period.
That's why Pele and Ronaldo will always be Brazilian legends! They will always be remembered for bringing their teams to the finals and also lifting the trophy for Brazil. Something Neymar will never do
Does nobody see that Brazil's players wanted to go 2-0 and end with a show-off choreographed dance? They had no thought at that point that Croatia could score on them. Hubris.
Actually, seconds before the counter attack, you can see Tite yelling at them to go back to defend, Neymar said it aswell, but they kept going forward. That beeing said, for me, Tite is the only one to blame. I mean, the players are dumb, but the coach has to do better with the advantage they had, against a team with no attack. To put fkin Fred in the game, intead of Fabinho, to replace Vini for Rodrigo, instead of putting him in the fkin right side, to go with 2 midfielders against Luka Modrić, Kovacic and Brosovic...I mean, insane. The mistakes goes on forever. Feels horrible to be considered to have the "best team" and beeing eliminated back to back to back... we had them, bro. We had them. Fook
That game was in favor of Croatia, they knew what they were doing tactically, we knowhow good they are. But Brazil have themselves to blame after taking the lead, that's what everyone is pissed of about. Instead of protecting the lead they want a second goal making unnecessary subs and committing men forward. They got themselves to blame, particularly the coach
How many times have pundits hailed teams when the best pk taker takes the last one scores and win his team the tie...pundits just complain for complaint sake no matter what
I’m not an out and out expert like Gab (nor am I Croatian) but I certainly know who Mislav Orsic is, and I have to believe the Brazilians and anyone who’s watched Dynamo in Europe the last 2 years should as well. And his assessment of Petkovic seems patently unfair and off the mark too.
You don't let a 21 year old kid take a penalty like that. They had Antony and Pedro as well. Imagine being a 26-28 year old man and passing the responsibility of such an insanely high pressure moment onto a 21 year old kid. It's not just about the penalty it's about dealing with the fallout if you miss. The manager probably decided, but how do you look at yourself in the mirror if you're one of the experienced players in the team who didn't want to take a penalty? I'd feel like a complete coward.
Brazil I think are victims of being the leaders of the game and having more possession, when they were 1-0 up finally and croatia had to score, Since they were in the driver seat all match they just can't defend, that's why i think a defending team might just win this world cup ( croatiaor portugal) These teams know how to sit deap and defend and when they attack the other team have no idea how to defned those counter properly because they aren't used to defend
@@IrishCinnsealach yeah but it was them who were leading in the game trying to score first and when teams who try to score get caught on a counter it's difficult to defned sometimes.
that was some shocking defending by brazil. i always believe in the pk shooutout your best pk taker must take the 1st, 3rd, 4th pk. if i remember, the italy vs france wcup final shootout, pirlo went 1st, de rossi 3rd, del piero 4th. i thought someone like casemeiro should have kicked first, you really dont want a 21 year old kicking first
Haha That's football... People can't believe their team of choice lost... Congrats! As a Brazilian I think Croatia played more tactically and with admirable mental disposition
Croatia since 1998 entering the world cup have come close to winning most world cups, there's no surprise. The hype for some teams is like crypto, it's based on opinion and not looking at true value.
A day and a moment I want to forget but I don't know how will I be able to pass this terrible moment 😔 I am going through so much pain 😭 I never felt like this in my whole life what I'm facing since yesterday nightmare..oh my Lord! What and why Brazil had done 😥
Sad for Alisson getting all the hate for "losing them the game" when his team decided to play attack only and the shot deflected off Marquinos' knee. He would have stopped it otherwise. He doesn't deserve the hate. Maybe could have done better in the 3 penalties but Brazil also missed 2 so what could he have even done? He doesn't deserve to be blamed.
This Brazil team is overrated and over hyped and at the end the lost. The only discipline they have is their dance move which doesn’t win matches! They can wait another 20 years before having a chance to win a WC.
This speech for dancing is the bait for people that are disrespectful, congratz for being dumb. But they really messed on discipline, why give the opponent the chance to score a goal since you are 1 goal ahead, that doesn't make sense. We did see the coach yelling at the corner on the field to the players to go back. The players was so dumb, not to mention the order of penalties, why the youngest attacker would be the first... Put the defender to kick... Let Modric play free on the mid field... Actually Croatia struggle the entire game, and was fighting until the end, Brazil was making so many mistakes and still scored at 1° extended time... "In the end they was giving so many opportunities and still Croatia struggle to attack. So the players decided to decrease the defence and let them score, best play of the game." The Brazil team choked generation is the nickname.
It's a good Brazil side. And they should have won this game easily. Croatia played well and had good possession but they created nothing because they have no attack. While Brazil created loads and Croatia's GK had the game of his life. Even with that they were 1-0 up and surrendered the game by being absolutely crazy, as described in the vid. But still it was a fluke deflected goal which did them in.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 The problem is Brazil was training to not do this, and in this game they made not just one, but many times this mistake. They already enter the field slow, lacking whim in the passes, already lacking space and they showed the team did nothing to fix the flaws. Even though Croatia being expected to be defensive game mode and using the number 10 (by the way he was once the best in the world). There are too many mistakes for Brazil.
It is my question also how a 21 yrs old kid starts a penalty shoot out..!? What's wrong with Tite!? What did he want to prove? Why did 6/7 plyers remain opposite half in 117th minutes!?