What on Earth has happened to Brazil? | Brazil 0-1 Argentina tactical analysis 

Many of you will be questioning whether Fernando Diniz should still be in charge of Brazil. Patreon members can get my answer here: www.patreon.com/posts/is-fernando-man-93411142

The problem is that most if these Brazil player are Europeanized, imagine coming off positional play to this and having less training with the players🤦

Please do a tactical analysis of Germany. Their performance is currently absolutely disastrous.

Even though I think on paper Diniz outclassed Scaloni tactically, here we see the micro-aspects of the game come into play. Brazil had several 1v1s opportunities to score but were either saved or blocked by a defender. I think it just takes time for the youngsters to develop that experience. Whereas, Argentina had one good opportunity on goal and took it. Those little things add up in a game. And I really hope both Neymar and Messi can heal from their injuries. And I hate to see players develop chronic conditions like that.

The problem with Diniz's Brazil lies in the erosion of European playing habits among the playmakers. It was painful to witness Bruno repeatedly disrupt the system and lose possession due to impatience. I believe that if Neymar returns with Paquetá, they could transform this team into a formidable squad. Diniz's game is strong in fast passes and short dribbles; however, they tend to carry the ball too much and resort to the long ball too frequently. We can see the tatics are there, but they struggle against ingrained unconscious habits in the players.

As a brazilian, what frustrates me the most about the national team is, by far, the fans. Seriously, anytime something goes wrong with theam or we don't have the best results possible, they start trash talking. And they don't spare anyone. We have amazing players who are among the best in the world, and play their heart out for the national team. Yet, people will make fun of them and question their skills because of one loss or mistake. Gosh, sometimes the fans will complain about the players even after a victory.

Brazil football has a depression, in order to treat a depression, you need an extensive therapy, discipline, consistency and positive environment, the celasao spectacular football era is over, the modern football imposes collective endurance to achieve goals, like once someone said: “ Brazilian national team's players p party to much to win anything“, that's the painful truth that some refuse the hear. Respect to Brazil football team that I love.

I'm brazilian and I came here seeking for this very answer. Please tell me, because looking from the inside all I see is chaos and destruction

Despite the result I "liked" how the Brazilian team played

O que mais me incomoda é que é nítido que a forma que o Fluminense joga é muito diferente da forma que o Brasil joga. Mesmo sendo o mesmo técnico

It's important to remember that Diniz is just an interim. It was never in the plans for him to continue in the job, he is just holding a spot.

brazil seems to have lacked playmakers for awhile now. They never had issues in the front line and industrious box to box midfielders.

With all the quality they have it's hard to understand how they struggle so much. Hope they bounce back as quickly as possible because they are a very entertaining team at their best.

Broooooo you are made for this Things are not going well for Brazil 🇧🇷 🔥 That intro!!

Hear me out, do you think on chance that Brazil's downfall is part of a wider "grand shift" in football? Cause Brazil isn't the only traditionally big team going through dreadful form at the moment, of course there's Germany too but **arguably** also Italy and Netherlands too. It seems that some former major teams had a downward spiral post 2014 World Cup, especially after the old guard retired. If I had to wager a guess I would assume it has something to do with how the up and coming talents are trained with their country's own unique style of playing football but football has shifted tactically against their special styles and so they are struggling to adapt in this new environment. I am reaching for straws here honestly but thought this was interesting enough to share. I probably sound really dumb though, so feel free to ignore my comment. 🗿 Great video, btw as always. Keep up the great work, mate, cheers.

We did lose to Argentina, but from my perspective it was the best match under Diniz's management. Yes, the team did lack effectiveness, and there's still an apparent lack of chemistry, since this team is just starting to play together. But Argentina didn't create a single GS opportunity in 90 minutes and found their way into scoring in an awesome header from Otamendi in a dead ball situation. About the playmaker, it is Neymar, he is the guy for it. And I do think Rodrygo has the potential and the skills to be a good replacement, but it will probably take time. About Ganso, he is one of my favorite players to watch, he is a football genius, but he lacks the intensity that is just necessary in modern football. Also, it was a bad game offensively, but Neymar, Vini and Paquetá are out, which makes it much more difficult. Once again, the biggest problem now is that there is a crisis, and we have no idea where the team is going. Diniz has four more matches in his contract and there is no signal whatsoever that he'll stay after that, so what is the point of going through this rough transition of styles if it ain't gonna last? I do believe he is coming, but in a scenario where Ancelotti doesn't come, CBF's President Ednaldo Rodrigues has no Plan B, and the last two years of preparation for the World Cup will turn into a huge question mark.

Despite Brazil having several disapponting losses in the last matches, is noticeable an evolution, a progress of the players in Diniz's tactical scheme. Honestly I'm not impressed by the loss, by the way, but the point here is to don't lose the hope in Fernando Diniz, he's improving - slowly, but improving 🙏

Gosto dos seus vídeos mano, muito massa suas análises

I love that you're showing some short videos, this makes it much better to understand what you're talking about even if someone hadn't watched the match.

In sports teams go through phases, and the same problems Brazil has had other big teams like Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Uruguay, England, Spain have had as well. It is a very competitive global sport and sometimes shit coaches, bad call ups and injuries can undermine the performance of a highly talented national team. The question now is if Brazil can build a new team and renovate so it can return to try to compete for world titles again being the greatest men's team in the history of the game. The next world cup the competition will be even bigger in 2026 with 48 teams. It is a challenge to see how a national team overcomes its crisis and bad phases.

I genuinely want Diniz to succeed because I'm aesthetically in love with his style. However, I think it might be too difficult with the Seleção. With Fluminense he has the advantage of working with the team everyday and he can pick players based on his needs. With the Seleção he only has them during international breaks and that's harder to change how the players play. That and as some have already mentioned, many very good players simply play too European to fit into this system, but based on skill level it's hard to exclude them. Maybe that's unfortunately the route he should go.

You mentioning the necessity of a playmaker in this Brazil team just reminded me of how frustrated I am that Lucas Paquetá didnt get called up because of the investigation. He would fit so well in this team, in Diniz's style of play and be that playmaker when Neymar is not around. He is the only brazillian player I can think that has the quality for the Seleção and has that "tempo setter" quality talked about in the video. He has been playing so well for the last months, ever since he was speculated at Man City he just decided to eat the ball in every game. Not calling him up has hurt the national team. Should've let him play while the investigation is ongoing since he is also playing for his club with no trouble.

You didn't analyze the Colombia game. It was their best offensive game so far.

Love your videos always

I wanna know where do you rewatch the games? Thank you

As a Brazilian, it is unbelievable the amount of patience Diniz is getting from CBF. Believe me, before Tite, any coach with this number of losses would be fired right away. He made a huge amount of mistakes, especially with his substitutions over the last three games (it takes forever for him to change the team and he ALWAYS adds the new players in positions they are not used to playing). The Brazilian team is not a place for experiments, he is breaking negative records all the time. If CBF wants to try it, they should hire Diniz for the Brazilian Sub-20 team, not our main team. Our team was totally lost in the first two games, and I believe we did a better job against Argentina because the players didn't want to lose that game at all costs, but our team is a mess, a TOTAL mess.

I seriously question the efficiency of Diniz's tactics. Sure, he won a Libertadores with a "middle of the table" team and the way he managed Flumiense to the final was commendable, but never free of risk. In multiple occasions the "mini-games" within the games of Fluminenses winning campaign could have gone bad were not for one man: German Cano. This guy single-handedly tipped the balance in Fluminense's favour multiple times, including in the final match. He is a unique striker who probably never heard of xG's per shot zone. The way his mind works probably goes like this: "if I can see the white on the goalie's eyes, I will take the shot". I want to say that some 50% of the goals this man scored have very little to do with Diniz's tactics and more to do with his individual characteristics. He doesn't need to be "in the right" place to take a shot nor he needs the team to build him a good opportunity. Fluminenses' goalie could dispatch the ball from his own box and find Cano in the mid-field with two defenders on him and the man would probably take a shot at the goal from there "just because". He takes wild chances and scores and I think a lot of people fail to see how German Cano masked many of the flaws on Fluminenses' tactics. With that said, I want to point out that Brazil does not have anything close to a German Cano. Richarlison, Jesus, Endrick... none of them are near the state of grace Cano achieved in 2023 and when you combine that with a team who doesn't fully understand what the coach is trying to do you have a disaster in your hands. Brasil x Argentina was the best match Brasil played ever since Diniz took over. Analyze the other games under his management I guarantee you gonna have two bleeding eyes by the end of it.

Obrigado pelas legendas em português!

De verdad si estan teniendo mejoras, la intencidad con la que salieron en el primer tiempo fue brutal, como el liverpool de 2018, pero esa intencidad no es del todo buena ya que lleva a un desgaste tremendo. Bruno es un jugador de elite, pero su tiempo en el newcastle lo a trasformado en un jugador mas de destrucción que de creación

Last video you made about Dinizismo I commented saying I trusted the project. I still do. Amazing defensive analysis, and attack analysis is ALWAYS the same, players are addicted to european football. Brazil has MUCH talent, but RAW talent. We need a metronome, Ganso is a good option and I think he should be given a chance! About Neymar, I don't agree he should be the metronome, his time has passed, last world cup was his last chance. This crisis is about how we are creating players and to do what? Last great Brazilian talents are almost ALL wingers. There are no players like Kaka, Rivaldo and etc, whom could do the playmaker role under Dinizismo works. For now I'd give it a chance for Ganso and Paquetá.

Great video! Can you make a video about Fluminenses Libertadores win?

Love the vid, but would also have liked for you to talk about how Brazil is also missing someone like De Paul, someone that does the dirty work and is not afraid of putting the body on the line, partly I think that is why Argentina came out on top is that De Paul took over the mid field presence in both sides almost acting like a 5th defender Brazil had to go through before even meeting Otamendi and Romero

Bem acho que a única coisa que falta para a seleção brasileira atualmente um centro avante finalizador. Da pra ver claramente o quanto falta um jogador pra chutar a bola no gol.

Could you do a video on Arsenal (specifically Kai Havertz) I think the way Arteta's trying to find a way to utilize him is interesting. He sometimes plays as a striker, sometimes as a winger, sometimes as an attacking midfielder and even now sometimes as a kind of left defensive fullback. He doesn't start there but he moves into that position when Zinchenko moves up the pitch. I'd personally like to know your opinion on where on the pitch he's best suited to and how good of a player you could see him becoming under Arteta.

Science Mrs White!! Great video!!

tbm acho que um armador faz muita falta, ja havia conversado sobre isso no meu trabalho, neymar tbm tem um estilo diferente do ganso, costuma prender mais a bola e driblar, acho que paqueta seria melhor pra desempenhar essa função

Violence in the crowd ? Brazilian policemen striked at argentinian fans and didn’t plan for the opposite crowds to meet in advance

I hope they have some friendlies or sometime to train to develop this system even before playing against England

The point is that today's Brazilian players learn from a young age to develop tactics and physics to the detriment of developing technique and skills. In the past, the fundamentals (passing, shooting, dominating, heading, crossing, etc...) were the most important things for the development of players in the youth categories, and then when they went to Europe they started to develop more physical aspects. and tactics. Tele Santana (former coach known for his "art football" style) once said: "the fundamentals of football are the most important thing. There's no point in teaching a super elaborate tactic if he can't execute it."

Brazil's press was intense, but the amounts of faults would cause more yellow cards in any away match. It wasn't even 5 minutes and they already had 2 or 3 hits that should have been carded.

When the Purist posts, I stop whatever I'm doing and like the video before even watching it

Only stills? Where are the video clips since you wanna illustrate your footballing points?

People were questioning why you need Neymar... I think this is the reason to every Brazilian player on that pitch mostly the forwards he is their Messi (ya i know his success is much less)

You're the best bro

The 4-2-4 of Diniz is not working for Brazil. The team has no middle and no depth. He needs to work with the pieces he has and not try to fit the pieces into his game philosophy.

Brazil is the next wc champion, congratulations from Argentina! You'll deserve it!

O cara me coloca a imagem de invasão do CONGRESSO, achando que é revolta contra CBF kkkkk

Just put Alan Patrick and Tiquinho and watch things go from bad to amazing.

Diniz is a hell of a coach... but not for a national team, he needs to much time to bend the players to his "way".

I've followed the cycle of eight World Cups, from 1994 until now. In 6 of these, Brazil has won practically everything, but has failed in the exact World Cup. In 2 of these, Brazil had a difficult time and qualified for the World Cup in the last qualifying match (almost missing out World Cup) but then went on to win the World Cup. I'm very confident so! The 2026 World Cup is ours!

Paquetá can be this playmaker, the best Fluminense this year had 3 midfielders (André, Martinelli and Ganso as a playmaker), I believe that when Paquetá returns from this push aside Brasil will have some improvements

The Brazilian national team lacks 4 players profile that Fluminense have. 1. Ganso, for the reasons on the video. 2. Marcelo, a great full back that can also dictate the tempo, and also have experience, dribles and attacking threat. 3. Cano, fearless striker that is ready to score no matter the situation and always is well positioned. 4. Nino, the defense black operator who knows exactly what the times need and which will help a lot in the build up. For me, his style of play doesn't match the players in the NT, especially because most of them use positional play in their clubs. And also, I think this style of play lack control and defensive qualities, two things I really appreciate. Anyways, the main culprit of this mess is CBF, that know all of it and even though they cared this plan and it ended up bad for everyone.

This TEMPO problem persisted at Fluminense throughout the season. It's not something exclusive to players, it's Diniz's defect. I believe that GANSO only lessens the effect of this defect.

can you do one on uruguay please?

mr purist can you make a video on my germany?😢 it seems like all is falling apart and i see no end to this😢😢

Raphael Veiga played very well actually. Combine him with Andre and Paqueta and we will have a good team. Put in Vitor Roque and Talisca and vini JR in attack. Bench Marquinhos and have Nino and Magalhaes in defence. Don't call Emerson Royal, instead call up a young rb from brazil, we have many. Put augusto as LB and Allison in goal. For the bench we can have Paulinho, Rodrygo, Martinelli, Everton Cebolinha,endrick. Then we need playmaker so call up Ganso(why not). If we have a strong team like this then maybe diniz can accomplish what he wants. I think he had bad selections for the last data fifa.

Diniz was always overated asf, piss me off to see gringos defending him based on highlights and biased stats

It was a very unfair game, especially at the start. Argentina probably messed up the warm-ups with the situation in the grandstands where the police were attacking their families and Argentinean fans. The game itself is secondary in that context. Obviously, having 70 minutes of Messi injured is like playing with 10 players, which didn't help. But the biggest thing in this game was that Brazil committed so many fouls it was crazy. I don't have the data, but I'm pretty sure the Brazil national team had never made so many fouls in history, so it has to be a shameful record. They were desperate to pressure and stop Argentina from playing with the fouls, and there should have been way more yellow cards at the start. They made the game really ugly and deserved the loss.

The big issue is CBF putting a very young coach while also coaching for another team with very unorthodox ideas AND with set date. Just a recipe for disaster

yo, make a video about the libertadores final between fluminense and boca juniors. Think an analysis of diniz's tactics then would be interesting.

I do think that Argentina played better against Uruguay than against Brazil. It seems that constant high pressure can easily complicate Argentina, specially if Messi and Enzo are not able to perform their best. Uruguay was a fair winner against Arg as per tactics and performance. Against Brazil, Arg was able to win almost exclusively due to good defender work (specially from Romero and Acuña) and Brazil no taking advantage of the goal situations they had (at least 2 of them we're really good). If they continue through this path, hopefully they Will find that missing player. I woukd love to see "jogo bonito" again, south america really needs of Arg, Bra and Uru at their best (and Colombia also, they donhave amazing players).

The rhythm of this game made no sense from Brazil's point of view - why were they committing so many pointless fouls??

Brazil just aint the great badass team that they once were....The last time Argentina came on their home turf, they beat Brazil in their own stadium & won the Copa America....now Argentina beating them once again in their own stadium at a WC qualifier....bear in mind this was at least a far better performance from Brazil than the last horrid match they played...but still loss inspite of their world class talents that Brazil have on their team..

Can you do a video on Leverkusen, the most exciting team of the year?

Os jogadores brasileiros dão mais valor aos seus clubes que a própria seleção ultimamente. Tiram o pé com medo de disputar uma bola. A CBF insiste em usar o nome da seleção para promover jogadores ruins que estão esquecidos, porém agora com a falta de qualidade sistemática que o Brasil está enfrentando no futebol esse tipo de promoção torna-se um desastre. A seleção da Argentina nem era tão boa nessa última copa, porém deram o sangue e por causa disso venceram. Deveriam mostrar os jogos do Brasil da década de 60 para que os jogadorem aprendam a jogar com vontade.

It's just sad seeing Brazil's game go through this disastrous phase in their game. But all is not lost 0-1 isn't that bad.. Let's go Brazil ❤🇧🇷

and the sad part is that Diniz is probably going to leave soon...

I know you make a lot of Barça videos, but could you do one more about their recent games?

Take in account that this argentinian team is very tactical and complicated tactically at the 2018 champion in the 2022 final. More over, this brazil argentina match Argentina was still more less playing as the Quatar level (ok Uruguay defeat Argentina, but Saudi Arabia defeat Argentina too in Quatar). So perhaps the rival's level make things look worse. Uruguay and Colombia look like at the start of high periods, too. Brazil is always respected. Greetings from Argentina.

Please make a tactical analysis of Denmark. Their performance is currently absolute disastrous

Gone are the days of R,Carlos, Cafu, Rivaldo, Dida, Kaka, Ronaldo, Romario, Ronadlinho, etc etc..we miss the samba

for who understand futbol . i don´t saw the video but i will shared with you my view. andre and nino from fluminense are already use it witu the game of diniz and they try to go in a block space but the other players keeping rotating like a positional game, so need time only.

Put faith in your Coach, Brazil are losing anyway since 2002, so let him build the future and give him time. ❤ from Egypt

I'd really LOVE a video where you make arguments for different players for that playmaking role that has been a problem for years (much like number 9), because all due respect, neymar CAN'T do that, he and rodrygo play very much alike in this team, with also the same problems in this role, so who else would be a good pick

5:02 I was just thinking this, Brazil isn’t France and is tryna play like France. Most successful teams have a play maker, and Brazil hasn’t had one for real, in a long time. You look at Argentina for example, they’ve had Di Maria and then Messi has play lakers alongside lo censo, Enzo Fernandez now too. These guys can pass, and they can actually slow down games when they need to. Brazil is not France, and France at the moment is the only top team in the world imo that doesn’t need a slow paced player who can just make plays. Brazil have fast players and you can think of them as being able to copy France. But they can’t imo. They don’t have a lethal striker anymore, and honestly are kinda stuck in 2015-2020 Spain. -obviously Spain somehow got morata to always score even against good teams. But brazil? They really got nothing at the moment. And other comments mentioned this, but their top Brazilian players are really like system players now, and aren’t that good at scoring. Basically what I’m saying is that Brazil is really bad at attacking at the moment, oh I guess they are like Bayern before Kane. Yeah last years Bayern is basically Brazil at the moment. And that means they definitely aren’t gonna beat better teams than them any time soon.

You forgot to mention the team is decided by the coach’s agent, who is looking at the January 24 window.

Diniz deveria armar a seleção brasileira, da mesma forma que faz com o Fluminense. Basta correlacionar os jogadores, dadas as devidas proporções, que sejam similares ao Flu. O Nino e André ele já tem. Falta fazer o Martinelli jogar tipo um John Arias, um lateral pra jogar igual Marcelo(Yan Couto) e por aí vai. E falta coragem também.

Não vai funcionar. Não há tempo para treino.

I know it's probably not your fault and you probably google images of people with brazil's uniform... but one of the photos you've shown as "mad brazilian football crowd" is actually from a heavy political uprising... and since politics is very polarized... you may have some mad brazilian ppl here complaining about the photo... just sending you feedback! your content is amazing and your videos on football are always great.

Wasnt that coach that everybody on YT told is revolution in football ?

the problem with the "Dniniz-ism" strategy is that it doesnt work if the players themselves dont have the time to practice and absorb its functionality. which in a national team is basically impossible to happen, as they only have a couple of weeks at most to train before going back and erasing everything they learned. only to repeat the cycle again next time they are selected to play for the seleçao. for a team, that can build and understand it? sure, its great, but its not for a national team. which it was considered a gamble, that didnt pay off. ironically, the ONLY player to actually absorb and be able to make it work with his own playstyle was Neymar. the rest of the team was completely lost, between what Diniz want them to do, and the years of conditioning and training they have ingrained in their muscles.

Brazil called Veiga, a natural playmaker, to put him in the last 10 minutes and as a right winger. He didn't help himself.

Brazil need to call up Talisca, he always perform and he have deadly finishing shot.. Not as deadly as Royal & Raphinha combo tho

In my opinion as a Fluminense supporter and a fan of Diniz's work choosing him as a coach for the national team was a mistake. First there's the issue of him having to share his atention between both his club and the seleção, but more importantly, Diniz is a proponent of a very different and new football philosophy, it is difficult for players to adapt if they aren't practicing regularly with him as is the case with the seleção.

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Truly an amazing analysis. I been seeing the same problems on the way the team plays, Neymar really is missed. He is a player that takes on responsibility and creates spaces like few. I think Zé Rafael and Raphael Veiga, both from palmeiras, Gerson (Flamengo), Caio Alexandre (Fortaleza), Maycon (Corinthians), Anderson Talisca (Al Nassr), apart from those you mentioned, are some midfielders that could fit the style. For the defense spot i think Murillo (Nottigham Forest) is the perfect player. Just arrived in england from Corinthians and is a incredible player, very technical and fast, should fit right in. Robert Renan (Zenit) is another player from the same academy as Murillo and Marquinhos (Corithians) and is class too, Alex Sandro is a player that maybe could have a shot in that CB position aswell. Marcelo (Fluminense) is a player that is familiar with the Diniz style and is still an increble left back, deserves a call up, his experience and technical ability could really help the team a lot. On the attack i think Firmino (Al Ahli) deserves a shot. He is not in the same form as he once was, but he is still a class player. A number 9 that plays like a 10, works really well with little space with great dribbling, passing and inteligence. Malcolm (Al Hilal) could work aswell. Paulinho (Atletico Mineiro) definitely deserves more chances.

Ganso is the last "classic 10" of brazil. As you said, this type of player doesn't have a space in modern european positional play. Riquelme recently said the same thing. There's no more argentinian's "10 " players like Riquelme, Messi, Maradona... and Brazilian's like Zico, Sócrates, Raí, Falcão, Rivellino, Ronaldinho and etc... (i even put Pelé on it) Since 2010, everyone that worked with GANSO (players and coaches) said that he's a GENIUS, he do and see things that no one CAN'T. But people like Dunga, Sampaoli and the media almost destroyed his carrer...

Tbh Argentina was repeating the World Cup 11's but the good ones were in the bench. Only 1 year has passed but the team needs a little rethinking

Diniz's teams often rely on fouls as a strategy to stop the opposing team.

Brazil has lost “joga bonito”. They’re literally just a European team without the excitement of Brazilian style.

Brazil used to be scary just by looking at their bench..it evaporated or other countries caught up.

The lack of Paqueta is really hurting Brazil, in my opinion. I also believe that Diniz's style will take time to work, especially as most players are used to the European system.

what about Ganso replacing Neymar as the No. 10? I've been hearing good things about him over at Fluminese and how he's been that "playmaker" Would he be good enough to slot in for Neymar?

It was a weird match since the beginning. Neither both of the teams played focused in the game.

I don't think it's injury: Messi is 36 years old, age has caught up. The front two of Argentina was very weak. Brazil should've capitalized on the emotional weakness of Argentina in the first half itself.

Bom modelo , má execussão, e isso é devido a falta de Treinos , o Diniz precisa de 2 anos Treinando a Seleção, aí podemos vêr os resultados nítidos .

Brazil will be fine once they actually nail down a full time manager and a clear approach to playing. Brazil will always be a team with top class players. But they also bring their playing habits from their European clubs. The organisation and management chaos at the federation level is affecting the team.

Thank you, yes, Brazil needs a playmaker, might as well use Ganzo

Curti que ele usou uma foto do gado para mostrar a torcida brasileira

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