Tactical Analysis : Brazil 1-1 Croatia | How Brazil Got Knocked Out |
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I am a Barca fan in terms of club football but man is Modric something. Dude runs whole field at an age of 37. He is active in both attack and defence. Legend.
Yeah Ronaldo and Messi both are not to the knees of grande Modrić
So true,he is legend
Fr fr
Class
@@morishogo144 he definitely deserves the ballon'dor
Luka Modric has to be considered a legend of the game now. 37 and still bossing games vs the best in the world is amazing.
The game-changer for Croatia was definitely that substitution of Sosa, after he was brought off, the Croatia attack looked more dangerous and thus they levelled the game. But man Livakovic was a beast. Credit to Dalic. He is a genius of a coach. Everybody thought that 2018 was fluke for him but he has been proving everybody wrong especially in this WC.
There's no chemistry between Sosa and Perišić, you can see that they often fumble passes to each other or they overlap and get confused who should get the ball. Both players are talented, but don't work together. Maybe Dalić could play Perišić more defensively like a wingback and put Oršić as the left attacking wing.
Whole tournament long there is Croatian issue with Perisic and player behind him. Both Sosa and Barisic tend to be too scared to progress behind certain area. And it makes Perisic play 2 v 1.
Sosa has amazing cross but whole tournament we are yet to see single good one. Just poor fit i guess.
On defense it's very good tho so i guess it's okey.
i mean, he only took sosa off to score a goal, because he threw on budimir who isnt a lb, also we were defending for half the game, which sosa did a great job in shutting down antony, and raphina was completely invisible. the goal we conceded however perhaps couldve been saved had sosa got there faster but oh well. i do agree sosa hasnt been his best this WC, but i can assure you, barisic wouldve been much worse, and to claim our game changer was sosa coming off, when we were looking for the goal anyway and brazil came pressing when they shouldve sat back, is a but unfair.
@@apan990 Sosa was a wall in that game. He did amazing
Croatia is here to stay man. What a national team
Commenting before watching, as a Brazillian I think the biggest mistakes were:
-Letting Richarlison play with a hamstring injury and only subbing him at the 83 minutes mark
-Replacing Vini with Rodrygo instead of Martinelli (or just let Vini play ffs)
-Replacing Militão instead of Danilo
-And the most unforgiving, unexplicable and mindblowing mistake: Fred.
You're up 1x0, has 15 minutes to play and need to defend that result, you have Fabinho on the bench but you put Fred instead. God damn it that pissed me off so much, Fred shouldn't even be in the squad to begin with.
PQP Fred...that move is something i would never understand. we had a few minutes left WHY THE FUCK FRED. then we have our biggest enemy in the game The referee ffk
@@viniciusyeungyvn I wil never ever ever ever understand what the fuck was that
get Fred in and Vini out were the biggest mistake. Vini was the best attacker in the first half and he was the only one who looked dangerous on the field. And Fred… I don’t know what to say. Pathetic. Can’t believe Brazil is out
@@theasub941 Fred has absolutely no qualities, not good at defending, not good at attacking, not good at passing, I don't know how he plays for Man United and Seleção, dude must have the best agent ever or he kidnapped the coaches' families or something
Let's be honest: Fred has the quality to score surprising goals, making late runs into the box.
But it was a tactical blunder to bring such a skill-set in when you need to control the midfield and solidify the defense.
Anyone but Fred would've done the job. Fabinho would've been my choice.
This Croatian match is a masterpiece of coaching. Brazil has much better players in most positions, but they were not able to seriously threaten Croatia except in the first overtime. The action for the Brazilian goal was the result of extraordinary talent, it was indefensible. If this was for a six, I don't know what a ten is. Dalić deserves much more recognition.
Players do not win tournaments - teams do. Croatians strategy and unity I think is above the heads of many people looking for cheap highs and quick thrills. They want wham bam when Croatian football is like human viagra - strong wood that can go all night, lol.
Croatia are very solid and patient, yes they aren’t the strongest squad in the tournament but the way they play is very effective and their experience in midfield is invaluable. People say Croatia are boring, but that’s because the midfielders know that in knockout matches you cannot afford to make a single mistake, they keep the ball and play simple passes, they don’t do stupid flashy moves to show off. Argentina will not have an easy time against Croatia. This just shows that even if you have a weaker team than your opponent, it doesn’t mean you are going to get smashed. If you play with the right tactics you can demoralise your opponents and actually win the match, Netherlands almost did it as well.
the only problem with Brazil is the coach's decisions and his tactics
Well, Croatia were/are stronger than Brasil where it counts - and it's the midfield. As the old adage goes - games are won and lost in the midfield.
What would those positions other than attack be? You know what much better means?
World cup finalists, crashing out in euros against spain in extra time (after coming back from 3-1), nations league final 4, and now the world cup semi finals again. Dalic can go in history as one of the all time greats of international football coaches. He didn't accomplish this with a nation like Germany, Spain, England. He did it with a team that no one predicted could accomplish anything. Couldn't be more proud of our guys, they've already made history.
Agreed. Croatia is an inspiration !
Giving Dalic a 6? Are you for real?
His strategy with this croatian team against such brazilian players was nearly flawless.
The plan was, when in posession, to slow down the pace of the game and have safe posession as much as possible. For Croatia posession was a form of defence, not offense. This makes total sense, as brazil has much better attackers and you want to take away the ball from them. You also dont want to loose the ball and give them a chance to counter you. This also played to croatias strenght, which is their technically gifted midfield. They were also very good defensively.
I think this was the way to go for croatia, as this maximized their chance of progression against brazil. There is not much more Dalic could have done that would have provided a better chance for his team to progress. And thats the job of the coach: to maximize his teams chance of a positive result.
So giving him a 6 is ridiculous. It's an easy 9 in my opinion. The only change that would have perhaps made more sense is to start Budimir instead of Kramaric for this game, but that's a minor thing.
Can you please take Mark Ogden's job? He's a fanboy, you're a fan of the game. Respect.
Yeah, ability to make this game "dead" by croatian side was way to go and those three guys in the middle did it great. Solution is simple, Brasil should put much more pressure up the field due to way more phisically superior players. But man, trying to press Modric, Brozovic and Kovacic is heck of a job. In my opinion the biggest quality of modric is reaction to pressure teams put on him higher up, I dont see any better player in those qualities.
@@tomislavsandor6303
"But man, trying to press Modric, Brozovic and Kovacic is heck of a job."
Exactly. Kovacic's ability to bypass the oppositions pressing is up there with Modric's at this stage of their career.
Then there's also Gvardiol. His calmness on the ball is crucial to Croatia in their buildup. In addition to the midfield, a good ball playing CB is also needed for this type of play.
It's easily a 9? Brasil had plenty of chances to score, some people focus too much on the result and totally forget about what actually had happened during the match...
@@pauloferreira1319 Why didnt they score a goal??
Croatia has a brilliant game plan. It doesn’t have the talents Brazil has but played a great game
Teams win tournaments, not the potential of talents. This is why I love FIFA. You really see the true colors and capabilities when playing at a world level.
@@foreverhungry7777 Brasil was far superior team than Croatia the whole game, what are you talking about? Did you watch the game or just the final result?
@@pauloferreira1319Another delusional brazil fan
@@DoDo-lf2gw Brazil was dominating.
If the brazilian coach was actually smart he would have put better defensive players to hold the result.
Watch the match again.
@@foreverhungry7777 Teams with great talents and great strategies dominate football and win tournaments.
Congratulations Croatia, now that Spain is out I hope that you win 💪 🇪🇸❤️🇭🇷
Hola .... obrigado amigo :)
Croatia knew how to frustrate Brazil. They also have great defense. They practiced their penalty kicks while Brazil practiced on their dance moves. They deserved the win!
🤣😂🤣
juranovic was HUGE, what a player!
Yup. Less about vinicius not being at his best as it was juranovic having a world class game. He was arguably our best player.
Brave Croatia squad!
As a brazilian i wish they win that WC
Thank you amigo!!!
Thanks man. Brazil are still the kings of football to me.
Thanks! I know our boys will give all they have on the pitch to defeat Argentina!
Kkkkkkkkkkkk eles são o Paraguai da Europa.
@@HrvojeBan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸
This is a good overall review of the game. But, you forgot to mention few things about Croatia and how exactly did they won. Firstly, one fact is that Croatia had greater possession throughout the game, modric brozovic and kovacic looked far better and compact then brasilian midfielders. Kovacic, for me as the man of the mach, had only one technical mistake, while Paqueta and Neymar had 8 each. Also, it is not fair to say that this wasn't Vinicious' day rather than Juranovic played brilliantly in defence as well offence, so vinicius, and later rodrygo, couldn't do anything special in the game. So, Croatia did what they do the best, with one of the best midfield in the world they slowed down the pace of the game with good passing and managed to neutralize those fast brasilian attacks.
Congrats to both teams, it was a good game to wach.
Juranovic was great. probably his best game ever.
It was the ref game for not giving the penalties lol
If Tite is 6, Dalic is at least an 8 - cause you forgot the attacker - Kramaric applying targeted pressure on the centerbacks only on one side - so to funnel most of Brasil's balls towards their right side - rather then towards Vinicious. Most of Brasil's chances did not come from clear play but rather an odd deflection of the ball. This no manager can't control. It's often up to luck. And you also forget possession football targeted to disrupt Brasil's rythm. A great game plan. Tite was abysmal with his changes, and having half of his team on attack with 1:0 up, and 3 minutes to go. Hence Tite - 5, Dalić - 8.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 120 minutes and at the end, Croatia always win.
to je vec postalo dosadno...
@@anteandrovic I ti si dosadan pa ti nitko nema potrebu to reci...
Croatia won the game the only way it possibly could, considering the roster and form of the Brazil squad who played very powerful tournement so far. Dalić and the squad tacticly outplayed Brazil and put up a great and disciplined defense, as well as an sure possesion ( Croatia had bigger possesion then Brazil). Last but not least, Croatia again presented outstanding mental strenght to level the score late in a game, a without fear win on penalties. Great performance that shows how to beat stronger opponent as an underdog. You giving 6 to Dalić was too low imo, he prepared game well, and correctly detected problems when they appered trouhout a game
Its easy for them to have the mental capability to play until the penalties, they were playing the 5 times champion, even losing by 1 is already good giving the odds, to Brazil on the other hand having to go to penalties is infuriating and the players feels the pression.
croatia were not »underdogs« but overdogs, they are tournament favorites and current vice champions. anybody who tries beating them is an underdog.
@@t-778 They were the underdogs as they are lower ranked. (A lot lower actually, the first against the 12nd) Taking in consideration only that they went to finals 4 years ago, with a lot of extra time matches, doesnt mean that they are not the "underdogs" in this match.
Lol 😆
Too much credit is given to this team's defensive footballing tactics played against Brazil, if they had courage to take the open attacking football like they played against Argentina they would have finished in the first half.
Croatia didn’t stand the single chance against Argentina.
Dalic deserved 9. His strategy was spot on. Players from the bench bring Croatian sinking ship back to the surface. His choice of players for the penalties were right.
Croatia started in group F, the only group that put on 2 teams to semifinals. Croatia and Marocco had only 2% chances to win the WC before it started. I wish we see them both in final.
both had about 10% chances in the beginning to win the cup, don't believe the rubbish eestern media drop.
@@t-778 that's bullshit, there were 32 teams. if morocco and croatia both had 10% that means the other 30 teams shared the remaining 80%. iif morocco has 10% at the beginning how much should spain, belgium, france, argentina, brazil and other strong and reputable teams have?
Both sides were equally good, Croatia in the first half and in the second half of extra time and Brazil in the second half and first half of extra time, but Croatia was better in penalties as well. That's why Croatia deserved to win
Modric leading a small country like Croatia to the WC title would be the greatest football story of our lifetime.
For the second time! 2018 WC silver Croatia
You got it right!!! The Croatian coach Dalic said: We will let Danilo take the ball...
yup you got that dead right, the Dalic addmitted in in his post match interview,,, we decided to let Danilo take the ball...
So you are saying that Croatia won the game because Vinicius and Neymar were not on their best ? M8 Juranovic put Vinicius in his right pocket, he was playing his best game in his life i think... Neymar lacking out of space because our best midfield trio Brozovic,Kovacic and of course MODRIC. We were so organized and disciplined.
Neymar played very well. It was the croatian tactics that made Neymar look worse than he is. But again, he scored a goal and made the Croatian defenders look like amateurs in that sequence so Neymar was good but noot good enough.
99% of people talking about football are a mess. No insight whatsoever.
What happened to that well organised midfielder trios in next game?
@@devashisdas5024dominated by Argentina tatics.
Neymar dropping too deep is the sign that Croatia put Brazil off their game
Brazil hasnt been able to beat a european team in the knockout stages since they won the World Cup in 2002…
Unbelievable, just verified the stat because I couldn't believe it and you are correct.
As a Croat, all I have to say is we never know what the future holds. Maybe Brasil's future superstar is looking at the Modric's of the world, realising it's about team not ego, and will take Brasil into a new golden era. You just never know. Anyway, respect to our opponent Brasil, today and tomorrow.
Argentina too, europeus are most in the game, 13 teams
They bought this WC. They deserve to never win a WC again.
@@foreverhungry7777 I think Brazil will win, the day they realize they can't underestimate an opponent or "assume" they're through just because they're Brazil and have 5 trophies. Some people were designing new jerseys with 6 stars already. They don't play like they can lose at any moment, that's the issue. They play like they already won, which is why they lose.
Primeiramente, quero parabenizar a Croácia. Especialmente o Modric, que com quase 40 anos, continua circulando por todo campo, e ainda suporta a prorrogação. Esse cara joga em alto nível desde os tempos de Tottenham.
Sobre a eliminação brasileira... é mais do mesmo - Não consegue algo fora da caixa, porque se acostumou a um padrão de ir bem na defesa, e deixar o talento ''tirar o coelho da cartola''. Mas quando esse talento não consegue a mágica, o Brasil sente o peso de conquistar o hexa, e mostra um futebol muito abaixo do que se jogo na Europa (Principalmente nas grandes Ligas).
E mais, o Tite é disparado o melhor técnico brasileiro. Os que temos pra substituí-lo, não são nada animadores... pois fazem o básico do básico. Volta e meia, a imprensa especula um nome gringo, pra fazer algo diferente... como o Guardiola (Favorito), mas a resistência é tamanha e tão ignorante, que muitos dizem que o catalão 'não é nada demais'. E não é piada.
Em 2026, o Brasil tem grandes chances de ultrapassar o jejum de 24 anos sem uma Copa, por causa do pensamento raso de seus dirigentes... os dos técnicos brasileiros limitados, que no caso de alguns, recusam-se a fazer o Curso da UEFA.
Se o mano Menezes assumir o Brasil eu desisto da seleção
E o Brasil foi soberbo desde os primeiros jogos desmerecendo o adversário, na hora do gol virou bagunça como se tivessem ganho e deram espaço para a Croácia, 7 jogadores brasileiros no ataque
Tite não colocou o Martinelli que foi o melhor reserva no teste contra camarões, improvisou laterais, levou 9 atacantes e poucos meias, só jogadas nas pontas com raphinha e Vini Jr como se falou, toca no craque, pouco repertório de jogadas bola quase não chega no atacante, Firmino era monstruoso no Liverpool e o Tite nunca conseguiu extrair uma partida descente dele na seleção
Pois é, Brasil não tem técnicos melhores infelizmente, os brasileiros que criticam vão perceber isso nos próximos anos, principalmente se for mesmo Mano Menezes quem for assumir a seleção .
@@vitormascarenhas4884 Se não tiver técnico que não procure melhorar o mental vai sempre dar nisso. E pensar que o Fred daria uma pior que o Fernandinho pra sair lá no ataque.
As I watched the match, it was clear to me that something was wrong in Brazil's left defense. Croatia's forwards had too much freedom to run high up the pitch in the first half. That is because Danilo is not used to play on that position but as right full back. Tite did nothing about it in the whole first half.
In second half, Danilo returned as right full back and Alexsandro as left full back.
But our midfield was not creative as used to be.
In the penalties, our best player, Neymar, should had the first shot. But Tite let him to be the last and he never had the chance...Croatia won.
Tite was the biggest responsible for the defeat.
Brazil should be defensive or park the 🚌 after the goal instead of keep attacking 🤨😑
Falta de concentração. Porque o Tite é conhecido por comandar times com forte sistema defensivo. Depois do gol, no mínimo, esperava-se esse comportamento do time, com o Bruno Guimarães entrando pra combater os meio campistas croatas... e bola longa pra explorar as brechas.
Lembrou muito o gol do De Bruyne, onde deram muitos espaços pro contra ataque belga.
That's what they did and lost the game. They should've attacked more.
@@JackSordakaPVS not really
They tried to high defensive line then got counter and boom goal for 🇭🇷
Not the Brazilian way
Ya.
Tite has to take most of the blame imo, he literally didn't even respect croatia at all by playing neymar and paqueta vs the best mf trio in the tournament. Brazil should've been more clinical but they barely had any control of the game. croatia didn't create enough due to lack of penetration in attack, orsic gotta start the next game
I'm brazilian, a problem that I see, Brasil don't know how to play "Tik taka style", we don't have this type of player too. We are the oposite of Spain, while they don't try or don't have players with speed and skills 1x1, we don't have players like Modric.
@@guidourado1 you don’t make them that much but they are there. You have a top deep lying playmaker and mf in bruno guimaraes but your coach was so clueless to not play him. He was badly missed in the tourney and against Croatia. He’s one of the best mfs in the prem ffs. Your team had no mf control against Croatia
@@osamuaigbokhae5756 Yeah, I agree, but I guess he left a bad impression against Cameroon, like he was too nervous to play on the starting lineup. But I think the major problem, it's the mentality, having only one way of playing.
always glad to see a nigerian with profound knowledge about croatian football. 👍🏿
there will never be another player like okocha, i'd trade both media hipsters messi and ronaldo for him.
In addition, Sosa and Gvardiol bottled up movement on their side. As you have indicated in other analysis, man to man becomes important in this type of tactical game and Croatia was beating Brazil on the left side as well. Brazil looked like they have aged (lost a step or two) since their last show only the other day. The ground looked sleeker for them (Vini in particular).
Bro Sosa did so many fouls on antony its not fair
@@rafaeldavi6125 You could be right. In this regard, some teams/players such as England grow up creating a stink from the first foul. It worked and the Brazilian Ref gave them two penalties. The complaints on the English media hasn't stopped!.
@@rafaeldavi6125 Brazil could of gotten a red for the head kick and attempted divng. Be thankful for it cause your team would of played with 10 men for the rest of 70 + minutes.
its the old says, you only play as well as the opposition lets you, Vinicius didnt have a bad day, but juranovic had a great one !
@@anteandrovic Well put. I'll try to remember your words of wisdom. Juranovic owned that side of the field.
Dynamite analysis. Croatia set out to dominate the midfield and neutralize Casemiro; they achieved both, then took them to extra time and penalties.
All such tactical analisis fall quite short on consideration that we are talking about two teams with , each in its own way, present an outstanding technical skills in about all their players, so that you have no way to overcome them by tactics alone.
In the end Brasil showed that you just cannot think to contain them even having the best defence and midfield of the tournament, Croatia showed that, beside being great sportsmen, they are first and foremost a war-born nation, that just doesn't even flinch under pressure and in the end it was this that led them to victory.
Anyone who remembers 2014 Brazil Croatia knows the match was gifted to Brazil from the starting whistle. It's rare you see a more obvious case of host side favouritism from a ref. I felt sorry for croatia. This was sweet revenge. Though Germany and Brazil in 2014 was pretty sweet too!!
I bet Lovren, Kovačić, Modrić, Brozović and Perišić remember that robbery well (they played in that 2014 match) and I think they were motivated even more and wanted to settle the score. If we manage to push past Argentina and get to the final and meet France there, we'll have a chance to settle a score from 2018, too (if we don't get robbed again).
@@HrvojeBan So you're saying Croatia is the best team of all time and the only way possible to beat you is to rob the game? are you listening to yourself?
Don't get too cocky dude, this Brazil team is extremely overrated, yet you had to bring it to penalties with a lucky tie as the very last chance in the last second.
Who's Richarlyson against Ronaldo (the original)? ... Who's Danilo against Roberto Carlos? this Brazil team is trash, and believe me, Argentina is waaaay better than Brazil.
your assumptions are all over place for reasons only known to you. brazil crashed out against tournament favorites, there is no shame in that. argentina will meet the same fate.
@@t-778 actually the 2014 brazilian croatia ref clearly favourited brazil. That's the opinion of all non brazilian football players and fans who are able to read a game. Pointless even making these points to a Brazilian. All the best
OK. Quando a sua seleção tiver 5 WC, você pode falar sua besteiras.
Your rating for Dalic is ridiculous. Brazil is the best team and has the most talented players in the world, and Croatia completely denied them in the first 45 minutes and had a good chance when Perisic missed the ball by 1 cm. Second half Brazil adopted, and created some chances, but more than a half of those chances were lucky bounces created by poor clearances of Croatian defenders.
Everybody saying that Croatia had only 1 shoot at the goal, but they had some great chances during the counterattacks where Brozovic missed the complete goal, and when Perisic and some other forward players were late fros crosses by less than a second.
You also say that Neymar and Vinicius had a bad day, maybe the reason for that is Croatian Midfield line and perfect game of Juranovic. Brazil was arrogant, they underestimated Croatia, and it costed them the tournament. Just the fact that Croatia received only 1 goal in 120 minutes against the Brazil shows how well they were prepared tactically and how well they have managed to play that tactics on the field. Taking possession from the Brazil team is a huge tactical win, and Croatia did that fantastically!
they didn't underestimate Croatia. Croatia just rode out the storm and got lucky at the end. There is very little you could do with teams like Croatia parking the bus strategy, though I wouldn't watch any of their game outside world cup coz I would fall asleep or something but good luck to Croatia.
@@nikhilkay1 that is not how we actually play but what were we supposed to do when we have limited strikers and our opponet is worth three times more than us
OMG, what happened then to the next Argentina game? Did Croats stand a chance?
Plain truth is they played highly defensive + nerve-wrecking game prepared for Brazil & to go on for goal only when they had the best chance or, taking the total match in tie-breaker. Of course Brazilian coach had made some blunders that further assisted their plans.
Having success with Brazil, they forgot their real abilities & decided to play attacking football against trophy-hungry Messi's Argentina & got played by Messi. Too much credit is given to this Croat team. They’re good but no Extraordinary.
@@devashisdas5024 yeah, their strategy was to go bit attacking with Argentina which didn't work at all.
Tite with Brazil:
2016 - 2022
81 games
60 wins ✔️
15 draws ➖
6 defeats ❌
174 goals made
30 goals conceded
Copa America 2019 champions
And lost to Argentina at Maracana
Tite just didnt played well this match
He didnt put his mind on the game and didnt take decisions that would change all the players to the victory
Untill the penalties, He escalated the worst players to score in the worst order
One of the better Brazil managers in recent history but now he’s gone.
@@advenco344 did he step down?! 😳
These are good results! 75% winning rate?! That is incredible! No wonder Brazil ousted Belgium to the number 1 in FIFA rankings...
Congrats CROATIA ❤️❤️❤️
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Drago mi je da smo pobjedili...Tako treba igrati za Hrvatsku!
When lovren says he is the best defender
He is not lying 🤣
He did say Gvariol is better :)
@@johnwick9367 this is 442oons joke
That was really interesting. I wish you had done this analysis with the Croatia goal as I would have liked to have seen Brazil’s mistake with their midfielders.
Fred was at fault
No need to make a segment 😂
@@phomo561 Wrong! Fred was mugged… no foul. Tite made the mistake of sending the Forwards up.
Park the freakin 🚌
@@phomo561 Tite was shouting at then to GET BACK, but it was too late...
There is a reason why our coat of arms is sahovnica (chess board)
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I love the energy of my Croatian team, they are like b£@st on the field, the could run 3hrs n never run out of stamina 💪💪💪I'm hoping they will go all the way n their captain is well deserving of it🇭🇷 of 🏆
Zlatko Dalic is an intelligent manager among national team coaches
Totally accurate, Dalic sarcastically said in an interview after the game that they let the full backs and Danilo to keep the ball, implying that they're pretty much useless and not creative.
That's why Brazil is not the same as before, if he did that 20 years ago, he would be letting the ball with Roberto Carlos and Cafú.
@@felipemotorhead I never saw the point on playing Danilo and having Alex Sandro as a sub, they both are the definition of average imo. On the other hand, the right lateral is non existent, with both Silva and Marquinhos known as not so creative with the ball. I'm sure a 39yo Dani Alves would've had bigger contribution, at least offensively. That being said, Brasil this WC was only finding ways merely on individual attacking quality, no fullbacks whatsoever.. Which doesn't discredit Croatia at all, even with that, Brasil still had the best, and the amount of quality players for two squads, on paper 3 times better than the Croats. It's safe to say that Brasil had the best team at this WC, that just tells how bad Tite was outplayed by Dalic's boys. And although everyone is labeling them as lucky, playing semis 2 wc's in a row is everything but luck.
Such a compact team, Brasilians deserved to fly back home.
@@freezingcold3702 Brazilians Coaches are joke, that's all
Amazing game
I just wanna say this video is amazing. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Croatia - heart and Faith
There's a reason why Vini and Neymar weren't "on their best" as you pointed out about 27 times :)
Croatia did 147 km distance, Brasil 142, that's ~4 % more.
Croatia has a monster mentality and a killer instinct; they can play possession football and play like this but still do not park the bus. It's not luck; it's no coincidence.
Brasil has more talent, but it's for nothing if players can not extract that on the pitch. Dancing like idiots when they score, making those funny haircuts, constantly showing their quadriceps muscles (count in 120 min how many times Neymar, Militaio and CO pulled their pants way up to show tattoos and muscles) vs hard-working, talented and super humble Croatian players.
And on top of that, stupid commentators and fanboy "journalists" who live for all that rubbish with no understanding football has many approaches and that teams win championships, not egos and hype.
The mistake to me here is, instead of replacing VJ with Rodrygo, Martinelli would av bn the best options. Drawing more players to himself to create more space for Neymar.
Brazil were too naive, when you lead with only 1-0 on overtime you park the bus.
You are not allowed to take in a vehicle on the pitch during the game.
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@@vladoholic8497 then park the plane!
As always, I love seeing how tactics play out. But it's amazing how in one-off games/matches, a goalie/keeper can just flat out win a game. I've seen it happen in both soccer--sorry! I mean football!-- and hockey. One team will appear to dominate the other but the goalie/keeper makes brilliant saves to keep the other team in it until luck gives the team under siege a goal. The Croatian keeper has been amazing all tournament. Kudos to him, especially with all the penatly saves he's made...
There is one thing in football that is very well known . You have to earn your "luck" as you call it. In short "luck" follows those that deserve it.. this is the most known fact in football mate. Brazil did not deserve it . their coach made so many mistakes that me as a Croatian was watching his substitutions and could not believe it. I mean all i can say is thank you Brazilian coach ..
Defense can and will win games. If you dont let the other team score, one offensive move wins the game. Look at american Football - If you dont let the other team score, one field goal wins it all.
Defense will win the game. It was not "just " the goalie it was the entire team. Croatia controlled the midfield and slowed down any brazilian attack and led croatia to counteroffence chances. YOu need a playmaker to make those goals which Modric is the best in the world. SO no the goalie didn't win the game. You guys also had a chance but choked under pressure. So no , Brazil wasn't a winning team at all.
@@jankopandza1072 lol Croatia didn't deserve the luck, they got lucky by chance. best of luck btw
@@AP-qs2zf lol, you played only after Neymar scored, don't overinflate Modric as if he is Zidane, he was just running around the pitch with no offensive intent. most boring team ever.
Teve azar mas teve também:
Neymar e paquetá intocáveis.
Meio-campo completamente livre pra Croácia do início ao fim.
Pressão alta com pelo menos 5 jogadores aos 117min.
Substituições que não alteraram o sistema tático.
Ataque pouco efetivo.
A saída do Militão pesou muito na leitura do jogo defensivo.
As lesões que tiraram a confiança dos próprios jogadores (laterais) e também a confiança do Tite em escalá-los.
Resumindo, jogadores e comissão técnica acabaram *COLABORANDO* pra que o resultado ficasse aberto.
Only thing Dalic could have don better is to make substitutions a bit earlier, as croatia was more tired due to overtime vs japan and exhausting game against belgium before that, while brasil rested the whole team in the third group match. That started to take toll around 60th minute and he made first changes in 72. This could have been a fatal mistake. But his response in the overtime was excellent, even though brasil scored, coratia have already begun looking much better, and after the goal and the new substitutions it was even better. Now croatia played with Perisic as a left back, orsic as a left winger, Budimir and Petkovic as two strikers, Vlasic as right wing (Him and petkovic also helping the midfield two now, only modric and majer were left in the middle). They made brazil retreat deep in their own half, which only shows how good croatia played in that period. And that's what they should've kept doing, because as soon as brazil decided to try to attack again, croatia hit them with a counter attack and scored.
One more thing, every time croatia conceded the goal in this and the last world cup, they responded within 10-15 minutes with a goal of their own. It simply CAN'T be a coincidence.
Brazil doesn't know how to play defense or keep pace with the game. With victory in their hands, they simply continued to attack and attack, as if they were losing. What is the need for three fowards at the end of the game already won?
Brazil's best quality is also its worst flaw.... hunger for goals and attack never stops
Excellent
Fabinho should have started at full back ,he has played there before,,so that when he inverts he is a better ball progresser than both Danilo and Casemiro
Can fabinho play full back?🙁
@@aaronmikejunior7481 he can at right back,, he used to at Monaco before eventually moving to CDM,,or he should have started instead of paqueta,,so that atleast more attacking full backs start
Croatia would score much more times if they were not so afraid to attack, I mean, they decided to do it with 4 minutes left and that was enough to score...
Really poor tactics and sloppiness at times from Brazil which worries me because this inspiring side of Croatia is up against Argentina. This midfield of Croatia sets the tempo of the whole game. Teams usually get frustrated when a midfielder like Modric who is supposed to be up in the attacking half, drops back in the defense. He has time and the vision to see the whole field and can hammer the opponents in each and every space of the field. People are saying that Messi is the difference for this Argentina team but how about a night where he faces this strong and technical midfield? So intrigued to see this match.
From my observations, Argentina and Croatia are very similar in style of play. Strong midfield with possession play and great ball recovery/turnover. It's gonna be a great midfield battle. Great defense also. After conceding two against Saudia, Argentina had two clean sheets. Then they conceded one long shot to Australia. And the two against the dutch who brought serious height advantage in the second half to score by a header and a trick low freekick when everyone expected them to use height in such situations. Two strong goal keepers for both teams as well. But Argentina has more lethal attack on paper with Messi, di maria combo. Both teams have lost a WC final recently. Both have a ballon d'or winner in the squad. There seems to be more Argentina supporters in Qatar so they've got the twelfth man. Personally if I'm a bookkeeper I make Croatia the underdog. Messi and di Maria are extraordinary attacking threats by any standard and they know each other well. Lisandro and Romero are really extraordinary defenders too. Croatia has a workhorse midfield but DePaul, Enzo and McAllister work like donkeys too as does Julian Alvarez who is famous for his pressing game. And Messi is gunning for indisputability. He has 180 minutes to prove he's the 21st century Goat and retire. If I was him I would go commando and do like Zidane in 2006 taking charge knowing it's your swan song. All or nothing. Go for broke. The last two special games of your life for heaven's sake. Argentina has also shown it can go to ET and even penalties just like Croatia. In my opinion both teams can win but the pressure is on Argentina and Messi. The game will be decided in midfield. If Croatia doesn't control mid as it usually does they are finished just like in 2018 where Pogba and ngolo Kante showed Modric dust.
Dalić pure 10!!!Hrvatska reprezentacija je najbolja! IDEMO PO PEHAR!!!
As a Brazilian that has watched this Seleção closely, I cannot, simply cannot wrap my head around why people considered us favourites to win it.
We have great players? Yes. But we've never played more than fairly, even throughout qualifying. A team that is great against Bolivias and Paraguays cannot seriously be considered a favourite to win a World Cup.
Shouldn't you remove a few points for Tite placing Neymar as last for the penalty?
I would have given Dalic an 8, and Tite was not able to see that even if Croatia was cornered down, they were able to move past the middle of the pitch when in possesion without effort since they had numerical superioty with Modric, Kovacic and Brozovic. Neymar does not defend so Paqueta and Casemiro were left by themselves in transition, and quite exposed. I think Brazil's dominance is due to the fact that they have a better squad overall, but tactically they were quite poor.
I don't think Tite deserves a six. He saw how much issue they were having in the midfield and didn't bring on support there. Someone like Bruno Guimarães would have been huge in this game. His late subs were very questionable. Their tactics in the second half of ET was some half-baked monstrosity between trying to park the bus or keep play up the pitch which is precisley why they choked. I don't know what Fred has on Tite but he didn't deserve to play over Bruno given recent form or Fabinho given the state of the game. I would give Tite a 4 at best for this match.
Dalić set up in a way that let his team punch above their weight, and he did what he had to do by putting in bodies up the pitch after the first goal even though their quality is lacking. I don't think there was much he could have done better really. Croatia just don't have the sort of quality and depth that Brazil have. But as a manager, he utilized what they do have pretty effectively imo. On the other hand it wasn't inspired and they probably would lose this 75+ out of 100 times. I would probably give him a 7.
I agree fully, six for Tite is too much, specially since his subs are directly related to Brazil's collapse, while Dalic did a solid job but nothing out of this world to get the result, he kept his calm and changed tactics smartly, but his team still was way down on xG to consider it a masterful display of tactics as people are treating this game.
To start with, you forgot a main FACT...Croatia had 51% of possession and took it away from Brazil who was expected to dominate in exactly that parameter. Secondly stats are just a bit of guide what's actually going on. Brazil had way more shots but Croatia had more situation that were step to lethal than jus 1 shot on target. Pasalic 100% chance was millimeters from scoring. Those 2 stolen balls on high pressure were more promising than half of Brazil shots and if Croatia attacking line was just a shadow of their midfield or defensive lines they would have crushed Brazil. Once again Croatia had 51% of the ball and Brazil couldn't dictate the tempo of the game. When Brazil scored Croatia went all in with 4 attackers and its not surprising Brazil pulled way back. One of their rare attacking attempts was punished with a counter immediately.
Croatia 💗💗💗💗💪💪💪💪💪💪
Croatia didn't keep possesion of the ball for attack but to slow down the game and keep brazilian offence down which was succesful. Basically controlling the game. Not everything is about chances and attacking forward.
Modern football intelligence at its finest. The era of attacking football style on one side and defending on the other is over.
Brasil is just full of hot-headed young players and each of them thinks he's star just because of transfer market price. It means nothing and experienced players as Thiago Silva and Dani Alves understands that. To be worse, media put them as favourites of the tournament just because of that. What a mistake and extra pressure... It's a shame they were giving only 15% for Croatia to pass in semi finals and it's an insult for anyone who understand a bit of football.
As a Croatian, I was disappointed for another extra time and penalties, cause we didn't take advantage of the chances we had until the approx 70 minutes when we lost ability to control the game.
Dalić's leadership and confidence he's putting in players, his methodology and football philosophy is full of integrity and even those on bench recognised that.
They didn't convert their opportunities and Croatia were a very good team. People act like the better team always wins and that's the not always the case. The team that covert the chances that they get it is the one. Brazil were offensively the superior team but were not clinical on the day and that cost them heavily.
so the better team did go through, based on overall performance.
@@t-778 If the "better team" the one that won? Yes!!!! Football is about goals regardless about how it comes with less possession or less goal scoring opportunities. Conversion of opportunities is how you win.
@@Tejaye777 don't see where you say something different from what i wrote, so what exactly is your point?
For me brazil was never a strong favourites in Qatar. When you look back at 2002 you can see a Brazilian squad with two of the best full backs in the history of football. In 2014,they had 2 insane modern day full backs. But when you look back at Qatar you see Alex Sandro,Telles,Danilo and a 100 year old Dani alves none of them are at their Elite level.. For me full backs/wing backs are the strongest and powerfull weapons in Modern day Football beside a DMF.
Dani Alves will still play at WC 2026 in America (basically home turf for Brazil) at 104 years of age and Brazil will win the WC. They must do that because according to them they are football! 😆
@@vladoholic8497 most of brazilians didn't liked Daniel Alves being called in this World Cup
@@guidourado1 I assumed that. I n can understand that Tite wanted a legend in the squad to have a nice atmosphere between the matches but you have only 26 spots and you have to have alternative on the right-back that actually can play and run fast. Alves certainly can not do that at almost 40 years of age.
Brazil played better than Croatia. It was a bad luck they were knocked out. World Cup has those situations…
@@thiagokilou8873 yeah, we "lost" a lot of goals, but this is the type of thing that decides a world cup rs. Congrats to Croatia!
Oh and can we all give it up to Croatia 🇭🇷 gold keeper 👏👏👏he was ousting!!
I don't understand why they didn't play more defensive and ball control after Neymar scored. It should have been all about control the ball, passing back to your goalie and pass them to death. How Brazil gets caught understaffed on defense with 5 minutes left is a Greek tragedy.
Im not literaly rooting brazil in this world cup but it really pissed me they blow the game..i really want to see latin el clasico in semi finals...
same.... same. Neymar vs. Messi wouldve been so good.
If a continent sized country cannot win against 50x smaller country and the second biggest latin country barely won from the small country of netherlands maybe you should curb your wants.😄😄
@@RedPillSpill101 imagine how that "great" Brazil lost to 7 out of 11 players from Croatia being first time on World cup 🤣 What a generation that will be in few years
Haizzzz, how painful it is to be a Brazil fan last night... 😢
Oh yes, Croatia lost the quarterfinals of the Euro 2008, Turkey equalized in 122 minutes. In the group we beat later champions and maybe we could have gone all the way.
It still hurts to this day, actually the most painful defeat in our history.
Well also Samba teacher lol
Don't be in pain. Every day is a new day. What is painful is not to learn from your mistakes and not become better more adaptable players in the future. Love from Croatia.
Your analysis is just embellishment. Brazil lost because they became greedy and went for a second goal and got caught on the break.
this is exactly right. Instead of controlling the ball and keeping possession Brazil was trying for another goal. They should have been aggressive to keep possession not score another goal. They were overconfident. They didn't realize Croatia was playing with nothing to lose once they were down a goal. Brazil and many of the players will never get another World Cup chance to be remembered. Could have been a fun game to watch Argentina play Brazil. Now we are stuck watching a boring Croatia team try to game the system to force another game into penalty kicks. The idea they can't figure out a way to pick a winner better is comical.
@@MrDomputt stop tite from replacing good ppl with bad ones lmaooo
Same is true for Argentina vs Netherlands. The dutch comeback never had to happen. Argentina sort of got comfortable and rested on it's laurels after the second goal yet the dutch goalie was playing above halfway line showing total do or die mentality from the dutch. You would think that all these pros would understand all this stuff. It's like players and coaches get dumb in the heat of the moment.
As a football lover i appeciated croatia but as a football gamer i blam TITE tacknot playing fabinho and gumares was the biggest step to Brazils faliure rather he opted for nemar and paqueta .what a tatics
Nobody wants to credit Dalic...it's becoming very strange
Croatia needed a rather thick deflection in dying moments to win. The fact that it was their only shot on target in 120 min shows how lucky they were.
Having said that Dalic was a genius in this game and should have got two points more than Tite.
what a black swan for brazil bro
Today will go down in history as one of the greatest days of this sport, allegiance aside, whom you support aside.
You knock out the best team at the tournament at you get 6 haha
Your team lose as huge favorites, and you also get a 6 hahahaha
First I want to congratulate Brazil for the great game they played. Neymar is one of the best players on the planet, top 5 player, and he scored a solo goal with two double passes and dribbling our goal keeper. He went through 30 m of space. Without Neymar, we would beat Brazil in regulation. I want you to know that.
Lol Croatia didn’t win because of their quality they won because Brazil relaxed after the goal and thought the won the game allowing Croatia to score the goal. Croatia has no quality, Brazil loses in quarter finals because of pressure from their country and fan expectation having won it 5 times and you can clearly see the pressure in their faces while there no pressure. On croatia they’re not even expected to make it out of group so they play fearless with nothing lose mentality in a suitation like that the team with no fear wins. Dw Croatia will get knocked out next game and they’ll be coming home to you soon. Also Croatia is a very lucky team.
I like the WIN by the Underdog Croatia...... because Brazil looked very arrogant vs South Korea by dancing after every goal 😳..... also Richarlison FLOPPED like a drama queen and got gifted a penalty kick vs South Korea, I dislike flops like that.
it was Neymar not Richarlison
How do you get upset about someone dancing after a goal when you have nothing to say about Argentina shouting in their opponents faces after the win?
No, Marocco is underdog, Croatia is runner-up from last WC.
@@ebukaobieri 100%
People need to get over the dancing - if your culture sees dance as a display of mockery instead of joy it's your loss, not one single of us Brazilians sees the seleçãos dance as an insult to any of the other teams and countries, it is pure spontaneity and that's that.
Great analysis. I felt if Bruno played instead of paqueta brazil could have won as Bruno has the ability to ball carry and Modric wouldn't be able to cover both Bruno and Casemiro.
Ainda não entendi porque tirar o vini pra colocar o rodrygo, mas acho que os pontas não estavam jogando por falta da bola chegar neles, mexer no meio de campo ou colocar laterais mais ofensivos parecia necessário ao invés de trocar o ataque, porque a superioridade do meio croata era absoluta. Ainda assim, a marcação da croácia correu muito, foi impressionante o fôlego desses croatas, mas não era insuperável. TIte tentou algo novo nessa partida muito equivocadamente.
tanto rodrygo quanto antony tem a caracteristica de cair mais pro meio pra trazer a bola. vini e raphinha sao atacantes mais proximo da area, mais receptores. entao rodrygo e antony entraram pra oferecer mais saida e mais corpo na meia. as substituicoes foram boas, brasil melhorou, antony renovou o lado esquerdo e rodrygo participou do gol.
you didn't mention that Juranovic outplaying Vinicius was crucial, great video though.
Anyone who seriously thinks it wasn’t Brazil who just failed themselves, and Croatia that tactically beat them is not a football fan I’m sorry
This game was honestly very very close
And luck also didn’t favour Brazil
How often does an international player end up striking the post in penalties?
Luck is often made.
Croatia made Brazil anxious by dragging the game into extra time, equalizing when Brazil thought they had won, and then doing great in penalties. In those circumstances, only the mentally toughtest players (international calibre or not) could keep their cool.
They are all international players and anything can happen in penalties. Croatia had a clear advantage, having just beat Japan in penalties, with Livacovic saving three. Brazil letting their youngest plus a substitute shoot first was a mistake, and after that under such pressure, anyone can show nerves, including an experienced player like Marquinhos.
A guy not just hits the post, but actually can pass the ball for opponent in his own penalty box:
czcams.com/video/EG2COhU6FRc/video.html
Maybe it was just karma for being so arrogant or maybe Brazil is not as good as it's hyped up to be.
Hey buddy, are you gonna talk about Morocco 🇲🇦 and what they’re doing?
Tite was 5 for me, he wasn´t eficient in the ofense so he could be solid in the defense, but then when the team needed the defense, it wasn´t there, so he failed in both, since the team only did one goal thanks to neymar genius
Not sure why Bruno Guimaraes didnt start or sub in the match. Both Casemiro and Fred are better than him?
Vini was a huge disappointment in this game. He was slow, didn't dribble, and didn't create. The same for Raphinha.
It hurts but Brazil only started playing when they were replaced.
The biggest mistakes was Brazil's Counter attacks are slow down as compared to previous games that's give Croatia advantage in defence
Brazil created many more chances than Croatia. Croatia had credit to contain Brazil indeed, specially with the midfield possession. Nevertheless, Brazil had like 3/4 1x1 chances + the goal. But the ball did not go in and Croatia scores only shot that went in the goal direction (and had the “luck” of the ball deflecting and killing Alisson).
When Players think that they are individually greater than the whole team this shit is going to happen forever for the Brazil.....Game with Switzerland proves that if you watch Brazil playing before the 30 minutes and after that.they were scoring one goal per every 10 minutes but after 30 minutes they(Players Individually) started to act superior than the Team and trying to score alone than passing and giving Team the greatest Lead in the world cup history......
I'm brazilian and I agree with you, one of the main problems with Brazil is the individualism of our players. I believe that was the problem on Croatia goal, many players disobeying coach's instructions.
I want to say congrats to Brasilian team, tou are so unpredictable and your football is just something else, but I think you thought this would be an easy game and that wqs your problem. Croatia does have their own tactics. Yet most of the Croatians didnt even know what to expect as 85% of their team are new players who we never saw playing before
My Ratings are 10 for the Winning Coach - 0 for the Losing Coach - 😅🤣😂
Tite made the worst changes in histry.. That jst made WC dream shatter again for brasil.. 😢
Juranović pocketed Vinicius on the field, "Oršić plays much better than Vinicius."
Its bunker and pray ball goes in. And it did, one shot on goal converted, 1 out of 1 .
It seems that Paqueta was out of the tactical game. He should be more mobile on the field so spaces and opportunities can be created.
Do you think Tite was a good coach for Brazil?
Brazil need a coach that know about tactics. Who is it the new coach? I heard a rumor that they interest in pep gvardiola?
Both managers getting 6? Tite with such a great squad loses and Dalic with most of the players of the average talent wins? And the mark for both of them is the same?