The five-time world champion and always a candidate for the title, Brazildebuts in Qatar 2022 against Serbiana tough rival whose figure is the attacker Dusan Vlakhovic. The game will close on Thursday and is valid for the start date of the game. G groupcompleted by Switzerland and Cameroon.
The game kicks off at 16:00 (Argentina time) at Lusail Iconic Stadium, with Iranian referee Alireza Faghani and cable signal television TyC Sports.
“I won’t say what the lineup is for tomorrow because I don’t want to give any information to my rivals,” Tite clarified in his pre-match briefing. Brazil, world champions in the Cups of Sweden ’58, Chile ’62, Mexico ’70, USA ’94 and Japan and Korea 2002, wants to regain the leadership after being excluded in the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Furthermore, Scratch suffered a major blow when they lost last year’s Copa América final at the legendary Maracanã Stadium against Argentina, so the Qatar event presents a good opportunity to get the spotlight back.
Full of figures in every line, the South American team will try to start the World Cup on the right foot: other candidates such as Germany and Argentina, fell in their first appearance against Japan and Saudi Arabia respectively.
Goalkeeper Alisson Becker, defender Thiago Silva – captaining his fourth consecutive Cup – midfielders Lucas Paquetá and Casemiro and forwards Neymar and Vinicius Jr, are some of the names that stand out in Brazil.
Another value to highlight is the scorer Pedro, a Flamengo figure, who could play before the Serbs and relegate Gabriel Jesús, in one of the doubts that Tite has to define the formation.
Serbia which intends to overcome the initial phase for the first time and has as its exclusive figure the goalscorer Vlahovic, figure of Juventus in Italy, and other important ones such as Dusan Tadic, of Ajax, Nemanja Guldelj and goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic, both of Ajax Seville , or Sergej Milinkovic, of Lazio.
Probable formations
Brazil: Alisson Becker; Danilo, Militao o Marquinhos, Thiago Silva and Alex Sandro; Lucas Paquetá and Casemiro; Raphina, Neymar and Vinicius Jr.; Gabriel Jesus or Peter. DT: Tito.
Serbia: Vanja Milinkovic-Savic; Milos Veljkovic, Nikola Milenkovic and Strahinja Pavlovic; Andrija Zinkovic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic; Sasa Lukic, Filip Kostic and Dusan Tadic; Aleksandar Mitrovic and Dusan Vlahovic. DT: Dragan Stojkovic.
Referee: Alireza Faghani, from Iran.
Stage: Lusail’s iconic stadium.
Now:16.
TV: TyC Sport.
Source: Clarin
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