Brazil suffer two more injury victims: Gabriel Jesús and Alex Telles ruled out for remainder of World Cup

In addition to taking first place in their group, following Brazil’s defeat against Cameroon (0-1) for the last round of the first phase, Verdeamarela again lost players. This Saturday, after carrying out two medical studies, it was reported that both striker Gabriel Jesús (Arsenal, England) and left-back Alex Telles (Seville, Spain) will miss the rest of the World Cup Qatar 2022.

The key is the knees. In Jesús’ case, he had already struggled from his last few Premier League games and the recovery period is estimated at around a month. The case of the La Liga defender is more complex and an operation is even hypothesized. Against the Africans he left the field crying in the second half.

Three more that are among the cotton

Scratch remained with first place in group G and also with first place in the general classification. At the same time that the rest of the World Cup is lost, Danilo is only available now and awaits the last medical resignation of Alex Sandro, the only 3 available to Tite.

The unknown is called Neymar. Just this Saturday the former Santos will work with the ball in training and there we will evaluate whether he can be there this Monday for the round of 16 (16:00) against South Korea. the runrún indicates that in the end it could only be in the quarterfinals. Range?

What did Tite’s assistant say about the injuries?

“As for Neymar and Alex Sandro, we still have 72 hours before the next match. We have time on our side. There are still chances (that they play against Korea) and we will wait and see how this transition will be. They haven’t started work on the field with the ball, which will start on Saturday,” Tite’s assistant Rodrigo Lasmar said at the press conference.

“It is important to observe how the players’ response to this new stimulus will be. Depending on this, in the next couple of days, they may or may not have conditions,” he added. Lasmar assured that Danilo presented “a very positive evolution” and on Friday he carried out “an intense work on the pitch, already with the ball”.

“The expectation is that tomorrow (Saturday) he will train normally with the group. We will see how he feels. Hopefully, it is very likely that he will be available for Tite in the next match,” he said.

Brazil appeals to its history for the exacampeonato

Brazil, who have already started as one of the big favorites for the title, have a good chance of getting their sixth star if history is used: whenever no team achieved complete victories in the group stage, they were proclaimed champions.

In Qatar 2022 the three teams that started with two victories, Brazil, France and Portugal themselves, lost the third match against Cameroon, Tunisia and South Korea respectively.

In Sweden 1958, Pelé’s Canarinha made it to the quarter-finals with two wins and one draw, then successively beat Wales, France and the host team; four years later, in Chile, they passed with the same balance before beating England, the local team and Czechoslovakia; and in USA 1994 they only gave up a draw in their group against Sweden and then beat one rival after another until they beat Italy in the final on penalties.

In counterpoint, the story also points out that Brazil have never won the title when losing a match in the group stage. In this World Cup, after winning their first two matches, they were beaten by Cameroon (1-0).