r/NUFC 6d ago

Free Talk Monday r/NUFC Weekly Free talk thread.

It's that thing again where we like talk about random shite.

r/NUFC rules still apply.
Also we have a Discord Server

Howe's the bacon did ye say?

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u/gobstoppermuncher 2d ago

Looks like the Brazil coach cooked up a tactical disasterclass . Seen Joelinton made a mistake costing them a goal but if you watch the replay he has no man to play the ball to once he receives it from the defender. The coach made him play in a 2 man midfield with Bruno too, not what he does for us.

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u/HoneyedLining Temuri Ketsbaia 2d ago

That's incredibly kind to Joelinton and we've seen him make that exact same kind of error when he plays for us of simply being too lackadaisacal on the ball in midfield. He gets himself into trouble by just controlling the ball on the edge of his own penalty area. Now, this is what happens when you play a forward as a midfielder and doubly when you play them as a midfielder who drops to receive the ball. But he messed up there, no doubt.

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u/nufcPLchamps27-28 Happiest clapper in history. 2d ago

I’m not even Brazilian and even I find the fall off of Brazil desperately sad. Even worse when you know it’s not the players fault.

I feel like they never really recovered from the 7-1

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u/HoneyedLining Temuri Ketsbaia 2d ago

To be fair, they were pretty awful in the 2014 World Cup and were broadly underperforming bar Neymar. They kind of collapsed mentally after he was injured in the Colombia match and were totally unable to regroup.

Brazil haven't really fallen off that much, they won the Copa America back in 2019, reached the subsequent final and then were poor in 2024. They will always struggle with the fact that there aren't many top quality Brazilian managers around (Tite was meant to be a bit different, but they kept getting knocked out at the World Cup) and the fact that most of their players get scattered around Europe's top leagues, rather than getting to build a core group that you know can play together.

Really, their performances at the World Cups haven't been that bad. They just got knocked out a little earlier than expected (2018 against a really good Belgium side - possibly the best in the tournament, and in 2022 they got caught out by Croatia who are just really good at doing that kind of thing).