Hello and welcome to Truth Live News’ live coverage of Brazil’s World Cup Group G match against Serbia at the Lusail Stadium.
Brazil will open their 2022 FIFA World Cup campaign against Serbia. It has been two decades since Brazil won the World Cup, and Tite’s team is under enormous pressure to live up to the high expectations that fans have for the team. Serbia has failed to advance past the group stage in each of the previous three World Cups, and will be hoping to break through this year.
SUBS: Marko Dmitrovic, Strahinja Erakovic, Nemanja Maksimovic, Nemanja Radonjic, Luka Jovic, Predrag Rajkovic, Stefan Mitrovic, Srđan Babic, Filip Kostic, Dusan Vlahovic, Uros Racic, Filip Duricic, Darko Lazovic, Ivan Ilic, Marko Grujic.
SERBIA (3-5-1-1): Vanja Milinkovic-Savic; Milos Veljkovic, Nikola Milenkovic, Strahinja Pavlovic; Andrija Zivkovic, Sasa Lukic, Nemanja Gudelj, Filip Mladenovic; Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Dusan Tadic; Aleksandar Mitrovic.
SUBS: Fred, Weverton, Dani Alves, Eder Militao, Fabinho, Alex Telles, Bruno Guimaraes, Gabriel Jesus, Antony, Rodrygo, Everton Ribeiro, Ederson, Gleison Bremer, Pedro, Gabriel Martinelli.
BRAZIL (4-2-3-1): Alisson; Danilo, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, Alex Sandro; Lucas Paqueta, Casemiro; Raphinha, Neymar, Vinicius Junior; Richarlison.
1′ The referee has blown the whistle, and we are underway!
4‘ The crowd, which is full of yellow shirts, is on their feet as Raphinha easily passes Pavlovic on the right and drives a low cross that is cleared at the near post.
28‘ Big chance for Brazil! Silva with a great through ball into Vinicius, but Milinkovic-Savic gets low, and swipes the ball away from the wingers feet. Fantastic save!
35′ Chance for Brazil! Raphinha gets a shot off in the box after a quick one-two with Paqueta, but his shot is weak, and it’s an easy save.
39‘ Including 2022, Serbia have now qualified for four of the last five FIFA World Cup tournaments, failing only in 2014. However, since the start of this stretch in 2006, they have lost seven of nine World Cup matches (W2), the most defeats by any European nation, with only Australia (8) losing more among all nations.
41‘ Another big chance for Brazil! It was almost a gift as Milenkovic reaches a ball over the top first, and he clumsily kicks the ball against his own chest, giving Vinicius the chance to through on goal. Milenkovic recovers quickly with a tackle.
45′ + 1′HALF-TIME: BRAZIL 0-0 SERBIA
58′ Serbia’s first attack of the second half comes as Tadic gets a cross in, and they win a corner, but it’s cleared by Brazil quite quickly.
60′ Sandro hits the post! The full-back rips a powerful shot from about 30 yards out, and it slams against the bar!
62′Goal Richarlison Scores…
75‘ Second spectacular goal from Richardlison… What a goal!!!
80‘ Richarlison has scored nine goals in his last seven games in all comps for Brazil.
85‘ Richarlison is the first Brazilian player to score twice on his World Cup debut after Neymar in 2014.
87‘ Antony with some fantastic feet lays it off to Rodrygo, but his curling effort just misses the top corner of the net.
87‘ Martinelli comes on for Raphinha for the final minutes.
90‘ There is seven minutes of added time.
90′ + 3′ Danilo is limping, but Tite has already used all of his subs, so he will be forced to continue.
90′ + 7′ FULL-TIME: BRAZIL 2-0 SERBIA
After several chances that were not taken in the first fourty-five minutes, Brazil came out after half-time, and continued to put Serbia on the backfoot. Serbia were relatively toothless going forward, and were unable to test Brazil’s backline.