Date and Time: Tuesday, June 13th - 6:05 AM - EST Location: MCG Stadium, Melbourne, Australia After losing his first game as coach, Tite is looking to make some drastic changes to the team. On Saturday, the first 11 trained with Diego Alves, Rafinha, Thiago Silva, Rodrigo Caio, Alex Sandro, David Luiz, Paulinho, Coutinho, Giuliano, Douglas Costa, and Diego Souza. So only TS, Paulinho, Coutinho remain from the first game. Gabriel Jesus is out with an eye socket fracture. E sobre a derrota para a Argentina, se o Galvao nao narrou, nao aconteceu.
UOL report Tite will make 8 changes from the Friday line-up. As for Argentina - it meant more to them than it did to us.
Why are we having so few friendlies? Dunga had a bunch of friendlies... I think we need more friendlies, especially against strong european countries!!!!! We need to play and practice against: Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and England!!!
And reveal all the secrets to them? Nah! Maybe play against one of those guys before the WC, which will probably happen.
We play Germany next year. Playing more than 1 or 2 big European teams in a 4 year cycle is pretty rare if my memory serves me right. I just saw we play Argentina again next year in May. Don't like playing them that close to the WC. WTF.
Friendlies also don't tell you much to be honest. They made Dunga seem competent until the competitive games started.
Sideshow was nothing great in his new role. In fact, the position was noticeably improved when Fernandinho replaced him in the second half. Surely, he can't play in Brazil's defence, and if he wants to play as a defensive midfielder, he has to improve a lot.
I saw the replay game last night and I think that D. Luiz played pretty good after being out of the squad for about a year and playing with a new core of players!! Yes he has to shake off the International ring rust, but I believe he will get there!! I still believe we should go with a 3 man backfield!!