Carlo Ancelotti believes that Brazil are heading in the right direction for subsequent 12 months’s World Cup regardless of closing out their qualifying marketing campaign with a 1-0 defeat to Bolivia.
Ancelotti watched on as Miguel Terceros’ first-half penalty ensured Bolivia completed in seventh place within the standings, thus qualifying for the intercontinental play-offs.
With Brazil having already certified for the match going down throughout america, Canada and Mexico, they struggled to take care of any sort of rhythm on Tuesday.
Certainly, Brazil managed an anticipated targets (xG) whole of simply 0.36 from their 10 photographs, solely three of which have been on course, in comparison with Bolivia’s 1.78 from their 23 makes an attempt.
The outcome marked Ancelotti’s first defeat since taking cost of the Selecao in Might, with the Italian having changed Dorival Junior following a poor run of type.
Ancelotti oversaw Brazil’s closing 4 video games of qualifying, choosing up two wins towards Paraguay and Chile and a draw towards Ecuador, however that didn’t detract from their poor shows all through.
Brazil endured their worst marketing campaign of their historical past in South American qualifiers (52% success fee), however their second-worst (56% in 2002) ended with their final World Cup title.
“Right this moment was a troublesome recreation, each technically and bodily,” Ancelotti stated following the defeat. “We’re heading in the right direction for the World Cup.
“A particular recreation in each sense. A novel recreation. We’ll put together properly for the upcoming matches and arrive on the World Cup in good condition.”
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With Brazil’s place on the World Cup assured forward of dealing with Bolivia, Ancelotti opted to make 9 modifications to his line-up, with Alisson and Bruno Guimaraes the one survivors from their 3-0 win towards Chile.
Fellow Premier League trio Andrey Santos, Lucas Paqueta, and Richarlison have been all known as in to function from the beginning, together with a new-look backline of Caio Henrique, Alexsandro Ribeiro, Fabricio Bruno and Vitinho.
“All of the gamers on this group can have new alternatives as a result of they labored very properly all week,” Ancelotti stated of his modifications.
“I needed to make use of this match to get to know among the gamers, and that’s what occurred.”
Nonetheless, the president of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation, Samir Xaud, launched a scathing assault towards a spread of various targets following the defeat.
“An actual mess right now. It’s not what we count on for world soccer or South American soccer. What we would like is to make it even greater,” Xaud stated.
“With this sort of perspective, particularly at altitude, it’s troublesome to play soccer, particularly towards 14 males.
“I hope CONMEBOL takes motion, exactly as a result of we have now all the pieces recorded. This may’t occur. That is absurd.
“What occurred right here right now is gloomy. We got here to play soccer, and what we noticed was a nasty recreation.”
