Brazil ties Switzerland in FIFA World Cup after push comes to shove – The Denver Post russia

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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Global idol and diva Neymar, who over the final World Cup with a damaged vertebra and legitimate tears, returned to this pinnacle stage on a banks of a Don River on Sunday with a blond poodle hairdo that looked not so most styled as sabotaged, afterwards lent a few bedazzlements in Brazil’s 1-1 pull through that Switzerland played commendably even though, for the goal, it cheated.

It noted the initial time given the 1978 World Cup, given a 1-1 pull with Sweden in Mar del Plata, Argentina, that Brazil did not overcome in the World Cup opener, finale a substantial trail strewn with victims from a Soviet Union to Spain to Sweden to Russia, Scotland, Turkey, Croatia twice and also North Korea. It also meant a 21st World Cup has non-stop with non-wins from some of a big lads: Germany (loss), Argentina (draw), Spain (draw) and Brazil (draw).

Meanwhile, with a wheeze appropriate here, it stretched Switzerland’s run of considerable World Cups to 4 in a quarrel since 2006, the gutty, audacious side inconveniencing another hulk — it non-stop in 2010 by doling a 1-0 conniption to a fans of contingent champion Spain — even with a register that causes small cooing.

The Brazilian players, of course, would be a kings of coo, and they non-stop this World Cup arrange of insouciantly, as if 4 more years of acclamation with their European clubs and their quick World Cup subordinate had smothered a very thought of that 7-1 home detriment to Germany one quadrennial back.

Then they got something that didn’t assistance their clarity of superiority: a beautiful goal, in a 20th minute, from Barcelona worker Philippe Coutinho, who seemed atop a box on a left when a Swiss conduct couldn’t transparent a Brazilian nuisance, whereupon Coutinho twisted one to peek into a goal off a right post so remarkably that it unequivocally could have spawned audacity in most.

Yet it was Coutinho who wound adult saying, “A World Cup game, all a teams are really well qualified,” and this is where we note a quality of Switzerland’s World Cup qualifying, with the nine wins in 10 matches, and its new 1-1 pull with Spain in a accessible in Villarreal, Spain. The Swiss don’t indispensably think of themselves as overmatched, even if their manager, that hilt of Swiss, Bosnian and Croatian passports, Vladimir Petkovic, did say, “I consider the competition was better, had some-more scoring opportunities, though I’m unapproachable of my team, a way they presented themselves.”

They will push.

They also will shove.

They did force on 50 mins in a form of Steven Zuber, who works for a less-glamorous 1899 Hoffenheim, that German bar that stormed a tiers to a top moody early this century, if not a top of Europe. When Xherdan Shaqiri’s dilemma kick came whirring out of a right corner of a pitch, Zuber timed his force of Brazil’s Miranda so ideally to start at a moment a ball would arrive. Miranda went one way, a ball came by the other, a referee looked still another way, and Zuber headed it into a goal.

The Brazilians protested, though not protractedly, even as Miranda wound adult asking his manager, Tite, either maybe he should have sprawled to a grass to intensify the severity. (“Absolutely not,” Tite pronounced his response went, shortly adding, “Don’t simulate.”) When a Brazilian publisher asked either Brazil is carrying trouble with the positioning on dilemma kicks in general, Tite said: “I can’t speak about something that was so obvious. If they pull the player, what can we do? It’s not positioning. That was a foul.”

Oddly enough, Petkovic re-watched a play himself on video and dynamic that — voilà — it only wasn’t all that nefarious. “I only looked briefly, and the goal was a unchanging goal,” he said. “There was a unchanging duel.” He pronounced Zuber merely sought space and added, “I consider the opponent’s players were not unequivocally well positioned.”

He did not supplement they became reduction well positioned after being shoved.

From there, a game kind of evened for a while, with Tite after surmising a Switzerland idea sapped about 10 mins of mustard out of his club. Yet then, of course, Brazil got going with late-game chances, many of them fabricated largely by Neymar, who played a whole 95 mins even with a feet still uneasy at slightest somewhat, according to Tite, mostly sprawling when Switzerland fouled him (10 times) and even infrequently when it didn’t.

Brazil only couldn’t finish formally and, notwithstanding a few occasions of a ball ricocheting by the box, couldn’t unequivocally even means goalkeeper Yann Sommer to do anything he would put on his lifetime prominence reel.

“Twenty finishes,” Tite said, “but it’s too many balls off-target. We could have made a goalkeeper work a small bit some-more with all a chances we had.” He pronounced the finishes “weren’t good done,” so that would be a area of work before Brazil plays Costa Rica on Friday, because, well: “Of march my expectancy was a victory. we wanted to win, of course. Of march I’m not happy with a result.”

While a Brazil fans who ringed a pretty locus in their yellow shirts and done all a great roars kind of frowned somewhat before resuming delight of life, as is their way, a Swiss fans cheered deeply when a draw ended.

“I do hope” some-more global honour for a Swiss is nigh, Petkovic said. “I do wish that they will start looking adult and holding notice of us. Sometimes there’s a miss of recognition. we think it’s a empathize because we play really well, we mislaid only once” in qualifying.

He said, “We showed and demonstrated that we could react.”

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