Brazil 1 – 0 South Africa

June 25th, 2009 | By: Duvel | 7 Comments »

Apologies for taking so long to post a recap, it was one of those days at the office. I will have a full recap posted tomorrow. We played a terrible match but still came out with the result.

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By kurt | June 26th, 2009 at 4:11 am

‘terrible’ that is indeed the word. But Julio Cesar was magnificent. Can’t think of any other goalkeeper in the world today who would have saved that deflected shot, but he did….

By Antihate | June 26th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Yea. I think Brazil looked terrible also. But something needs to be said of Dunga waiting until the last 10 minutes to make a sub. I’ll wait for your recap to post more don’t want to jump the gun. But there some players who should’ve came off after 55 minutes as opposed to 85.

By Weston | June 26th, 2009 at 3:55 pm

buffon on his day could save it with one arm
do you remember the goal in the last WC where the paraguayan gk jumped backwards to catch the ball because he came out to collect a corner and it started bending in?

ps, does danny alves’s goal put him ahead of maicon now, or is dunga just going to start playing him on the left?

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By Joel Brown | June 26th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

I said he should play Alves on the left a while back. Actually depends is he can adept as a left back. Like Lahm, as he can play right and left back

By qu33r as fuq | June 26th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Just got in from seeing the new Transformers and missed the game. I see Brazil won. Should be an interesting game on Sunday against the US Team. USA will win!

By Duvel | June 26th, 2009 at 11:50 pm

Joel, I gotta give you and Armando props for that suggestion about Alves. Could he handle playing on the left for a full 90 minutes, I don’t know. I wouldn’t mind seeing it during the next friendly. Alves had one run on the left, where he was using his right foot into the box that a left footed player could have potentially put a shot on goal, but Alves had the ball taken away if I recall. Still it was an interesting experiment, and you guys have been calling for it for awhile!

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By Gautam | June 27th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

Brazil-South Africa, god was this Brazil ? struggling like a rookie team
without flair without imagination against south africa. a goal from a free
kick at 88 mins. the attack seemed totaly disorganized without any combination and brazil played like a b grade team not like brazil. even in the Copa America brazil looked far better in the finals. even here earlier games thye were a shade better. midfield and attack needs thorough
reorganization. fabiano is good, robinho was disappointing. why not have alves in midfield and elano. i think gilberto silva shud retire gracefully
he is slowed and keep pace. south africa were good in patches and their midfield and attack caused a lot of problems. in fact there was every chance that they might have scored sometime after 80 mins. the brazil we know seals matches by 70 mins. with this set up 2010 hexa will just be a
pipe dream. dunga shud coach boxing, the beautiful game is not for his coaching.hope that CBF has some sense and gets a proper coach.

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