Brazil made light work of Haiti in their second match at this World Cup, as two goals from Matheus Cunha and another from Vinicius Junior handed them a 3-0 win at the Lincoln Financial Field.The win puts Carlo Ancelotti’s top of Group C with four points from two matches, after they drew 1-1 in their opening match with Morocco. Earlier on Friday, Morocco had beaten Scotland 1-0. A second defeat for Haiti, meanwhile, means they are the first team to be eliminated from the World Cup, with one game left to play.Brazil were much-improved from their game with Morocco but Ancelotti and the squad will be concerned by an injury to Raphinha in the first half. The Barcelona forward was withdrawn in Philadelphia with what looked like a hamstring injury after 40 minutes.Jack Lang, Matt Slater and Emily Olsen analyse the key talking points…Did Brazil look more like Brazil?One of the difficulties of evaluating any Brazil performance is knowing how much weight to assign to all of the hoary old cliches. Jogo bonito, ‘samba football’ (a completely meaningless phrase)… people pin all of their aesthetic hopes on this side. That despite (a) the fact that they haven’t played heart-stopping football for quite some time — maybe since the early 1980s, depending on your standards — and (b) Brazil’s own knotty relationship with notions of sporting beauty.Brazilians love attractive football, sure, but they love winning even more.So did Ancelotti’s side play ‘like Brazil’ here? What we can say is this: they were much, much better than they had been against Morocco in their opening match. They also looked a great deal more like the side that Ancelotti had appeared to be moulding in the lead-up to this competition.Against Morocco, Ancelotti picked a fixed No 9, Igor Thiago. There was no movement, no structure to Brazil’s play. Their best player, Vinicius, was marooned on the flank.In Philadelphia, Ancelotti returned to Matheus Cunha, the man most people had expected to lead the line for Brazil all along. It worked on multiple levels. His movement allowed Vinicius to drift, finding little pockets of space. He dropped deep to combine with the midfield, allowing the team to move up the pitch more easily. Cunha also got involved with the defensive side of the game: witness his tackle in the run-up to his first goal.More than anything, Brazil just had combinations. Lucas Paqueta, Cunha and Vinicius are on each others’ wavelengths; they swapped positions, swapped passes, swapped ideas. We shouldn’t go overboard about a win over a fairly limited Haiti side, but for Brazil this was certainly something to build on.Jack LangNo Hollywood ending for Haiti but they leave celebrated and vindicatedIn Thursday’s pre-match media conference, the Haiti manager Sebastien Migne was asked if he could take inspiration from Philadelphia’s most famous sporting son, Rocky Balboa, and lead his team to a shock victory over Brazil.
Brazil ease to win against Haiti. How much would Raphinha injury hurt them? Does Cunha have to start now?
Two goals from Matheus Cunha and another from Vinicius Junior fired Brazil to the top of Group C and on the brink of the knockout stages
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