This is what Brazilian football at its best looks like.
The beautiful game — skill and savvy and the Selecão in their canary yellow, literally dancing in joy, with even the manager, Tite, joining in.
The column headline on the website for Folha de Sao Paulo, one of the country’s leading newspapers, put it best: “Brasil não dava espectáculo de tão alto nível em Copas desde o penta.” Translated: “Brazil hasn’t put on such a high-level show in the World Cup since the fifth,” as in its fifth title, back in 2002.
Richarlison, who already scored what might be the goal of the tournament with a bicycle kick against Serbia, exemplified that with Brazil’s third goal in the 29th minute. He got free of a defender after juggling the ball to Marquinhos. A perfect bit of passing from Marquinhos to Thiago Silva and back to Richarlison later, the Everton striker was slotting the ball past Kim Seung-gyu — a stunning team goal to punctuate a stunning team win.
From the game’s seventh minute, when Vinicius finished off Raphinha’s cutback pass to make it 1-0, the match belonged to Brazil. Just six minutes later, Neymar — making his return to the lineup from an ankle injury — rolled a penalty shot in after Richarlison was fouled in the box to pull within one goal of Pelé’s all-time scoring record in a Brazil shirt.
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