10th round
Palmeiras 2x0 América-MG
Palmeiras is having a good sequence. Now five games with no defeats. Great night for Gabriel Jesus scoring all the goals of the match exactly when Barcelona’s scouts were there to watch him.
Ponte Preta 0x4 Cruzeiro
Cruzeiro is improving from the bad phase...
Chile is doing quite good. Still not Sampaoli level but very good. They were totally superior to Colômbia. But I don't see them beating Argentina this time.
Will the curse of the white shirt never leave Spain?
Deservedly win for Croatia. Good posture with nice defensive scheme but well shared with the offensive moments showing to not be scared.
Spain then faces Italy. I'm really curious about it.
Argentina hardly will miss this title. So grateful to see Messi playing and enhancing it. But the whole team is a thing.
No shame for USA though. Argentina is a very strong team and USA was the Concacaf NT to reach further and managed to not loose like México, for example.
Liked to see Germany playing to win and not just to classify as some renowned teams did. And I actually like Northern Ireland too.
Gomez is really very limited but I prefer him than Gotze in terms of team. Today Germany did very well. It's impressive how their basis is so carefully build, the...
9th round
Palmeiras 3x1 Santa Cruz
Many set-pieces from Palmeiras and somehow it worked. Grafite showed up to Santa but nothing enough to beat Palmeiras.
Atlético-PR 1x0 Santos
Santos once more flopping in an away match. That’s way they hardly get good chances of title at consecutive points...
Saw more Switzerland's ripped shirts than anything including good football. Would like to see both sides more out to the match but none seemed to want to risk the classification. Anyway Switzerland had a penalty not given in the last minute that could put them deservedly in a better situation.
Not that entertaining game but also have to praise Italy defense. BBC trio is doing an impressive job for Italy. Also liking to see Lazio duo Candreva and Parolo despite the strongest sector of Italy being really the defensive.
Belgium improved its performance. They could use better plays in speed to get the win and it worked very well. Witsel seems a guy to look at.
Hopefully Belgium gears now. Would absolutely like to watch them playing equivalent to their great squad.
Colômbia tactically was the better side but Peru works hard to not take the goal, that's something Gareca got right but the team misses some audacity since Peru seems to play always for the tie not to win with almost no attack. I thought they would risk a bit more even to try to "honor" the...
8th round
São Paulo 2x0 Vitória
Not an esplendid match but the return of Ganso, R. Caio (Copa América) and Calleri (injured) was crucial for this win.
Chapecoense 3x3 Grêmio
Very disputed and fair result. Both fought a lot until the end and the score expressed it well.
Ponte Preta 3x2...
Mutual difficult for both sides to infiltrate the adversary's defense at first half mainly. At second half both came more offensive with Germany a bit superior but the best chances were from Poland with Milik who missed incredible ones. Gotze and Schurrle aren't my favorite option to attack on...
USA's very surprising. Hardly would expect them getting to the semis even more against Ecuador. Dempsey did very well. Ecuador had a good reaction but then it was too late for them and it wasn't a night to count with Enner Valencia or else things could've been different. Anyway congrats to USA.
Agree. Actually to succeed in anything Dunga was not the right guy for Brazil but CBF can be very non-sense. But some minutes ago Tite was confirmed to be our new coach and that's very likely. Though it seems Micale will command Brazil at Olympics. Press and CBF are trying to push it as the most...
What is football. Lucky last minutes from France. Payet again proving what he came for. But France really did not well to begin with a wrong first eleven by Deschamps. With the replacements at second half France could improve but still nothing that good. Also didn't understand why Deschamps...
México ended up tieing it but still surprising result from Venezuela. Uruguay at least finished well their participation in the competition, against Jamaica, ok, but better than nothing.
And Dunga was fired (finally!) due to Brazil's elimination. For that I have to thank Peru's lending of a...