Samba Boys of Brazil Spank Eagles of Serbia 2-0 in Group G Encounter in QATAR

By Eniola Olatunji

The Samba boys of Brazil on Thursday spanked The Eagles of Serbia 2-0 in a group G encounter at the Qatar world cup.

Richarlison’s brace (a terminology for two goals in a match) cut off the wings of the Eagles. He scored the first in the 63rd minute while he got a Vinicius Junior assist to score the second in the 73rd minute.

The Serbians played in multiple errors trying to match the fast style, the tiki taka football and dribbling runs of the Brazilians no wonder they had no shot on target while Brazil had 10; Brazil completely dominated the game with 63% to 37% possession making Serbia work extra hard to keep pace.

The goals tally would have been high if not for the Serbian goal tender who saved 8 goal bound balls. That pressure forced Serbia to concede 12 Corner kicks and bagged the only three yellow cards of the match.

The Serbians who were ranked 21 against Brazil number one position and appearing for the 12th time were too little for the technical quality of the Brazilians. Serbia had 4th position in 1930 and 1962 meaning they need to upgrade.

Serbia formerly Yugoslavia incidentally gave Nigeria a Professor of Football in Otto Gloria who we called Father Tiko. He led Nigeria to 1974 African Nations Cup in Dire Dawa Ethiopia and that time discovered one of Nigeria’s finest midfielder in Mudashiru Babatunde Lawal who he converted from the outside right where Patrick Olusegun Odegbami later shined from.

Brazil, fondly called THE SAMBA BOYS, ranked no. 1; are tagged KINGS OF WORLD FOOTBALL having laudable records in 22 appearances by winning the title five times in 1958, 1962 and 1970 with the all great Pele as well as winning in 1994 in America and 2002.

Brazil won Silver in 1950 and 1998; Bronze in 1938 and 1978 as well as placed 4th in 1974 and when the country hosted in 2014.

Brazil leads group G now on goals difference as Switzerland piped by a lone goal; Cameroon is 3rd on the table while Serbia sits at the bottom.

The second round matches of Group G on Monday 28th will see Cameroonian Lions and Serbia slug it out on a survival encounter at 11am while Brazil and Switzerland face each other at 5pm.