A Brazil facet missing spark with out the injured Neymar wanted a late strike from Casemiro to edge out Switzerland 1-0 on Monday because the five-time winners secured their place within the World Cup final 16 with one sport to spare. The Brazilians had been annoyed by an stubborn Swiss facet at Doha’s Stadium 974 and it seemed as in the event that they must accept some extent after a Vinicius Junior strike within the second half was disallowed for offside following a VAR test. But then, with seven minutes remaining, Bruno Guimaraes flicked the ball on to Casemiro simply contained in the field and the Manchester United midfielder’s volley flew into the web with the assistance of a slight however important deflection off Manuel Akanji.

Tite’s facet are simply the second group to qualify for the final 16 after France and the one facet other than the holders to have gained each group matches up to now in Qatar.

With six factors they are going to be tempted to relaxation gamers for his or her ultimate Group G sport in opposition to Cameroon on Friday, when a draw will safe them prime spot.

Switzerland, in the meantime, did not muster a shot heading in the right direction however stay on target to qualify too, with the 3-3 draw between Serbia and Cameroon earlier which means a win in opposition to the Serbians will take Murat Yakin’s facet via and a draw can also suffice. They have made a behavior of creating a minimum of the primary knockout spherical at main tournaments, whereas Brazil are in Qatar to win a sixth World Cup and nothing much less will do.

The Selecao have been at all times going to overlook Neymar, though coach Tite has mentioned he’s assured the Paris Saint-Germain famous person will get well from his ankle damage to play a component once more on the finals.

After the category of Richarlison made the distinction of their opening win over Serbia, this was a reminder for the Brazilians of the power in depth within the European sport.

Four years in the past, earlier than being dumped out by Belgium within the quarter-finals, they have been additionally held by Switzerland within the group stage.

Fred in for Neymar

Yakin’s facet due to this fact had no purpose to concern Brazil, who launched Manchester United midfielder Fred into their line-up instead of Neymar. As a end result they have been arrange in a 4-3-3 formation, with Fred and Lucas Paqueta both facet of Casemiro, whereas Eder Militao –- habitually a centre-back for Real Madrid -– stood in for the injured Danilo at right-back.

There have been solely flashes of what Brazil may do in a irritating first half, with the loudest cheers from the plenty of supporters in yellow and inexperienced within the stands coming when the large display screen confirmed two-time World Cup-winning striker Ronaldo within the stands.

Vinicius had the perfect probability of the opening interval when he linked with a Raphinha cross on the again put up within the twenty seventh minute, however Yann Sommer tipped the Real Madrid winger’s effort behind.

Switzerland have been with out certainly one of their most important inventive sparks in Xherdan Shaqiri, who was lacking as a consequence of an obvious thigh drawback and changed by Fabian Rieder.

That Tite was not glad with Brazil’s first-half exhibiting was clear when he hooked Paqueta at half-time and despatched on Rodrygo.

The 21-year-old was concerned when Brazil thought they’d taken the lead simply after the hour mark, serving to acquire possession in midfield earlier than Casemiro launched Vinicius to run via and beat Sommer.

But the celebrations have been lower shot because the purpose was disallowed by VAR for an offside in opposition to Richarlison. Tite turned to his bench and despatched on extra contemporary attackers in Gabriel Jesus and Antony, however the purpose lastly arrived from one of many least seemingly sources in Casemiro and Brazil noticed out a deserved victory.

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