Simple victory for Brazil today against Korea.
And finally, this week when football started to really count we had proof of the power of the two favorites France and Brazil.
Portugal will play tomorrow and I think they could be the real underdogs of this World Cup.
The return of Neymar helps Brazil to be more creative with their attacking and Korea simply is not good enough to constrain a team that plays with Latin style like Brazil. They can play well with teams have European style like Portugal. Because their national K League is full of physical competitions of players.
Neymar has his first goal in World Cup but more than that, he contributed one assist and some key passes. The appearance of Neymar means so much for Brazil attacking system which is more smoothly with him at the number 10 position. In last two matches, Rodryog were not able to replacr Neymar in that position.
Top 8 soon huh. I personally think that Morocco is the real underdog on this World Cup. Yeah everyone thought that they were lucky to get to top 16 but anything could happen in World Cup and imagine the hype if they somehow able to hold out Spain tomorrow then score a lucky goal to secure the game to top 8, that would be pretty lit
So far no shock in round of 16. Three Asian teams were out even Japan did get very close to a win and make a first shock in this round.
Morocco has some good players like Ziyech, Hakimi and with their experience in Europe with big clubs and at Champions League, they can lit up a fire of fighting and confidence in their team. It would be great if we have a first underdog to go to quarter round.
Spain did show they have weakness and it was exploited by Japan. In addition, their attacking is not perfect and still has difficult to convert ball possession to goals.