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00:00...2018, no signs that Brazil have the players to end a 24-year run without success at the World Cup
00:08Finals.
00:10Oh no, no, no, no.
00:13We're going to see something else, don't we, from Brazil that makes us excited.
00:18And at this moment in the qualification games, it hasn't happened.
00:25And a chance for Luis Embry to come on and to earn his spurs as well.
00:31And that was Wesley down the side, the right-back got forward, I don't know what he's doing.
00:35Was that a cross, was that a shot? Because he doesn't wrap his foot around it at all.
00:43Binghammy, he knows.
00:47He's not having the best of auditions.
00:50No.
00:54Seeing things like that, they're not even pressing as a team.
00:57Vinny Jr. and Cunha go towards the edge of the box and then Martinelli, Casemiro, Enrique, the miles behind it.
01:05So the goalkeeper just plays it out to Chumameni who turns.
01:12So the organisation's certainly not there yet, I mean, we've still got a lot of time to go, but they
01:18need to jump into gear a little bit more, Brazil.
01:25There's Henry, Wednesday's play as his football for St. Petersburg, a good season at Botafogo, where he won the Copa
01:34Limitadores.
01:37He's launching his craft, we've got the man of the match in the final.
01:41It's not given an opportunity by Ancelotti.
01:45I mean, they are scattered far and wide, aren't they, a lot of the Brazilian players?
01:52Well, most in European competition, but he has to have a good feed of Saudi Arabian football as well for
02:00a number of those on the French.
02:03As we may see tonight, Ryan of Bournemouth, who's got his first call-up.
02:08Igor Thiago has been booming the goals in for Brentford in the English Premier League.
02:13And the Haalanders scored more this season in the English Elite.
02:16And the Haalanders scored more this season in the English Premier League.
02:36Yeah, I think Martinelli was trying to find Vinny Jr.
02:40And Casemiro comes bursting through, it nearly falls into his path.
02:45Just fired at him a little bit hard, because of course the pass was originally going to go to Vinny
02:50Jr.
03:05And again, when you see him play for Real Madrid, you'd maybe expect him to take the defender on that.
03:11Trying to be a little unselfish.
03:14Puts it back to Casemiro, cross the face of goal.
03:17Oh, the goalkeeper had given up the chase on that one, and it was a fine block of necessity from
03:22Canate.
03:23Yeah, but it's better from Brazil.
03:26Again, get the ball forward, let the main men with all respect play.
03:31Vinny Jr. into Casemiro, into Cunha, into Martinelli, and then a block by Canate.
03:37But it's better.
03:38Let the front four have the ball as much as possible.
03:45Brazil has a reputation to live up to.
03:49A decade seen as the most flamboyant football, carnival footballers.
03:55First half was disappointment.
03:57Second half, at least they're taking the game to France.
04:00Yes, and Enrique's at the impact straight away, the substitute.
04:07They're going to run at Teo Hernandez a couple of times and skip past them.
04:11Just starts to build a little bit of pressure.
04:33At times the criticism of Didier Deschamps is that this team don't play flamboyant football that they have been measured
04:43in the last year.
04:43Unorganized and now it's a test of the defense in the first save of the game from Manian.
04:48Of course, to Vinicius Jr.
04:50Draws the defenders.
04:51Legs it back to Casemiro, tries to pass it in.
04:54Well, a marked improvement from Brazil.
04:56Yeah, and that was Enrique.
04:58Again, I think it was, Rob.
04:59Cutting in.
05:01Again, attacking Teo Hernandez.
05:02Great run by Wesley around the outside.
05:05Nice shot.
05:06Simple enough for the goalkeeper.
05:07They've started really well, Brazil.
05:17A little Senrique had a couple of good seasons at Real Betis in La Liga after they invested a lot
05:22of money to sign in from Fluminense.
05:26And it back to Brazil.
05:27It's a bit of a globetrotter playing for Zenit in St. Petersburg.
05:31And an opportunity tonight for him to impress Carlo Ancelotti.
05:38He's got a tough act to follow as well, coming on for Rafinha.
05:48Gusto.
05:51Benate.
05:56Brazil pressing high.
06:01Ancelotti with a limited amount of time to work with these players, only appointed, was it, 13 months ago?
06:09His debut against Ecuador.
06:12And the qualifiers, they didn't win away from home, they drew in Ecuador and were beaten by Bolivia.
06:19They relied on their home form to finish in 5th place.
06:26That looked suspiciously offside.
06:29That looked like a foul.
06:30That looked like a good tackle.
06:32The referee has a couple of decisions to make here.
06:36Vinny Junior swears, almost literally, that the challenge was inside the penalty.
06:41The referee will go to the VAR.
06:52Kunir on to the loose ball.
06:53Maybe they just had it come off a defender.
06:56It's over to McConaughey, it was outside the penalty area anyway.
07:00Scruffy.
07:02Just a tangle of legs.
07:04And it's Wesley again who went on the adventure.
07:10I think what they're trying to argue is that it was a clear and obvious goal scoring opportunity.
07:17I don't think he's sending anybody off in a friendly match, is there?
07:23He looks a little sheepish though, doesn't he?
07:27He's going through the mind of the Bayern Munich man.
07:34He's looking at the stadium screen to see if he has any clues.
07:40They're definitely outside the area.
07:42Yeah.
07:44Are you factoring clear and obvious goal scoring opportunity?
07:46It's a full-back that he's going through.
07:51The referee has been brought to the touchline.
08:04And from Meccano is looking very nervously.
08:07Now, well, that is what they're looking at.
08:09Well, it wasn't a defender between...
08:11Yeah, it is then, isn't it?
08:12...Mecano and the goalkeeper.
08:14Is that not offside?
08:15But anyway, it was a scruffy challenge, wasn't it?
08:22He gets in front of him.
08:23It is a goal.
08:24It is denial of a goal scoring opportunity.
08:26Of course it is.
08:30So if you're VAR, are you going to request that he's dismissed?
08:33Yeah, you'll probably send him off, aren't you?
08:33Yeah.
08:34It was a really awful challenge from up on Karno.
08:36I don't know what he's doing.
08:38Just runs across him and bounces into him.
08:40But, of course, he was going to get a shot on target.
08:47The referee has assessed the video evidence.
08:53It's not a yellow.
08:56It's a red.
08:59And France will play a player light for the remainder of the game.
09:08Friendly?
09:09What friendly?
09:19As soon as the referee gave the free kick, he was looking very guilty.
09:24Dang on, looking, Mecano.
09:26His only escape clause was if, in the build-up, it had been offside.
09:30Yeah, I mean, he's almost saying up on Mecano that it was a...
09:35He was onside, wasn't he?
09:36He's almost saying it was accidentally runs into him.
09:39That's what he's saying.
09:39You can see that.
09:41But once he gives the foul the referee,
09:44the only question, then, is it denying a goal-scoring opportunity?
09:47And it was.
09:48Whether you think it's a foul or not is another thing.
09:50But once the foul is given, it was going to be a red.
10:00At least he's close to the dressing rooms.
10:03Well, France, with a one-goal advantage, but a one-player disadvantage.
10:09And Didier Deschamps, he's going to make a change.
10:13I think he's going to make a couple.
10:16What do you do now when you're defending a free kick in a situation like this?
10:23Can Brazil make the most of it?
10:29I like the fact that the Ballon d'Or winner's lying on the floor behind the wall.
10:34That's good of him, isn't he?
10:37Most expensive doorstop in the world.
10:39Just a bit.
10:42And Pereira and Martinelli, the players, over it.
10:45Curled in by the Brazilian.
10:47Coolly taken by Manion, who's been the busier goalkeeper all of a sudden.
10:55Well, it should make it more of a contest now in the second half.
10:58They've started well, Brazil.
10:59New medical advantage.
11:01Let's see if they can make the most of it.
11:05It was an unusual choice as a free kick take of the centre-half making his debut.
11:10I know, wasn't it just Vinny Jr.?
11:13You've got all these superstar players and the centre defender sides to take it.
11:21It's going to be a time for change.
11:24It's going to be Maxence Lacroix who will come on.
11:32When they have programmed the computer.
11:36It's better that they get these little technical glitches out of the way now.
11:40And also, N'Golo Kante.
11:43So you can read the mind of Didier Deschamps there.
11:46Not that the fourth official can read the writing of the Real Madrid admin team there.
11:58Well, he'll come on and bring some defensive ballast.
12:06Look at Chiuameni there.
12:07He looks perplexed by the manager's change.
12:11Lacroix on.
12:13Dembele is taken off as well.
12:17And Chiuameni's number is up.
12:18That is why he looks perplexed.
12:20Well, he's making another substitution then.
12:26Who, me?
12:27Now he's going off.
12:28So who's coming on for Dembele?
12:30Well, I think N'Golo Kante is going to take his place as the disruptor in midfield.
12:38He's in no great hurry.
12:44I think it will be the last dance this summer for N'Golo Kante.
12:48Still going strong in the autumn days of what has been a glorious career.
12:55Yeah, so Dembele off, Lacroix on.
12:58And now Kante for Chiuameni.
13:02There's that forward in midfield and Kylian Mbappe up front on his own.
13:06So, Hugo Eketike, who's going to have to play off the left.
13:11Alise off the right.
13:13Rabiot can take central.
13:16And international debut at senior level for Maxence Lacroix.
13:21Who plays his football for Crystal Palace.
13:31You won't want to see one of his star players dismissed.
13:35Didier Deschamps.
13:36But in some ways he'll welcome his team being tested.
13:39An extreme circumstance.
13:40It could happen.
13:42The World Cup Finals.
13:43And he has to revert to not even the plan B or plan C.
13:48Some way down the alphabet.
13:53Vinicius Junior.
13:56Waisley, the man who caused the incident that led to the red card.
14:10Douglas Santos.
14:12Lazy ball.
14:14A lovely pass, wasn't it?
14:17Canate.
14:18Talk about taking your eyes off the ball.
14:21We've seen that a couple of times this year in the Liverpool shirt.
14:37It has to be a more disciplined approach by France in the second half.
14:40Dembele in the first half had the freedom of Foxborough.
14:44But it's all Brazil now, understandably.
14:47The 11 men of Brazil.
15:12Lazy.
15:16Gusto back to Menon's sticks at the boots of the French goalkeeper.
15:20His heart missed a beat then, I think.
15:25Waisley.
15:28That hasn't really been tested in this game.
15:31There's little he could do to stop that Killingham Bappi goal in the 32nd minute.
15:36He's completely exposed by his Mulek makeshift defence.
15:45And his captain Casimiro.
15:54It should be a lot easier, shouldn't it, for Brazil here now, but as you said before, Rob, France have
16:01just got back into a nice shape.
16:03And things like this could happen in the World Cup, so it's not a bad test for them.
16:07Can they be organised, can they be solid?
16:10Vinicius Junior.
16:12Has got little change out of Gusto today.
16:15Tries a fanciful little flip to Casimiro.
16:18Cleverly disguised pass.
16:20Brilliant tackle.
16:22Interception from Gusto.
16:25Nice ball, actually, by Casimiro.
16:28Very cute, lovely play by Vinicius Junior.
16:38It's actually the new boy in the team, but he's actually a veteran, Douglas Santos, who's been given an opportunity
16:44tonight.
16:4432 years of age, his second coming at international level.
16:48Change is made, Martinelli is off.
16:50And João Pedro, of Chelsea, is his replacement.
16:55It's gone down well with the masked Brazilian supporters inside the stadium.
17:11And Sanry.
17:13And Los Santos.
17:15They're still at line up, waiting for the cross.
17:18Obviously, Brazilian players in the penalty area.
17:20But what a challenge that was from Kylian Mbappe.
17:23But he kicks it away.
17:27Tries to be a helping defence.
17:28He's becoming a bit of a hindrance down there.
17:30I was going to say that.
17:31Ball didn't bounce on the pitch as well, did he?
17:34Mbappe just throwing off with a few skills.
17:41Yeah, you wonder where João Pedro will fit in.
17:45He's a proper number nine, isn't he?
17:47I'd have him in my team if you've got Vinny Junior and Rafinha to either side.
17:52I think that's a better balance as a number nine.
17:56Kuhn likes to play a little bit deeper, doesn't he?
17:58So, it's interesting to see.
18:00He's got a plethora of forwards, hasn't he, Carlo Ancelosi?
18:03But it's in defensive areas where he doesn't have enough depth, I think.
18:13You know, when you've got Esteval, when you've got Thiago,
18:16when you've got João Pedro to come on.
18:19Rayan, if he does play, who's exciting but is only young, of course.
18:26They should be able to score goals, at least.
18:30That was a deep pool of promising talent.
18:35Yeah, promising, yeah, that's the opposite of words, isn't it?
18:37João Pedro making his seventh appearance tonight.
18:40He's yet to score a goal for Brasile.
18:42He's had an impressive first season with Chelsea.
18:4618 goals for Chelsea.
18:48Right, France, great front at the back.
18:50At least he draws defenders, but it's brought to Ekotique,
18:53who walks it in and France come alive.
19:02They breeze into a two-goal lead.
19:06Yeah, ten men, no problem.
19:08This all stems right from the very back.
19:11From the goalkeeper playing out to the left back and they make it.
19:16And pass the ball through the pitch, this is a lovely goal.
19:21Unfortunately, we've only seen the very latter end of it when the 4-4 would break.
19:25But actually, it stems right back.
19:28At least, say, to Ekotique, who just dinks it, chips it over Edison again.
19:31He could have went to Mbappe, goes to Ekotique, beautiful finish.
19:35A bit like Mbappe, he's just scooping it over the goal, a little jab.
19:39But actually, the goal starts way, way back down the pitch and they cut through Brazil.
19:46Really classily, lovely goal.
19:52All going according to plan for Didier Deschamps.
19:56His second goal at international level for Ugo Ekotique, scored back in November against Ukraine.
20:02That's his last kick of the game as well, mate.
20:04Not a bad last kick to have either, is it?
20:07You see on the plane back to the United States in the summer, he's very much assured.
20:12And they hardly weaken by bringing on Thuram and Douay, the double substitution.
20:27What a young talent, Douay is.
20:31Oh, yeah.
20:32Let's all make a change.
20:34No, they've just got the graphic wrong there.
20:36And it's Kylian Mbappe.
20:38Score of a goal tonight, don't want to overexert him.
20:42Passes on the bat to Marcus Thuram.
20:47Yeah, they were both ready to come on, weren't they?
20:50The two goalscorers, Mbappe, Ekotique off.
20:5765 minutes is enough for him.
21:02There's Alicic stepping through the Brazilian defenders.
21:07If you're just tuning in, France actually have a player less.
21:12You wouldn't believe it, the way they're dominating this game.
21:16Rabiot with a left-footed shot there.
21:18Yeah, lovely ball by Marcus Thuram.
21:21A little flick into Rabiot's path, just doesn't catch with it, but you're right.
21:26It's France who have really responded in this last ten minutes.
21:57They've fallen back into a nice shape again, haven't they?
21:59France when they don't have the ball.
22:01Brazil will have to move the ball a bit quicker because France just dropped back into two fours and the
22:06one with Thuram there.
22:09And they're hard to break down, even with ten men.
22:16That's putting up the roadblocks.
22:18They won't mind them having possession as long as it's 35, 40 yards away from goal.
22:23The centre defenders can have the ball all day long, no problem when you're 2-0 up.
22:27Don't care about that.
22:33It's almost like they're sparring partners for France at the moment.
22:36They're certainly the heavyweights of world football and its performance.
22:40Yeah, the absorber France, and then they just break.
22:47They're going to go wide, everybody getting a touch.
22:59More changes.
23:01Must be due a water break at some point.
23:03Yeah.
23:06As you speak.
23:11I don't think we can call it a cooling break.
23:12Is this just to get them prepared for the summer?
23:14Is this what this is?
23:15It's going to happen in the summer, yeah.
23:16There's going to be around a three-minute break, once a half.
23:19No, I know.
23:20So why are they doing it now when it's freezing cold?
23:22Well, it's not freezing cold, but it's not hot enough for the cooling break.
23:25It's a good point.
23:26Is it just practice?
23:28Yeah, I think I think you need to call it a rest obstacle.
23:30Yeah, exactly.
23:31Yeah.
23:31Killian's got a big coat on, it's not that warm.
23:35It's got a big goal after 32 minutes.
23:38Killian Mbappé.
23:41Some ways going through the paces this evening, but...
23:44Some of his best moments.
23:46Think about that.
23:47Just skipping past Wesley, though.
23:49It's showing his goal.
23:50This was the moment, wasn't it?
23:51The magic touch.
23:54Made up his mind exactly what he was going to do.
23:57Running quite flat onto the goalie, flipped it over him.
24:06That was when he came back and did the defensive work.
24:09Yeah, this is defensive work, then he gives the ball away.
24:13He'll be trying to impress Hobbler, the coach of Real Madrid,
24:16who's asked for a greater work ethic.
24:20Good to see him unharmed, and that's not a bad bench, is it,
24:23when you've got Dembele sitting alongside Killian Mbappé.
24:27He looked very cool and rested at the start of the game, Carlo Ancelotti.
24:32He looks every one of his at 66 years now.
24:43We have the games coming thick and fast for you.
24:46Two of the World Cup finalists are at the finals this summer.
24:49Morocco against Ecuador.
24:52Tune in tomorrow, 4 o'clock Eastern time.
24:54That is on the ESPN app.
25:05Of course, Morocco, the opening opponents for Brazil in June.
25:10New Jersey.
25:12Another change is about to be made.
25:17Thiago is coming on.
25:19What a great season he's had.
25:21Yeah, Danilo's on.
25:22Danilo as well.
25:23Wow, so many changes.
25:25Isn't that the only thing about friendly exhibition matches?
25:27Once the changes start happening, it gets so fragmented, doesn't it?
25:36If you're commentating, you need one of those dabbers that you have in the bingo, Steve, as well.
25:41Ibanez has come on for Wesley at full-back.
25:45We'll get up to speed with the changes in the second.
25:50Mateus Cunha has run his race.
25:53Igor Thiago is rewarded for an excellent season after a nightmare year with injury.
26:03That was Canate, wasn't it?
26:06The yellow card, painful one on the knee.
26:11Smashing into João Pedro.
26:15He's already lost his defensive partner, Copacano, with that red card.
26:26He's moving a little gingerly after committing the foul.
26:30Canate, information of the caution.
26:48Looks like Casemiro maybe has to go the full distance.
26:51The 34-year-old, one of the senior stars for Brazil.
26:57They need Vinicius Junior, and they can't rest him.
27:02Tries a trick, and he's got absolutely nothing tonight out of the excellent gusto.
27:29The sport is getting their money to it because they're seeing the depth of the two squads.
27:33Yeah, they are.
27:37We'll see Hendrik, who had a nightmarish first half of the season, and was hardly used by Real Madrid.
27:45I think in a game until November when Xabi Alonso is in charge, and he's been electric at Lyon.
27:50Yeah, he's done really well at Lyon.
27:52A new lease of life, hasn't he?
27:53He's started to work a little bit harder.
27:55I know his work rate was questions at Real Madrid.
27:59He's got 11 goal involvement, as they say these days, and he's 13 matches.
28:04He's done six goals and five assists.
28:06Yeah, he's done well at Lyon, hasn't he just pushed them further up Ligue 1?
28:29Well, the managers of the opponents of Brazil, of Morocco, Haiti and Scotland, will not be fearing.
28:38The managers of the opponents of Brazil, of Morocco, Haiti and Scotland, will not be fearing.
28:39South Americans on this showing.
28:43Vinicius Jr. pumps it in there.
28:45Excellent defending from La Croix.
28:49And Lycée back on defensive duty, but he'd overstepped the line.
29:00Yeah, right idea by Vinicius Jr.
29:03Lycée's done really well, gets back, helps out Guston, but it's a good ball in and a good
29:07defensive header by La Croix.
29:23Marcus Terrell with Inter Milan doesn't go so far this season.
29:28He's got a different kind of centre-forward to Kylian Mbappe, and he's a replaceable, isn't he?
29:44Vinicius, everything seems to be going through the artery, the Brazilian number ten now.
29:48They have to watch their step as he takes on the whole of the French team.
29:56So short again, a chance for a third goal, and that was a lazy, almost a forearm smash.
30:02No disputing, that was going to be a yellow card.
30:04Yeah.
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