00:00Brazil and Norway will face each other again in the World Cup after almost 30 years.
00:05The last time was in '98, at the World Cup in France, group stage, Norway won.
00:102-1, there was that penalty by Júnior Baiano, remember him?
00:14In short, Brazil has never beaten Norway, a thorn in its side.
00:18But there weren't that many games either.
00:20Just four matches, two wins for Norway and two draws.
00:25But first, let's find out how these two teams are shaping up for this Round of 16 match.
00:31Well, while the Brazilian team has been having a more solid competition,
00:34With more possession and a better defense, Norway has been scoring more goals.
00:39However, they don't have the same level of dominance as the Brazilian national team.
00:44In the group stage, Brazil drew 1-1 with Morocco, after being down 1-0.
00:48Brazil managed to recover in the match and draw this very difficult game.
00:53And then, two slightly easier games, right?
00:55Haiti and Scotland, two 3-0 victories, with absolute dominance by the Brazilian team.
01:01Vinícius Júnior is playing very well.
01:03Norway beat Iraq 4-1, a much easier game, right?
01:08Iraq is not that powerful.
01:10Then there was a very difficult game, a great game against Senegal, a 3-2 victory.
01:15And in the last game of the group stage, they faced France.
01:18Norway and France, we thought it was going to be a great match, it was cool.
01:204-1, France wins, Norway loses, but Norway fielded a reserve team.
01:25We were already qualified, so it was just a routine game.
01:29But, in any case, they conceded 4 goals.
01:32Okay, so let's get to the numbers.
01:34The Norwegian national team averages 2.5 goals per game, a higher average than Brazil.
01:39which has an average of 2.25.
01:42It's very close.
01:43But the Norwegian team has needed fewer opportunities to score than the Brazilian team.
01:49In the four matches played so far, Norway has needed 5.38 shots on goal.
01:54to score and 2.63 shots on goal, that ball that goes towards the goal.
02:01to score the goals.
02:02Brazil, on the other hand, has needed 6.6 shots and 2.8 shots on goal to score.
02:10An average that is slightly worse than Norway's.
02:12Other data that clearly illustrate how Norway is more objective than Brazil,
02:17It's more straightforward than Brazil's; it's the ball possession and passing numbers that count.
02:21Brazil has an average ball possession of 51.75%.
02:26Norway, on the other hand, has 46.75%.
02:30Less ball possession, but more purpose in scoring goals.
02:33Furthermore, Brazil exchanged approximately 2,395 passes with a success rate of 90.40%.
02:42Norway, on the other hand, exchanged fewer passes, 1,759, with a slightly higher success rate of 86%.
02:50Brazil is ahead in this one.
02:51Brazil is also superior in making the most of crossbreeding.
02:55In four matches, that's 18.3 crosses per game, plus an average accuracy of 28.8%.
03:02Norway has a better average.
03:04There are fewer crossings, 13 in total, with an average of 36.5%.
03:10It's more assertive.
03:11Brazil also shows better data in penetration.
03:15That's a 70.9% success rate out of 687 attempts.
03:20Norway, on the other hand, has 616 attempts, with a success rate of 65.97%.
03:28Another statistic in Brazil's favor is the number of goals conceded and forced errors.
03:33Brazil has conceded only two goals so far in the competition, in matches against Morocco and Japan.
03:39But Norway is not.
03:40Norway conceded goals in every game.
03:42They have conceded eight goals.
03:44Norway's defense was heavily leaked.
03:47The Brazilian defense has also been more combative than the Norwegian one.
03:51The team managed by Carlo Antielotti has, so far, forced 37 errors from their opponents.
03:57Meanwhile, the team led by Stolso Bakken, the Norwegian coach, forced errors on 33 occasions.
04:03Finally, here's a very interesting piece of information.
04:06Both Brazil and Norway scored all of their goals in the competition from inside the penalty area.
04:11In the four games, they only scored goals inside the penalty area.
04:15And regarding the goals conceded, Brazil conceded both from outside the penalty area, from shots taken from outside the box.
04:21In Norway's case, seven of the eight goals they conceded were scored from inside the penalty area.
04:27These are interesting data points that show a little bit of what it's going to be like.
04:31They'll tell you how the story of this game will unfold.
04:35Round of 16 match between Brazil and Norway, Sunday, 5 pm.
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04:48Beauty?
04:48We'll leave it at that for now, until next time.
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