Can one young striker bring the spark Brazil’s been missing? This video breaks down how Endrick’s fearless intensity changed the match, rattled Australia, and helped turn the game around. Dive into the tactics, mind games, and human drama behind Brazil’s 4–2 win.
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0:00 - Passion and Match Intensity
1:20 - Endrick Brings the Fire
3:52 - Escalation and Psychological Tactics
7:47 - Playing on the Edge
10:19 - Managing Intensity and VAR
13:34 - Brazil's Goal-Building Move
15:58 - Irancunda's Foul and Team Balance
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0:00 - Passion and Match Intensity
1:20 - Endrick Brings the Fire
3:52 - Escalation and Psychological Tactics
7:47 - Playing on the Edge
10:19 - Managing Intensity and VAR
13:34 - Brazil's Goal-Building Move
15:58 - Irancunda's Foul and Team Balance
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00:00When anti-LOT changed the Brazilian national team's formation,
00:03he was looking for a specific behavior that he thought the team needed.
00:06But when he put a certain striker in that same game, maybe to his surprise,
00:10he ended up discovering exactly the behavior that Brazilians want.
00:14It's passion.
00:17When the 20-year-old kid steps onto the field, all the way on the other side of the planet,
00:21and here he is going after the guy and pushing him.
00:23That, just by looking at it roughly estimating by eye,
00:26the guy is about four times his size, and he's pushing the guy who was picking a fight with him.
00:30Soon, another one comes, full of anger, and he even looks smaller than him,
00:33cursing, the mood changing, heating up.
00:35Then another huge brute comes along, facing him twice his size,
00:39until Mateozinho shows up and says,
00:41What's up, bro? This is Corinthians.
00:42You're not messing with a Palmeiras fan. No way.
00:44Do you realize the strength of that? Do you realize the power that has?
00:47Of course, I'm not talking about blood literally going in and punching someone in the face
00:51until there's blood, right? Of course, that's not it.
00:53What I'm talking about is this heat, what's missing a feeling that's been lacking
00:57in the Brazilian national team since the elimination by Croatia.
01:00It seems like there are some guys missing on the field who have the ability
01:02to control the temperature of the game.
01:05Of course, there's tactics formation. Moving on, all that,
01:06anyone who follows me here on the channel hears me talk about this more than anything.
01:09But those who follow me also never get tired of hearing me say the following phrase,
01:13Football is a human game.
01:14The truth is that Henrik came in.
01:15It was 2-2 he raised the temperature of the match.
01:17He didn't back down from anyone, and it ended 4-2 for us.
01:20Three seconds on the field.
01:21Eren Kunda stays here with the mission to hold Henrik so he doesn't get in the way of the center
01:25back
01:25receiving the ball. Henrik gets away from him, and the other defender tries to do the same job,
01:29but Henrik bumps into him so hard that the guy is limping afterwards, right?
01:33It doesn't, actually. This moment here was awesome, right?
01:35Three seconds on the field, man. It's such a hard bump that the guy is limping after the long ball.
01:40Six minutes on the field, he's already tangled up with the guy on the ground
01:42and giving him a little kick here.
01:44Look, look, he got mad, and son of a...
01:47See, a little kick that he...
01:48I'm not saying he's awesome because he did that, and that's what real soccer is.
01:51That's not it.
01:51But, man, I'm hearing a lot of people saying that, like,
01:54they don't like watching the national team play because they're not feeling any passion.
01:57That real fire, you know, feeling the game, wanting to win,
02:00really caring about something, fighting for the ball.
02:02And then, when I see this kind of behavior from Henrik,
02:04look, why did he give that little kick to the guy?
02:06Here, he left his foot down here during the challenge to make it harder for the guy to jump, right?
02:10He tries not to commit a foul, but at the same time, he tries to get in the way, you
02:14know?
02:15He leaves his leg sticking out there.
02:17When the guy falls, notice that the dude falls right on top of his heel.
02:20Look, he steps on his heel, and that even pulls Henrik's shoe off.
02:24After they roll on the ground, Henrik gets a little mad and gives him a little kick on the leg,
02:28which, from a distance, you can't really notice.
02:31But, from this angle, you can see that he did it, got a little mad.
02:34And what do I make of this situation?
02:36When the guy falls, this angle here, unfortunately, won't catch him stepping on the shoe,
02:39but you can see that's what happened, right?
02:42When he falls to the ground and gets tangled up, here, both of them know the guy fell on his
02:46shoe,
02:46and both know it was an accident.
02:48So, what does the guy expect after he rolls over?
02:51He expects that after both of them fell and the ball is far away,
02:54he expects at least, at the very least, an exchange of looks.
02:58Like, damn, I fell on your foot.
03:00Like, just give him a look that says, my bad.
03:02And the guy doesn't even look at him, see?
03:04The guy makes a point of turning away and not apologizing or anything.
03:08Then I'd be like, man, you know you stepped on my foot.
03:10I know it was an accident, fine, but, come on, you're not even gonna apologize, so screw you.
03:13That's the kind of fire that it seems like 90% of the people watching Brazil's game missing.
03:17And when the player accidentally knocks and wreaks cleat off,
03:21sees the boot flying, and makes a point of turning his face away and not apologizing at all,
03:25like, that's also a message he's sending.
03:27He's not just ignoring it.
03:29He's sending a message like, so what, man?
03:31I'm gonna step on your foot, and I'm not gonna apologize.
03:33And that's how it's gonna be from now on.
03:34If you're a forward and I'm a center back, we're gonna be clashing, so that's the vibe
03:37it's gonna be.
03:38That's the human side of things.
03:39There's no line, no tactics, nothing the coach says, and the coach doesn't even have
03:43a way of knowing these things are gonna happen out there on the field.
03:45That's about how each person is shaped, the way each one faces difficulties and the hostile
03:49situations that happen during life and during soccer matches.
03:52And then when Hendrick kicks the guy here, it's kinda like saying, okay, I get it, I accepted
03:57it, let's go.
03:58Are you going to make things heated?
04:00So let's play with things heated up then.
04:02Three minutes after that, Hendrick hits the defender's ear with his hand once.
04:07And what's this?
04:09Until then, he raised his arm too much, and it might have been kind of accidental, but
04:14you can see that he's really trying to make contact.
04:17He's on the second one.
04:18So he's really there for the contact.
04:21And something that makes it very clear is this pull on the shirt, man.
04:23So the message he's sending here is like, man, I'm not gonna back down.
04:26You want to keep things hostile?
04:28All right, we're in the rain, so let's all get wet.
04:30And this shirt pull here is messed up, man.
04:33All the guy from Australia wants is to stop the game and put his hand on his face to show
04:37the referee what Hendrick did with his hand.
04:39And Hendrick goes and pulls the guy's shirt even more, and look at that.
04:42That move was crazy.
04:44When the play continues, this other defender here, the moment he decides to go in also
04:49makes it clear that he's not going for the ball.
04:52He's trying to stop the play by taking Hendrick down.
04:54And then the big guy comes in.
04:56The one Hendrick gave that little kick to.
04:57Two, look, the ball has already gone by.
05:00And look at the direction of his tackle, see?
05:02He's clearly aiming for Hendrick's leg.
05:03He can't overdo it so he doesn't get a card, so it doesn't become a really ugly foul.
05:07Hendrick gets away and keeps going.
05:09So look at how many messages Hendrick sends in a single play.
05:13Three minutes after what happened, it's a hand to the face and a shirt pull right in
05:16front of everyone, bold as can be.
05:18And then, can you hit back?
05:19You can do it.
05:20Let's go.
05:21Do it.
05:21But you'll have to really mean it.
05:22Otherwise, you won't even get near me.
05:23This third guy here even thinks about doing something to him, see?
05:25He's looking at Hendrick and the ball is already far away.
05:28He thinks about doing something.
05:29He wonders, should I?
05:30No.
05:31The ball is so far away, he just touches his hand there.
05:33Look, the ball is so far away, I'll just get myself in trouble.
05:36Better not do anything.
05:37And let's the play go on.
05:38The play ends up going out somewhere else.
05:39But the atmosphere starts to change a bit.
05:41The temperature of the game rises.
05:43Look at this.
05:43This guy complaining to the referee about Hendrick hitting him with his hand.
05:46And Vinicius Jr. pointing.
05:47As if to say, hey, can he talk to you like that?
05:50Is that how you let a player talk to you?
05:51And the guy's pissed at Vinicius Jr.
05:53Like, what's your problem?
05:53He cursed?
05:55Okay, so are you just gonna let that shit slide?
05:57And the two guys who were there, who were part of that whole situation in the middle of the game
06:00with Hendrick, with all this tension rising,
06:03they're there talking to the ref, telling him to pay attention.
06:05And honestly, man, the ref messed up.
06:07I think Hendrick lost control a bit here.
06:09He went in too hard and got the second one.
06:11Number, the ref is there.
06:13Not calling a foul here, not blowing the whistle.
06:15At the very least, you have to give Hendrick a talking to.
06:17This is a classic yellow card.
06:19And then the ref messes up.
06:21And when the ref messes up, the atmosphere gets even more hostile.
06:23So the guy comes onto the field knowing that what he has to do, the coach told him to occupy
06:28a certain space, make certain runs, draw opponents out of position, and try different things.
06:32And at the same time, he's in the game, in that territory, knowing that the opponent won't let him do
06:36everything the coach asked him to do.
06:37If in this situation, the opponent doesn't let him do things, there are a lot of tricks, a lot of
06:42behaviors, there are a lot of things, even psychological ones, where the guys try to mess with your head, going
06:47with a slightly harder challenge that they know isn't a foul.
06:50But both know what happened and know what the other is trying to do.
06:54This guy just wants to annoy me.
06:55Let's keep going.
06:56And then when Hendrick accepts and says, yeah, do you want to turn up the heat?
07:00So let's turn up the heat then, and let's see who comes out on top in this mess.
07:03Look how things are a little more heated between Vini Jr. and the guy who got hit in the year,
07:06see?
07:06They're cursing each other.
07:07The guys are leaving.
07:08The other one's arguing with the ref who made a mistake.
07:10And these kinds of mind games and behavioral tactics come with risks, you know?
07:14Of course, Hendrick, for example, would be at risk of letting the game get to that point.
07:18And since he slipped up and raised his hand too much at the guy, which could get him a yellow
07:22card, he could lose or lose control.
07:24In some play, trying to slide tackle to take the guy down cleanly and end up going in too hard
07:30and hitting him too hard, getting sent off, something like that.
07:32Of course, that can happen.
07:34And at the same time, if he's very aware of why he's raising the intensity at a certain moment in
07:39the game and lowering the intensity at another moment,
07:41and that is definitely very beneficial for several moments in a match or in an important championship in a really
07:47big game.
07:47These topics always remind me of the elimination against Croatia.
07:50After Neymar scored the goal, when Brazil took the lead, man, it was over.
07:54It was over.
07:55Yeah, breaking up the game.
07:56It's rough play and you spend those minutes breaking it up, making the atmosphere as hostile as possible, right up
08:00to the limit of getting sent off.
08:02Obviously, that's what you were supposed to do.
08:03You don't know the analogy I make?
08:04It's like this.
08:05Imagine a striker, but more with the ball in play.
08:09Imagine a striker who's always right on the edge of the offside line.
08:12He's always used to it.
08:13He always works right on the very edge of the offside line.
08:16This guy might waste a few attacks because when the ball was played, he was offside.
08:19That can happen because he's always pushing the limit.
08:23But at the same time, he'll also be able to score goals that other people who don't live on that
08:28edge wouldn't be able to score.
08:30Yeah, we tend to think sometimes the guy is way offside and loses an attack and you say, man, look
08:35at that.
08:35My God, he's offside all the time.
08:38But if you look at the number of goals this guy scored because of that same behavior, we can see
08:43it right here.
08:43Look at this.
08:45Players, the championship, Brasileiro and Serie A is already here.
08:49The list of Brasileiro players.
08:50Let's sort by goals.
08:51Check this out.
08:52This top four here.
08:53Look, there are a lot of players who live on that edge.
08:55If you look at Viveros, who has 18 goals as the top scorer of the championship and the number of
09:00offsides he has this season.
09:0226 offsides.
09:03That's a lot, man.
09:04Pedro, I think is a different case, right?
09:06Flamengo.
09:06Flamengo's current form, their investment capacity.
09:08How much Flamengo keeps the ball, attacking a lot.
09:11It's a different case.
09:12He's here for other reasons.
09:14De Bigel is also a guy who often plays right on the offside line 14 and 13 last season.
09:18Even with Santos having less attack, right?
09:20Less attacking volume overall.
09:23And Carlos Vinicius.
09:24Let's take a look here.
09:25I don't know about Carlos Vinicius, but it must be something similar.
09:27Look, 22 offsides, even though Grêmio's attacking volume isn't that high.
09:31You see that these are guys who live on that edge.
09:34And they're the crazy ones who are in the top four scorers of the Brazilian championship.
09:39When a guy like this wastes an attack because he's offside, it's not fair to just say, damn, come on,
09:45enough.
09:45He was offside.
09:46It's exactly because of this that the guy scores as many goals as he does.
09:51If Hendrik always plays on the edge in this kind of game, look, man, he's going to get booked.
09:56It's going to happen that on some counterattack, he'll do something that at that specific moment might not be so
10:02beneficial.
10:05Keeping his head in the right place and knowing exactly when to draw a foul, knowing when to hold on
10:10and keep going with the play.
10:12If he keeps his head straight, this will happen less often.
10:14And Brazil really needs a guy who can raise the intensity of the game.
10:18Because the team also benefits when he raises the intensity of the game.
10:22This here is Irancunda.
10:23He was frustrated in this match.
10:26In the first game against Brazil, he played well.
10:28He was the one who scored the goal, played really well.
10:29For sure, he expected to play differently.
10:31In this game, everything was going wrong for him.
10:33He was super frustrated.
10:35Right after things heated up.
10:37Look, the first hard challenge worthy of a yellow card in front of the referee was exactly from the guy
10:42who was the most frustrated and stressed with his performance in the match.
10:46That combined with how Hendrik had heated things up.
10:49There you go.
10:49Yellow card for someone on the opposing team.
10:51And Hendrik also showed signs that he has this mentality, like this maturity, to understand when to stir things up
10:55and when not to.
10:56See?
10:58Here, if he was just running on adrenaline, he would go there and bump into the guy.
11:02Actually, here he realized it.
11:04He just slowed down, came to mark here, tried to guess where the guy was going to pass, and marked
11:09the passing lane.
11:10But the guy did well, fooled him, and passed it somewhere else.
11:13But, like, if he's still really raw, like, I'm just going to mess things up here, stir things up on
11:17the field, and let's go.
11:20He's just running on adrenaline without thinking.
11:22He could easily go for the ball, too, and crash into the guy and start getting himself in trouble as
11:26well.
11:28The fact that the heated atmosphere of the game made Irankun to lose control a bit here with this tackle
11:32is still going to be important in this game.
11:34You'll see in the video in a bit.
11:36And this little sign here that Hendrik isn't just looking for trouble at any cost, at any moment, in any
11:40play, is also going to be important soon, you'll understand.
11:43After all that happened, here's what happened with that story.
11:46Look, the two of them going at it again.
11:49Hendrik tried to get the ball.
11:50The defender shielded it well.
11:51Ended up getting tripped.
11:52It was a foul.
11:53They both fell.
11:54And what happens next?
11:55The guy pinched Hendrik's thigh right there, really pissed at him.
11:58Look, you can see that before Hendrik gets up.
12:00Hendrik looks at his thigh.
12:00See, look there.
12:02He looks at his thigh like someone who's feeling pain, like it's a natural reaction of the body, you know?
12:07So he's looking somewhere else.
12:09When he feels pain in his thigh, he, ouch, to see what's going on.
12:12And the guy is pinching him hard.
12:13That's why he goes after the guy and goes there to push him.
12:16And when the other dude who got hit in the ear by Hendrik in that play, where Hendrik wasn't punished
12:20like he should have been,
12:21the guy already has that in his head, the dude goes there to confront him and says,
12:24man, again, kid, what are you, you're empty, damn.
12:28He pushes, you see?
12:29The Corinthians fan defending.
12:31Hendrik falls to the ground here now because of a little light shove that caught him here.
12:35Look, see?
12:35It hit here, see?
12:36And this is the kind of thing that's analyzed by VR, got it?
12:41See, he feels some kind of contact on his face, which is a sensitive area.
12:44He can't just go and say, hey, hey, he hit my face.
12:46Call VAR for me, please.
12:48He doesn't do that, you know?
12:49His way, in a nonverbal way of asking for a VAR review is by throwing himself on the ground,
12:55pretending that he got really hurt and that it hurt a lot.
12:57So VAR thinks, huh, why is this guy rolling on the ground?
12:59Let's take a look at that.
13:00And then VAR is going to look at this play here.
13:02And in this case, Virginia R is going to say, sneaky?
13:04It wasn't even that hard of a hit.
13:06Let this thing go.
13:06Nothing's going to happen.
13:07But that's all part of it, you know?
13:08You can see that Andrew, even though he's really turning up the heat,
13:11he knows exactly what's going on around him.
13:13He started the whole thing with that little kick,
13:15with the guy who didn't apologize to him after that play,
13:17when the guy could have just looked at him and said, oh, my bad.
13:19He showed he wasn't going to back down from anyone here,
13:21showing he was ready to throw down and let's go.
13:23He accepted that he's in the game and is willing to take whatever comes.
13:26He didn't blindly overdo it by bumping into the guy in a play
13:29where there was no need for that.
13:30And he knows exactly the kind of play that VAR can review
13:33and have any possible interpretation.
13:35Then, with the tension properly raised and us here
13:38on the other side of the world laughing,
13:40ha ha ha, finally I'm seeing some fire in my team.
13:43Damn.
13:44A play happens where everything fits together.
13:46Look, Danilo is being chased all the way to the sideline.
13:49He leaves the central channel and goes way out to the wing.
13:52And that draws out two of Australia's midfielders.
13:54And then it keeps up the pressure here in the blind spot
13:56and is already watching to see if someone will show up
13:58with their back to the attack to create a third-man combination.
14:01That's exactly what Bruno Guimaraes does.
14:03Look, he's the second man in a three-man dynamic.
14:05See, the first, the pass goes to him.
14:07He's already under pressure, but that's not really a problem.
14:10He's under pressure here because his intention is to play it first time
14:14to someone who's facing the attack.
14:15Andrei also plays it first time while the whole midfield is pushing forward
14:18and half of Australia is here in the attacking half.
14:21This third-man combination that happened here,
14:24look, first, second, and third.
14:26Andrei is like the first in a new dynamic.
14:30Look, first, Hendrik comes back here, drawing the center back.
14:33Second, and I think it's Danilo who's the only one of all this dynamic
14:37where he takes two touches on the ball.
14:38Look at that. Amazing.
14:39At this point, it was over.
14:40Australia is forced to run back.
14:42Vini Jr., the way he is more dangerous,
14:45with space to run and attack,
14:47Hendrik already points where he wants to receive the pass.
14:49He gets it.
14:50And here he shows how calm Hendrik is.
14:51He's not acting like a desperate madman.
14:54Here, he thinks clearly, like, this control from Hendrik,
14:57his first touch on the ball wasn't good, you know?
14:59This touch here actually should have been much more subtle
15:02without pushing the ball so far wide so he could shoot on goal.
15:04Vini controls it wrong!
15:06Instead of just shooting and kicking it hard,
15:08knowing that he's going to be blocked
15:09or knowing that it's going to go straight to the goalkeeper,
15:12he plays the ball into a part of the field
15:14where he doesn't even know exactly who's there,
15:16but he knows that someone should be occupying that lane inside
15:21in the middle of the penalty area.
15:23So he thinks, man, I'm going to send the ball on a path
15:25where probably some Brazilian will be there.
15:28And he goes to Bruno Unguimares,
15:29who was there at the start of the play,
15:31and it was the goal that put Brazil ahead on the scoreboard.
15:33Here at home, we smile at the energy that Hendrik brought to the game.
15:36And in Australia, he runs to the crowd.
15:38Look at him back there.
15:39See? Running to the crowd.
15:41And he still gives the security guards a hard time.
15:43The security guards stand up and say,
15:44oh my god, the player came over here.
15:46If someone jumps, I have to work.
15:48This pass here, I don't think it's a totally simple and obvious decision, you know?
15:52I don't think that's it.
15:53This here showed me that even though he turned up the heat,
15:56he's aware of what's going on.
15:57And Irán Cunda, who was frustrated,
15:59who gave that little foul on Danilo
16:01as Brazil played out from the back on the move that led to this goal,
16:04he knows that Hendrik can run and get away from him here
16:07just like he did in the first play when he left the other guy limping.
16:10And this time, he held him a little tighter,
16:11grabbed his shirt, and Hendrik even throws himself to the ground.
16:14Annoying as hell.
16:15And that same Irán Cunda was frustrated with his performance in this game.
16:19For sure, his expectations were different.
16:21He messed up trying to tackle here.
16:22Sneaky.
16:23Because Vinicius didn't even feel the touch
16:25and already fell to the ground.
16:26Irán Cunda didn't even complain that much.
16:27Look at that.
16:28He just stared into space.
16:29He didn't even go to argue with the ref.
16:30And if you look, look, almost lip-reading.
16:32Almost lip-reading.
16:33His buddy is going to talk to him.
16:35Look.
16:35He's going to say, what are you talking about, man?
16:36I didn't touch him.
16:37Is VAR going to overturn this?
16:38What's up?
16:38Did I really touch him or not?
16:39Then Irán Cunda is going to say, yeah, I touched him, man.
16:41The worst part is he really did touch him.
16:42I'm not going to overturn anything.
16:44Then the guy says, okay, fine.
16:45You touched him.
16:45It happens, man.
16:46Let's keep going.
16:47It's part of the game.
16:48And I see this as a result of the higher intensity of the match
16:50mixed with Irán Cunda's frustration.
16:52Because, man, it was a really careless foul.
16:54It really looks like he lost focus, you know?
16:56It was a little tap.
16:57You can see Vinicius' foot shaking there from the light hit he took.
17:00And he definitely wanted that penalty.
17:02I don't think the whole Brazilian team needs to have that kind of attitude
17:05or behave that way.
17:06That I already think is crazy.
17:07But doesn't a complete team need a leader, a commanding presence,
17:11a guy who talks in the locker room, a locker room leader,
17:14a technical leader on the field?
17:16You need an outlet for counterattacks.
17:17You need a guy who can really break up the opponent's plays
17:19and who actually fouls and stops the play.
17:22You need a lot of things.
17:24And one of the things I think a team needs to be complete
17:27is a guy who knows how to control the temperature of the game
17:30and play that psychological game.
17:32I think Hendrik, with that skill, along with Bruno Bidon,
17:35it's already great.
17:36There are already two players from Brazil who,
17:39if they manage to establish themselves and play this game
17:41without getting nervous,
17:42without feeling the pressure of representing Brazil.
17:44But there are guys like that on the team, man.
17:45I want more.
17:46I just want to see these guys playing.