Roy Hodgson has named a mixture of youth and experience in this England
squad. There have been a few injuries this weekend that will leave him
without Defoe, Carrick and maybe Sturridge. England were on a decent
run, unbeaten in 5 before a wakeup call against Sweden last time out.
They were brought crashing down to earth with Zlatan Ibrahimovic scoring
the 4 goals in a 4-2 defeat. Life doesn’t get any easier in this
landmark friendly against the South American Champions. They will need
to be on their game tonight, otherwise it could be embarrassing.
Brazil look to have gone through their transition period and Manager
Menezes has them back to winning ways and playing the football that is
expected of them. They were unbeaten in 7 and then lost to Argentina
last time out. Neymar looks to be their main man, but they have plenty
of talent to choose from which includes the Chelsea boys Ocsar and
Ramires. Goals in this game tonight I feel with England’s Joe Hart being
the busier of the two keepers.
You have to go back to 1990 to when England beat Brazil. Most of the
games have been pretty close, but Brazil have won 6 to England’s 1 and
there have been 5 draws. There hasn’t been more than 1 goal between them
in the last 5 meetings. Draw game @ 3.5 with Stan James
England needs to buckle up.
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