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Manchester United midfielder, Casemiro, scored within the 83rd minute of the match to ship the five-times winners into the knock-out levels of the World Cup with a 1-0 victory over Switzerland.
Casemiro’s volley, although sweetly struck, took a slight deflection of the bottom of Manchester Metropolis’s Manuel Akanji.
It was the slice of fortune Brazil wanted to beat Yann Sommer and be part of France as the primary two sides confirmed within the final 16.
Barring a Cameroon win over Brazil of their remaining match, the Swiss may even progress with a draw or a win of their remaining match in opposition to Serbia.
Swiss coach Murat Yakin had introduced in Fabian Rieder for his full debut, changing Xherdan Shaqiri whereas Brazil had made two modifications, each enforced by damage.
Defender Eder Militao changed Danilo, who broke ribs in coaching, and, extra considerably, midfielder Fred got here in for Neymar with Lucas Paqueta shifting additional ahead.
The absence of Neymar, who suffered ankle bruising through the 2-0 win over Serbia, and remained within the staff lodge having therapy, had inevitably raised the problem of how Brazil might cope with out him.
Given their glittering roster that appeared a daft query even when their win fee for the reason that final World Cup was 81 per cent with the Paris St-Germain striker, 63 per cent with out.
However on the proof of the primary half, it was a sound query. Brazil didn’t have a shot till the twenty seventh minute, their slowest begin to a World Cup match since going through Cameroon in 1994 (after they went on to win the competitors).
It fell to Vinicius Jr, coming in from the left to assault a crossfield ball from Raphinha. However the Actual Madrid ahead appeared to misjudge the flight and met the cross together with his knee, enabling Sommer to parry.
Searching for victory, coach Tite rang the modifications.
On the break Rodrygo changed Paqueta. On the hour Bruno Guimaraes got here on, then Gabriel Jesus and Antony.
However because the final 15 approached Brazil had solely obtained by means of twice. Richarlison simply failed to achieve an outside-of-the-boot cross by Rodrygo then Vinicius Jr rolled in a high quality objective just for an offside earlier within the transfer to rule it out.
On the different finish, the Swiss had a sequence of blocks with Djibril Sow, twice, Ruben Vargas and Edimilson Fernandes all denied.
Switzerland had drawn with Brazil of their earlier two World Cup video games, in 1950 and 2018, and a 3rd stalemate loomed.
Then got here Casemiro’s intervention extending to 17 matches, courting again to 1998, Brazil’s unbeaten run in World Cup group matches.
Brazil will play Cameroon for his or her remaining match of the group stage on Saturday morning (AEDT), whereas Switzerland line up in opposition to Serbia. Kickoff for each matches is 6:00am (AEDT).
Saturday, December 3
Group G – Cameroon v Brazil
5:30am – 8:30am (AEDT) – kickoff at 06.00am
LIVE on SBS and SBS On Demand
Group G – Serbia v Switzerland
5:30am – 8:30am (AEDT) – kickoff at 06.00am
LIVE on SBS VICELAND and SBS On Demand