On December 9th, on Friday, the Brazilian team will face not only the 2018 world runner-up, but also a bad recent record against Europeans: 4 eliminations in the last 4 Cups.
The Brazilian team has already reached the quarterfinals of a World Cup 13 times and advanced in 8 opportunities, but was eliminated in 5. And all these 5 defeats occurred to European teams, and 3 of them occurred in the last 4 Cups. See now how this Brazil x Croatia lineup will be.
Brazil vs Croatia lineup
Brazil will play against Croatia, for the quarterfinals of the Qatar Cup, on Friday (09) at 12h. And will face not only the 2018 world runner-up, but also a bad recent record against Europeans.
We know that since the fifth championship, in 2002, the selection has been eliminated 4 times in a row by selections from the old continent, 3 times in the quarterfinals: 2-1 for Belgium in 2018, 2-1 for Holland in 2010 and 1-0 for France in 2006.
And in the 2014 World Cup, Brazil even went through the quarterfinals, defeating Colombia by 2-1, but in the semifinal the fateful 7-1 against Germany took place. It also ended up losing in the dispute for 3rd place, to Europeans: 3-0 to Holand.
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Is the glass half full?
We can say that not only disasters are experienced by the selection's participation in the quarterfinals of Cups. Brazil advanced to the semifinals in 8 of the 13 opportunities, and the “glass half full” is that 6 of the 8 qualifications for the semifinals were against Europeans. See what the scores were now:
• 2-1 against England in 2002
• The 3-2 against Denmark in 1998
• Went 3-2 against the Netherlands in 1994
• 3-1 against England in 1962
• 1-0 against Wales in 1958
• 3-2 against Czechoslovakia in 1938
The exceptions are the 2-1 against Colombia in 2014 and the 4-2 against Peru in 1970. In addition, in 6 of the 8 times it reached the semifinals, the selection also reached the final and was champion 5 times (1958 , 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002), with only 1 runner-up (1998). The only 2 defeats in semifinals were 7-1 by Germany in 2014 and 4-2 by Hungary in 1954.
See the selection clashes in the quarterfinals of World Cups:
- The 1938 World Cup – Brazil 3 x 2 Czechoslovakia (semi-final defeat)
- In 1954 – Brazil 2 x 4 Hungary
- Sweden 1958 – Brazil 1 x 0 Wales (champion)
- Chile 1962: Brazil 3 x 1 England (twice champion)
- With Mexico in 1970: Brazil 4 x 2 Peru (three times champion)
- Mexico 1986: Brazil 1 (3) x (4) 1 France
- USA 1994: Brazil 3 x 2 Netherlands (four times champion)
- France 1998: Brazil 3 x 2 Denmark (final defeat)
- South Korea/Japan 2002 game: Brazil 2 x 1 England (five times champion)
- South Korea/Japan 2002: Brazil 2 x 1 England (five times champion)
- Germany 2006 – Brazil 0 x 1 France
- South Africa 2010: Netherlands 2 x 1 Brazil
- Brazil 2014: Brazil 2 x 1 Colombia (semi-final defeat)
- Russia 2018: Brazil 1 v 2 Belgium