Brazil – Qatar, Prediction for Friendly


ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION FOR BRAZIL - QATAR
We can’t say that Brazil will play Copa America with the best possible squad. Pretty big footballers were left out of the squad. Danilo, Marcelo, Fabinho, Willian, Fred, Vinicius, Costa, Moura and Malcom, for example, will not take part in this year’s tournament. After this it there will probably be a very serious change of the generations because players like Thiago Silva, Miranda, Alves and Fernandinho are 33+ years old, so that’s their last chance for something big.
The Qatar national team is built only by players from the local championship, which, of course, is quite far from the world level, but what can be known for sure is that these players play together each day and know each other perfectly, although they are rivals in different teams. The bond here is important and lately we see no bad results from them. However, it is a team sport.
Above all, it’s a friendly match. Brazil does not give much in these friendlies, and this is the penultimate before Copa America, then they have a match with Honduras. Qatar has not played a football game since the end of the Asian Cup in early February, but we expect to come to Brazil and defend. Coutinho is not in good shape and we do not think that Brazil will be able to create so many chances and to win with big difference. On the other hand, Seleção have a fairly stable defense. Prediction – Under 4.0 – Asian Goal line at 1.59.
Qatar has only conceded 1 goal in its last 7 games
Brazil has 9 clean sheets in its last 12 games
BRAZIL TEAM NEWS
Danilo(23/0 D), Marcelo(58/6 D), Willian(65/8 F), Paulinho(56/13 M), Augusto(33/6 M), Fred(11/0 M), Vinicius(0/0 F), Costa(31/3 F) and Moura(35/4 F) are out
QATAR TEAM NEWS
Al-Ali(19/1 D) is out