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There will be a lot of yellow in Munich as both teams feature this as their national color. Brazil gets to wear the yellow shirts and the Aussies will be in blue. Because you know, it would be hard to tell these two sides apart.
Brazil beat Croatia 1-0 in its opener and Australia rallied to beat Japan, 3-1 with three late goals. The last time these two sides met was in 2001 in the FIFA Confederations Cup in Korea and the Aussies won 1-0. But it was a third place game and it was unlikely that Brazil was sending out its first string.
Brazil has won seven eight straight World Cup matches since losing in the 1998 Final to France. Turkey, China, Costa Rica, Belgium, England, Turkey (again), Germany, and Croatia have all walked the plank. With a win here, the Brazilians can add another continent to their list. They haven't faced an African or South American side in the streak, although they do have a decent chance of facing Ghana in the second round.
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And it's not like Brazil or Argentina is close by, although Brazil has the world's largest bandwagon.
Any one of those things are incredibly difficult to do. To put them together in one, coherent play is astounding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goUl_zOaOW0
Australis deserved to get a draw in this match, the way tyhey played. Brazil was NOT impressive.
Standings in Group F
Brazil, 6 pts, +3
Australia, 3 pts, 0
Croatia, 1 pt, -1
Japan, 1 pt, -1
The Aussies aren't in bad shape. They can make the second round with a tie against Croatia as I doubt Japan has a prayer against Brazil.
In the first half, they kept going right through the middle, and everything was foiled in the crowd of defenders. Both of the goals were scored because they could find the open man on the right side.
Does anyone else have the feeling that Brazil really needs to get over this Roberto Carlos freekick fetish? The guy has incredible power on his shots, but probably 1 of those 10 end up making the goalkeeper move an inch from his spot, and sail harmlessly to the crowd. It is time they put Ronaldinho or Kaka to take some of those ones.
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