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- Opponent ViewBrazil credit Japan after the win — Ancelotti calls it their 'most complete match'
Trailing 1-0 at the break, Carlo Ancelotti told his players in the dressing room: "Stay calm, and put weight in the box." From there Brazil turned the game around to win 2-1 and reach the round of 16. Yet after the final whistle, the winning coach and the Brazilian press led not with how they won, but with how good Japan had been. "Our most complete match — precisely because Japan were so compact." Reading the opponent's own words on how Japan's exit looked from the other side.
#Opponent View#Brazil#Round of 32 - Opponent ViewBrazil call the Japan tie 'a final' — and Zico warns his homeland
"This is a final." That is how Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti described the round-of-32 tie with Japan at his eve-of-match press conference — bracing for extra time and penalties, and refusing English-style mind games. Brazil are the favorites. Even so, the words of their coach, their captain, and Zico, the man who knows both Brazil and Japan, all point the same way: do not underestimate Japan. Reading the opponent's own press to see how heavily Brazil are taking this match.
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