Brazil manager Carlo Ancelotti has come under scrutiny during the current FIFA window for leaving Neymar and Rodrygo out of his squad for the matches against Chile and Bolivia, the latter scheduled for Tuesday. <\/p>\n
While Neymar\u2019s absence has been explained, the former Real Madrid<\/a> manager clarified it was a tactical choice rather than injury-related Rodrygo<\/a>\u2019s omission has raised more questions.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Despite being one of Brazil<\/a>\u2019s standout stars, the Real Madrid forward has not featured in either of Ancelotti<\/a>\u2019s two call-ups so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, memory counts. I know Rodrygo very well and I\u2019m sure he can help the team. We\u2019re evaluating around 70 players – physically, technically, and tactically – to put together the most competitive squad possible for the World Cup. There are no favorites; ultimately, the pitch will decide who goes to the World Cup,\u201d Ancelotti told the media.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, my idea is to make some changes. We\u2019re evaluating player fatigue. There\u2019s a factor here we have to consider, and that could affect our strategy.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m gathering input from players who have played under these conditions, since I don\u2019t have much personal experience. The national team, however, has played there many times – it\u2019s nothing new for Brazil. Our plan is to adjust both the strategy and the players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil manager Carlo Ancelotti has come under scrutiny during the current FIFA window for leaving Neymar and Rodrygo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-129922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}