Head coach Carlo Ancelotti had much to answer for after the match, telling reporters that it was clear the team needs to find new ideas. <\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, everyone is profoundly disappointed given what happened,\u201d Ancelotti said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a spectacular World Cup campaign, but we did a good one.\u201d <\/p>\n
But he will have to swallow the \u201cbitter taste of defeat\u201d in the meantime, he said. <\/p>\n
For decades, Brazil has given fans one of the most thrilling styles of play \u2014 especially in high-stakes tournaments such as the World Cup. But the nation\u2019s summer has been an utter slog, lacking the identity and joy on the pitch that spectators have come to expect. <\/p>\n
The first 45 minutes against Norway were gritty, with Brazil fighting to create the few chances it inevitably failed to deliver on. Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, Brazil\u2019s rising star, remained muted on the right-hand side. <\/p>\n
Ancelotti made the baffling choice to sideline the Real Madrid player for a penalty kick in the first half. Bruno Guimar\u00e3es took the opportunity, instead, and squandered it with a stutter step that Norwegian keeper \u00d8rjan Nyland didn\u2019t fall for. <\/p>\n
Nyland told reporters after the game that the team prepared as normal for Brazil but that the early penalty save gave him a boost of confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a great moment in the game for myself and also for the team to give us some breathing space,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd in the end, we also managed to score in the right moments … but obviously with the quality that Brazil has, we knew we had to fight together.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Carlo Ancelotti had much to answer for after the match, telling reporters that it was clear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-527117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}