Brazil’s players limbered up for their second Group G game with a trip to Doha’s Souq Waqif. They emerged unscathed, with wallets still largely intact but, for a long time here, Switzerland threatened to rob Tite’s side of their cloak of invincibility.
Ultimately Casemiro’s wondrous half volley, dispatched with the outside of his right foot, propelled the pre-tournament favourites into the knockout stages but much of the action emphasised precisely why all the pre-match focus had centred on a man who was never going to be able to strut stuff on the pitch.
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