Richarlison says his Brazil performance suffered in Neymar’s absence

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·29 November 2022

Richarlison says his Brazil performance suffered in Neymar’s absence

As quoted by O Dia, Brazil striker Richarlison says his performance in the 1-0 Group G win over Switzerland in Qatar suffered due to team mate Neymar’s absence through injury. The Tottenham forward explained:

“Neymar is Neymar, he’s our number 10 and, like it or not, he takes away their markers and creates space for me. As the number nine, he makes a lot of difference and I’m waiting for him to recover soon… Today, I didn’t have many chances to score face-to-face with the goalkeeper, but I fought, I ran and I defended. The whole team is to be congratulated, we got the goal.. these three points are very important for us.”

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Brazil are now sure to make the last 16 after two wins from their two games so far and will win their group with a draw in their final group-stage game with Cameroon on Friday.