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Phil Costa·25 June 2018
Brazil face Serbia in Moscow on Wednesday and Tite has some decisions to make.
Paulinho is struggling, Douglas Costa is injured, Neymar isn’t influencing games as much as he should be. So where do they go from here?
We picked out three formations that the Canarinha’s could play as they face one of their biggest challenges yet.
This is what has been used in training (with Coutinho drifting between a number #8 role and number #10 role) which provides a nice balance. With Douglas Costa injured – the simple change is Willian returning again and you keep the structure of the side.
This is very much a similar vibe to the first one except you’re swapping the box-to-box nature of Paulinho for Fernandinho. The City midfielder can do both roles – but if you really want to sure up midfield – he is your man and Tite might want that defensive nous.
This excites us. Brazil need the win, get your creative players as close to the clinical Gabriel Jesus as possible and go for broke. Renato Augusto has been a superb player under Tite and bringing him back could provide a good luck charm that they’ve been missing.