Карло Анчелоттигийн удирдлагад довтолгооны хөлбөмбөг үзүүлнэ гэсэн хүлээлттэй байсан Бразилын шигшээ баг 2:1-ийн харьцаатай хожигдож, тэмцээнээс хасагдлаа. Тэд тоглолтын туршид бөмбөг эзэмшилтийн хувиар 1966 оноос хойших ДАШТ-ийн түүхэн дэх хамгийн доод үзүүлэлт болох 34 хувийг үзүүлсэн нь тун харамсалтай байв.
Тоглолтын эхнээс Норвеги өндөр прессинг хийж, Бразилын хамгаалалтыг эвгүй байдалд оруулсан юм. Бруно Гимарайнш дамжуулалт хийхээр оролдсон ч Каземиро тэргүүтэй төвийн бүсийн тоглогчид тоглолтын хэмнэлийг удирдаж чадаагүй нь довтолгооныг удаашруулж, өрсөлдөгчдөө давуу тал олгосон. Хэдийгээр Раян, Матеус Кунья нарын тусламжтайгаар пенальти авсан ч Гимарайнш болон Винисиус Жуниор нарын боломжийг Норвегийн хаалгач Оржан Нюланд няцаасан юм.
Норвегийн дасгалжуулагч Столе Солбаккен хоёрдугаар хагаст Оскар Бобб, Андреас Шелдеруп нарыг сэлгээгээр оруулж, тоглолтын хэмнэлийг бүрэн гартаа авснаар хожлыг баталгаажуулсан. Эрлинг Холанд хоёр гоол оруулж багаа ялалтад хөтөлсөн бол Анчелоттигийн сэлгээний өөрчлөлтүүд төдийлөн үр дүнд хүрсэнгүй. Алдарт довтлогч Тостаогийн дүгнэснээр, Бразил ямар ч эсэргүүцэл үзүүлж чадалгүй, тун идэвхгүй тоглолтыг харуулсан нь гэнэтийн бөгөөд гунигтай төгсгөл боллоо.
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Brazil do not usually go this quietly.
The colour, the noise, the expectation — all heightened by the long-awaited arrival of Carlo Ancelotti last year. It was supposed to be the summer that vibrant attacking football returned to the national team.
Their exit at the hands of Norway was hardly dramatic. Nor was it intensely emotional, the kind of calamity that has drawn deep introspection in years gone by.
Instead, Brazil’s 2-1 defeat was flat, and a little bit sad; to see a nation synonymous with joyous pass-and-move football eased out of the competition with minimal fuss.
“I thought Brazil would improve in the second half, but Norway had even more possession, more dominance against a passive Selecao,” said the legendary forward Tostao. “They didn’t apply any pressure and just watched Norway play. It was an unexpected and melancholic failure.”
With just 34 per cent of the ball, this was the lowest possession share that Brazil have seen in a World Cup match since data collection began in 1966.
The tone was set early on, as Norway pressed Brazil into a corner with barely 90 seconds on the clock. To begin, Martin Odegaard curves his run to block Alisson’s pass back out to the flanks. The sideways pass to Marquinhos triggers the press, as Erling Haaland, Antonio Nusa and finally David Moller Wolfe race towards the ball and eventually nip in.
Brazil looked uncomfortable with the ball at their feet throughout, particularly across the defence, where they lacked technical ability and confidence to find an escape. Neither Danilo nor Douglas Santos from full-back were prepared to tuck inside or make a forward run to offer another route upfield, making the build-up play predictable for Norway to track.
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Casemiro was often slow to offer to receive a pass in midfield, and though Bruno Guimaraes tried to make himself available, he did not have much to aim for further forward when he did get on the ball in deeper areas.
That gave Norway the confidence to keep applying pressure, consistently nicking the ball and establishing control of possession themselves, leaving Brazil suddenly reliant on counter-attacks and opposition mistakes to get their attacking players involved in the game.
It is how they won their penalty in the first half, as winger Rayan dispossesses Nusa, with Guimaraes on hand to wrap the ball through to Matheus Cunha to launch the quick attack.
But more often than not, Brazil’s work with the ball was laboured, sorely missing a tempo-setter at the base of midfield to provide composure and allow them to build longer sequences of possession and dictate the flow of the game.
Below is a typical sequence from the first half, with Casemiro sitting in front of defence. Gabriel Martinelli has dropped deep in an attempt to move the ball forward, while Brazil’s most penetrative forward passer, Guimaraes, has pushed on and is waiting for the ball in space.
The ball is played into Casemiro, but he does not even think about playing forward, quick to return the ball to Gabriel, who continues the side-to-side recycling of in front of a comfortable Norwegian block.
The absence of Lucas Paqueta with injury undoubtedly hindered Brazil, a player who is able to get on the ball in deeper areas and move the ball forward with purpose, while offering a threat between the lines when Guimaraes drops deep.
As we can see from the passing network below, Guimaraes was often looking to receive higher up, leaving Casemiro and an out-of-possession Martinelli looking for the forward passes that their respective skillsets are not suited to find.
For a nation who have long prided themselves on invention and flair, they missed those flickers of imagination in the first phase of build-up.
Norway head coach Stale Solbakken clearly noted the fragility of Brazil’s possession at half-time, and made two changes to further increase his side’s control. Off came Nusa and Alexander Sorloth — who had largely been used as a target for long passes out to the flanks in build-up — and on came Oscar Bobb and Andreas Schjelderup, two wingers with the technical quality to drift inside with the ball.
“Nusa and Sorloth did a good job but it was a tactical decision,” Solbakken said after the game. “The two players we brought on have different strengths, we wanted to play down the sides more, in smaller spaces, keeping the ball and creating triangles.
“We knew how dangerous they were on the counter-attack, so we had to keep the ball, have long attacks and play and play until they tired. That’s when we had to go for the kill.”
Even Ancelotti seemed to accept Brazil’s inferiority in possession when he withdrew Guimaraes shortly before the opening goal. Box-to-box midfielder Ederson joined Danilo Santos in a revamped midfield, designed to give Brazil more defensive solidity and a threat going forward in the form of more athletic, ball-carrying midfielders.
That move almost immediately backfired as Norway took the lead, leaving his side chasing the game without their chief possession controller on the pitch.
The game remained just as open and end-to-end despite Brazil’s need for a goal, and Haaland dealt a deadly second blow.
For U.S. readers
ERLING HAALAND IS BRILLIANT TO BAG HIS BRACE AND PUT NORWAY UP 2-0 🇳🇴 pic.twitter.com/QA4bZE5DCe
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) July 5, 2026
For UK readers
STOP IT. JUST STOP IT 😱
Erling Haaland drills home a second from outside the box to send Brazil packing 🤩 pic.twitter.com/EU1jVUxaAO
— ITV Football (@itvfootball) July 5, 2026
On another day, Brazil may have got away with it. After Guimaraes saw his penalty saved, Vinicius Junior was denied by a smart Orjan Nyland stop. Early in the second half, Endrick squandered a big opportunity with a poor touch after being sent through. Chances did fall their way despite their issues on the ball.
But Ancelotti was supposed to be the man who could bring Brazil back to playing with renewed freedom in attack, induce the best out of talented attacking players with sweeping, off-the-cuff football like he did for so many years at Real Madrid.
Truthfully, his team did not have a strong enough spine to platform those superstars up top.
