England continue their preparation for the 2018 World Cup with a high-profile friendly match, they will face multiple world champions Brazil at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday evening. The two teams have last met in a friendly match in 2013 and it ended 2-2, but England had beaten Brazil in another friendly match just four months earlier. Brazil have defeated England in the last three competitive matches, the last time the Three Lions avoided defeat against the Brazilians at the World Cup was all the way back in 1958.
England have secured qualification for the 2018 World Cup quite easily, they won eight of their ten group matches and drew the other two, finishing at the top of Group F with an eight-point advantage over second-placed Slovakia. They conceded just three goals in their ten qualifying matches but only managed to score 18 times, a rather low ratio for a big team. Last week England produced a goalless stalemate against Germany in another friendly match. Manager Gareth Southgate lost seven of his players to injury, so he was forced to promote Angus Gunn, Dominic Solanke and Lewis Cook from the Under-21 team.
Brazil dominated the South American World Cup Qualification group, they won twelve of their eighteen matches and lost just once, securing qualification with several games to spare. They had some trouble away from home, with just four wins out of nine games. Last week they defeated Japan 3-1 in a friendly match, with goals scored by Neymar, Marcelo and Gabriel Jesus. Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho did not play against Japan due to fitness issues, but he should be ready to feature against England.
Probable line-ups:
England: Hart - Maguire, Stones, Cahill - Walker, Loftus-Cheek, Dier, Livermore, Young - Vardy, Rashford
Brazil: Alisson - Alves, Marquinhos, Miranda, Marcelo - Augusto, Casemiro, Paulinho - Coutinho, Jesus, Neymar
My prediction: 1-1 draw.
Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:
England win - 4.50
Draw - 3.75
Brazil win - 1.72
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sharpe
11/19/17, 05:11:38 PM
From what I saw in this one Brazil should be considered one of the heaviest favourites for the World Cup finals next year despite that this game ends 0-0 though. They...
From what I saw in this one Brazil should be considered one of the heaviest favourites for the World Cup finals next year despite that this game ends 0-0 though. They playing pretty quick passing football and despite having some really nice talent as an individuals it is the team game that makes them dominate in the last qualifying cycle.
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