Brazil showed why they are favourites for the World Cup
(Picture: REUTERS)For 45 minutes, this felt less like a World Cup knockout match and more like an exhibition from Brazil, who delivered a first-half display of individual and collective brilliance which should genuinely strike fear into the other favourites in Qatar.
The five-time winners were expected to comfortably beat South Korea but it was not so much a 4-1 win but the manner, or more specifically the swagger, of their performance which was so ominous for Croatia, who they meet in Friday’s quarter-final, and their other rivals.
