Bruno Guimaraes continued his fantastic form with a goal and an assist in Brazil’s 4-0 demolition of Bolivia in the early hours of Wednesday morning. He was handed just his second start for the five-time World Cup winners on the back of a couple of impressive cameos and he repaid Tite’s faith with a decisive performance.
The result ensured Brazil would finish top of the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying group after winning 14 and drawing three of their 17 games with one still to play. They will go into the tournament in Qatar at the end of the year as one of the favourites and Guimaraes will be hopeful he does enough between now and then to nail down a starting berth.
In his first six caps for the Selecao – which involved just 83 minutes of action in his first five – he has scored one goal and put on three assists for his team mates. The third of his assists helped put Brazil in front against Bolivia as he danced past a couple of opponents before threading an inch-perfect pass through the legs of a defender and into the path of Lucas Paqueta who made no mistake in opening the scoring.
