The selection of Olympic football in Brazil, which had been proposed to win gold in JJOO of Beijing, avoided back empty-handed after winning by 0-3 to Belgium in the match for the bronze medal, which cleans your discussed participation in a tournament in which she finished in third place
The match began with a Brazil that was more ambitious than in the semifinal against Argentina and began searching spaces and create occasions since the beginning, a front Belgium wrapped in defence, with up to seven eight players in the vicinity of the area sometimes that gambled on the counterattack.
Already in minute 6, the captain Ronaldinho saw a goal annulled for offside, which had marked a pass from Chilean head of Jo, and although Belgium did arrivals to the area of hazardous Renan, over and over again which was Brazil approached sticks Bailly until the Belgians disassemble the move.
The raids Cariocas crashed again and again concentrated in the Belgian defence, which for a time desbarató All their attempts before they cause real danger, which enabled the rojiblancos begin numerous counterattacks, but often returned to lose the ball in the center of the field.
In minute 26 Ronaldinho received a yellow card pulled by Belgian within the area, drawing an entry from De Roover, and the next minute Brazil began to see the results of their game with a 0-1 mark Diego.
On both came thanks to a pass from Jo to Rafinha, who since the end of the banda right, got to get the ball back to Diego, which shot between Vermaelen and Haroun and scored with one stone by sending the ball crossed to the other end of network.
From the tiebreaker changed the attitude of Belgium, that seemed to have studied how to react in the event that Brazil ahead on the scoreboard, and Europeans began to take the lead, going up considerably from its ranks and moving and the race for the ball to center field rival.
Miralles (Lille, France) came very close to achieving a tie (min. 33), but failed to put the leg in time to introduce a pass from his captain, Martens, from the far left side, who face Walking the Brazilian goal and ended up going out.
Shortly after Martens nearly matched again with a cross shot that could have been a goal of not having collided with the defense Breno to exit by little stuck to the right stick (min. 37) and with a new solo shot almost before Renan, which also Breno intervention sent off the field (min. 39).
Belgium does not give scares to stop the Brazilians, but their individual net superiority enabled them to increase their advantage with 0-2 shortly before the end of the first half.
A pass from Ronaldinho, Ramiro found the ball inside the area who, pursued by Martens, threw a door, although his shot rebounded into the hands of Bailly, who failed to stop the ball, and still in the air, Jo reached point to enter into the network head, but could prevent Simaeys (min. 45).
When you reach the rest Belgium had signed four shots to-door against five of the Brazilians, and their spirit of fight with a rival more skillful and fast continued during the second half, but returned to care more their defence to avoid a third judgement that both the party and try to make a counterattack.
The result was a game much more equalized, with more fight for the ball in the middle field and opportunities for both sides, and that Belgium did not give up and continued intermittently creating danger, as in a shot from Vertonghen glued to stick he had to save providential way of the fist Renan (min. 75).
Attempts to Belgium, leaving voids in turn to Brazil to create occasions, until Jo marked the final 0-3 after being alone with Bailly and mark almost at will, pursued by Vermaelen, bringing the bronze was in the hands of Brazil.
His technical, Dunga, may defend his argument that continuity is not returned to Beijing 2008 with empty hands, while the Belgians will do so with pride of having achieved a fourth place that nobody would have expected at the beginning of the tournament.