The Brazilian coach, Adenor Leonardo Bacchi, 'Tite', said this Thursday that he will wait until the last minute to decide whether Neymar plays against Bolivia in the first day of the South American qualifiers of the Qatar World Cup 2022.
The Brazilian team will host Bolivia at the start of the qualifiers and Neymar The day before he felt severe pain in his lumbar region, for which he had to abandon training and is still in doubt for that match.
The doctor of the Brazilian team, Rodrigo Lasmar, did not rule out outright that the player of the PSG may be in a position to act against the Bolivians, but he did not give many guarantees either.
“Yesterday he could not train”, but “he has already had a small improvement,” he explained. Lasmar, who added that Neymar Nor will he train this Thursday and will be subjected to “intensive treatment” to decide whether or not he will play before the game.
Tite said at a press conference that he will wait until the last moment to find out if he will be able to align his main player and that in case the doctors advise against him, he will be replaced by Everton Ribeiro, who militates in the Flamengo.
“He is a player with many virtues” who starts from behind and has “a lot of arrival” in the area, he said. Tite on Ribeiro, whom he defined as a “very creative type”, who can be “decisive” and make up for the possible absence of Neymar “with category”.
Casemiro, captain
Tite also confirmed that Weverton (Palmeiras) will be the goalkeeper in the absence of the injured Alisson (Liverpool) and that the steering wheel Douglas luiz (Aston Villa) will enter as a starter, although he did not give many more details about the team's lineup, which will have Casemiro as captain.
The coach also did not give many clues about how his team will face the first match of the qualifiers for Qatar 2022But he pointed out that the Brazilian team's game will aim at the “balance” between “defensive solidity” and “the impetus to create, arrive, score goals and win.”
The match will be played at the stadium Neo Chemistry Arena, in the city of Sao Paulo and headquarters of the Corinthians, a team that had Tite as a coach for years. After their debut in the Qatar 2022 qualifiers, the Brazilian team will remain in Sao Paulo, where he will train over the weekend, and on Monday he will travel to Lima to face the Peruvian team the next day.