Brazil beat Germany 2-1 to enter semi finals of U 17 World Cup
While ARP Jann Fiete put Germany in the lead scoring from a penalty in early first half, Weverson and Paulinho scored for Brazil in the second session to put Brazil in the last four stage.
In the semi final Brazil will take on England on Wednesday at Guahati in Assam.
Brazil today warmed up late and mesmerized the packed crowd with their typical style of ball control and delectable passings. They ould have won with a bigger mergin if they could convert the chances they had in the second half.
The first half saw Germany dominating over their traditional rivals.
After surviving an early hiccup when Brazilian midfielder Pulinho’s shot, off a combined move hit the post in the fifth minute, Germany found their rhythm and consolidated their moves. With their midfield moving like a well oiled machine, Germany forced a number of attacks on the Brazilian defense and moved ahead in the 19th minute following a penalty.
The penalty was awarded when Brazilian defender Lucas Halter fouled German medio John Eboha inside the box. German skipper ARP Jann- Fiete neatly converted the spot kick to provide the much needed lead(1- 0)).
The lead provided the much needed boost to Germany who are yet to win the title of this tournament so far though they made it to the final once in 1985 and they produced a barrage of attacks on rival goal . On the other hand Brazil , the winners of this event thrice out of five times they played in the title clash failed to live up to the expectation and remained defensive. In the entire first half. Though their front liners Paulinho and Lincoln displayed some individual brilliance , but that was not enough to break the tight German defence.
The second half saw Brazil going all out for an equalizer and dominated the proceedings but failed to cash in on the chances inspite of breaking the rival defence twice in the initial part of the second half. After German defender Josha Vagnoman headed over a chance off a flag kick in the 55th minute, Brazilian defender Lucas Halter’s header missed the target narrowly in the 59th minute. Soon they forced another gilt edged chance but Paulinho failed to connect a Lincoln pass fron inside the boz with empty goal.
Brazil finally restored parity in the in the 71st minute . This time Weverson, who came in the second half, found the target with a powerful shot from left side of the box following another fine combined move.
Weversons powerful beat German keeper hands down (1-1).
Inspired with the equalizer the top south American side pressed up their attack further and after missing a chance to scored , they finally took the lead in the 77th minute through Paulinho who beat German custodian Luca Plogmann with another powerful drive from top of the box ( 2-1) amidst roaring cheers from a capacity crowd of a little more than sixty six thousand.
Germany went desparate towards the end to restore parity but Brazilian defence managed to withsnad all the German attacks to keep their fort in tact.
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