Since every player is enjoying his best years, someone or the other always takes the mantle to do well. Brazil, to be fair, haven’t yet played as cohesively as they would have liked – and yet they have been winning matches with relative ease.
It is because of the fact that at least one player takes up the responsibility to ensure that the team finishes the match with a win. In the first match against Switzerland, Coutinho’s goal ensured that they left the pitch with a point.
Coutinho once again turned up against Costa Rica and against Serbia, it was Paulinho and Thiago Silva who scored the goals to get the win and progress to the second round.
And yesterday against Mexico, Willian came up with his A-game to help Brazil reach the quarter-final.