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BRAZILIANS SAMBA TO ROUND OF 16 WITH 3-1 WIN OVER IVORY COAST By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Mon, 21 Jun 2010  Brazil, one of the more exciting teams to watch in the 2010 FIFA World Cup played samba-like rhythmic football to beat Cote d? Ivoire - Ivory Coast ? 3-1 to enter the Round of 16 with one more match to play. The result guaranteed one of the top favorites in the FIFA World Cup being staged in the colorful if noisy atmosphere of South Africa one of the top two places in Group G even before the fancied Portugal squad play North Korea later Monday. Luis Fabiano scored twoce and Elano added one of his own but Brazil paid a price when Kaka was given a red card late in the match following a clash with Kader Keita of Ivory Coast. It was the Brazilian star?s second yellow after he appeared to get Keita with an elbow sending the Ivory Coast player down on the pitch clutching his face. For former England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson?s Ivory Coast ?Elephants? it was regarded as a sobering evening despite Didier Drogba?s late headed reply, according to the FIFA match report. Although Drogba was fit to start his first game of this FIFA World Cup? ? Gervinho the man to make way ? C?te d?Ivoire did not trouble Brazil's back line until it was too late and they will now go into their final group game against the Koreans on Friday with just one point to their name. This much-anticipated meeting of the five-time world champions and Drogba's Elephants ? seen by some as potentially Africa's biggest hope before the finals ? began with a shooting opportunity for the Sele??o inside the first 60 seconds as Robinho broke forward. But, ignoring the yellow shirts on either side of him, he flashed a shot over the crossbar from outside the box. Robinho had a hand in the opening goal after 25 minutes, some lovely interplay between him, Kaka and Luis Fabiano preceding Kaka's through-ball to the No9 which left him clear to lash a spectacular shot high inside the near post. The Elephants had managed only one shot on target in their goalless draw with Portugal and it took them 38 minutes before Aruna Dindane tried his luck from distance, driving a shot straight at Julio Cesar. Within five minutes of the restart, Brazil had their second goal as Luis Fabiano struck again. After lifting the ball over Didier Zokora on the edge of the box, he worked his way past two more defenders, controlling a bouncing ball before firing in a low shot that Boubacar Barry got a hand to on its way in. The Ivorians came close to a response soon after only for Drogba to steer a header wide of Julio Cesar?s left-hand post after rising between Maicon and Lucio to meet Dindane?s centre from the right. That would be Dindane's final contribution as he made way for Gervinho, yet the force remained with Brazil. Kaka had a shot beaten away by Barry in the 61st minute but within 60 seconds he had created the third goal for Elano. The Real Madrid playmaker broke down the left and running at Kolo Toure, found the space to drill in a low cross that Elano turned home for his second goal of the finals. Sadly for Elano that was his final contribution as, soon after, he took a kick on the shin from Ismael Tiote and left the field on a stretcher. Julio Cesar was finally called into meaningful action when Ivorian substitute Romaric drove in a low shot that the Brazil custodian got down low to block. Eleven minutes from time, however, Drogba did restore a measure of pride for the Elephants when, following Gervinho's lung-bursting forward run, the substitute laid the ball back to Yaya Toure whose precise cross was nodded home by the Chelsea striker. That was the end of the scoring, although for Kaka, the night did not end as he would have wished as tempers flared in the closing minutes. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Ronnie Nathanielsz.  |
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