One Liverpool participant was largely absolved of any blame for his nation’s newest setback throughout a wretched 2024 for them.
Brazil went all the way down to their fourth defeat in six matches within the CONMEBOL part of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in a single day, shedding 1-0 to Paraguay to go away them fifth within the desk and barely clinging onto an computerized passage to the finals.
Alisson Becker was unable to stop his aspect from one other loss, however the normally unforgiving Brazilian media weren’t pointing any fingers at him over the lead to Asuncion.
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Cahê Mota wrote in Globo Esporte: “He was virtually a spectator in the course of the match. Paraguay solely had two photographs on course: one was a convincing save and the opposite, which led to a aim, he was not at fault following a phenomenal trivela by Diego Gomez.”
Zero Hora opined: “Alisson was to not blame for the aim. He had little involvement in the course of the recreation”, whereas No Ataque shared this verdict on the Liverpool goalkeeper: “He was virtually not bothered by Paraguay. The aim, which went in his route, was indefensible.”
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The statistics from the Paraguay-Brazil recreation would counsel that it was by and huge a good contest, with the guests shading the shot depend (9 v 7) and the variety of photographs on course (3 v 2), though they contrived to lose regardless of having 71% possession (Sofascore).
Alisson was recorded as making one save and, as we are able to see from the observations amongst Brazilian media, wasn’t deemed at fault for Gomez’s profitable aim.
Not counting penalty shootouts, that was truly his first concession in six aggressive matches for membership and nation for the reason that Selecao drew 1-1 towards Colombia within the Copa America group stage in early July, so the 31-year-old had been on a powerful run of unpolluted sheets previous to final evening.
He’s had a post-shot xG of 1.7 on his aim within the early weeks of Liverpool’s season (FBref) however has but to be overwhelmed for us for the reason that marketing campaign began, with the numbers displaying that he’s already overperforming considerably on the business commonplace.
Hopefully Alisson gained’t style defeat any time over the following month, with Arne Slot inevitably leaning closely on his first-choice goalkeeper to take care of the high quality begin to the season that he and the Reds have loved.
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