Int Football - Brazil put six past Portugal

Eurosport - Thu, 20 Nov 11:31:00 2008

Brazil gave beleaguered coach Dunga some respite by thumping Portugal 6-2 in a friendly, helped by a hat-trick from striker Luis Fabiano.

FOOTBALL 2008 Luis Fabiano celebrates goal in 6-2 win over Portugal - 0

The five-times world champions had been held to 0-0 draws in their last three home games, against Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia, and had not scored in front of their own fans since last November.

Dunga was jeered by the crowd and seemed to be in for a long night when Danny opened the scoring for the visitors by turning in Bruno Alves's cross after four minutes.

But Luis Fabiano levelled four minutes later following a break down the left by Robinho and put Brazil ahead in the 25th minute with a shot on the turn from Kaka's pass.

The second half produced four goals in a 10-minute spell. Maicon scored with an angled shot for Brazil in the 55th minute and Luis Fabiano completed his hat-trick with an opportunist goal two minutes later.

Simao Sabrosa pulled one back for the visitors, only for Elano to rifle home Brazil's fifth from another chance created by Kaka.

Adriano headed Brazil's sixth in stoppage-time as Brazil completed their first win over Portugal since 1989.

Reuters

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  1. Nice job Dunga. I am looking forward to watch next match in London. I will be watching a live Brazilian match for the first time, so please Dunga give us another Brazilian Magic - Kris from Malta

    From Kris, on Thu 1 Jan 5:43PM

  2. wait till brazil plays italy

    From Italy Ninety fonz, on Thu 20 Nov 3:15PM

  3. Bravo samba boys with an outstanding performance over portugal.Hope you would continue your winnings to make we your delighters very happy always.i really hope Carlvalho Amauri would be called up to the national team.

    From Aaron, on Thu 20 Nov 1:16PM

  4. Ronaldo scored 42 goals in the best league in the world, so to say he is rubbish,you need your head examined.!Skippy, N. Wales

    From diggerormetram, on Thu 20 Nov 12:49PM

  5. Dunga finally allowed his team to play 'Brazilian' football. He used just one defensive midfielder, Gilberto, and used the attacking trio of Kaka, Elano and Anderson. This is against his previous method of using defensive midfielders Gilberto, Josue and Mineiro together which made for defensive football. The result showed the difference.

    hope Dunga learns his lesson!

    Brazil = Beautiful football.

    From Michael, on Thu 20 Nov 12:42PM

  6. Brazil we're of the hook; what a match omg; Poor c. ronaldo was totally outclased by Robinho Kaka and Luis Fabiano. Ot shows that when Brasil really want it they do it; Joga bonito all the way best match i've seen in years.

    From Manutza, on Thu 20 Nov 12:37PM

  7. Brazil is up thumbs up for them this clearly show Cristiano not worthy to be the best player.Messi deserves it,his kind of football is not comparable to the diving cristiano.I think Kaka is far much better than cristiano.

    From stankoks, on Thu 20 Nov 11:30AM

  8. To be honest I strongly believe that Portugal in this match did not play well and their dismal international form seems to be getting worse. Having said that I sincerely believe Brasil wanted to win it so much more than the Portugese, football fans in Brasil were becoming very angry about the game their team had been playing for the past few months especially the home games. Not scoring a goal since last November is crazy when you think about the caliber of players they have and the players knew that even though this was a friendly they had to win convincingly. I only hope that they carry this form into their WC qualifiers. It would be such a shame not to see Brasil in the 2010 WC.

    From Dex Genius, on Thu 20 Nov 11:28AM

  9. It really interests me to see Brazil taking the win over Portugal in their friendlies, it really seems that the Brazilians are back to their full form as before so a big congratulations to Kaka our world best player and also the entire team not forgetting the coach.

    From Lot, on Thu 20 Nov 10:50AM

  10. Another impressive outing by Cristiano Ronaldo !! What a joke !! Once again the Diving One proved that he only enjoys playing against RUBBISH domestic opposition and becomes totally IRRELEVANT in big matches and in internationals. So he and his idiot fans should just STFU !! IMO, Messi is the best player in the world . End of story !!

    From Tim, on Thu 20 Nov 10:42AM

  11. that only means carlos queroz will head back to Man Utd in a jiffy! yeaahhh!!! come on CQ.. come back to Man Utd.. we need u as SAF's #2!!

    From dila, on Thu 20 Nov 9:22AM

  12. i am the most surprised, pl kindly give me the line-up of the two teams.worst time awaits portugal.

    From johnson, on Thu 20 Nov 8:28AM

  13. Brazil seem to be back.

    From bruno_franca2005, on Thu 20 Nov 8:09AM
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