Arsenal duo Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus have been selected ahead of Liverpool’s Roberto Firminho for Brazil as they look to win the World Cup in Qatar, and manager Tite has explained our young forward’s inclusion.
The Gunners have started the new term in top form, but doubt was cast on our players’ chances of playing for Brazil in the upcoming tournament when all three of our main stars were left out of their quota for their most recent friendly fixtures, but some of that doubt has since been proven unfound.
While Gabriel Magalhaes will be disappointed to have missed out on Tite’s squad, both Martinelli and Jesus will be travelling with their squad to Qatar. The manager has since revealed his reasoning behind his selection, with our young star being chosen ahead of the likes of Firminho.
“We like Martinelli’s aggressiveness. He’s one of the top players at Arsenal, the first placed team in the Premier League. He’s good in one-v-ones, he’s very rapid in transitions and he’s been playing at a consistently good level.”
It would have been a big mistake if Tite overlooked either of Jesus or Martinelli, as both have been immense all campaign. Strangely enough however, they are far from guaranteed to feature at the tournament given their outrageous depth in attack, with the likelihood that Brazil will be forced to start with four or more attackers in their starting line-up to accommodate their strongest players.
In my opinion, Martinelli would not his side down, much like Bukayo Saka was a surprise star player for England at the previous European Championships for England.
Would you be shocked if neither Gabriel featured for the Selecao come the World Cup?
Patrick
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Tite is the type that sticks to the evil he knows hence sticking with Jesus, you know the all round contribution you gets from Jesus, plus he’s red hot just now anyone else would be a gamble..
In Martinelli lays one of the most lethal developing young forward from Brazil, one who could set the world cup on fire.
Firmino is a very quality player. I will pick him over Richarlison any day. That’s just me anyway.
Firmino is a top player, I am shocked he’s not been picked.
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