"Joy on the Left"

All Tite's side offered in attack over the first 20 minutes was a drive by Neymar that Guillermo Ochoa flapped away, but they settled and soon became the more threatening side. Neymar began to have some joy on the left, with one weaving run resulting in a sharp save from Ochoa. The goalkeeper later parried a Gabriel Jesus effort after fine work from Neymar and by the break, there was a sense Brazil looked broadly in control.--NA/ESPN

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No, seriously, I love the English football vernacular.  This writer's match tidbits are lively and spry and make me think of afternoon tea at me Nana's lodgings across the hedgerow, before the Silicon Raj colonised the West Coast of the United States, broadly situating us in our present ordeal on the world's pitch, i.e., down 2-nil at 89'.


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