Endrick gave Brazil the victory and Dorival a perfect debut

The coach’s debut Dorival Junior in Brazil It began with a hopeful victory against England 1-0, this Saturday in a friendly at Wembley, in London, thanks to a goal ten minutes from the end of Endrick.

The young Endrick, 17 years old, who had entered the game in the 71st minute and who will join Real Madrid at the end of the season from Palmeiras, scored shortly after (80th), on a counterattack, after collecting a rebound from the English goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, after Vinicius’ shot.

Endrick, who had replaced Rodrygo, his future teammate at Real Madrid, scored his first goal in his third game for Brazil, after a play started by Andreas Pereira, who had also entered shortly before for Lucas Paquetá.

At 17 years and 246 days old, Endrick is the fourth youngest scorer in the history of the Brazilian national team, in a classification headed by Pelé, who scored in 1957 at 16 years and 257 days old.

The goal did justice to the merits of Brazil, which created more dangerous chances, especially on counterattacks.

In this way, Dorival Junior, the 61-year-old former San Panlo coach, who took charge of the Canarinha in January, ends a streak of four games without a victory for Brazil.

Brazil also got off to a good start in the two matches scheduled in Europe, before playing on Tuesday in Madrid against Spain, which lost on Friday in London in another friendly against Colombia (1-0).

The five-time world champion, who now has twelve wins, eleven draws and four defeats with England, in 27 games, beat the European team after fourteen years and three games without doing so, when he won in 2009 in Doha in a friendly by 1 -0.

Dorival Júnior decided to be brave in its debut by putting three debutants in the starting eleven such as goalkeeper Bento, center back Beraldo and midfielder João Gomes.

He also placed two men up front, like the Real Madrid players Vinicius and Rodrygo, to take advantage of their speed in possible counterattacks.

And that bet almost paid off in the 12th minute when in a counterattack, Paquetá, who returned to the national team after several months away, enabled Vinicius, who got rid of the rival one and his shot was taken close to the line by Kyle Walker.

Vinicius, very active on the left, had another approach shortly after, falling inside the area in a struggle with Walker in which he claimed a penalty.

Dorival opted to look for quick steals of the ball in the center of the field to build quick counterattacks.

With that objective, he filled the midfield with men, making his full-backs Wendell and Danilo advance their position a little, leaving only the central defenders Beraldo and Fabrício Bruno behind.

Although England had possession of the ball, Brazil moved the ball quickly and created more chances, such as a shot against the post by Paquetá in the 34th minute.

In Dorival Júnior’s ambitious bid, Raphinha, who was acting as the third attacker, took advantage of a mistake by Harry Maguire but his shot skimmed one of the posts.

Both teams arrived with many absences due to injury, but England seemed to suffer more absences.

Brazil appeared confident in defense despite the losses of Marquinhos and Gabriel Magalhães.

England, imprecise in attack, felt more the lack of a man in the area, after forwards Bukayo Saka, Cole Palmer and, above all, Harry Kane fell from the list at the last minute.

In the second half, England wanted to take the initiative, while Brazil relied on their quick movements.

And the Auriverde had the first big chance of the second half, after the hour mark, when Bruno Guimaraes enabled Paquetá with his first touch, whose shot with effect went close to one of the posts.

Then came Endrick’s goal, which ended England’s ten-game unbeaten streak.