Gabriele Marcotti

The other thing I would say about Brazil, as it pertains to the comparison with France, there is no comparisons right now.

France looks like a team that could possibly very well win this whole thing.

And you don't have to make a whole big argument to try to build a case for France.

You just see the talent on the field, you see them knocking the ball around in the second goal and you go, yeah, this team's got something and something that could potentially be special.

As for Brazil, when you consider that they have had four managers in this World Cup cycle, Ramon Menezes, Dorival Junior, Fernando Diniz, those three guys could walk into the studio and we would be, well, is this the facilities that are coming to fix some sort of camera that went bad?

We don't even know who these people are.

You have to be deeply entrenched in Brazilian football to know who these managers were.

And in comes Carlo Ancelotti, who obviously carries a whole lot of respect and weight and history with him.

and yet we haven't seen a whole lot better from Brazil.

Better, but not significantly better.

This team has round of 16, quarter final at the most, and then they'll play against a team like France, or they'll play against a team like Spain, or a team in that sort of level, and it's game, set, and match.

I don't think they have much more than that, as you try to sort of picture what they're gonna be in the World Cup.

Would Brazil's missing players tonight have made any difference to this side, Jules?

Okay.

And so one thing we do want to mention is that we did see Rafinha have to come off.

He was replaced by Luis Enrique.

And one thing we have been seeing from the reports is that it's muscle pain in his right thigh at the moment.

So we'll keep our eye on that and how things are looking for him.

But speaking of injuries, Kylian Mbappe's knee injury misdiagnosed after Real Madrid staff scanned the wrong leg.

That's what the reports say, that they performed the MRI on the wrong leg.