3 Reasons Why Brazil Went Through To The Last 8

#2 Creativity and goals in midfield

Willian was immense against Mexico.

A mixture of grit and expression with a defensive midfield pairing that is keeping the immaculate Fernandinho on the bench and the creativity and guile provided by Willian and Phillipe Coutinho, Brazil seem to have the right ingredients to win the battle in the middle of the park.

The Selecao have some of the most impressive players in the midfield and more importantly, have a lot of creativity and plenty of goals in them. Coutinho has already shown us twice how much he likes to find the back of the net. Willian has threatened, like he did against Mexico, multiple times and has come close on a couple of occasions and was undoubtedly their MOTM in the quarterfinals.

To add to that, even Paulinho - who has already scored in Russia - and Casemiro have a couple of goals in them and in games when the strikers aren't able to get joy against the opposition rear-guard, like they possibly will against Uruguay in the semi-finals, it is important to have other players in the side who can do the scoring when the opportunity presents itself.