The great forgotten Tite for the World Cup in Qatar 2022

Tite announced yesterday in a press conference the 26 players selected to play in the 2022 Qatar World Cupwhich starts on November 20. Among those names are not like players Roberto Firmino, Gabriel Magalhães, Matheus Cunha or Renan Lodi Besides others. We will review the great absence of the carioca coach list.

Liverpool

Roberto Firmino

The Liverpool striker is the most notable casualty on Tite’s list. The 55-time international has been one of the fixtures of the Rio de Janeiro team, even in recent seasons when his performance has declined. This season he is making a comeback, with 8 goals and 5 assists so far this season‘Bobby’ looks like he could be one of those called by Tite, but not yet, the excellent level of Gabriel Jesús or prefer Richarlison to the ‘red’ caused the 31-year-old striker to stay at the World Cup

Arsenal

Gabriel Magalhaes

The Arsenal centre-back was finally uncalled for by Tite. Of all the names, this may not be surprising, because the Canarinha coach has not yet called him to the national team, but yes, it’s surprising that Tite doesn’t call up a player of the level that Magalhães does with Arsenal. After his loan spell at Lille, the centre-back is establishing himself as one of the best defenders in the Premierand one of the main components of an Arsenal that leads the classification.

Atletico Madrid

Matheus Cunha

Cunha did not find the necessary regularity, neither in his game nor in minutes, in Cholo’s team for Tite to decide to call him up. The mattress striker, despite being called up on Tite’s final list, was one of the other casualties from Rio de Janeiro. Tite prefers to call up players like this Antony or Martinellibefore Cunha, and can be considered logical given the small Brazilian participation in Cholo. In 19 games he scored only 2 goals, and most of his minutes came from the bench as a shock.

Nottingham Forest

Renan Lodi

The left-back’s loan from Atlético de Madrid to Nottingham Forrest did not convince Tite either. Lodi was another one of the players that Tite called up in the last friendly list, but the coach preferred Alex Telles and Alex Sandro before Lodi. The player left Atlético in search of some minutes, but he was not able to integrate himself into the English team and He has only played 6 games since he arrived at ‘Forrest’.

flamingos

Gabriel Barbosa “Gabigol”

Flamengo’s center forward was also left off the list due to the offensive competition of ‘canarinha’. The striker is key to winning the Copa Libertadoresbecause he didn’t just have a main role in scoring the final goal that made Flamengo champions, but he was also the top scorer for the Libertadores with 29 goals.

Aston Villa

Philippe Coutinho

This drop was confirmed before Tite gave the official list. The former Barça midfielder is not making a good start to the season. In a first third of the season marked by the irregularity of the ‘villains’, Coutinho did not stand out from the rest, as he did last season when the Catalans loaned the Brazilian to Villa. His bad season was crowned by a muscle injury in his right leg that would keep him out for around 6 weeks. This season, in 13 official games with Aston Villa, he has not scored a goal or provided any assists.