Placide and Nazon face Brazil again, ten years after the 7–1

Brazil on Friday, and Haiti need goals

Your team face Brazil on Friday at 21:30 Brasília time in Group C (1). Haiti are still chasing their first World Cup goal and first World Cup point after the 1–0 loss to Scotland. Brazil will not make it easy.

Commentators on Globo are already gaming out the Seleção lineup and the talk is all about attack. "Cris, do you only have forwards in your team?" one pundit joked. "Only forwards, because we need goals" (2). The names being floated: Vini Jr., Endrick, Matheus Cunha, with Casemiro in midfield and Alisson in goal (2).

Two survivors from the 7–1

Johny Placide and Duckens Nazon were there in 2016 when Brazil put seven past Haiti in the Copa América Centenário (3). Alisson, Marquinhos, and Casemiro were on the other side that night. Placide and Nazon get another shot at the same opponent, now on the biggest stage. The rest of the Haiti squad is new. The past does not have to repeat.