Vinicius Júnior penalty seals Australia 2-4 Brazil in Friendly Match 2026

There were four more minutes of added time in the match. After many goals (and many more substitutions), the game experienced a significant drop in pace, becoming slower, with little happening on the field and the teams exchanging passes.

Take it easy, there were MANY changes. Initially, there were three in Australia: Italiano, Okon-Engstler, and Irankunda were replaced by Younis, O'Neill, and Geria. In Brazil, Vini and Bruno Guimarães were replaced by Martinelli and Samuel Lino. And, in a second phase, in Australia, Yengi and Irvine were replaced by Velupillay and Yazbek. In Brazil, Mauro Júnior, Jair, and Danilo were replaced by Breno Bidon, Vitor Reis, and Arthur Dias.

Brazil was energized by the comeback and applied pressure. Estêvão took a powerful shot that deflected, winning a corner kick, which was cleared by the defense. Shortly after, Estêvão took another powerful shot towards the right corner, with Beach parrying it away, and Endrick shot wide on the rebound, in a moment of panic!

Irankunda received a yellow card for a strong tackle on Danilo. Shortly after, Yengi received a cross and headed wide. Brazil then made three substitutions, with Rayan, Vanderson, and Gabriel Bontempo leaving the field and Estêvão, Matheuzinho, and Andrey Santos entering.

Danilo received the pass up front and shot hard, with a deflection, for a corner kick, taken into the area by Bruno Guimarães, and Gabriel Magalhães headed towards the ground, with the ball going high, for Beach to palm away!

At half-time Brazil made a change, with Raphinha coming out for Endrick. Gabriel Bontempo received the pass in the area and shot, with a deflection, for a corner, passed into the area for the defense to clear away.

Brazil felt the pressure of the turnaround in the score and tried to maintain possession as they had done at the beginning of the match. Despite this, Australia managed to tighten up their defense, preventing dangerous attacks from the Brazilian team. The game slowed down at this point.

Australia managed to exchange passes and maintain possession in the attacking half, applying pressure in those final minutes. Brazil retreated after the goal, but was prepared to launch quick counter-attacks. Despite this, they had not yet managed to create the same level of danger as they had at the beginning.

Rayan received the pass and got a shot away, but it went wide. Australia then arrived for the first time in the game, where Irvine found Tete Yengi in the area, and he got his shot away, but over the defense. Losing the game, Australia started to loosen up in the game.

Right after the goal, Brazil continued the pressure! Rayan received the pass and found Raphinha, who managed a shot, but Beach parried it away, giving Raphinha the rebound to shoot again, with the goalkeeper parrying the ball away!

After a light and fireworks show (and a slight delay before they took to the field), the players stepped onto the pitch and the ball rolled for the match, in the first 45 minutes of this friendly during the FIFA international break, with all the action and excitement of the duel here on VAVEL.

For the game, Carlo Ancelotti had the following players available during the match against Australia: Hugo Souza, Pedro Morisco, Douglas Santos, Matheuzinho, Marquinhos, Vitor Reis, Arthur Dias, Breno Bidon, Douglas Luiz, Andrey Santos, Samuel Lino, Estêvão, Martinelli, Pedro and Endrick.

For the game, Tony Popovic had the following players available during the match against Brazil: Jacob Chapman, Paul Izzo, Kasey Bos, Milos Degenek, Jason Geria, Dylan Leonard, Kealey Adamson, Nishan Velupillay, Patrick Yazbek, Marcus Younis, Aiden O'Neill, Riley McGree, Yaya Dukuly and Eli Adams.

With a 4-3-3 formation, Brazil's starting lineup for the friendly match during the FIFA international break was: Otávio, Vanderson, Jair, Gabriel Magalhães and Mauro Júnior; Danilo, Bruno Guimarães and Gabriel Bontempo; Rayan, Vinícius Júnior and Raphinha.