World Cup 2018 Group E- BRA/SWI/CRI/SER

None of the favourites have impressed at all so far. Even peripheral dark horses like Uruguay have looked ordinary. Spain were defensively very suspect last Friday. France were anything but convincing in beating a poor Australian team. Germany were bad today, and Brazil have just not done well today.

Cannot bear Switzerland and that horrible cxxt Lichsteiner 

Noway should Zubar's goal have been allowed to stand and that was a foul on Jesus all day long.

Granted, what will frustrate Tite most is the fact Brazil went asleep for the last 20 minutes of the first half and were slow to start in the second half.

Still when Paulinho and Jesus went off they looked far more lively, big improvement needed but they won't panic and should still win the group.

No way should jesus have had a peno for that. Flung himself in a way that no tackle would have ever done

Serbia aren't as good defensively as the Swiss, who are probably one of the best organized sides in international football.

I think Brazil will beat Serbia comfortably enough tbh.

The Swiss are usually dreadful to watch, but they played really well in the second half - they had a real go and looked dangerous on the break, particularly down the right flank where Marcelo never bothered his arse to get back. 

Brazil very much had a look of a collection of individuals about them rather than a team, which Tite by accounts had fixed during qualification. 

They'll need a significant improvement from that to challenge. Firmino and Fernandinho should come in for Jesus and Paulinho. It's hard to shake the feeling that Neymar is a bit of a toxic influence in a dressing room. He wasn't at the races tonight and shirked out of challenges a good few times.

I certainly wouldn't be putting the house on them to beat Germany should they have to meet in the last 16.