'Strange' star helps Brazil team revive

His excellent debut in the 2-1 win over Chile on October 11 helped Igor Jesus take the official position in the Brazilian national team's attack, while young talent Endrick and striker Gabriel Martinelli had to sit on the bench.

After Igor Jesus, it's Luiz Henrique's turn to shine in the Brazilian national team jersey.

Coach Dorival Junior still kept the same main frame of the Brazilian team as the victory over Chile. Most notably, Bruno Guimaraes returned, to play alongside another domestic player, Gerson (Flamengo Club) in midfield.

However, Selecao still had to rely on the brilliance of striker Igor Jesus to break the deadlock. Meanwhile, stars playing abroad such as Rodrygo, Savinho or Raphinha were constantly restrained by the opponent.

In the 38th minute, thanks to Igor Jesus' breakthrough, the Brazilian team was awarded a penalty, after a situation where a Peruvian defender let the ball touch his hand was determined by VAR to have occurred in the penalty area. Thanks to that, Raphinha successfully executed the penalty from the 11m mark to open the score 1-0. Early in the second half, Raphinha scored again from the 11m mark after Savinho was fouled in the penalty area, helping the Brazilian team take the lead with a score of 2-0.

The Brazilian team's style of play and big win only became truly convincing when coach Dorival Junior added domestic striker Luiz Henrique to the field in the 69th minute to replace Savinho. Selecao completely overwhelmed the visiting team Peru with stormy attacks.

Luiz Henrique then created an opportunity for Andreas Pereira to increase the score to 3-0 in the 71st minute. About 3 minutes after the goal, it was Luiz Henrique's turn to score the decisive goal to seal a 4-0 victory for the Brazilian team from an assist from Igor Jesus.

Brazil's national team makes spectacular comeback thanks to timely brilliance of domestic players

The pair of players from unknown, Igor Jesus and Luiz Henrique, are now shining brightly, contributing spectacular results to help the Brazilian team gradually revive with 2 consecutive wins.

Thanks to that, Selecao flew high again in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in South America when maintaining 4th place with 16 points, equal to Uruguay (ranked 3rd thanks to better goal difference). While still only 3 points behind second-placed Colombia, and 6 points behind top-placed Argentina.

Notably, Brazil has increased the gap with the teams right behind them, Ecuador (5th) and Paraguay (6th), to 3 points. Meanwhile, they are 4 points ahead of 7th-placed Bolivia (Intercontinental play-off position), and 5 points ahead of 8th-placed Venezuela.

Therefore, the Brazilian team has officially pushed away all concerns that they will lose their ticket to the 2026 World Cup like nearly a month ago, after winning 2 very important victories in October thanks to the shining of domestic stars such as Igor Jesus and Luiz Henrique.

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