Bruno Guimarães questions penalty, blames Brazil loss on debuts | OneFootball

Bruno Guimarães also left the field upset because of the penalty awarded to Bolivia that determined the outcome of the game on Tuesday, in Brazil's defeat to the home team, by 1 to 0, at the altitude of over 4,000 meters in El Alto, in the last round of the South American Qualifiers for the World Cup.

The midfielder was the one who committed the foul inside the box on Fernández, which was initially not called by referee Cristian Garay. However, VAR came into action and, after review, the infraction was eventually signaled.

“I didn't think it was a penalty, the referee said that if he [Fernández] did it again, he would get a yellow card. VAR doesn't have to call, the referee was on top of the play. My perception and the referee's at the time, he said that if the guy kept diving, he would give him a yellow card. This time VAR interfered, because the referee's decision was that it hadn't been a penalty,” Bruno Guimarães told SporTV.

The Brazilian team's midfielder also commented on the team's performance, heavily influenced by the effects of altitude and the lack of coordination of a team with many debutants.

“It's a team that played together for the first time, many made their debut today for the National Team. It's always very difficult to play here, you sprint and it takes at least two minutes to recover. We sought the goal, but here it's very complicated, you play against Bolivia and against the altitude. We fought until the end, we were already qualified, completely new team, but we always want to win with the National Team jersey, it wasn't possible this time. Sad to lose the unbeaten run with Mister [Ancelotti], but it's part of it,” he continued.

Bruno Guimarães was the only outfield player kept among the starters after the victory over Chile. The midfielder, in fact, has a lot of experience in the National Team, having been called up for the last World Cup, in Qatar. Now, he hopes, finally, to turn the dream of the hexa into reality.

“Football is not an exact math, we came from Qualifiers winning everything and we didn't do well in the Cup, I hope this time it's the opposite, we saw what happened with Argentina in the last Cup. We always want to put Brazil at the top, but the most important thing is what will happen in the Cup, not in the Qualifiers,” he concluded.

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