Germany; Ghana and Algeria - can you see the speed of attack in the Brazil team?
the brazilian squad has some fast attackers apart of neymar with Bernard and Willian but the question will be if they can fix their system to compensate the absences.
Oscar is a great passing attacking player with a,for his body build, strong defensive work rate.
Hulk is a fast and powerful striker but he really needs space (a Podolski with a better technique
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Slimani (algeria) and Benzema(France) both are dangerous for sprinting into space behind the defnesive Line because of their top speed. Fred isn't.
Because of that i would put up Hulk in the number 9 position and leave Fred out. and rather put on both Willian and either Ramires or Bernard. Sadly i think Scolari will favour Fred's heading ability.
With the loss of Thiago Silva they have also lost their fastest central defender. It's one of the reasons why is so great: he can put out a blasting sprint for a crucial last second tackle, if he is caught out of position. Which he rarely is. On the Fifa statistic he actually clocked in the 3rd fastest speed of all brazilian players.
Dante has a very brilliant positioning game but _if_ caught in the wrong position isn't blazing fast.
It's similiar with the german central defense:
Boateng hasn't the best positioning but he is very fast.
Mertesacker has usually great positioning but has problems with long balls passed into space because of his lack of speed.
Hummels shines with cool headed passing and his positioning but actually is very fast on short distances. He actually clocked in a faster top speed than Neymar in the Fifa statistics
