“Very frustrated” – Newcastle United star gutted about national team, missing European football – Sport Witness

“To be honest, it’s difficult to talk about it, you see it in Europe, the pitches, everything, I don’t want to make excuses or anything, but it really favours the team that only defends. It’s difficult to score, they’re always well placed, it’s complicated. But you have to play, we knew it was going to be like this, we’re not going to complain about regulations or anything, but if we want to match European football it’s the details that make all the difference. But even with all that, we had plenty of chances, we created a lot, we should have won. To be honest, we should have won, I’m very sad, very frustrated, but mentally we’re going to stay strong to win the next game.”

Brazil will now be playing Paraguay and Colombia in the upcoming group stage matches, and will need to show something better to get qualification. Bruno is hopeful that they’ll improve, and he can avoid heading back to Newcastle so soon in the summer.

“When we shot we hit the post, we had other chances, but let’s focus on the next game. There’s nothing we can do about it, we leave here sad, but confident that there’s a lot ahead of us.”