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Brazil and U.S. resurgent while Alexis Sanchez lashes out: Heroes & Villains

It may be another international break but with World Cup qualifiers raging all over the globe, there's still plenty at stake. Iain Macintosh runs through the good and the bad of the action as teams jostle for position on the road to Russia 2018.

HEROES

Brazil haven't quite qualified for the 2018 World Cup yet but if they were to place a bulk order of "Teach Yourself Russian" books this week, they wouldn't have to worry too much about keeping the receipt safe. Their away trip to second place Uruguay represented the greatest challenge of their remaining gamesn.