To the one reader who emailed me the other day saying I’m too biased and only focus on Barcelona players in these international matches and should give more credit to the opponents: Venezuela were AWESOME against Brazil on Tuesday night. The Vinotinto put on a defensive clinic and never lost their composure for almost 100 minutes of football in which Brazil tried as hard as they could to find a winner but couldn’t.
That said, let’s move on to Philippe Coutinho and Arthur, who were the Barça players at the Arena Fonte Nova that felt like the Camp Nou for any Culé watching the game.