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FIFA CWC 2025 Group Stage: Brazilian Success & Florian Wirtz Scout Report At Liverpool 2025/2026
Today, we have a player analysis piece focusing on Florian Wirtz at Liverpool this coming season along with a data analysis of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup group stage, focusing on the Brazilian teams' group stage success.
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The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup group stage served as a captivating tactical analysis case study, particularly through the performances of Brazilian clubs Flamengo, Fluminense, Botafogo, and Palmeiras.
This report offers a detailed data analysis of how these teams navigated difficult groups and delivered some of the tournament’s most tactically cohesive performances.
Despite being drawn against European giants like Chelsea, Atlético Madrid, and PSG, all four Brazilian sides progressed, reflecting the strength of Brazil’s domestic game and the clubs’ superior tactical structure, pressing intelligence, and creative balance.
This article explores their group stage success across multiple angles: attacking patterns, defensive organisation, shot efficiency, pressing structure, and collective playmaking.
More than just a scout report on Brazilian teams’ style of play, it is a tactical deep dive into how each club adjusted to their opponent while maintaining an identity rooted in compactness, bravery, and technical control.
Were these results driven by high pressing or deep control?
Did Brazilian sides embrace possession or exploit transitions?
And how did they outperform European teams in high-quality shooting metrics?
In a tournament often dominated by possession-centric and star-led approaches, the Brazilian quartet introduced a refreshing tactical model based on adaptability, collective responsibility, and sharp execution.
This tactical analysis examines what made them not just survivors but also success stories on the global stage.
Last Friday, Liverpool broke the British record transfer fee by signing one of the most exciting players of this generation, the German attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen, for £100m.
Potential add-ons, totalling £16m, would bring the total to £116m.
The current Premier League champions have been making moves this transfer window, with Wirtz joining the club alongside his former Leverkusen teammate Jeremie Frimpong.
The club is continuously trying to strengthen its position of power in the window, with links to Milos Kerkez and Marc Guéhi.
The addition of Wirtz to the squad has further boosted Arne Slot’s attacking options for the upcoming season.
This scout report and player analysis will highlight Wirtz’s attributes that will help him fit into the Reds‘ tactics and how the team may need to adapt to him.
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Olivier Giroud to Lille, here we go! French striker will be back in Europe as he’s set to leave LAFC.
Giroud accepted one year contract proposal as Lille have now prepared all documents.
Dive back into his 2022 FIFA World Cup scout report below.
Fenerbahçe have submitted an official proposal to Al Nassr for Jhon Durán.
Negotiations underway with Fenerbahçe director Devin Özek in Colombia to try advance with player’s camp.
Check out his 2024/2025 scout report below.
“I see him more like Enzo Fernandez, as an attacking midfielder not a defensive midfielder.”
Enzo Maresca has given his thoughts on Andrey Santos.
Check out our 2024/2025 scout report on the Brazilian midfielder at Strasbourg in Ligue 1!
