Joelinton suffers Brazilian nightmare | NUFC Weblog

Joelinton suffers Brazilian nightmare | NUFC Weblog

It’s honest to say the previous 10 days have been a bodily and emotional rollercoaster for Joelinton.

Our all-action midfielder has gone from a monstrous show at Wembley and the highs of serving to Newcastle carry their first home trophy for 70 years, to enduring per week to overlook with Brazil.

It was an enormous likelihood to stake his declare for a spot of their 2026 World Cup plans, however his two outings over the previous week couldn’t have gone a lot worse for the large man.

Final week, within the early hours of Friday morning (UK time), Joelinton was subbed on early in Brazil’s World Cup qualiying conflict with Colombia, however misplaced the ball on the sting of his personal field to present Colombia an equaliser.

They went on to win that sport, a lot to Joelinton’s reduction, nevertheless it obtained worse for the 28-year-old final night time, the place he began towards World Cup winners Argentina whereas a banned Bruno Guimaraes watched on from the sidelines.

Brazil went 2-0 down inside 12 minutes after targets from Julian Alvarez and Enzo Fernandez and went into that break at 3-1, with Joelinton trying removed from his dominating finest and a bit jaded alongside Wolves’ Andre.

To make a troublesome night time even worse, he was hauled off at half-time by Brazil boss Dorival Junior and obtained some fairly brutal scores from the media, who had been removed from impressed by his show following a 4-1 defeat.

In Globo Esporte’s participant scores piece, the Brazilian outlet gave Joelinton a 3/10; the joint lowest on the night time alongside Nottingham Forest centre-back Murillo.

They mentioned: “He had already carried out poorly towards Colombia and repeated the poor efficiency towards Argentina. Overloaded, he was gradual in his pursuit and was unable to scale back the area out there to the opposing midfielders.

“He stopped an opponent’s counterattack within the forty third minute and may have obtained a yellow card. Was taken off at half-time.”

Objective then adopted up with a 5/10 for giant Joe, stating: “Actually struggled within the centre of the park with possession and Argentina’s press. Eliminated at half time.”