{"id":14681,"date":"2026-06-25T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=14681"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:19:15","slug":"gabriel-keeps-clean-sheet-as-brazil-beat-scotland-international-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=14681","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel keeps clean sheet as Brazil beat Scotland | International | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Magalhaes played the full 90 minutes and kept a second clean sheet in a row as Brazil defeated Scotland 3-0 at the World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a 3-0 win over Haiti last week, big Gabi was back in action for Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s side, who were aiming for a victory to clinch top spot in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Junior got the scoring underway after an error from defender Scott McKenna gifted Bournemouth&#8217;s Rayan the ball, who squared to the Real Madrid forward to tap home.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius then headed home in first-half stoppage time following Bruno Guimaraes&#8217; cross to the back post.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for a way back into the match, Scotland threw on former Gunner Kieran Tierney.<\/p>\n<p>But the five-time World Cup winners extended their lead on the hour mark as Matheus Cunha tapped home to ensure the Brazilians would be claiming all three points.<\/p>\n<p>Six minutes later, Gabriel Martinelli was introduced for the final 30 minutes as Brazil qualified top of the group on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s top spot in Group C means they will face the runner-up of Group F, which is currently Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Our Gabis will know their path tonight as Japan, who have fielded former Gunner Takehiro Tomiyasu at these finals, face Viktor Gyokeres&#8217; Sweden at the Dallas Stadium, with the winner likely to take on the Selecao on Monday, June 29, at 6pm UK time.<\/p>\n<p>Two more Gunners will go head-to-head tonight as Kai Havertz&#8217;s Germany face Piero Hincapie&#8217;s Ecuador at the New York New Jersey Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Piero&#8217;s Ecuador are on one point after two games and need a victory to have any chance of progressing to the round of 32. <\/p>\n<p>As for Kai&#8217;s Germany, they have already confirmed their place at the top of Group E. The game will kick off at 9pm UK time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Magalhaes played the full 90 minutes and kept a second clean sheet in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}