{"id":2084,"date":"2013-08-15T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T04:32:25","slug":"brazil-slump-to-swiss-loss-argentina-beat-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/brazil-slump-to-swiss-loss-argentina-beat-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil slump to Swiss loss, Argentina beat Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/arjentina-vs-brazil.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2085\" alt=\"arjentina vs brazil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/arjentina-vs-brazil.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>BartaBangla Desk ::\u00a0 <\/strong>Tetchy Brazil were upset 1-0 in Switzerland while Argentina beat Italy 2-1 even without Lionel Messi on a mostly successful night for South American teams in friendlies ahead of next month&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Paraguay, bottom of their qualifying group and with almost no hope of reaching a fifth World Cup finals in a row, managed a shock 3-3 draw away to an unusually sloppy Germany side on coach Victor Genes&#8217;s debut.<\/p>\n<p>A largely experimental Spain team earned a 2-0 away win over Ecuador to keep the European flag flying in the steamy Pacific port city of Guayaquil with goals from Alvaro Negredo and Santi Cazorla for the world champions.<\/p>\n<p>England, by no means sure of a direct berth into the World Cup finals, fought back twice for a 3-2 win over Scotland at Wembley in an enthralling first clash between the bitter rivals since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In the night&#8217;s only World Cup qualifier, Russia blew a chance to overtake Portugal at the top of European Group F when they were upset 1-0 by Northern Ireland in Belfast, Martin Paterson scoring the only goal two minutes before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil, fresh from their Confederations Cup triumph, were disappointing in Berne where they failed to recover from a Dani Alves own goal just after the interval.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari argued that his team were less prepared than the Swiss for an international date at the end of the mid-year off-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BartaBangla Desk ::\u00a0 Tetchy Brazil were upset 1-0 in Switzerland while Argentina beat Italy 2-1 even without Lionel Messi on a mostly successful night for South American teams in friendlies ahead of next month&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers. Paraguay, bottom of their qualifying group and with almost no hope of reaching a fifth World Cup finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}