I think Brazil was lucky in this, because the football that was presented during all the qualifiers was far below what we are used to seeing from the Brazilian team... even the coach was fired due to pure incompetence and not being able to give the team a style of play... the current Brazilian team is sad to see.
For a team that has won the World Cup five times, the game displayed by the Brazilian team now is even worse than people's expectations of them. Their team simply lacks the characteristics of the Brazilian game that we usually watch. Even the high hopes of people for Vinícius, Rodrygo, and Raphinha just can't bring Brazil to their best performance. Their problems may be more complex than they seem, but if they can't solve these problems and haven't been able to find their playing style, then it is very possible that this World Cup will be their worst performance in history.
Brazil is no longer what it used to be, there are teams and not only Brazil that have dropped in performance, even well-known and very strong teams like Italy, which has not qualified for several years, it is not a good thing, the level of football has dropped a lot and we are seeing it with the current teams, now the players are all athletes and not football players