https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...razil-v-italy-as-it-happened#comment-86177604
86 min: THE ICING ON THE CAKE, THE BOW ON THE BOX, THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT! Brazil 4-1 Italy. What a thing of beauty this is, nothing short of a masterclass, football’s pinnacle finally reached, Brazil planting the flag. The Italian substitute Juliano hares down the right, but Tostão takes the ball off him like candy from a baby suffering from heat exhaustion and altitude sickness despite only being in the pram for 11 minutes. Tostão dispatches the ball back to Brito, who rolls it forward to Clodoaldo. The ball’s clipped in a short-range triangle, first Pelé, then Gérson, then back to Clodoaldo – cue TV caption ’
41 - who drops and raises his shoulders like a laughing policeman, tying Rivera, Domenghini, De Sisti and Juliano up in knots. He strokes the ball wide left to Rivelino who, inside his own half, curls a pinpoint pass down the line to Jairzinho. Just ahead of the box, the striker cuts inside past Italian captain Facchetti, then clips the ball across Cera to Pelé, facing goal in front of the D. Burgnich closes him down, but Tostão – who’s made it all the way upfield after starting the move and is now behind Burgnich, also facing Pelé – gives the King the eyebrows to the Brazilian right. Pelé takes the hint and rolls a perfect ball out wide; it sits up, allowing Carlos Alberto to evade the despairing lunge of Rosato, who has fruitlessly attempted to come across and block, and skelp it into the bottom corner past Albertosi. Only two outfield Brazilians were not involved in that move – Everaldo and Piazza. With a beautiful symmetry, only two Italians, Mazzola and Riva, were completely out of the picture and can therefore wash their hands of it. God almighty, what a move, what a strike, what a final statement to make in a World Cup!
