Football: Gould encouraged despite defeat in Brazil

Brazil 3 Wales

Wales failed to find the target against Brazil but their manager, Bobby Gould, praised his inexperienced side's display against the world champions in Tuesday's friendly in Brasilia.

"We had seven clear cut chances but they scored two world class goals - you've got to be there to see how brilliant they are," Gould insisted.

"What I'm trying to do is tell the players that they've got to look at what they saw today and say: `That is what I want to be'."

The man he gave most credit to was the Nottingham Forest striker, Dean Saunders - who scored the only goal of the game the last time these two sides met, in 1991 in Cardiff.

"I thought Dean was truly, truly superb," Gould said. "He hadn't played for four weeks but he gave a world-class performance and led by example."

Gould singled out the young Coventry striker, Simon Haworth, for his impressive show on his full international debut - he came close to scoring a stunning opener within three minutes of the start. "He was colossal tonight," Gould said.

Wales dominated in the opening minutes but they were hit by two first- half goals in quick succession from Zinho (left-foot shot) and Rivaldo (30 yard free-kick), and they let in a third goal five minutes after the interval when substitute Rodrigo (left-foot free-kick from 19 yards) struck.

BRAZIL: Taffarel (Atletico Mineiro); Cafu (Roma), Aldair (Roma), Andre Cruz (Milan), Doriva (Atletico Mineiro), Ze Roberto (Real Madrid), Muller (Santos), Flavio Conceicao (Deportivo La Coruna), Dodo (Sao Paulo), Zinho (Palmeiras), Rivaldo (Barcelona). Substitutes: Rodrigo (Portuguesa) for Muller, h-t; Junio Baiano (Flamengo) for Andre Cruz, 64; Ze Maria (Parma) for Cafu, 70; Emerson (Bayer Leverkusen) for Flavio Conceicao, 70.

WALES: P Jones (Southampton); Jenkins (Huddersfield), Coleman (Blackburn), Pembridge (Sheffield Wednesday), Ready (Queen's Park Rangers), Page (Watford), Robinson (Charlton), Saunders (Nottingham Forest), Haworth (Coventry), Speed (Everton), Oster (Everton). Substitutes: Trollope (Derby) for Pembridge, 52; Adrian Williams (Wolves) for Haworth, 60; Marriott (Wrexham) for P Jones, 81; Andrew Williams (Southampton) for Jenkins, 81.

Referee: J Castrilli (Argentina).