Dunga denies Brazil depend too much on Robinho

13 April 2012

Brazil coach Dunga refuted suggestions on Wednesday his team were overly dependent on striker Robinho.

The Real Madrid player scored all three goals in Sunday's 3-0 win over Chile and converted a penalty as the defending champions beat Ecuador 1-0 on Wednesday to reach the Copa America quarter-finals.

Hot shot: Robinho has taken Brazil's goalscoring duties on his shoulders during the Copa America

No other Brazil player has scored at the tournament.

"The team depends on all the players," said Dunga.

"If you look at the game against Chile, you'll see that Vagner Love won the penalty, Vagner Love set up the second goal and was involved in the third, so it's not just Robinho."

Dunga, visibly irked by most of the questions at the post-match media conference, also denied his formation had too defensive after he fielded three stoppers plus Julio Baptista in midfield.

"The whole idea was to make the team more attack-minded. Just because you field three forwards, it doesn't mean you have an attacking team and fielding three stoppers doesn't make the team defensive.

"We never played for a draw. We scored the first goal and were still trying to score goals in the 88th minute.

However, he admitted his side had made a sluggish start.

"We didn't really get going until the last 20 minutes of the first half," he said.

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