Gabriel Jesus was on target as Brazil beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 in Friday's international friendly.Jesus finally opened the scoring shortly before the break and Alex Sandro sealed a routine, if uninspiring, win with a header deep into stoppage-time (90+6).
Brazil had two further efforts ruled out for offside, while Saudi goalkeeper Mohammed Al-Owais was sent off six minutes from time after a video review showed he touched the ball with his hand out of his box.
Brazil began with Philippe Coutinho, Jesus and Neymar in a three-pronged attack but it took them until the half-hour mark to really trouble their hosts, Al-Owais making a fine acrobatic save to palm Jesus' header over the crossbar.The City striker was not to be denied, however, and he opened the scoring after 44 minutes when he raced onto Neymar's through ball and found the back of the net.
The match in Riyadh was the first of two games in Saudi Arabia for Brazil as they take on rivals Argentina on Tuesday in Jeddah.
