World Soccer

QUARTER-FINALS

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 3PM

CROATIA (0) 1

(Petkovic 117)

BRAZIL (0) 1

(Neymar 105)

After Extra-Time; 0-0 at 90 mins; Croatia win 4-2 on penalties

Education City Stadium, Al Rayyan Att: 43,893 Ref: Oliver (Eng)

CROATIA Livakovic; Juranovic, Lovren, Gvardiol, Sosa (Budimir110); Modric, Brozovic (Orsic114), Kovacic (Majer105); Pasalic (Vlasic 72), Kramaric (Petkovic 72), Perisic.

Brozovic, Petkovic

BRAZIL Alisson; Militao (Alex Sandro105), Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, Danilo; Paqueta (Fred105), Casemiro; Raphinha (Antony 56), Neymar, Vinicius Junior (Rodrygo 64); Richarlison (Pedro 84).

Danilo, Casemiro, Marquinhos

GOALS

0-1 Neymar plays one-twos with Rodrygo and Lucas Paqueta before rounding Croatia keeper Dominik Livakovic and scooping the ball into the roof of the net.

1-1 Luka Modric finds Mislav Orsic in space on the left, and the latter crosses low for sub Bruno Petkovic to score with a deflected right-foot shot.

BRAZIL’S WC DREAM OVER

Togetherness, grit

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