Brazil Sent Packing As Croatia Proceeds To Semi Finals

The World Cup of shocks continued on Friday as wily Croatia dumped favourites Brazil out on penalties.


Brazil are gone, out of the World Cup that they always seemed so likely to win. They were favourites in this game and likely would have been in all of the ones to come. That didn't matter to Croatia as they fought harder than before to eliminate the 5 times winners.

If this were David and Goliath, and make no mistake, Brazil are a Goliath, then a penalty shootout is seemingly Croatia's rock, the great equaliser. They pushed the mighty Selecao to penalties and took over from there, with Rodrygo's miss setting the tone for his side's collapse.

And that's what it will feel like: a collapse. They seemingly had this settled thanks to Neymar , who had scored a career-defining goal in extra time.

Bruno Petkovic equalised in the 116th minute and, from there, it all unraveled for Brazil, both the game and the World Cup.

Croatia will play Argentina in the semi finals after they eliminated Netherlands in the shoot out.

Argentina were ahead 2-0 but the Dutch came back to level it 2-2 to take it to the penalty.

Fans were left enthralled by scenes in Qatar as Argentina snuck into the World Cup semi-final with a penalty-shootout win over the Netherlands.

Things were initially all going to plan for Lionel Messi and Co as they took a 1-0 lead in at half time after the 35-year-old setup Nahuel Molina with a brilliant assist.

The PSG star then doubled his side's lead in the 73rd minute via the penalty spot – taking his World Cup tally to ten goals in total, levelling Gabriel Batistuta – and it looked as though that would be enough to see Argentina through.

However, the Dutch had other ideas and Wout Weghorst came off the bench to pull one back in the 83rd minute, before then scoring an incredible equaliser in the 11th minute of injury time.


The game went into extra time but the two teams could not be divided, and so it had to be settled with penalties. Emi Martinez saved the first two Dutch spot kicks and with Enzo Fernandez being the only Argentine to miss, his country went through with Lautaro Martinez sealing the win.

Today's matches (Quarter Finals)

Portugal vs Morocco at 6pm EAT.

England vs France at 10pm EAT.



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