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FIFA World Cup: Brazil reached quarter-finals with Neymar’s amazing, South Korea out of World Cup – fifa world cup 2022 brazil vs south korea match report neymar football wc quarterfinal croatia

FIFA World Cup: Brazil reached quarter-finals with Neymar’s amazing, South Korea out of World Cup – fifa world cup 2022 brazil vs south korea match report neymar football wc quarterfinal croatia
FIFA World Cup: Brazil reached quarter-finals with Neymar’s amazing, South Korea out of World Cup – fifa world cup 2022 brazil vs south korea match report neymar football wc quarterfinal croatia

The Brazilian team has reached the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2022. Brazil defeated South Korea 4-1 in a pre-quarterfinal match played at Stadium 974 late on Monday (06 December). With this victory, Brazil has made it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the eighth consecutive time and overall for the 17th time. Now Brazil will face last time’s runner-up Croatia in the quarter-finals.

The hero of Brazil’s victory was Neymar, who scored a goal and an assist. Neymar was out of the last two matches due to injury. Apart from Neymar, Vinicius Junior, Richarlison and Lucas Paqueta were also successful in scoring goals for Brazil. By the way, this was Neymar’s 76th goal for Brazil and he is now just two steps away from becoming the highest goalscorer for his country. Pele scored the most goals (77) for Brazil.

From the beginning of the match, Brazil kept the pressure on South Korea. As a result, the Brazilian team went ahead 1-0 in the 7th minute of the game when Vinicius converted Rafinha’s cross into the goal. Six minutes later, Neymar scored a penalty kick to give the Brazilian team a 2-0 lead. Brazil got the penalty because Richardson was brought down inside the penalty area by Jung Woo-young.

Brazil’s scoring spree continued and Richarlison converted a fine pass from Thiago Silva to put the five-time champions 3-0 ahead in the 29th minute. Then seven minutes later, Lucas Paqueta scored and pushed South Korea completely on the backfoot. After this there was no other goal in the first half.

Korea scored a goal in the second half

Being ahead 4-0, the Brazilian team played quite relaxed in the second half. Although Brazil did create some chances, but Korean goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu failed them. South Korea played better than the first half and made a lot of attacks. He also got the benefit of this when Paik Seung-ho scored the first goal for the team in the 76th minute. Due to this goal, the Korean team was able to reduce the margin of defeat slightly.

Asian teams’ journey ends

With the defeat of South Korea, the journey of Asian teams (AFC) in the Football World Cup has ended. Earlier, Japan and Australia also had to face defeat in the pre-quarterfinals. Where Croatia defeated Japan 3-1 in the penalty shootout. And Australia was defeated 2-0 by Argentina. Apart from this, the teams of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar could not progress beyond the group-stage.


The article is in Hindi

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