"Samba" was deposited from the 8th round in the strongest surprises of the Qatar World Cup

Croatia stuns Brazil with "lucky kicks"

• A great joy for the Croatian players after eliminating Brazil on penalties in the quarter-finals yesterday.

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• Luka Modric continues to make history with Croatia.

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• Marquinhos missed a decisive penalty kick for Brazil, and caused the equalizing goal for Croatia.

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The Croatian national team qualified for the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, after its victory yesterday over the Brazilian national team 4/2 on penalties during the match that brought them together at the Education City Stadium in the Qatari city of Al-Rayyan, in the quarter-finals.

The original time of the match ended in a goalless draw, so they played two additional periods, during which they tied 1/1.

The Brazilian national team advanced with a goal scored by Neymar in the first minute of extra time for the first extra half, before the Croatian national team equalized through Bruno Petkovic in the 117th minute.

With specialization, Croatia does not waste much penalty shootouts, as it previously knocked out old teams on its way to the 2018 World Cup Russia final, and in the current World Cup, it repeated the same thing, beating Japan on penalties on its way to the quarter-finals, then Brazil yesterday.

And at the “Education City” stadium, and in the presence of 43,000 fans, the original time of the match ended in a negative draw, so the two teams went into extra time, in which star Neymar scored the goal of progress, before equalizing the result for Croatia in the last minutes of the second extra half, Bruno Petkovic, and caused the goal Brazilian defender Marquinhos who accidentally changed the direction of the ball.

The Croatian national team succeeded in breaking its knot against its Brazilian counterpart, who has won the World Cup with five titles, as the victory was the first for Croatia over Brazil in the history of their confrontations.

And four previous confrontations had brought together Croatia and Brazil, which witnessed one draw and three victories for Brazil, including their first match in the 2006 World Cup when Brazil won 1-0, and their first match also in the 2014 World Cup and ended with a 3-1 victory for Brazil, and Neymar scored two goals in the first appearance in the World Cup.

And pushed Zlatko Dalic, the coach of the Croatian national team, with a starting line-up that included goalkeeper Dominik Levakovic, Josep Juranovic, Diane Lovren, Josko Gvardiol, Borna Sosa, Luka Modric, Marcelo Brozovic, Mateo Kovacic, Mario Pasalic, Andrej Kramaric and Ivan Perisic.

While Tite pushed the coach of the Brazilian national team with a starting line-up that included goalkeeper Alisson, Eder Militao, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, Danilo, Lucas Paqueta, Casemiro, Rafinha, Neymar, Vinicius Junior and Richarlison.

After an original time that ended in a goalless draw, the "Samba" attempts resulted in him scoring the lead goal in the first minute of calculated time instead of lost for the first extra half, when Neymar singled Levakovic's goal, dribbled him and put the ball into the net, then the whistle blew at the end of the first extra half.

Just three minutes before the end of the second extra period, the Croatian national team succeeded in scoring the equalizer through Bruno Petkovic, who received a cross pass from his teammate Mislav Orsic, to shoot it past goalkeeper Alison Becker, scoring the equalizer.

The rest of the minutes of the second extra half did not witness anything new, so the referee blew the final whistle with a 1/1 draw, and a penalty kick was resorted to.

He scored for the Brazilian national team, Casemiro and Pedro Guilherme, while Rodrigo (saved by the goalkeeper) and Marquinhos (in the post) missed.

He scored for the Croatian national team, Nikola Vlasic, Lovro Mager, Luka Modric and Mislav Orsic.

 Croatia qualified for the 8th round, then to the 4th round in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, with a penalty shootout, at the expense of Japan and Brazil.

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