Japan misplaced 3-1 to Croatia in a penalty shoot-out on the FIFA World Cup on Monday after the regulation time within the round-of-16 match noticed the groups ending at 1-1. Mario Pasalic struck the profitable penalty to ship Croatia by means of after Ivan Perisic had pulled Croatia stage within the fifty fifth minute of regular time following Daizen Maeda’s opener for Japan simply earlier than the break. Japan, who in any other case had an excellent match as they defeated soccer giants like Germany and Spain within the group stage, didn’t dwell as much as the expectations as they missed three penalties on the finish to lose the sport.
The loss noticed Japan’s bid to achieve the final eight for the primary time of their historical past coming to a crushing finish. The gamers and the followers of the facet failed it onerous to regulate their feelings. They had been all teary-eyed after the ultimate results of the sport.

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Croatia now face Brazil within the final eight.

Talking about five-time champions Brazil, Neymar returned from harm to assist encourage the facet to a 4-1 victory over South Korea on Monday because the favourites cruised by means of to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. The world’s most costly participant had sat out his workforce’s final two matches with a sprained ankle suffered of their first recreation in Qatar, a 2-0 win over Serbia. But he got here again for this last-16 tie as Tite’s workforce clicked into gear and delivered an ominous message to their rivals, at the least earlier than easing off within the second half. Vinicius Junior opened the scoring inside seven minutes earlier than Neymar added one other from the penalty spot to maneuver to 76 objectives for his nation, leaving him only one away from equalling Pele‘s all-time document tally.

(With AFP inputs)

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