FIFA World Cup 2018: Brazil's exit is 'saddest moment' of my career, says Neymar
Football | July 08, 2018 17:06 ISTThe five-time world champions exited football's showpiece event after a 1-2 quarter-final loss to Belgium on Friday.
The five-time world champions exited football's showpiece event after a 1-2 quarter-final loss to Belgium on Friday.
Much like the end of the Durga Puja festival, the buzz in tea stalls, local sweet shops and fast food joints went missing.
Belgium overcame five-time world champions Brazil 2-1 on Friday to book their place in the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup only for the second time after a gap of 32 years.
Belgium is trying to reach the World Cup semifinals for the first time since 1986.
Danilo suffered a ligament injury in his left ankle during the team's training session in Kazan, a day before Brazil plays Belgium in the quarterfinals.
The first match features a number of teammates on their professional clubs facing off against each other when France takes on Uruguay.
Belgium is the competition's top scorer with 12 in its four games, with the goals spread around the team. Lukaku has four but seven of his teammates have scored, too.
The green and yellow of Brazil and white and blue of Argentina are seen fluttering in great numbers in the eastern metropolis.
Serbia finished third with three points and are eliminated alongside Costa Rica.
Brazil opened the tournament with a 1-1 draw against Switzerland, and then got two injury-time goals to pull out a 2-0 victory over Costa Rica.
Brazil have no margin for error against Costa Rica, who won their group at the last World Cup and reached the quarterfinals.
Brazil said it is asking FIFA to clarify if the system was used during two key second-half decisions that went against the five-time world champion in the 1-1 opening draw on Sunday.
Neymar, Philippe Coutinho and Gabriel Jesus were on target as Brazil cruised past Austria with some fancy footwork.
Neymar had replaced midfielder Fernandinho at halftime with the score at 0-0 and needed less than 25 minutes to make his mark and raise hopes of Brazilian fans for the World Cup.
Neymar was back in training to give Brazilian team a big boost ahead of the upcoming World Cup. He has been sidelined since February after having surgery on his right foot.
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Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar had surgery in March on a cracked fifth metatarsal in his right foot.
Gabriel Jesus' first-half header settled the friendly and provided his side with a welcome confidence boost some three months before the World Cup.
In freezing temperatures at Moscow's vast Luzhniki arena, the Brazilians worked hard to break down Russia's deep defense and netted in three goals in 13 minutes early in the second half.
Reports suggest that Neymar contacted the Barcelona officials when PSG were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 by Real Madrid.
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