Twitter reacts as Croatia dump Brazil out of the World Cup

Brazil’s hopes of World Cup glory have been extinguished as they fell to Croatia within the quarter-final.

One of many favourites to go all the way in which, Brazil misplaced out on penalties and despatched shockwaves around the globe with their failure to advance.

Croatia weren’t fearful of Brazil early on and did their greatest to manage possession and dictate the tempo of the sport, with Neymar discovering it significantly arduous to evade the European aspect’s press.

Brazil had their odd moments of high quality within the first half, however in fact, it was nearly all Croatia.

It was an excellent tactical battle however, when it comes to motion in entrance of aim, there is no denying the primary half was missing considerably.

Certainly, the perfect particular person spotlight was in all probability Josip Juranovic out-pacing Vinicius Junior.

Brazil turned issues up after the break and had a couple of half-chances of their very own, with Neymar twice discovering himself in the correct spots however failing to profit from his alternatives.

The second of these probabilities was nicely saved out by Dominik Livakovic, though replays confirmed the PSG man did not actually join with the ball as he would have appreciated.

Livakovic continued to impress, flying off his line to dam from Lucas Paqueta as he maintained his spectacular type this event.

The Twitter scouts have been totally impressed.

Brazil saved pushing however could not discover the standard wanted to get themselves forward, so to further time we went.

Most of their efforts have been led by Antony, who supplied an enormous spark following his second-half introduction.

It was not Antony who made the breakthrough, nonetheless.

It was Neymar, who unleashed an excellent solo run which ended with him rounding Livakovic, firing into the roof of the web and sending the followers into raptures.

The sport appeared accomplished, however no person informed Croatia.

Now compelled to come back ahead and search for a aim, it was substitute Bruno Petkovic who fired dwelling with just some minutes remaining to ship the sport to penalties.

Penalties kicked off with a aim from Nikola Vlasic and a save from the very good Livakovic.

Croatia scored their subsequent three and their place within the semi-final was booked as Marquinhos’ effort cannoned again off the put up.

The pre-tournament favourites are out.