PSG’s ’10’ was one of the most affected by an elimination that guarantees Brazil equaling its longest period without a World Cup
Croatia have played extra time in nine of their last 10 ties
The heroico Livakovic he ran like crazy, playing with his happy companions, who couldn’t quite catch up with him in the improvised catch seconds after the post spat the definitive launch of Marquinhos. In the meantime, the brazilian center back he remained on his knees on the penalty spot, hands in front feeling the cruelty of the grass, in a pose of praying to Allah that the elimination of Brazil wasn’t real.
The Croats dodged the living representation of the Brazilian corpse, while in the distance tears began to flow in all corners of the Education Cityon the field and in the stands, except for that small redoubt of hundreds of Croatians piled up around the goal opposite the one chosen for the batch.
Pele’s record
Neymar, destined to take a fifth penalty that was never executed, sobbed like no other, ‘O Rei’ naked, consoled by Dani Alves and Thiago Silva, who acted as veterans drying the faces of their inconsolable teammates. But none like ‘Ney’, broken the day history had placed him at the level of Pelé, tied his scoring record with the five-time champion’s shirt (77, although in Brazil they award 95 to the triple world champion), with somewhat supersonicone of the best of this World Cup.
An alleged passport to Olympus that Croatia, by profession generator of other people’s nightmaresended up transforming into the most painful of emotional collapses.
The defeat embarks Brazil on the longest streak in history between title and title. It is already guaranteed to equalize the 24 years that passed between 1970 and 1994 and within a four-year period it will have the pressure of extending it to the 28 that elapsed between the first edition of 1930 and its first title in 1958, with a World War and two suspended editions in between. And Neymar, who will then be 34 years old, will surely have the weight of leading a new attempt. Or not. “It seems like a nightmare. I do not close the doors to the selection, I’m not saying 100% either. that I am going to return”, said this Friday.
“Sore defeat, but at peace with myself. End of cycle”
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“It was in our hands and it got away from us. Now it’s hard to find words, we can only raise our heads and move on. life must go on“, still hotly analyzed Casemiro, one of the authoritative voices of the Brazilian locker room, like captain Thiago Silva: “It hurts a lot to fail such an important goal. I may never have this opportunity again”. Who will not have it will be Titewho confirmed what he had said a long time ago, that he would leave the team after this World Cup: “I am not a man of two words.”
“Our faith is enormous”, claimed Modric, captain of a team that has taken nine of its last ten knockout matches in World Cups and Euro Cups to extra time. Only the final of Russia 2018 against France breaks the perfection of the statistics in the last 15 years. History awaits you again in just a few days.