The duels between the South Americans Brazil, again with Neymar, and Argentina, with Lionel Messi, and the Europeans Croatia and the Netherlands, respectively, illustrate this Friday’s program of the quarter-finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The Brazilians, five times world champions, are looking for their 12th presence in the semi-finals of the World Cups, after having imposed themselves, with authority, on South Korea, from Paulo Bento (4-1), in the ‘quarters’, already with Neymar recovered from injury.
Ahead, the ‘canarinha’ selection will face Croatia, finalist defeated in 2018, which, under the ‘baton’ of Modric, is for the third time in this phase of the competition, after the third place in 1998, after a suffered journey, with with only one triumph, against Canada, by 4-1, and the elimination of Japan, on penalties (3-1, after the 1-1 equality), moment in which Livakovic ‘shone’ by defending three Japanese kicks.
The match between Brazil and Croatia is scheduled for 6 pm local time (3 pm in Lisbon), at the Education City Stadium, and will be refereed by the Englishman Michael Oliver, in what will be the third match between the two teams in World Cups, after the two ‘canarinho’ triumphs, in the group stages of the 2006 and 2014 competitions.
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