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Well, that was a special game. Belgium were outstanding in attack in the first half, and by the end of the second half pretty resolute in defence as well. Brazil will point to the penalty non-decision, and it may well be that Vincent Kompany got away with clipping Neymar there. On another day, with another referee, and other folks in the VAR booth ... but this was Belgium’s moment, and on balance they were deserved winners. They reach the World Cup semi-finals for only the second time: France await in St Petersburg on Tuesday. As for Brazil, the wait for World Cup number six will now stretch to 20 years at least. Thanks for reading. Nighty night, and sweet dreams, wherever you are.
And now a chat with Kevin De Bruyne. “It is not easy to play against Brazil, they are such a wonderful team. But I think the power we have as a team we showed today. Especially the first half, we were magnificent. We took the advantage. They changed tactically and it was difficult, but even then we created some chances. And after their goal it was a character test, and we showed the world what we are capable of.”
Thibaut Courtois talks ... and clears up the Jordan Pickford thing. “This is incredible. This team wants to win every game. Against England, a lot of people said it was better to lose than to draw, but we wanted to win every game. We chose maybe the hardest part [of the draw] but we have confidence in our team. I have been unfairly criticised a lot this year. Today I have proved who I am and why I am here. I’m very happy with it. I was ready for Neymar and I pulled a great save I think. There was a bit of luck with the post, but it was our day today. We have a difficult team to face in France ... And can I say one more thing? This thing about Jordan [Pickford] ... I want to clarify it because I heard a lot of stuff. I never mocked his height, I want to make that clear, because I would never mock the height of a goalkeeper. He is a great goalkeeper who proved that this year. I only said maybe I would have saved it because I am 15 centimetres taller, but I never mocked his height because I know he is a great goalkeeper.”
And now a chance to rate everyone’s performance.
Here’s our on-the-whistle match report.
Belgium coach Roberto Martinez speaks! “There were incredible hearts out there. Sometimes you have to accept that Brazil have so much finesse and quality that they’re going to break you down. But we didn’t accept it. Not for one minute did they give up. This was something special. These boys deserve to be very special people back in Belgium. I hope everybody back in Belgium is very proud. The execution of the tactics was magnificent. In two days they changed their tactical disposition, I couldn’t be prouder. We cannot let people down. We need to enjoy beating Brazil in the knockout phase, treasure it, and pass it down the generations. But we need more energy for the next game. We will be as good as we can be in the semi-final.”
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All the Belgian players fall into each other’s arms. A mixture of excitement, relief and plain old exhaustion. Meanwhile there’s a haunted look on the faces of Neymar and Coutinho. I suppose this qualifies as a shock, sort of, given the respective histories and size of these two footballing nations. But a reminder that while Brazil are ranked as the second-best team in the world right now, Belgium are number three. They were magnificent in attack during the first half ... and in that second period, finally demonstrated that they can defend when the going gets tough, too. They’ve proved they could be worthy winners of the World Cup. Can France, England, Sweden, Croatia or Russia stop them?
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FULL TIME: Brazil 1-2 Belgium
The favourites are out! They’ve been sent packing by Belgium, who have reached their second World Cup semi-final. They’ll play France on Tuesday. What a match that was!
90 min +5: Brazil are heading out. De Bruyne meanders down the right and eventually wins a corner. This is surely over.
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90 min +4: Douglas Costa comes in from the right. He slips the ball across the face of the box for Neymar, who opens his body and looks to curl one into the top right. It’s heading in ... whereupon Courtois, at full stretch, fingertips it over the bar! What a save! The resulting, desperate corner comes to nothing.
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90 min +2: Anyway, that was the first of five added minutes. And now the second has elapsed too. Hazard draws a foul from Miranda and celebrates it like he would a goal. He knows how close Belgium are to a semi-final with France.
90 min +1: Neymar challenges for a Douglas Costa cross from the right. He’s touched lightly on the back by Meunier and goes down. He wants a penalty. VAR has a look, but quickly decides no. There was contact, but it was a very light brush. Some payback for the Wilmots decision in 2002?
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90 min: Hazard spins on a sixpence and tears off into space. Fagner takes a yellow card to stop the breakaway.
89 min: Marcelo crosses from the left. But Firmino can’t get his head on it. Vermaelen clears.
88 min: Neymar spins and breaks into the Belgian box. For a second it looks like he’ll work space for a shot, but Alderweireld blocks his road. Neymar runs it out of play for a goal kick. Frustration written all across his face.
87 min: Belgium replace the hard-running Lukaku with the defensively minded Tielemans.
85 min: Fernandinho is booked for tripping Hazard from behind, the Belgian having swanned past him in style.
84 min: Firmino comes racing down the middle, then springs Neymar free down the left. It’s a gorgeous pass. Neymar glides into the area, and pulls one back to tee up the in-rushing Coutinho. He’s got to get his shot on target at least, but shanks an awful effort miles right. He falls to the ground in despair, his face buried in his hands.
82 min: Chadli goes down, knackered, and takes an age to leave the field. He’s eventually replaced by Vermaelen, with Belgium desperately trying to shore things up at the back. Can they see this out?
80 min: This is wonderful end-to-end fun. Coutinho slips a pass down the middle of the park for Augusto, who pulls the trigger and sends a fierce low shot inches wide of the bottom left. Courtois was rooted to the spot; had it been on target, it was in.
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79 min: Brazil win a corner. Belgium break upfield from it. They’re four on two at one point. Hazard drifts in from the right and tries to spring De Bruyne clear down the left. But his crossfield pass is easily intercepted by Douglas Costa.
78 min: Neymar makes good down the left and flicks the ball into the area for Firmino. He’s got his back to goal, ten yeards out, level with the left-hand post. Firmino spins and sends a full-power rising blast inches away from the top-left corner. Just too high. Neymar wanted the return pass, but Firmino was this close to levelling things up! It was a fine effort.
77 min: Well that’s changed the mood. The Brazil fans had understandably fallen quiet, but that superb Coutinho pass, and Augusto’s equally impressive finish, has taken the lid off this stadium!
GOAL! Brazil 1-2 Belgium (Augusto 76)
Neymar has a shot. Courtois saves. Brazil come again. Coutinho, 30 yards out, down the inside-left channel, spots Augusto alone in the area. He loops a gorgeous, perfectly weighted cross onto Augusto’s head. Augusto guides his header into the bottom right, out of Courtois’ reach. Game on!
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74 min: Brazil continue to dominate territorially, but they’re not causing Belgium too many palpitations. Douglas Costa comes in from the right and tries to flick one into the bottom left with the outside of his boot. It’s an overly fussy effort and sails harmlessly across goal and out for a goal kick.
73 min: Renato Augusto comes on for Paulinho. Tite’s last roll of the dice ... unless his side can somehow force extra time from here.
71 min: Meunier will miss the semi-final should Belgium make it. He steps across Neymar cynically, and that’s an obvious yellow card, his second of the tournament.
69 min: Lukaku burns Miranda down the right, a spectacular burst of speed. He’s free in the box ... at which point he takes a heavy touch and clanks the ball out for a goal kick. Brazil are having to commit men forward now, and there are holes at the back. More holes. New holes.
68 min: Fernandinho is down, having been accidentally clapped in the face by Witsel. As he gets some treatment, Brazil effectively take a time-out, swigging water and having a tactical pow-wow.
66 min: Brazil’s frustration bubbles to the surface as Coutinho passes the ball straight out of play down the right, in a ham-fisted effort to find Douglas Costa. A lot of frowning and muttering.
65 min: Belgium play a bit of keep-ball. It’s good game management, because we’re coming to the stage where the clock becomes their friend.
63 min: Douglas Costa dribbles into the Belgian area from the right. He shoots low and hard. Courtois parries by the right-hand post. The ball doesn’t quite break to Coutinho, who was preparing to stab home. Brazil are certainly asking questions.
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62 min: Belgium come close to a third. Brazil press, but Chadli breaks down the left, draws Fernandinho and flicks inside. De Bruyne powers goalwards, then feeds Hazard on the left. Hazard enters the area and fires a low shot across Alisson and out for a goal kick. He had Lukaku in the middle, probably the better bet. So close to sealing the deal!
60 min: Belgium can’t get out of their final third. Marcelo and Douglas Costa take turns to come at them. They’re holding on ... but only just.
58 min: Douglas Costa comes on for Jesus.
57 min: The ref’s not changing his mind. No penalty. The referee decided the evidence wasn’t crystal clear. No doubt we’ll be hearing about that if Brazil crash out.
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56 min: Jesus nutmegs Vertonghen on the right. He rounds the defender and makes for the six-yard box. Kompany slides in to meet Jesus before he can shoot, and the pair slide off the pitch. He says no penalty ... but they’re checking it on VAR.
54 min: Brazil have been better since the restart, though. Paulinho powers down the inside-right channel and nearly manages to force the ball past Courtois. But he can’t prod his shot on target, and Belgium clear.
52 min: Marcelo zips past Meunier again. The cross isn’t so good this time. Then Neymar cuts in from the left. He runs past Fellaini, then drops to the floor. He wants a penalty kick, but the referee very forcefully tells him to get up. When play finally stops, he gives Neymar a bollocking.
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51 min: Marcelo twists, then turns Meunier inside out down the left. It’s a superb dribble, and he delivers a cross to match, a low fizzer through the six-yard box that Firmino was this close to toe-poking home.
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49 min: Firmino drives at the Belgian defence and slips the ball to Neymar, who over-elaborates. The move fizzles out. Lukaku barges up the other end, down the inside-right channel. He enters the box but can’t get a shot away because Miranda is sticking to him like glue. Good luck guessing the final score of this. It surely can’t stay 0-2, can it?
47 min: The ball’s played backwards rather than hoicked into the area. It’s then dinked forward for Fellaini, whose flick-on goes nowhere. Brazil try to launch an attack, but Paulinho is cynically barged over by Alderweireld, who is booked. A scrappy start to the half.
46 min: Hazard drifts down the left and draws a foul from Paulinho. An early chance to test Brazil’s back line again. Belgium load the box. Meanwhile here’s Gregory Phillips: “At the time, the Brazil World Cup drought from 1970-1994 seemed endless (even though for me, it started in 1982 when I saw them lose to Italy in the first World Cup I remember watching). But if this result holds they’ll be looking at another break of at least 20. And yet 2002 seems like the other day.”
So we’re off again! Belgium get the ball rolling for the second half of this astonishing and entertaining quarter-final. Brazil have replaced Willian with Roberto Firmino. “Lukaku, DeBruyne and Hazard are electric together,” writes Hubert O’Hearn. “Can you imagine if they were on the same club ... what? THEY WERE? What idiot bungled that up?”
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Half-time reading:
HALF TIME: Brazil 0-2 Belgium
The scoreline of this game could be 5-0, 0-5 or 5-5. But as it panned out, it’s just 0-2. Belgium have been magnificent. Brazil have, too, in parts, but they lost their belief when that De Bruyne screamer went in. It’s going to be a heck of a second half, because the favourites Brazil need to stage the sort of comeback they’ve not managed at a World Cup since going two down against Sweden and winning 4-2 in ... 1938. Go nowhere!
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45 min +1: Neymar tears off after a long pass down the inside-left. But his shot from the edge of the box is deflected, and he’s offside anyway.
45 min: Neymar cuts in from the left, spins, and goes over in the vicinity of Meunier. He wants a penalty kick, but he’s not getting one.
44 min: Brazil probe, but don’t really press, and so don’t advance into the final third. All of a sudden, the Belgian back line looks a little more solid. There’s not much space. That surely won’t last.
42 min: Chadli’s delivery is poor, but Kompany performs an improvised backflick by the near post, and very nearly finds the bottom corner! Alisson reacts very well to gather.
41 min: De Bruyne curls one over the wall and up towards the top-left corner. Alisson tips it nervously over the crossbar. Corner.
40 min: De Bruyne presses down the inside-left channel and is shoved in the back by Paulinho. A free kick, to the left of the D. As he sets up his wall, the blood slowly drains from Alisson’s face.
39 min: Belgium come at Brazil twice in a matter of 90 seconds, the yellow shirts backpedalling in panic. Fortunately for Brazil, Lukaku and De Bruyne take turns to over-elaborate on the edge of the area with options a-plenty. Brazil are all over the show.
37 min: Neymar and Marcelo combine well down the left. The ball’s deflected goalwards, forcing Courtois to parry round the post for a corner. From which Coutinho cuts inside from the left, and sends a power curler towards the bottom right. He caught that one! But Courtois spectacularly tips round the post. Fine save! The second corner is a non-event.
35 min: Marcelo dribbles well down the left, and floats a fine cross into the centre. Jesus is all alone on the penalty spot, but his attempt to guide a header into the top right sails wide. Close, though. It’s not as though Brazil have been toothless. The scoring is surely not over. It’s surely far from over.
33 min: Hazard and Chadli skitter at speed down the left. For a second Brazil look super-light at the back again. And during that second, the mind suddenly wandered back to that first-half collapse four years ago. A third goal would have turned a sensational start into something a bit more surreal. But we’re not there yet. The Belgians confuse each other and the move breaks down.
GOAL! Brazil 0-2 Belgium (De Bruyne 31)
Neymar’s corner is easily cleared by Fellaini, and Belgium are on the break. They zip upfield en masse. Lukaku turns into space and romps down the middle. It’s a great run. He rolls a pass right to De Bruyne, who takes a stride and launches a low screamer into the bottom left! Alisson had no chance! That was a picture-book counter-attack! What a shot! And props to Lukaku, who has been sensational tonight.
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30 min: Willian’s centre is half cleared to Fernandinho, who has time to shoot from the edge of the box, but slips as he hits it. Witsel blocks. Neymar rescues the attack by winning a proper corner on the left.
29 min: Vertonghen is penalised for flicking Neymar into the air, near the right-hand corner flag. Brazil load the box. Willian will take.
28 min: This would have made some final.
26 min: More wonderful end-to-end nonsense. First Marcelo has a crack from 20 yards out on the left. Courtois parries. Belgium fly up the other end, Lukaku backheeling into space on the right and setting up a move which sees Hazard and De Bruyne sweep down the other flank. De Bruyne crosses for Fellaini, but Thiago Silva is there to flick a header away.
25 min: Paulinho, Fagner and Willian probe down the right, but can’t get past Chadli and Vertonghen. Brazil are on the front foot.
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23 min: Lukaku dribbles into the Brazilan box and nutmegs Miranda. He nearly gets round the defender to shoot, but Thiago Silva gets to the loose ball first and batters it out for a corner. The set piece leads to nothing. It’s about the first disappointing thing that’s happened in this match so far. It’s been gloriously open.
21 min: Hazard tricks his way down the left and cuts infield. There’s a lot of space in front of him. He moves into it with extreme prejudice, then slips a pass right for the rampaging Meunier, whose low cross for Lukaku is hacked away at the last by Miranda. This could end up as anything!
19 min: Coutinho does his thing: cutting in from the left and looking to shape a shot into the top right. He doesn’t quite catch this one and it dribbles through to Courtois. He had Neymar as an option, but was within his rights to shoot.
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18 min: Having said that, they’re not exactly Inter ‘65 at the back. Lukaku and Chadli run with great purpose at them on the break, and for a second it looks as though Brazil are in a heap of trouble. But the move clanks to a standstill.
17 min: Brazil knock it around for a while, not really going anywhere. But they certainly don’t look too flustered at falling behind so early. Theirs is a calm, confident look.
15 min: Brazil nearly equalise immediately, Neymar dribbling with great intent down the left. He reaches the byline and flicks low towards the near post. Jesus is there to meet it, six yards out, but can’t sort the shape of his body out in time, and doesn’t really connect properly as he swivels to shoot. Belgium again clear. They’re leading, but they could easily have conceded three goals already. This is great!
GOAL! Brazil 0-1 Belgium (Fernandinho og 13)
Hazard’s corner is whipped to the near post, and flies into the Brazilian net off Fernandinho’s right arm. That was a complete defensive shambles! There wasn’t anyone in red near him. This is going to be some game, you sense.
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12 min: De Bruyne slips a fine pass down the middle of the park for Fellaini, who can’t sort his feet out on the edge of the D. His scuffed effort is nevertheless deflected wide left for a corner. From which ...
10 min: Paulinho dribbles his way into the Belgian box. It’s very crowded and there’s no space to shoot. He’s bundled out of play by three red shirts for a corner. From which the ball drops to the same player on the penalty spot! Paulinho’s clear, but snatches at his shot, which is a real let-off for Belgium, who again clear with great relief.
8 min: Corner for Brazil on the left. It’s swung into the box in slow motion. The ball clanks off Thiago Silva’s thigh, six yards out, and loops towards the top left. But it pings off the post so very slo-o-o-owly. Belgium clear, and launch a counter, De Bruyne teeing up Hazard on the edge of the Brazil box. His shot is blocked; Chadli’s follow-up sails harmlessly wide left. This game is already shaping up to be a cracker!
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6 min: Fellaini cracks Neymar on the back of the head with his elbow. It looks accidental, and they’re all smiles after. But it was always bound to happen. Five-and-a-half minutes, that took.
5 min: After that fast end-to-end start, a slight lull as both sides stroke it around the middle awhile. Still at a fair old pace, mind. There’s a breezy, open feel to this game already.
3 min: Neymar is sent scuttling into space down the left. He looks for Jesus in the middle, but the cross is too near Courtois, who plucks it from the sky with ease.
2 min: Both teams take turns to have a feel of the ball. First Brazil, then Belgium. The Belgians launch it long, but Lukaku’s never going to get it. Goal kick. But then De Bruyne hustles Fernandinho off the ball and advances on goal. He doesn’t really catch his shot, which harmlessly bobbles wide of the left-hand post. “Well, now we know how Roberto Martinez spends his pre-match preparation time,” writes Tom Fitz-Hugh, of that wallchart. “Any correlation with his teams’ poor defences or tactical weakness is purely coincidental.”
And we’re off! Brazil get the party started as the crowd roar. “It’s a 6am kickoff here in New Zealand,” yawns John Palethorpe. “Hopefully the sun won’t have risen too high so I can see the rising streak as Fellaini puts Neymar into a low earth orbit.”
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The teams are out! Brazil wear their world-famous yellow shirts, while Belgium sport their equally glorious red with late-70s-early-80s retro pattern across the chest. “The design of Belgium’s jersey is argyle-ably the most unique of the tournament,” quips Peter Oh, who has plenty more where that come from, ladies and gentlemen. “Brazil played with composure and organisation to prevail over El Tri in the previous round, and I expect they will do the same today against Belgium and El Tree, Marouane Fellaini.” He’s here all week, try the borscht. Anyway, it’s a cracking atmosphere, soundtracked by Seven Nation Army, and we’ll be off before you know it!
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In lieu of national anthems:
♭♮♯ Forget the time / Of misunderstandings / And the time lost / Trying to know how / Forget those hours / That sometimes kill / With slaps of why / The heart of happiness / Don’t leave me / Don’t leave me / Don’t leave me / Don’t leave me ♭♮♯
♭♮♯ A stick, a stone / It’s the end of the road / It’s the rest of a stump / It’s a little alone / It’s a sliver of glass / It is life, it’s the sun / It is night, it is death / It’s a trap, it’s a gun ♭♮♯
Eighties football corner. “The first competitive match I ever went to was a Euro 88 qualifier between Ireland and Belgium in 1987,” begins Niall Mullin. “We (Ireland) got a tedious nil-nil draw against the Red Devils on our way to qualification for our first major tournament. Apart from my uncle throwing me over the turnstile as I didn’t have a ticket my main memory of the game was the class and composure of Jan Ceulemans. He could seemingly find space in a glove box and in footballing terms at least I doubt he ever drew a stupid breath. So I’ve always have a soft spot for the waffle wizards and hope they can somehow beat the Seleçao tonight.” If like Niall you too enjoy waffling on talking about football from 30 years ago, may I point you in the direction of Lee Calvert and Rob Smyth’s excellent Nessun Dorma podcast?
Brazil’s kit and caboodle. The changing rooms at the Kazan Arena are smaller and less fancy than some of the others we’ve seen at this World Cup. But there’s still plenty of wood panelling for that country-club effect, so it’s swings and roundabouts.
Belgium meanwhile have pinned up their own World Cup wallchart. That’s some mighty fine colouring-in. And Roberto’s put all his crayons back in the box after, too, like a good boy.
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Brazil make two changes to the team named against Mexico in the second round. Filipe Luis and the suspended Casemiro are replaced by Marcelo and Fernandinho.
Belgium also make two changes, responding to events against Japan. Yannick Carrasco and Dries Mertens make way for the comeback heroes Marouane Fellaini and Nacer Chadli.
The teams
Brazil: Alisson, Fagner, Thiago Silva, Miranda, Marcelo, Paulinho, Fernandinho, Willian, Coutinho, Neymar, Gabriel Jesus.
Subs: Cassio, Pedro Geromel, Filipe Luis, Douglas Costa, Renato Augusto, Marquinhos, Fred, Firmino, Taison, Ederson.
Belgium: Courtois, Alderweireld, Kompany, Vertonghen, Meunier, Fellaini, Witsel, Chadli, De Bruyne, Lukaku, Eden Hazard.
Subs: Mignolet, Vermaelen, Carrasco, Mertens, Thorgan Hazard, Tielemans, Januzaj, Dembele, Boyata, Batshuayi, Dendoncker, Casteels.
Referee: Milorad Mazic (Serbia).
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It promises to be a cloudy but warm night in Kazan. Temperatures will reach 21 of your centigrade degrees. There’ll be a 10 kilometres-per-hour wind, and the humidity level is 54%. I’ll be straight with you, I’m just killing time. Thankfully there’s some entertainment on hand. The marvellously monickered Speakeasy Ray has been wondering if Scott Walker (via Brel) had predicted Chelsea’s managerial situation this summer. He croons:
♭♮♯ My name would be Antonio
And all my bridges I would burn
And when I gave them some they’d know
I’d expect something in return ♭♮♯
Brazil have been down this road many times before. If they win tonight, the five-time champions of the world will reach the semi-final stage for the 12th time. (Easy to forget that the great humiliation of 2014 still ended with them finishing fourth. It’s all relative.) In fact, they’ve only failed to get to at least the quarter-final stage on five occasions, and one of those was in 1982, when they narrowly went out in the second group stage, which was kind of the same thing.
Belgium by contrast have only made it this far twice previously. Argentina put them out of the quarters last time round without too much fuss, but the Red Devils had more success in 1986 when the team of Enzo Scifo, Jan Ceulemans and Nico Claesen beat Spain on penalties, going on to lose to Diego Maradona in their one and only semi-final appearance.
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Preamble
Belgium played Brazil for the first time in 1963. The teams met for a friendly in Brussels; cute-cute Jacky Stockman of Anderlecht helped himself to a hat-trick in a stupid-ass 5-1 victory. There was no Pelé or Garrincha for Brazil that day, admittedly, but otherwise it had been a strong Seleção, containing several members of the team that saw off Czechoslovakia in the World Cup final ten months previously. Their beards so very long and flowing.
The Red Devils should probably have left it there. Two years later they travelled to Rio, and were skelped 5-0. This time it was Pelé’s turn to score three. (You have to wonder how the World Cup held one year later would have panned out had the P-Man not been kicked around Goodison Park like an old sock.) Anyway, Belgium and Brazil didn’t meet again for another 23 years, when Geovani of Vasco da Gama scored twice for the green-and-yellow in a 2-1 win in Antwerp.
Then the teams met for the first, and until now the only, time at a major tournament. At the 2002 World Cup, a Brazil team on their way to the trophy saw off Belgium in the second round, Rivaldo and Ronaldo the star-name scorers in a 2-0 victory. That doesn’t tell the whole story, mind: Marc Wilmots crashed a header home when the game was still goalless, but Brazil benefited from a generous decision, Wilmots having lightly shoved Roque Júnior in the back. The sort of decision you’ve seen given ... but you’ve seen them not given, right?
Anyway, that’s all water under the bridge now. So what does history teach us? That Belgium are more than capable of giving the five-time world champions a game on any given day, that’s what! That’ll surely be the case in this quarter-final, because while Brazil can call on Neymar, Willian, Philippe Coutinho, Gabriel Jesus and Bobby Firmino, the Belgians have Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Romelu Lukaku, Dries Mertens and supersub Marouane Fellaini in their ranks.
Oh yes, oh ho ho ho, ah hee hee heeee, this is a proper showdown! One very, very, very good team will be going home tonight. One very, very, very good team will be marching on to the semi-finals and a date with France. And then who knows? A potential final with Engla... ah let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. But still! It’s the business end of the World Cup! It’s the second best team in the world according to the official rankings! Playing the third! In the quarter finals! Of the World Cup! Help! Fever! Doctor! It’s on!
Kick off: 7pm BST, 9pm at the Kazan Arena in Kazan.
