{"id":1263643,"date":"2022-12-09T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/09\/brazil-out-of-world-cup-as-croatia-win-on-penalties\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:04:11","slug":"brazil-out-of-world-cup-as-croatia-win-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/09\/brazil-out-of-world-cup-as-croatia-win-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil out of World Cup as Croatia win on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/skynews-dominik-livakovic-croatia_5991599-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"skynews-dominik-livakovic-croatia_5991599\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Tournament favourites Brazil were knocked out of the World Cup on penalties as Croatia kept their nerve to edge through to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Croatia, beaten finalists four years ago, scored with all four of their spot-kicks as Rodrygo \u2013 taking his team\u2019s first kick \u2013 was denied by the brilliant Dominik Livakovic and Marquinhos\u2019 crucial fourth effort struck the post.<\/p>\n<p>As the ball hit the foot of the woodwork and bounced away, Croatia\u2019s team sprinted to celebrate with their goalkeeper, while the Brazil players hit the turf, knowing their dream of a sixth crown had come to an end.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>After an engrossing 90 minutes, Tite\u2019s men thought they had won it in extra time when Neymar scored a thumping effort to\u00a0equal Brazil\u2019s \u2018official\u2019 men\u2019s goalscoring record.<\/p>\n<p>But substitute Bruno Petkovic had other ideas, stroking in a 116th-minute equaliser with Croatia\u2019s first shot on target in the match to take the game to the nerve-shredding shootout.<\/p>\n<p>And it was the European side who emerged victorious once more, having done so by the same method against Japan in the last 16, to set up a semi-final meeting with the Netherlands or Argentina on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"fud8L0BNCdA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Stars: Kwesi Nyantakyi advices young players to work hard (9-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fud8L0BNCdA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tournament favourites Brazil were knocked out of the World Cup on penalties as Croatia kept their nerve to edge through to the semi-finals. Croatia, beaten finalists four years ago, scored with all four of their spot-kicks as Rodrygo \u2013 taking his team\u2019s first kick \u2013 was denied by the brilliant Dominik Livakovic and Marquinhos\u2019 crucial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5625,29244,262,2923,309,784],"class_list":{"0":"post-1263643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-croatia","10":"tag-cup","11":"tag-penalties","12":"tag-win","13":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}