World Cup 2018 Live Updates: Belgium knocks Brazil out of World Cup

Brazil now has been eliminated by an European side in each of the last four World Cups. (Itlay in 2006, Netherlands in 2010, Germany in 2014 and Belgium in 2018)

Brazil are out of the World Cup, Belgium are into the semi-finals

I say it again the whistle has blown

95: The corner comes to nothing And the whistle blows

93: Douglas Costa runs past Vertonghen and plays the ball to Mehnat whose shot is brilliantly saved BY Courtois. Fingertip save 

92: Hazard is fouled again by Miranda as he breakson a counter attack

91: Neymar once again goes down in the box VAR checks it and declines a penalty

5 minutes to be added

90: Yellow card for Fagner. He pulls Hazard down after Belgium breakthrough on a counter

89: Costa goes last Vertonghen like he isn’t there and plays it to Neymar, but Belgium clears.

87: Lukaku off for Tielemans

Second substitution for Belgium

86:Fernandinho gets into the referee’s boo for his tackle on Hazard 

84: Brazil counter through Neymar who finds Countinho  but he places the  ball nowhere

83: Chadli after an impressive performance goes off fir Thomas Vermaelen who will shift in between Kompany and Vertonghen

Belgium with a double substitution

81: Augusto again…. Oh he was alone there open and unguarded should have score after Coutinho finds him again. But his shot is out of target

80: The corner amounts to nothing and Belgium attacks through Hazard who fails to pass toba teammate

12 minutes remain on the clock and  Brazil have a corner

Renato Augusto heads in a perfect Coutinho ball and Brazil the back into the game

Finally a goalll for Brazil!!!!

75: Hazard misses a de Bruyne pass and Brazil attacks through Douglas Costa, whose cross is cleared away

73: Renato Augusto replaces Paulinho

Brazil bring on their third and final substitution

Meunier will miss the next match.

70: Yellow card for Thomas Meunier he had deliberately pulled Neymar down

69: Romelu Lukaku races past Miranda on the left flank but take a touch to manu and Brazil has a free-kick

How good has Nacer Chadli been, dispossessing Fernandinho for the umpteenth time. Great decision from Martinez to play him instead the regular Carrasco.

63: Costa runs into the box and Courtois sticks out his arms and parries it to the centre of the box. It falls awkwardly for Paulinho and Belgium see it clear before he can get a shot away.

61: Chadli does brilliantly to escape from Fernandinho and finds de Bruyne who lays the ball down for Hazard. Hisbshotbis just inches wide and Brazil survives

59: Substitution Gabriel Jesus is taken off for Douglas Costa 

It has been checked and reference waves play on

55: Oh!!! Jesus.. he nutmegs Vertonghen but then goes down into a challenge by Kompany… Brazil asks for a VAR

53: Paulinho breaks into the box but his effort is kept out by Courtois

52: Neymar goes down inside the Belgium box once again untouched

51: Marcelo dinks past Chadli and sends in a low cross but no yellow shirts are present inside the Belgium box

There we go that’s the first booking of the match

Alderweireld is booked for pulling Paulinho down 

47: Hazard is fouled by  Paulinho and Belgium have a free-kick

46: Firmino replaces Willian

Brazil with their first substitution 

The second half begins…

No team had won a World Cup game after trailing by two or more goals at half-time.

The last time Brazil bounced back from being 0-2 down and won a match at the World Cup was back in 1938 against Sweden

It’s half-time at the Kazan Arena and as things stand the last remaining bite of South America might as well be returning home.  Belgium leads 2-0 at half-time.

45+1: Neymar’s shot is deflected out for a corner, the corner amounts to nothing and the referee blows his whistle.

1 minute added on

45: Neymar goes down in the Belgium box under challenge from Meunier but the referee waves play-on

The veteran has some moves in his kitty

41: Nearly again…. Kompany with a cheeky backheel but Alison holds onto the ball

40: Belgium earns a free-kick after Paulinho shoves de Bruyne, his free-kick is parried out by Alison.

38: Back to back corners for Brazil but they cannot beat the Chelsea man and a trio of EPL defenders.

33: Neymar is cleared to the floor by the giant Fellaini

This is the first time Brazil has conceded two goals who ka ke in how many years..

⚽ Fellaini clears the corner and the ball falls for Lukaku, who races past the entire Brazilian defence. He finds De Bruyne and the No. 7 scores with a beauty well past Alisom Becker.

Goaaaaalllllll Belgium score again 

30: the ball falls to Fernandinho behosh shot is blocked. It reaches Neymar whose shot is deflected for a corner.

29: William stands over a free-kick from the right

Neymar is back on the field after going out to fit his boot

25: Marcelo with a low shot that is saved by Courtois and Belgium attack.

22: Now de Bruyne with lots of space. He finds Lukaku whose cheeky nutmeg of Marcelo is clears by Miranda for a corner. It amounts to nothing

21: Hazard goes on a run and skids past Fernandinho before passing the ball to Meunier whose cross is cleared by Miranda.

18: Neymar is stopped by Meunier and the ball falls for Coutinho who tries one of his signature shots but is straight at Courtois

Germany had scored inside the 11 minutes in their 7-1 drubbing of the South Americans… Is another such on the cards today?? Or will Brazil bounce back

Hazard’s corner is headed into goal by Vincent Kompany. It takes Fernandinho’s head and elbow into the goal.

⚽⚽ Fernandinho with an own goal!! No. 11 own goal this World Cup

Goalllll!! Belgium scores the Brazilian hearts are broken.

13: de Bruyne finds Fellaini with a peach of a ball but the tall mideo hits a wayward shot, it is a corner though.

It has been an end to end game until now.

11: Ohh!! Another corner and Paulinho with an open chance but he misses his shot

9: Neymar’s corner dips and falls for Thiago Silva at the near post but he scuffs the chance and the ball hits the post before Courtois takes it down

8: Coutinho picks out Marcelo whose cross is deflected out for a corner

7: Fellaini fouls neymar and is cautioned by the referee

6: Fellaini picks out de Bruyne, whose cross to Meunier is cleared

4: Neymar’s cross is straight at Thibaut Courtois

3: some nervy touches inside the Belgian box but Toby Alderweireld clears.

2: De Bruyne with an early shot, out and wide though

The opening whistle blows… The match has officially begun

Both Nacer Chadli and Mauro Fellaini are back in the starting line-up and that means Kevin de Bruyne goes back to his natural position on the right.

Brazil in their traditional yellow and Belgium in Reds… the ‘Red Devils’

Both the teams are out now, the game begins in two minutes…..

But this is Belgium’s golden generation can they avenge the defeat of their predecessors??

The only time both these sides met in a World Cup was in the round of 16 in 2002, Brazil won 2-0 enroute to winning the tournament that year.

Brazil are playing a World Cup quarter-final for the seventh successive time.

Brazil have been knocked out of World Cup by an European opposition in each of the three tournaments ( vs Italy in 2006, Netherlands in 2010 and Germany in 2014)

BRA XI: Alisson; Fagner, Silva, Miranda, Marcelo; Paulinho, Fernandinho, Coutinho; Willian, Gabriel Jesus, Neymar.

BEL XI: Courtois; Alderweireld, Kompany, Vertonghen; Meunier, Fellaini, Witsel, Chadli; De Bruyne, Hazard; Lukaku

The line-ups are out 

You can call it the align of stars… So many if then coming together. It promises to be a World Cup classic

Ohh!! what a match it promises to be??

Hello!! and welcome to the live coverage of the second quarter-final between Brazil and Belgium.