The Asians faced the face of the World Cup. With a great concentration and effort, they managed to neutralize De Bruyne, Hazard, and Lukaku, the powerful people of the "red devils."
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Easily, the terrain began to lean towards Kawashima's gate. Lukaku could not finish from two meters, Kompany preferred to recruit for no one, although he could have shot.
And if you do not "kill" your opponent when you have the opportunity, he does not let you live. When everyone paused with a 0-0 break, Nagatomo sent an anemic balloon to the goal, easily deflected by Osako, and Courtois was about to get him out of the net.
At the really dangerous Asian first counterattack, Vertonghen attacked Haraguchi anemically, as though he could not believe that the Japanese could. It was the spark that had to be done for the party to "explode."
Hazard replied with a bar. The goal fell in the other gate: Inui. 0-2! Who would have thought ?! But this new blow finally awakened the Belgians. And after Lukaku's "head" "next door," Vertonghen returned hope with a well-placed "head" for Fellaini to score a few minutes later: 2-2.
The final was the goalkeepers. Chadli and Lukaku could not defeat Kawashima, while Courtois had a fantastic reflex to Inui's "torpedo". But when there were a few seconds of regular time, the same Chadli did not forgive: 3-2. And Belgium is in "quarters," where Neymar is waiting!
The only Asian teams that played in World Quarters are North Korea in 1966 and South Korea in 2002.
Belgium is the first team in the last 48 years to come back and qualify after being led by a two-goal margin. Before the match today, it happened with East Germany in 1970 in front of England.
Belgium is the only team present in a World for which they scored two reserves in an elimination match.
Belgium has not lost since September 1, 2016, 0-1 with Spain. Since then he has 18 wins and 5 draws.