Penalty shootout sends Brazil into World Cup quarter-finals

According to the situation at this World Cup, in the 1/8 finals there were pairs of teams, obviously in all hands presented only as a favorite and an outsider. Although the line of difference on the football field with the referee's whistle is completely erased. At a minimum, such a development of events has already befallen the national teams of Spain, Italy and Portugal, and many would like to continue to see the overthrow of the leaders with their own eyes.

The teams of Brazil and Chile that opened the matches of the 1/8 finals were just the classic version of the pair - the favorite and the outsider. Some are five-time world champions, leading players of the best football clubs on the planet, others knocked out the reigning world champions from the group due to perseverance and sports anger. Slowly and confidently, football aristocrats in yellow jerseys started the match, and thanks to the efforts of the new idol Neymar, a corner was earned, which was converted by defender David Luiz. Nothing foreshadowed a different development of events, only the Chileans did not agree with this. They are accustomed to eminent opponents, and they have developed moral stability to conceded goals. There was no doubt that the Chilean guys would bounce back even before the whistle for the break – and on 32 minutes Alexis Sanchez equalized the score.

After the break, the mood of the Brazilians changed from confident to aggressive, and after 10 minutes, the striker of St. Petersburg "Zenith" Hulk managed to open the gates of the Chileans. Giving the Brazilians plenty to celebrate the goal, referee Howard Webb canceled the goal scored, which caused a storm of indignation of head coach Luis Felipe Scolari. The Brazilians continued to create chances, received yellow cards, replaced fresh players and outplayed opponents several times in shots on goal. But they did not bring success. In the first match of the playoffs, the teams were waiting for two halves of extra time.

By the way the teams were preparing for the match, it was easy to predict the development of events. It seemed that the Chileans were only waiting for the opponent’s mistake (the only ode that led to the goal they scored), the Brazilians entered the field after a short break (as in the beginning of the match) with a sense of their exclusivity, to which much, if not everything, must be sacrificed. And the match referee Howard Webb, in ordinary life a South Yorkshire police sergeant, who showed a record number of warnings in the final of the last World Cup, as if he had never watched football in his life and had not heard anything about world conspiracies or favorites. Time after time, he turned a blind eye to the fall of the Brazilian free-kick strikers, fixing violations, was in no hurry to get cards and tried to extend the football festival in Belo Horizonte as long as possible. In the last minutes of added time, the crossbar played for the hosts of the tournament.

The outcome of the meeting was decided by post-match penalties. David Luiz, Marcelo and Neymar scored for the Brazilians, and Charles Aranguis and Marcelo Diaz Rojas scored for Chile. The hosts of the tournament in the quarterfinals.