Japan and South Korea losses end the World Cup dream for Asian teams.
On Monday, December 5, while Japan seems to be the better team during the match, Croatia took the win as they remained calm and relaxed during the penalty shootout.
The next day, tournament favorites Brazil clashed, and emerged victorious, against South Korea to punch their ticket to the quarterfinals.
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there were two matches with normal results where the favorite teams they qualified. The outsiders have not managed to made surprises so far in this phase of the World Cup, but there are still two matches where it can happen
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I was very sorry to see Japan eliminated, they are a great team, they showed a great level in the world cup, they deserved to go through, but that's soccer, sometimes it is very ungrateful with the effort we put in.
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croatia has good players, but what happens is that they are already old and they don't have a lot of physique, besides they don't generate much soccer, brazil is going to beat them, I have it very clear.
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When you see last games and what players brasil have,everything is on their side,but this is football and who know what can happen if they come to penalties!lot of time for both teams to think about tactic till tomorrow and this game!
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croatia has a great goalkeeper, he saves a lot of penalties, and he is responsible for his country being in the semifinals, he has proved it with japan and now with brazil, saving almost 7 penalties so far in the tournament.
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this goalkeeper will surely be the protagonist in the duel against argentina, the surprising thing about croatia is that they are hard to play and always take the games to extra time and win it in penalties, they do not fail, we must be prepared for that, and better to define it between the 90 minutes, argentina should keep that in mind.
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Both semi-finals are going to be interesting. I'm curious if Croatia will have enough strength, because they have already played two extra-times at this tournament, and whether the Moroccan team will have enough strength, because they have a lot of injuries. In my opinion, the most interesting final would be Argentina - France.
