Competition top choice Brazil were taken out from the World Cup on disciplines as Croatia kept their nerve to edge through to the semi-finals.
Croatia, beaten finalists a truly lengthy timespan back, scored with all of four of their spot-kicks as Rodrygo - taking his get-together's most fundamental kick - was denied by the stunning Dominik Livakovic and Marquinhos' basic fourth exertion struck the post.
As the ball hit the foot of the woodwork and evaded away, Croatia's social occasion hustled to celebrate with their goalkeeper, while the Brazil players hit the turf, knowing their fantasy of a 6th crown had shown up at a goal.
Following a hypnotizing hour and a half, Tite's men thought they had won it in additional time when Neymar scored a beating work to climb to Brazil's 'official' men's goalscoring record.
In any case, substitute Bruno Petkovic had different contemplations, stroking in a 116th-minute balancer with Croatia's first shot on track in the match to take the game to the nerve-decimating shootout.
Yet again furthermore, it was the European side who arose triumphant, having done as such by a similar method against Japan in the last 16, to set up a semi-last collecting with the Netherlands or Argentina on Tuesday.
Review Croatia's success over Brazil
Croatia shows assurance to stagger top choices
This wasn't in the substance.
Brazil should head out through to the last four as they continued to look for one more star on their shirt in any case their suspicions were finished in the cruelest arrangement.
Neymar, who scored his 77th overall objective to climb to Pele's genuine etching, at this point shares a record obvious by Fifa yet not the public social event - as they similarly counted objectives got by their three-time World Cup victor in friendlies against club sides.
Furthermore, the Paris St-Germain forward can not defeat the legend at this resistance, as Brazil got past occurrences against a European country in the long run. Since beating Germany in 2002 last, they have been eliminated from five moderate World Cups by a social event from Europe.
This should be Neymar's second, defending his side when they expected him most with a clinical summit to finish a smooth social occasion move, however, he was left in tears after the shootout.
He ought to have won it for them in standard time in any case neither he nor Lucas Paqueta could find quite far past the pushed Livakovic, who made a measure of 11 saves, the most by a goalkeeper at this resistance.
In any case, most were standard, Livakovic ought to be flawlessly arranged magnificently to make the stop and he surely was with Brazil's most significant discipline, plunging the right procedure for pushing out Rodrygo's strike.
Croatia is a useful and irksome outfit, yet they didn't deal with a shot on track until not a long way from the fruition of additional time, as Petkovic's side-footer beat Alisson.
Zlatko Dalic's men showed their psychological spine and powers of relentlessness again to go through - as eight of their beyond nine knockout matches at basic challenges have now ticked into additional time.
Exactly when this one went to disciplines, Nikola Vlasic, Lovro Majer, the evergreen Luka Modric, and Mislav Orsic were all fruitful with their endeavors to take Croatia through to their third World Cup semi-last.
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