Neymar thought he had booked a place in the semifinals for his team, with a beautiful extra-time effort in the 105th minute clearing up the contest after a goalless 90 minutes. But Dalicu2019s remarkable team ruined the party when substitute Bruno Petkovic beat Alisson with a deflected strike in the 117th minute to equalize just before the end of second half of extra time.
After Neymar scored, Croatia looked doomed. But, we should have known better. This is a team that doesn’t know how to give up, and, even though it often relies on a defensive, counter-attacking style, it has players of offensive competence .
Source : Wager talk Brazil forwards Richarlison and Neymar have been incredible in this tournament but they were not par with their performance when it mattered the most. Though Neymar scored a magnificent goal ,he was irritated by the Croatian goalkeeper – Domink Livakovic who was the star of the game. He literally stood their as a wall to the Brazilian attack and refused to yield just like his team.Neymar said it would be his last world cup and the fans might have wanted a different ending, but there are no fairytail endings in sports said Rodger Federer. Still the dream can be fulfilled of another legend of the game who definitely is playing his last world cup- Luka Modric. Croatians and some neutral fans would surely love seeing Modric lifting the World Cup trophy if not Messi.Let’s see if this never saying never attitude of Croatians again take them to the Finals against Messi’s men, we will get to know soon enough. But what do you think?
