Gary Lineker and Louis Theroux are amongst these sharing their shock at Brazil’s elimination from the 2022 World Cup after penalty shootout drama towards Croatia.
The 2018 finalists seemed to be heading residence after Neymar’s further time objective, just for Bruno Petkovic to attain for Croatia within the 116th minute to take the sport to penalties.
Brazil’s destiny was sealed with a poor penalty shootout which noticed Rodrygo’s opening penalty denied, after which completed when Marquinhos hit a vital spot kick towards the submit which might have stored the South American favourites within the recreation.
Marquinhos was left devastated to see his important spot kick hit the submit, eliminating Brazil
BBC presenter Lineker tweeted: ‘Wow! Simply wow! Brazil are out. Croatia are so, so powerful.’
The European facet transformed all 4 of their penalties to arrange a second consecutive World Cup semi-final, this time towards both Argentina or Holland.
Gary Lineker and Louis Theroux had been amongst these surprised by Brazil’s elimination on Friday
Others held the view shared by many who Brazil’s elimination from the 2022 version was the continuation of a pattern of shock outcomes occurring in Qatar.
Presenter and interviewer Theroux mentioned: ‘WHAT JUST HAPPENED???’, whereas Piers Morgan simply tweeted ‘OMG!!!’
Piers Morgan referenced Brazil’s dancing as they discovered themselves quickstepping to the exit
Morgan additionally added ‘The day the dancing died’, in reference to their wild celebrations as they blew South Korea away of their round-of-16 recreation on Monday.
Whereas Saudi Arabia’s group stage win over Argentina and Japan’s early win over Germany had been thought-about upsets, for some, it is going to be nothing in comparison with Brazil’s quarter-final exit by the hands of Luka Modric’s facet.
Supervisor Tite and Tottenham participant Richarlison had been amongst these devastated after the sport
On the BBC post-match, pundit Alex Scott added to this discourse. She mentioned: ‘It’s completely unbelievable, the expertise of this staff with Modric, surrounded by all the opposite gamers. It’s a full staff effort. They will deal with the strain.
‘Brazil had been my favourites, they had been many individuals’s favourites. It is a World Cup that retains throwing up surprises.’
A few days earlier than the showcase match with Croatia, a Brazil press officer brought on a stir by eradicating a cat who was sitting on the bench at their media convention.
American sports activities author Andrew Schnittker mentioned on Twitter: ‘Brazil deserved to lose for this. The cat will get justice’, while sharing a clip of the incident.
American author Andrew Schnittker mentioned ‘Brazil deserved to lose’ after the media cat incident
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