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| Brazil Cruises Past Mexico Into World Cup Quarterfinals |
Brazil raged into the World Cup quarterfinals with its third straight shutout triumph on Monday, dissecting Mexico, 2-0, on objectives by Neymar and Roberto Firmino
The annihilation, and the phase for it, will be unfortunately commonplace for Mexico. It leaves the competition in its first knockout-round diversion for the seventh straight World Cup — a staggering keep running of terrible misfortunes, awful matchups and out and out misfortune
It can have no protestations about its misfortune to Brazil, however; the Brazilians were the better group, and looked fresher even toward the end. Neymar opened the scoring in the 51st moment, sliding in to tap home a ball served in unequivocally by Willian
The substitute Roberto Firmino included the clincher in the 88th moment on a duplicate objective: this time it was Neymar who burst in on the left, and Firmino who slid into the goalmouth to turn the ball home
Brazil progressed to a Friday quarterfinal in Kazan against the champ of Monday's Belgium-Japan amusement
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Brazil's triumph was its third straight 2-0 win since opening the competition with a baffling 1-1 tie against Switzerland. In any case, Costa Rica, Serbia and now Mexico have fallen before the Brazilians all together, and with Neymar scoring and Philippe Coutinho making and a back four permitting nothing, the five-time World Cup champions will be an extreme out at this point