{"id":394848,"date":"2022-11-28T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394848"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:12:15","slug":"casemiro-stunner-sends-brazil-into-world-cup-last-16","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/casemiro-stunner-sends-brazil-into-world-cup-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Casemiro stunner sends Brazil into World Cup last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casemiro\u2019s thunderous second-half goal earned five-times champions Brazil a 1-0 win over stubborn Switzerland at the Stadium 974 on Monday and a place in the World Cup&#8217;s last 16.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf9f Brazil have booked their ticket to the Round of 16<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1597287856636133378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brazil looked like they were missing the creativity offered by their absent star Neymar as they continually tried to break down Switzerland&#8217;s resolute defense only to come away empty handed.<\/p>\n<p>Murat Yakin&#8217;s team arrived at the stadium slightly late after being involved in a minor road traffic accident en route from their hotel. Mercifully no one was hurt and, to Brazil\u2019s dismay, Switzerland\u2019s concentration appeared unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Junior thought he had broken the deadlock in the 63rd minute, only to have VAR intervene and rule the effort out due to Richarlison&#8217;s offside position earlier in the move.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, however, increasingly stretched Swiss defensive elastic.<\/p>\n<p>It finally snapped when Manchester United&#8217;s Casemiro applied the outside of his right boot to the ball and sent a glorious half-volley swerving into the net leaving a wrong footed, static, Yann Sommer &#8211; possibly deceived by the gentlest of deflections off Manuel Akanji &#8211; helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil top the standings in Group G with six points, followed by Switzerland on three. Cameroon and Serbia have one point each.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who will join Brazil in the Round of 16 from Group G?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1597291272242356224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brazil face Cameroon next as they look to top the group, while Switzerland will aim to secure second spot with a win against Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casemiro\u2019s thunderous second-half goal earned five-times champions Brazil a 1-0 win over stubborn Switzerland at the Stadium 974 on Monday and a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16933,16960,16961],"news_category":[16671,14235,14236,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Brazil were missing the creativity offered by their absent star Neymar","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394848"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394848"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}