Brazil dance by S. Korea behind 4-goal first half

Brazil turned connected the style, dancing their mode to a one-sided 4-1 triumph implicit South Korea successful their World Cup round-of-16 lucifer astatine Qatar's Stadium 974 connected Monday.

Vinicius Junior, Neymar, Richarlison and Lucas Paqueta were each connected the scoresheet successful a ascendant archetypal fractional arsenic Brazil cruised into a quarterfinal matchup against 2018 World Cup finalists Croatia connected Dec. 9.

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Neymar, who had missed Brazil's last 2 radical games after picking up an ankle injury against Serbia, and Danilo returned to the starting XI for Tite with the Selecao continuing their quest for a sixth World Cup title.

With 82-year-old Brazil fable Pele cheering the squad from hospital portion recovering from a respiratory illness, Vinicius wasted nary clip putting his broadside ahead, settling a transverse from Raphinha that recovered him unmarked astatine the backmost station and calmly curling a changeable into the broadside netting.

South Korea's Jung Woo-Young fouled Richarlison successful the country minutes aft the opener to springiness Neymar a accidental to treble the lead. The Paris Saint-Germain prima made nary mistake from the spot, sending goalkeeper Kim Seung-Gyu the incorrect mode to marque it 2-0 wrong of 15 minutes.

The extremity was Neymar's 76th for Brazil, leaving him 1 abbreviated of tying Pele for astir goals scored successful the country's celebrated yellowish jersey.

Richarlison made it 3-0 earlier the half-hour mark, sliding the easiest of finishes into the South Korean extremity pursuing immoderate superb idiosyncratic accomplishment and clever interplay with Thiago Silva astatine the apical of the punishment area.

For their 4th extremity of the archetypal half, Brazil deed a helpless South Korea with a counter-attack that saw Neymar provender Vinicius, who successful turned scooped a transverse for the onrushing Paqueta to sidefoot location with his archetypal touch.

Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-Min forced a large prevention from Alisson conscionable aft the restart and Raphinha was doubly denied astatine the different extremity arsenic helium looked to adhd to Brazil's tally.

Despite holding Brazil goalless successful the 2nd fractional and scoring a stunning precocious consolation extremity done Paik Seung-Ho, the harm was already done arsenic South Korea's World Cup came to an extremity against the high-flying tourney favourites.

Information from Reuters was utilized successful this report.