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Belgium and France book semi showdown


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Brazil and Uruguay have won seven World Cups between them but they won't have a chance to add to that total after they were beaten by Belgium and France in their respective quarter-finals in Russia.

Belgium used a combination of daring, intelligence, resilience and a little luck to oust tournament favourites Brazil 2-1 in a memorable encounter in Kazan.

Coach Roberto Martinez has instilled some self-belief in an outstandingly talented generation of Belgian players that seemed to have been missing in the past.

He changed the team's formation and started the game with the line-up that finished the comeback 3-2 round of 16 win over Japan and Brazil's defence, which had conceded only six goals in 25 matches under coach Tite, suddenly looked very vulnerable and was repeatedly sliced apart in the opening half hour.

However, it was Brazil that should have opened the scoring when Thiago Silva could only divert a glanced on corner onto the post from point-blank range on eight minutes.

Belgium took the lead five minutes later when a corner finished up in the net off the shoulder of Fernandinho - the record 11th own-goal of the tournament.

The second goal on 31 minutes was a textbook counter attack.

After Belgium cleared a corner, Romelu Lukaku turned into space and burst down the middle. He had two free teammates to pass to on the right and chose Kevin De Bruyne, who was allowed time to tee himself up and thumped a low shot past Alisson from the edge of the box.

Brazil pulled themselves together and came charging back after halftime but Neymar was well shackled as Belgium continually broke up Brazil's momentum.

Substitute Renato Augusto headed Brazil back into it on 76 minutes as the tournament favourites piled on the pressure in search of an equaliser.

He flashed a shot wide on 80 minutes when he should have hit the target while Thibaut Courtois did his job in the Belgium goal making several outstanding saves, including one in the fourth minute of stoppage time to turn away a Neymar shot.

"You need to get a tactical advantage when you play Brazil," Martinez said.

"The execution of the tactics was magnificent. In two days they (Belgium's players) changed their tactical disposition. I couldn't be prouder."

It was more straight-forward for France in Nizhny Novgorod against a Uruguay side missing key marksman Edinson Cavani due to injury.

Raphael Varane's glanced header from an Antoine Griezmann free-kick put Les Bleus ahead on 40 minutes before the provider was gifted the second on 61 minutes when his shot from outside the box glanced off goalkeeper Fernando Muslera's hands and into the net to make it 2-0.

Griezmann didn't celebrate what was his third goal of the tournament.

"I was playing against a lot of friends, so I think it was normal not to celebrate," Griezmann, who is teammates with Uruguay defenders Diego Godin and Jose Gimenez at Atletico Madrid, said.

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