Croatia maintained their composure to go to the World Cup semifinals while tournament favourites Brazil was eliminated from the tournament on penalties. Rodrygo, who was taking his team's first penalty kick, was stopped by the great Dominik Livakovic, and Marquinhos' pivotal fourth attempt hit the post. Croatia, who were defeated in the finals four years ago, scored on all four of their penalty kicks.
The Croatian team ran to celebrate with their goalie as the ball bounced over the woodwork, while the Brazil players fell to the ground, realising their hopes of winning a sixth championship were over. After a riveting 90 minutes, Neymar's thunderous effort to tie Brazil's "official" men's goalscoring record gave Tite's team hope that they had won it in extra time.
However, Croatia's replacement Bruno Petkovic had other plans and scored an equaliser in the 117th minute with Croatia's first chance on goal to force the tense shootout. And it was the European team that triumphed once more, having done so in the same way against Japan in the round of 16, to secure a Tuesday semi-final matchup with either the Netherlands or Argentina.