Brazil knocked out of World Cup by Kevin De Bruyne and brilliant Belgium | Football | The Guardian

"In years to come, when this stadium is a crumbling white elephant, they will sit in almost empty stands, hear the wind whisper across the marsh that surrounds it and believe what they hear is the ghosts of giants. In three games Kazan has claimed the winners of 11 World Cups. First Germany went, insipid against South Korea. Then, in a full-blooded epic, Argentina were blown away by France. And then fell the biggest of them all, Brazil, outwitted and outbattled by Belgium, who will face France in Tuesday’s semi-final.

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Brazil knocked out of World Cup by Kevin De Bruyne and brilliant Belgium | Football | The Guardian: A Fernandinho own goal and Kevin De Bruyne’s fine strike gave Belgium a 2-1 win over Brazil in their World Cup quarter-final