{"id":145820,"date":"2026-07-06T03:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/norway-stun-five-time-winners-brazil-to-seal-first-ever-world-cup-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:03:47","slug":"norway-stun-five-time-winners-brazil-to-seal-first-ever-world-cup-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/norway-stun-five-time-winners-brazil-to-seal-first-ever-world-cup-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway stun five-time winners Brazil to seal first ever World Cup quarter final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Erling Haaland\u2019s second-half double helped Norway stun five-time winners Brazil and book their place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazil were left to rue Bruno Guimaraes\u2019 missed penalty in the first half as Haaland, who had a quiet game until that moment, stole ahead of centre-back Gabriel to meet a cross from Andreas Schjelderup and put Norway ahead in the 79th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester City striker then sealed Norway\u2019s progress with a superb low drive from outside the box in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n\n<p>Brazil were awarded a second penalty in the dying seconds of the game after referee Ismail Elfath deemed Leo Ostigard to have elbowed Casemiro and Neymar converted.<\/p>\n<p>But it proved a mere consolation for Brazil, who exit the tournament before the quarter-finals for the first time since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarter-finals, Norway will face either England or co-hosts Mexico, who meet in the last 16 in Mexico City on Monday at 4AM.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/norway-stun-five-time-winners-brazil-to-seal-first-ever-world-cup-quarter-final\/\">Norway stun five-time winners Brazil to seal first ever World Cup quarter final<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erling Haaland\u2019s second-half double helped Norway stun five-time winners Brazil and book their place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time. Brazil were left to rue Bruno Guimaraes\u2019 missed penalty in the first half as Haaland, who had a quiet game until that moment, stole ahead of centre-back Gabriel to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}