Martinez and his players will feel they have gone some way to answering those, and finding a real winning touch, having looked dead and buried after an hour.Ĭhelsea winger Hazard had hit the post in one of their few good chances in the opening 60 minutes.īut they ground their way back into the game - even though the goal to give them hope was a bit of a fluke. They are now unbeaten in 23 games, but there are always questions about whether they are tactically astute. Listen to the latest World Cup Daily podcastīelgium find a winning mentality at perfect timeīelgium clearly have the players - Hazard, Kevin de Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and Thibaut Courtois are some of the Premier League's undoubted stars.How you rated the players in Belgium's win.Their fortunes changed after that as Vertonghen scored a looping header to get them back into the game.įellaini then headed in Eden Hazard's cross to level before Chadli converted Thomas Meunier's pass to finish off a flowing move and help the Red Devils avoid being the latest victims of a World Cup of shocks.īelgium are the first team to fight back from two goals down to win a World Cup knockout game since West Germany against England in 1970. Takashi Inui's 25-yard strike made it 2-0 and looked set to take the Asian side into their first quarter-final.īelgium's Premier League stars - their golden generation - had put in a disappointing performance, and Martinez turned to the oft-ridiculed Fellaini and West Brom winger Chadli in his hour of need.

Japan looked on their way to a famous win in Rostov after Genki Haraguchi ran onto Gaku Shibasaki's long ball, which Jan Vertonghen should have cut out, to open the scoring. They now face Brazil in the last eight on Friday.

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