{"id":26600,"date":"2014-07-04T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T00:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=26600"},"modified":"2014-07-04T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T00:47:15","slug":"worldcup-brazil-ousts-colombia-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=26600","title":{"rendered":"#WorldCup: Brazil Ousts Colombia, 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.espn.com\/player.js?pcode=B4a3E63GKeEtO92XK7NI067ak980&#038;width=460&#038;height=259&#038;externalId=intl:1932880\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s hopes of hoisting the 2014 FIFA World Cup trophy at home remain alive after the hosts defeated Colombia 2-1 on Saturday evening in Fortaleza, Brazil, behind goals from the team\u2019s two center backs, Thiago Silva and David Luiz. Colombia pulled back a late goal on a James Rodriguez penalty, but couldn\u2019t find an equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil took the lead in just the 7<sup>th<\/sup> minute after a Neymar corner kick found its way past everyone in the box to Thiago Silva at the far post. With Colombia \u2018keeper David Ospina in no position to make a save, Silva deflected the ball in to give the hosts a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts continued a strong start with two chances in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> minute as Neymar played Hulk into the left side of the box. Hulk\u2019s shot was saved by Ospina, but the rebound fell to Oscar, who powered a shot on frame. Again Ospina was up to the task to keep Colombia within one.<\/p>\n<p>Hulk had another chance eight minutes later, this time set up by Marcelo, but Ospina made another save. Oscar had yet another chance at a rebound, but it was nullified by a foul committed by Paulinho. Brazil would go into the half with a 10 to 4 advantage in shots.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia thought they had equalized in the 66<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Mario Yepes finished off a James Rodriguez free kick after a scramble in the box, but Yepes was ruled offside.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil then doubled their lead in the 69<sup>th<\/sup> minute after winning a free kick about 35 yards from goal. David Luiz stepped up to take the set piece and curled it perfectly into the upper corner to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia got a lifeline in the 77<sup>th<\/sup> minute after substitute Carlos Bacca got behind the defense on a Rodriguez pass, but was tripped up by Brazil keeper Julio Cesar as he ran towards goal. Colombia was immediately awarded a penalty kick which Rodriguez finished for his sixth goal of the tournament, cutting the lead to 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia put Brazil under pressure late looking for an equalizer, but the hosts held on to advance to the semifinals where they\u2019ll face Germany on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil suffered two blows in the match, however, as Thiago Silva picked up a yellow card that will keep him out for the semifinal on yellow card accumulation and Neymar later suffered a f<span style=\"color: #292f33;\">ractured vertebra that will keep him out for the rest of the World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hosts advanced to the semifinals with a strong performance against Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[844],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26602,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions\/26602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}