Norway eliminated Brazil (Photo: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)
Brazil vs Norway: Norway has booked its ticket to the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2026 by defeating Brazil. Norway defeated Brazil 2-1 in the round of 16 match. With this, Brazil’s wait for the title win, which has been going on since 2002, has now become longer. In the Brazil vs Norway match, all eyes were on Neymar and Erling Haaland. Both of them were star players of their respective teams. Brazil’s hopes were tied to Neymar, while Holland was Norway’s biggest hope. The big thing is that the match was also decided by the goals scored by these two players.
Holland scored both goals for Norway
The first two goals of the match were scored by Norway, from which Brazil tried to recover but by then it was too late. After the first half was goalless, Erling Holland scored the first goal on Brazil’s goal post in the second half. Holland was successful in scoring the first goal in the 79th minute of the match. After this, the second goal of the match also came from Holland’s boot in the 90th minute. Thanks to these two goals scored by Holland, Norway completely defeated Brazil.
Neymar’s goal did not work, Brazil is out
However, Neymar converted Norway’s 0-2 lead into 1-2 by scoring a goal in extra time, but it was not enough to give Brazil victory and a ticket to the quarter-finals. The result was that the journey of Brazil, the most successful team of the tournament, came to an end in the Round of 16 of the FIFA World Cup 2026.
European team became a hindrance for Brazil after 2002
After becoming champion for the last time in 2002, Brazil played 7 knockout matches in the World Cup and every time it had to face defeat by the European team. Before Norway in the Round of 16 in 2026, it was defeated by Croatia in the quarterfinals of 2022, Belgium in the quarterfinals of 2018, Netherlands and Germany in 2014, Netherlands in the quarterfinals of 2010 and France in the quarterfinals of 2006.
