Neymar scored towards South Korea within the Round of 16 on Monday on the Stadium 974 to turn into the third Brazilian participant to have registered objectives at three or extra World Cups.
He joined Pele and Ronaldo for the feat. Pele has scored at 4 totally different editions whereas Ronaldo scored at three. Neymar, having scored at 2014 and 2018 editions, joined the listing together with his penalty towards the Asian workforce.
Neymar additionally moved nearer to equalling Pele’s file for many objectives in a Brazil shirt. The former soccer icon has 77 objectives and Neymar is only one in need of the tally.
The Paris Saint-Germain ahead has already bettered Ronaldo’s tally of 62 objectives.
In World Cups, the spot kick was Neymar’s seventh purpose in 12 appearances. The World Cup objectives tally for Ronaldo and Pele stand at 15 and 12 objectives, respectively.
The purpose marks the comeback of Neymar who had been aspect lined from Brazil’s final two group video games towards Switzerland and Cameroon.
Neymar’s purpose was the second purpose scored by Brazil within the match. Richarlison had drawn a foul within the penalty space to win the penalty kick.
In the seventh minute, Vinicius put Brazil forward with a right-footed end.
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