Brazil v Costa Rica, 22 June 2018

Kick-off: 3.00pm local Brazil v Costa Rica was the 24th game played at the FIFA World Cup 2018 (Match no 25) Refereeing team: Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands) Assistant Referee 1: Sander van Roekel (Netherlands) Assistant Referee 2: Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands) Fourth Official: Damir Skomina (Slovenia) Reserve AR: Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia) VAR: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands) AVAR 1: Artur Dias (Portugal) AVAR 2: Joe Fletcher (Canada) AVAR 3: Mark Geiger (USA) Philippe Coutinho gave Brazil the lead in the fist minute of added time at the end of the game with Neymar adding their second six minutes later to complete Brazil's first World Cup finals win vi a goal scored in the 90th minute. With 12 minutes of normal time remaining, referee Björn Kuipers awarded a penalty to Brazil after he judged that Giancarlo Gonzalez had pulled down Neymar. However, having been advised by VAR to review the video footage, he overturned his decision. Ony Pelé (77) and Ronaldo (62) had now scored more goals for Brazil than Neymar (56). Brazil were now unbeaten in their last 13 games (won nine) and conceded only three goals in that run. With one group game still to play, Costa Rica became the first CONCACAF nation to be eliminated from this World Cup finals. Los Ticos reached the last eight in 2014.