Brazil v Korea Republic, 05 December 2022

Kick-off: 10.00pm local (7.00pm GMT) . FIFA world ranking: Brazil 1, Korea Republic 28 . Since the stage was introduced in 1986, Brazil had now won nine and lost one of the ten games they had played in the Round of 16 (scored 24, conceded three). . Four of Brazil’s preceding five wins at the World Cup finals have been by a 2-0 margin; the other was 1-0. . Brazil had failed to score in the first-half in their preceding five games at the World Cup finals, equalling their longest such run at the tournaments (also in 1994). . This was the first time that Brazil had scored four goals in the first-half of a game in the World Cup finals since a 5-0 win against Mexico in Geneva in 1954 (4-0). . This was the quickest that a team had led by four goals in a game at the World Cup finals since Germany’s 7-1 Semi-final win against Brazil in 2014 (26 minutes). . Neymar became the third player to score at three World Cup tournaments for Brazil after Pelé and Ronaldo. . This was Korea Republic’s first game in the knockout stages of the World Cup since 2010; a 2-1 loss to Uruguay in the Round of 16 in Port Elizabeth. . Korea had now won two of their six knockout games at World Cup finals; both in their home tournament in 2002 (2-1 against Italy in Daejeon and on penalties against Spain after a goalless draw in Gwangju). . Korea Republic had now lost five and drawn two of their seven games against South American nations at the World Cup finals. . KIM Young-gwon’s equaliser against Portugal in their last group game was the only one of Korea Republic’s last 13 goals at the World Cup finals that had been scored in the first-half. . Korea Republic won one of the seven previous meetings with Brazil (all friendlies); 1-0 at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul in March 1999. .