Brazil v Mexico, 02 July 2018

Kick-off: 6.00pm local Brazil v Mexico was Match 53 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) Assistant Referee 1: Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy) Assistant Referee 2: Mauro Tonolini (Italy) Fourth Official: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain) Reserve AR: Pau Cebrian Devis (Spain) VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (Italy) Brazil had now reached the quarter-finals at the last seven World Cup finals. Mexico had now been knocked out of the last seven World Cup finals at the round of 16 stage. They had still to progress beyond the second round when playing in a World Cup finals outside of Mexico. Brazil (228) had now broken Germany's (226) all-time competition record for the most goals scored at the World Cup finals. Mexico remained as the nation that had played the most games at the World Cup finals (57) without winning the tournament. Brazil had now won eight and drawn one of their nine games in the World Cup finals against CONCACAF nations. At 39 years and 139 days, Rafael Marquez became the oldest outfield player to start a knock-out game at the World Cup finals since England's Stanley Matthews (39 years and 145 days) against Uruguay in 1954.