Serbia v Brazil, 27 June 2018

Kick-off: 9.00pm local Serbia v Brazil was Match 41 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran) Assistant Referee 1: Reza Sokhandan (Iran) Assistant Referee 2: Mohammadreza Mansouri (Iran) Fourth Official: Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain) Reserve AR: Anouar Hmila (Tunisia) VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (Italy) Brazil had now qualified from the opening stage of the World Cup finals for the 13th consecutive tournament since 1970. Brazil had now won two of their last eight games in the World Cup finals against European nations (lost four). Only Neymar and Gabriel Jesus (ten) had now scored more goals for Brazil under current manager Tite than Paulinho (eight). At 33 years and 278 days, Thiago Silva became Brazil's second-oldest goalscorer at the World Cup finals after Bebeto who was 34 years and 137 days when he scored against Denmark in 1998. Serbia had now been eliminated at the group stage of the World Cup finals in all three of their participations at the tournament (2006, 2010 and 2018).