The Brazilian national team waited 105 minutes for this moment.
The Salsao struggled, sweated, bit their nails against Croatia, and then, just before the end of the first part of extra time in the World Cup quarter-finals, the big star delivered the goods.
Neymar completed a brilliant team move, making it 0:1 and bringing his team closer to the semi-finals.
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the numbers
* At the age of 30, Neymar equaled Pele as Brazil's all-time leading scorer, with 77 goals.
Ronaldo, by comparison, has 62 caps.
* Pele, by the way, did it in fewer games 92. Neymar needed 124 games to reach 77 goals.
* It was the 26th time that the first half ended 0:0 - the highest figure since the 1990 World Cup (28).
* Brazil failed to score in four of their first five halves in Qatar.
* In the two previous World Cups, the winner of the first quarter-final also won the tournament.
* Eight of Croatia's last nine games went into overtime (the only one that didn't - the 2018 World Cup final, where they lost to France 4:2 in 90 minutes).
* Dominic Liebakovic provided no less than nine saves in 90 minutes - a record in the current World Cup, and the all-time record in the Croatian national team.
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