'Jaw still on the floor' after star's 'insane' goal

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Brazilian prima guardant Richarlison has sent the Qatar assemblage into raptures with an aboriginal contender for extremity of the World Cup against Serbia.

The Tottenham prima scored 2 goals - the 2nd with a spectacular bicycle footwear - to assistance Brazil to a 2-0 win.

In the 73rd minute, helium utilized 1 interaction to get the shot up successful the aerial and past produced the spectacular aerial footwear to enactment the shot successful the backmost of the nett (WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE).

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"Pick that 1 retired (of the net). The archetypal 1 routine, the 2nd 1 ... remarkable," legendary commentator Martin Tyler said.

"It's a wow infinitesimal ... conscionable wow."

Brazil had struggled to get past the Serbian defence until Richarlison scored from adjacent scope successful the 62nd successful a build-up that started with Neymar.

Vinícius Júnior assisted connected some goals.

Neymar, seeking his archetypal large rubric with Brazil, stayed astatine 75 goals for the nationalist team, 2 shy of Pelé's scoring record.

Brazil manager Tite started with an attack-minded squad that included 4 forwards — Neymar, Vinícius Júnior, Raphinha and Richarlison. Attacking midfielder Lucas Paquetá played alongside Casemiro, the lone antiaircraft midfielder.

But Serbia had respective players backmost and was capable to support Brazil from creating galore important opportunities. Neymar tried to power the gait but struggled to find abstraction up front. He, Vinícius Júnior and Raphinha each squandered chances aboriginal on.

Brazil's champion accidental earlier Richarlison's opening extremity had been a debased long-range changeable by Alex Sandro that deed the station lone minutes earlier. Neymar had his champion opportunities with a escaped footwear successful the 50th and a changeable from adjacent the punishment spot successful the 55th.

The 30-year-old Neymar arrived to his 3rd World Cup arsenic Brazil's main attraction. He helped the "Seleção" triumph the 2013 Confederations Cup and its archetypal Olympic golden medal astatine the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, but has yet to triumph a large rubric with the afloat nationalist team.

Brazil, trying to triumph its archetypal World Cup successful 2 decades, is unbeaten successful its past 20 opening games, with 17 victories. It has finished archetypal successful its radical successful the past 10 World Cups.

In the different Group G match, Switzerland defeated Cameroon 1-0.

Brazil and Serbia besides played successful the radical signifier successful 2018, with Brazil besides winning 2-0 to scope the adjacent signifier astatine Serbia's expense.

Since competing arsenic Serbia successful 2010, the the state has not precocious to the knockout rounds of the World Cup.

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