INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
defender on the way as Brazil retain possession
was dipping in as Belgium get a corner but Kompany back-heel has been well collected by Alisson
flurry of attacks on either ends
shot on goal but goes off target
have their work cut out if they are to go all the way to the July 15 final in Moscow.Third-ranked Belgium reached the quarter-finals in 2014
in Brazil but before that the last time they got so far was in 1986, when 'Little Prince' Frank Vercauteren steered them to the semi-finals
before a Diego Maradona double-ended their hopes in a 2-0 defeat in Mexico.Vercauteren said before the tournament that Russia represented
"perhaps one of the last chances for this generation of players to live up to expectations, because in 2022 a lot of them won't be there".On
Monday, Belgium mounted a stirring fightback to beat Japan, with Nacer Chadli scoring the winner in the 94th minute.
