{"id":50461,"date":"2026-06-30T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50461"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:24:12","slug":"brazil-fight-back-to-beat-japan-reach-fifa-world-cup-2026-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/brazil-fight-back-to-beat-japan-reach-fifa-world-cup-2026-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil fight back to beat Japan, Reach FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, June 30:<\/strong>\u00a0Five-time world champions Brazil staged a dramatic comeback to defeat Japan 2-1 in the Round of 32 of the FIFA World Cup 2026, securing their place in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>The match, played at Houston Stadium in the United States, saw Brazil recover from a first-half deficit to continue their quest for a record-extending sixth World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>Japan took the lead in the 29th minute through Kaisu Sano, who finished clinically to put the Asian side ahead before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil responded strongly after the break, with Casemiro restoring parity in the 56th minute with a powerful header.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the game appeared destined for extra time, Gabriel Martinelli struck deep into second-half stoppage time, scoring the dramatic winner to seal a 2-1 victory for Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Brazil advance to the Round of 16, while Japan&#8217;s impressive FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign comes to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 30:\u00a0Five-time world champions Brazil staged a dramatic comeback to defeat Japan 2-1 in the Round of 32 of the FIFA World Cup 2026, securing their place in the last 16. The match, played at Houston Stadium in the United States, saw Brazil recover from a first-half deficit to continue their quest for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-50461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news","tag-fifa-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50464,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50461\/revisions\/50464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}