Brazil vs Japan Highlights, FIFA World Cup 2026: Last-gasp winner sends Selecao into Round of 16

Brazil vs Japan Highlights, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil beat Japan 2-1 to seal their place in Round of 16

Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Gabriel Martinelli #22 of Brazil celebrates with teammates after scoring the team's second goal during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round Of 32 match (Getty Images via AFP)

Brazil vs Japan Highlights, FIFA World Cup 2026: In the most dramatic fashion, Brazil kept their World Cup dream alive with a stoppage-time winner from Gabriel Martinelli to book a place in the quarterfinals. Japan, despite seeing less of the ball, struck first through Sano in the opening half and looked on course for a famous upset. Brazil emerged with renewed intensity after the break, and their relentless pressure finally paid off when Casemiro powered home the equaliser with a header. Just when the contest seemed destined for penalties, Martinelli struck deep into added time of extra time to seal a dramatic victory for the Selecao.

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• 30 Jun 2026, 12:48:16 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: That's a wrap!

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil are through, and they await the result for the match between Norway and Ivory Coast. But up next today is Germany vs Paraguay and Netherlands vs Morocco in Round of 32.

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:45:58 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: That 95th minute winner

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:44:29 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Houston belongs to Brazil

  

  Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup 2026 - Round of 32 - Brazil v Japan - Houston Stadium, Houston, Texas, U.S. - June 29, 2026 Brazil players celebrate after the match REUTERS/Annegret Hilse (REUTERS)

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:43:43 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Casemiro stars for Brazil

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:42:36 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Another knockout heartbreak for Japan

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: For the fifth time, Japan have failed to secure a win in a knockout game at the World Cup, having previously lost in 2002 (as joint-hosts), 2010, 2018 and 2022.

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:40:04 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil head to New Jersey

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil are through to the Round of 16 at this World Cup and will face the winner of Norway versus Ivory Coast in New Jersey on July 5.

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:33:16 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil WIN!

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil come from behind to go through to the Round of 16. Japan…just heartbreak from them. They have lost yet another knockout game.

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:29:10 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: BRAZIL SCORE!!!!

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: The deadlock has been broken! What timing! Houston belongs to Brazil. It's no way back for Japan now. Martenelli gets in great position between two defenders inside the box, and somehow curls it past the keeper.

  Brazil 2-1 Japan, 90+4 minutes

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:26:47 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Endrick denied

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Endrick has the ball insode the Japanese half on the right plank. Cuts and dribbles to make space, but the ball it put out by Tanaguchi for a corner.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 90+3 minutes

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:25:12 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: That Vinicius Jr miss

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:23:35 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: 6 minutes added

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Six minutes have been added to the regulation time. Can Brazil break the deadlock?

  Meanwhile, Casemiro calls for a sub. Fabinho replaces him.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 90+1 minute

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:22:04 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Still lots of drama

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Vinicius created a shooting opportunity for himself, cracks open the Japanese defense. But it goes out for a corner.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 88 minutes

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:17:28 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Danilo taken down

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Suzumi fouls Danilo right outside the box on the right plank. Freekick for Brazil. Dangerous area, that is. Can Brazil get a lead?

  Gets deflected by a defender and iut it goes for a corner.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 84 minutes

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:12:12 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Extra Time looming

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: This match seems to be heading to the extra time. Brazil have lowered the tempo a tad bit, but still have Japan living on the edge.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 80 minutes

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:11:05 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Double change for Japan

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Daichi Kamada and Junya Ito get replaced by Ao Tanakan and Shuto Machino

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 77 minutes

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:07:05 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Japan living on the edge

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Rayan collects the cross, taps in the header for the lead, but deflects off the defender for a corner. Brazil have upped the tempo again.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 74 minutes

• 30 Jun 2026, 12:01:21 AM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Hydration break

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Japan took the lead in the first half. Brazil responded in the second half. And its game on. What can the final phase of the game produce?

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:52:25 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Vinicius….oh the miss!

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: What a passage of play! And the intensity of play has gone three fold and Brazil are responsible for it. Vinicius collects the ball almost at mid-pitch, dribbles through the defense line, cuts to his left and chips with his right foot past Suzuki for the lead, but the keeper gets a hand on it.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 58 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:49:23 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Casemiro gets the EQUALISER!!!

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil had been pressing hard since the start of the second half. Casemiro got denied just minutes back, but not this time. Pulls away from the defender when the cross is played and heads past Suzuki. YOU FELT IT COMING AND THERE IT IS. Brazil are back in business.

  Brazil 1-1 Japan, 56 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:47:31 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: DID IT CROSS THE LINE?

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Casemiro heads for the qualiser, but gets denied by inches after the goalkeeper is put out of position. Did that cross the line? Much chaos inside the Japan box, but the Samurai Blue quickly convert it into an attack. But wasted opportunity.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, 54 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:45:33 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Guimaraes denied

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: A first real chance from Brazil and Guimaraes gets denied. Rises on the cross to head in the equaliser, but Suzuki made a superb dive to block it.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, 52 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:43:15 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Poor pass from Endrick

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Endrick has made his presence feel instantly in the second half, creating opportunities and bringing more fluency in the attack, but that was a poor pass to Vinicius, well outside his reach as Brazil looked for the equaliser.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, 49 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:41:15 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Danilo booked

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Danilo fouls in his attempt to stop a Japanese attack. He and Casemiro have a yellow card each.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, 48 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:38:36 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil make a change

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Still no sign of Neymar, but Ancelotti bring in Endrick in place of Paqueta.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, 46 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:37:25 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Second half underway

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: The players are back on the field. The second half gets underway in Houston. Can Brazil turn this around?

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:35:44 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Casemiro criticism

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: The veteran, who is without a club since leaving Manchester United at the end of the season, has struggled yet again for Brazil. It was evident in the match against Morocco, where he was shown the yellow card, and the same looked today as well against Japan. It he who was left exposed when Sano sprinted with the ball for the goal. His lack of pace was evident. And then the needless tackle for another yellow card at the close of the first half.

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:20:04 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Half-time

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Who would have thought? Brazil were the ones dominating possession and then Japan came out with a shock goal right after hydration break and Selecao have since looked in disarray with their attacking ploy.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, Half-time

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:17:02 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: 4 added minutes

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Four minutes have been added to the first-half time.

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:08:11 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil under pressure

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil notch up their attacking game as they get players around the Japanese box. But too muddled an approach on the left plank, lacking much coordination and flow in their finish.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, 36 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 11:01:53 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Japan score!!

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Moment that Japan have been waiting for and that arrives right after the hydration break. And the giants of the game are now trailing. Sano breaks the deadlock. His first international goal. He races past Casemiro and then guides a right-footed shot from outside the box that went straight into the left corner.

  Brazil 0-1 Japan, 29 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:55:36 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Hydration break

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: After 23 minutes of play in Houston, we have the drinks break. Brazil are definitely bossing possession, but lack bite in terms of their attacking. Japan have plenty to do to catch up and make their presence feel.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 23 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:52:18 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Japan avert danger

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil have been dominating possession throughout the start thus far. Vinicius and Paqueta create chances from the left plank, but Japan survive the scare for now.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 20 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:47:13 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Free kick for Japan

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Free kick for Japan. Daichi takes it. Deflects off the wall for a corner.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 15 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:46:05 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Back-to-back attempt from Brazil

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Cunha curls in a low-attempt and the Japan goalkeeper Suzuki puts it out for a corner. Santos then gets in the middle of things and rushes into an attempt, targeting the far right corner, but the ball goes wide.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 13 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:44:08 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Sano booked

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Sano fouls Vinicius with a late tackle and he gets shown the Yellow Card.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 12 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:42:46 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Paqueta knocked down

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Danilo makes a wonderful run out of nowhere to get behind the defense line and puts in a last-minute cross. The ball gets passed to Guimaraes, who unleashes an attempt that struck Paqueta on his face as he gets knocked down.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 10 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:39:36 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Heart skips a beat for Japan

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Suzuki makes a giant leap to grab the ball off a free kick from Japan, but it slips out. A split second of fear for Japan as two Brazil players surrounded him immediately, but Suzuki grabbed it after falling to the ground.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 8 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:33:42 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Corner for Brazil

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: A deflection off the feet of the defender and Brazil get a corner. Gumares delivers, rather flat and is put away.

  Brazil 0-0 Japan, 2 minutes

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:30:39 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Match gets underway

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: And so it begins at the Houston Stadium. Can Japan pull off a stunner to win their first knockout game? Or, will Brazil keep their unbeaten start intact to make the last-16? One this is for sure, we are in for a cracker of a contest!

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:23:47 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Time for national anthems

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Players make their way into the Houston ground. Time for the national anthems. Brazil go first.

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:22:45 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Head-to-head

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil have lost just once against Japan in 14 encounters, which, incidentally, came in their last meeting, a friendly in October. Brazil had lost a two-goal lead. Overall, Brazil have won 11 times against the Samurai Blues, which includes their only World Cup face-off in 2006.

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:10:23 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Prediction time!

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Opta's supercomputer picked Brazil as the favourites, with a 58.3% chance of winning in regulation time, while Japan's is 18.1%. And the chance of the match going to extra time or penalties is 23.6%.

• 29 Jun 2026, 10:03:53 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Japan ready for penalty shootout

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Japan crashed out in the Round of 16 after three penalty misses in the tie-breaker against Croatia. But Japan are ready if the match against Brazil goes down the wire.

  “This time when the moment comes for the penalty kick shootout is probable I would like to decide the order of the kickers rather than players volunteering like last time,” Japan coach ‌Hajime Moriyasu said. “I think I am going ‌to make the decision and decide who is going to kick.”

• 29 Jun 2026, 09:59:25 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil players warm up

  

  HOUSTON, TEXAS - JUNE 29: Gabriel Magalhaes #3, Marquinhos #4, Casemiro #5 and Danilo #13 of Brazil warm up before the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round Of 32 match between Brazil and Japan at Houston Stadium on June 29, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Lars Baron/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Lars Baron / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (Getty Images via AFP)

• 29 Jun 2026, 09:52:47 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Japan players in the house

  

  Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup 2026 - Round of 32 - Brazil v Japan - Houston Stadium, Houston, Texas, U.S. - June 29, 2026 Japan players walk out for the warm ups before the match REUTERS/Annegret Hilse (REUTERS)

• 29 Jun 2026, 09:48:51 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Jana make four changes

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Japan have made four changes to their starting XI from the one that featured in the 1-1 draw against Sweden. In the defence, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Shogo Toniguchi replaced Ayumu Seko and Ko Itakura. And in the midfield, Kaishu Sano came in for Ao Tanaka. Meanwhile, Junya Ito will move to the right of the front three, while Ritsu Doan will be the right wing-back in the 3-4-3 formation as Yukinan Sugawara dropped to the bench.

• 29 Jun 2026, 09:46:15 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Can Japan progress beyond Round of 16

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: In seven appearances at the FIFA World Cup, the first in 1998, Japan have progressed past the group stage on four occasions: 2002 (co-hosts), 2010, 2018, and 2022. But on all those occasions, they failed to go beyond the Round of 16.

• 29 Jun 2026, 09:43:56 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: How have Japan fared in the group stage?

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Like Brazil, they too are unbeaten yet. Here's how they performed in Group F…

  vs Netherlands, 2-2

  vs Tunisia, 4-0

  vs Sweden, 1-1

• 29 Jun 2026, 09:41:06 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil unchanged

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil made no changes to their starting line-up for the match against the Blue Samurais. The 4-3-3 formation remains with Rayan in the combination, as the 19-year-old will play alongside Vinicius Jr and Cunha in the front. This also means no Neymar in the starting XI as Ancelotti has him named on the bench.

• 29 Jun 2026, 09:38:35 PM IST

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Will Neymar play?

  Brazil vs Japan LIVE Score, FIFA World Cup 2026: Neymar made his first appearance for Brazil after three years when he came off the bench in the second half of the match against Scotland last week. However, Ancelotti doesn't reckon the Santos striker is fully fit for a 90-minute game. “In the last week his progress ⁠has been significant,” Ancelotti told reporters on Sunday. “Unfortunately he could not play longer than 15 minutes before, but he is now doing well enough to play more.”