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Share<\/a><\/p>\n Belgium put their first two poor performances to bed with a dominant display against a New Zealand<\/a> side that just never got going. The All Whites bow out of their third World Cup, having huffed and puffed around BC Place in Vancouver, but never really laying a hand on their opponents. Belgian fans will be thrilled to see their side find a new gear now heading into the knock-out rounds.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Full-time: New Zealand 1-5 Belgium<\/p>\n A double for Leandro Trossard and goals to Kevin De Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Saelemaekers cap off Belgium\u2019s best performance of the World Cup. New Zealand<\/a>, who pulled a goal back through Elijah Just, are out.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! New Zealand 1-5 Belgium (Saelemaekers 90+4)<\/p>\n New Zealand collapse. Belgium are through to the round of 32.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+3 mins: The corner comes in low and cycles around the crowded penalty area before spreading wide to the right for Raskin, who clips a cross back in. Crocombe sticks a strong hand into its path before a panicked bicycle kick from a defender sees the ball spin away up-field.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+2 mins: Belgium almost make it five! Some slick passing around New Zealand\u2019s box following a sloppy give-away sees the ball fall to De Cuyper, who fizzes a shot towards the roof of the net, but Max Crocombe slaps it over for a corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 mins: Four minutes of added time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 mins: Belgium<\/a> take a quick free kick, feeding the ball to Onana in midfield. He takes a stride forward and unleashes a shot, but doesn\u2019t connect properly and it skims wide.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 89 mins: De Vries launches a long throw into Belgium\u2019s penalty area, which is headed clear and Belgium<\/a> are away on the counter.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 88 mins: Callum McCowatt races down the other end to try and latch onto a direct long ball, but he\u2019s shepherded by two Belgian centre-backs. New Zealand<\/a> aren\u2019t giving up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 86 mins: What a response from Belgium\u2019s substitutes, who came on just a moment ago. A brilliant clipped cross from Raskin \u2013 his first touch of the match \u2013 falls right onto the head of Lukaku, who sends his bullet header past Crocombe and into the net.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! New Zealand 1-4 Belgium (Lukaku, 86)<\/p>\n Lukaku scores with his first touch of the game!<\/p>\n Romelu Lukaku scores the fourth for Belgium. Photograph: Lee Smith\/Reuters Photograph: Abbie Parr\/AP Photograph: Lee Smith\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a000.54 EDT<\/p>\n 85 mins: Belgium<\/a> substitutions. Romelu Lukaku takes the captain\u2019s armband from Youri Tielemans, while Nicolas Raskin comes on for De Ketelaere.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! New Zealand 1-3 Belgium (Just, 84)<\/p>\n The All Whites pull a goal back off a corner, with the excellent Elijah Just volleying in a poor punch from Thibault Courtois!<\/p>\n Elijah Just pulls a goal back for New Zealand. Photograph: Fran Santiago\/Getty ImagesNew Zealand’s Elijah Just scores their first goal Photograph: Albert Gea\/Reuters Photograph: Fran Santiago\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a000.50 EDT<\/p>\n 82 mins: Argh! New Zealand<\/a> race forward with numbers after a quick free kick, but McCowatt sends his pass behind the sprinting Just who holds his arms out and looks up into the sky.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 mins: Both teams looking a bit gassed now. Belgium<\/a> sends a hopeful switched pass out to the substitute Saelemaekers, who\u2019s isolated against De Vries, but he swings wildly at the volley and sends it up into the stands.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 79 mins: New Zealand<\/a> with another substitution as Francis de Vries replaces Liberato Cacace.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 mins: New Zealand<\/a> put basically everyone in the wall, with Eli Just lying down behind them all. De Cuyper takes two steps forwards, but flings his free kick well over the bar.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77 mins: Belgium win a free kick just outside New Zealand\u2019s penalty area after an accidental trip from Stamenic. Bit soft, that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 76 mins: New Zealand<\/a> almost pull a goal back! A neat interception in midfield sees the ball fed into Wood, who\u2019s wrestling with his back to goal just inside Belgium\u2019s penalty area. He spins and feeds Eli Just, who takes a touch and shoots\u2026 but the ball deflects off the thigh of a defender and spins out for a corner, which comes to nothing.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 74 mins: Belgium are having fun now, with some sharp single-touch passes zipping around New Zealand\u2019s penalty area. One passage of zig-zags almost lands at the foot of De Ketelaere, but it pings off his hand instead for a merciful free kick to NZ.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Marty has a fun suggestion to give lower-ranked sides a bit more of a shot in World Cup<\/a> matches like this: \u201cIf FIFA really want to make things fair, they should make top tier teams give lower ranked teams their best player at half time. De Bruyne playing in White here would make this half quite interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 mins: Belgium<\/a> make two substitutions at the break. Their two goal-scorers, De Bruyne and Trossard, are off. Their job is done. Alexis Saelemaekers and Amadou Onana are on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 69 mins: Hydration break. With that third goal, Belgium<\/a> leap-frog Egypt in Group G to go top on goal difference, with Egypt still locked at 1-1 with Iran. This means the Socceroos may be facing the might of Mohamed Salah in the round of 32 if scores remain the same.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 67 mins: New Zealand<\/a> were their own worst enemies there, with two Belgian players able to dance around the penalty area as five white shirts slipped and slid around in desperation. De Bruyne rolls the ball under his foot near the D and opens up, sending it into the net and sending the stadium into raptures.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! New Zealand 0-3 Belgium (De Bruyne, 67)<\/p>\n Belgium\u2019s talisman lasers the ball into the bottom corner and drives a nail into New Zealand\u2019s World Cup coffin.<\/p>\n Kevin De Bruyne scores a brilliant third for Belgium! Photograph: Agust\u00edn Marcarian\/Reuters Photograph: Lee Smith\/Reuters Photograph: Anne-Marie Sorvin\/IMAGN IMAGES\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a000.36 EDT<\/p>\n 65 mins: Belgium with a brilliant counter-attack, starting in their own penalty area from a corner. The ball spears right to Trossard who threads it behind New Zealand\u2019s scrambling back-line to Fernandez-Pardo storming in from the left, but his shot just skims over the crossbar.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 64 mins: New Zealand<\/a> make two more substitutions. Joe Bell and Tim Payne are off, Michael Boxall and Callum McCowatt are on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 64 mins: New Zealand<\/a> are back on the ball now, moving it around in a horse-shoe as Belgium settle a bit more into their two defensive lines. Randall finds himself one-on-one with Castagne, and sends a cross in from the left which is deflected out for a corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 mins: Belgium<\/a> almost make it three! Another corner is driven in low by Fernandez-Pardo from the right, with De Bruyne clipping around one defender before rocketing a shot through a forest of players in the penalty area. Crocombe makes an excellent save and it\u2019s cleared.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 60 mins: A gorgeous through-ball from Fernandez-Pardo slices in behind New Zealand\u2019s back line from the left in towards the sprinting De Ketelaere, whose cross is shinned out for another Belgium corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 58 mins: A nice positive passage for New Zealand<\/a> down the left, with three All Whites rotating before Stamenic sends a lovely chip in behind for Randall. It comes off a Belgian head for a corner, which is punched away and volleyed over the crossbar.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 56 mins: Belgium<\/a> make their first substitution as Jeremy Doku is replaced by Matias Fernandez-Pardo.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 56 mins: Another yellow card for New Zealand<\/a>, this time for Eli Just who tugs Trossard backwards as the Belgian tries to scamper away.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 55 mins: A chance for New Zealand! Eli Just picks up the ball in deep midfield and just\u2026 runs. He tears past three Belgian players, as the Red Devils\u2019 back-line backs off and off, into their own penalty area. Just has a team-mate tearing down the left, but a corridor opens in front of him so he shoots instead, with Courtois palming away.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 53 mins: Belgium<\/a> keep coming, with Doku down the left doing a little dodge to create some space for himself to cut the ball back into a crowded penalty area, but Surman throws his big noggin in the way and heads clear.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 51 mins: Some great individual quality from Trossard, who controls a ping-ponging ball in the penalty area on his chest before volleying it past two All Whites defenders, leaving Crocombe planted in the grass. There\u2019s a brief VAR check, but the goal stands.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! New Zealand 0-2 Belgium (Trossard, 50)<\/p>\n A brace for Leandro Trossard and puts Belgium<\/a> comfortably into second spot in Group G.<\/p>\n Leandro Trossard scores his and Belgium\u2019s second goal. Photograph: Agust\u00edn Marcarian\/Reuters Photograph: Lee Smith\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a000.16 EDT<\/p>\n 47 mins: Kevin De Bruyne is somehow in plenty of space just outside New Zealand\u2019s penalty area, and he receives an easy square pass from Doku. Trossard is sprinting into space down his right, but the midfielder opens up and shoots instead. He doesn\u2019t get much power behind it though and it rolls wide of the far post.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 46 mins: The first yellow card of the match is given to Marko Stamenic for bringing down Youri Tielemans as he tried to gallop away with the ball.<\/p>\n