{"id":748171,"date":"2026-07-07T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748171\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:47:13","slug":"neymar-accused-of-putting-his-ego-above-brazils-success-as-germany-legend-admits-hes-glad-carlo-ancelottis-side-crashed-out-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748171\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar accused of putting &#8216;his ego above Brazil&#8217;s success&#8217; as Germany legend admits he&#8217;s &#8216;glad&#8217; Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s side crashed out of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2-1 victory sends Norway into the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time in the nation&#8217;s history, a run built on a dominant defensive display as much as Haaland&#8217;s attacking threat. Goalkeeper Orjan Nyland, who currently plays without a club, was the standout performer of the first half, producing a string of crucial saves to keep the scoreline level before Haaland&#8217;s double turned the tie in Norway&#8217;s favour. <\/p>\n<p>Matthaus revealed that Norway had been his secret pick to go deep in this World Cup even before a ball was kicked, saying: &#8220;Norway was my dark horse even before the World Cup. They dominated Italy twice in qualifying, and now they&#8217;ve knocked Brazil out of the tournament . They have exceptional players like Martin Odegaard, Bundesliga stars like Antonio Nusa, and a goal machine in Erling Haaland . But they also had a bit of luck and a superb goalkeeper who secured the victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Norway will now face England in the last eight, setting up a heavyweight clash between two of the tournament&#8217;s form teams as the Scandinavian side&#8217;s remarkable run continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2-1 victory sends Norway into the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time in the nation&#8217;s history,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[941,261262,6803,403,99,84938],"class_list":["post-748171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-brazil","tag-neymar","tag-norway","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}