Summary

  • Costa Rica win penalty shootout

  • Costa Rica face Netherlands in quarter-finals

  • Greece score late equaliser to force extra time

  • Costa Rica played with 10 men for almost an hour

  1. Text us on 81111published at 22:18 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Sheelagh: Now that's what I call a cool, calm and collected finish! He's just passed that into the net. Pure joy for Costa Rica.

    Bert: Last night James Rodriguez gave us the tournament's best goal, tonight Bryan Ruiz has given us the luckiest, total miss-hit!

  2. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 22:17 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Fulham's big money signing Kostas Mitroglou is on, he replaces Andreas Samaris.

  3. 'The Missile Deflector'published at 22:16 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Orestis KarnezisImage source, Reuters

    Greece goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis may well boast the best nickname in the game.

    After an inspired performance for Granada in a 1-0 win over Barcelona at the end of the season, Spanish paper Marca labelled him as 'The Missile Deflector.'

    Not so much a nickname as a fully-formed Marvel comic book character.

    In Greek, by the way, that's 'ο πύραυλος εκτροπής'...

    He didn't deflect anything there though.

  4. Postpublished at 22:16 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Former Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts
    BBC Radio 5 live

    "Bryan Ruiz side-foots it in on the floor and Orestis Karnezis the Greece goalkeeper will be disappointed. I think he is unsighted, the ball does not move very quickly but he is rooted to the spot. There is a defender stood right in front of him but Karnezis will be disappointed with his positioning.

    "Credit to Ruiz, he swung across it and passed it into the corner, the accuracy was incredible. And now the game was changed totally. Greece are now leaving gaps in behind. They have made that decision to make this game a forward-thinking game."

    You can listen to BBC Radio 5 live's commentary by clicking on the Live Coverage tab at the top of this page.

  5. Postpublished at 22:16 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Vasilis Torosidis handles
    Costa Rica substitute is bookedImage source, Getty Images

    Costa Rica should have a penalty as a cross is turned away by the hand of Greek defender Vasilis Torosidis!

    There's no real appeal and it looked like a header initially - and Costa Rica's substitute goalkeeper is then booked for his protests on the bench.

  6. Postpublished at 22:14 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Bryan Ruiz celebrates

    "Ole, ole ole ole! Ticos! Ticos!"

    Recife rocking to the Latin beat.

  7. GOALpublished at 22:12 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Bryan Ruiz shoots
    Ball goes inImage source, Reuters

    It's in there! Pretending the game didn't exist did the trick, as Bryan Ruiz steers home a Costa Rican opener!

    Christian Bolanos has the ball on the left and picks out Ruiz on the edge of the box, he doesn't thrash at it, just picks out the bottom corner with a lovely placed effort.

    Now then Greece. Can you attack?

  8. Postpublished at 22:10 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Maybe we should just close our eyes and pretend that it's actually Italy v Ivory Coast.

    Andrea Pirlo is having another blinder, pinging some delicious long passes but Yaya Toure is just starting to look at his best...

  9. Text us on 81111published at 22:08 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Tackle in Costa Rica v Greece

    Gareth: What a shame to lose Chile and Mexico, yet suffer the victor of this bore draw going on.

  10. Postpublished at 22:07 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Samaras!

    Giorgos wins a header from a decent free-kick wide out on the left but it's right at Costa Rican keeper Keylor Navas.

    The winner of this one face the Netherlands next up remember. Good luck.

  11. Postpublished at 22:06 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Former Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts
    BBC Radio 5 live

    Discussing the news that Joel Campbell reportedly bought 500 World Cup stickers in order to get a sticker of himself, only to be disappointed.

    "Maybe we will have to get some people to send in some swapsies for him. I never have done that myself but I do have a fair collection of those sent in by various family members.

    "But you always look weird in them. They always catch you at the wrong moment, or maybe it's just my face."

  12. KICK-OFFpublished at 22:05 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Game on!

  13. Postpublished at 22:04 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    The players are back in the tunnel, Greece coach Fernando Santos having some stirring words for his team. Hopefully they involved the words 'mixer' and 'bomb on.'

  14. Postpublished at 21:59 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Stoke would walk this game Craig. Get the ball out to Arnautovic and hit Crouchy.

  15. Text us on 81111published at 21:59 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Craig, London: Greece are the Stoke City of the international scene. Applaud them for their dogged determination, but watching them makes you love football just that little bit less.

  16. COMING UP ON MONDAYpublished at 21:57 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    David Ornstein
    BBC Sport

    "Germany have just held their final news conference ahead of Monday's last-16 encounter against Algeria, with captain Philipp Lahm describing the north Africans as "unpleasant to play against" and a side who "prefer to play a foul than to lose the ball".

    "Asked how great the pressure is on his team to win this tournament, Lahm added: "Germany is a three-time World Cup winner and there aren't that many teams that have won so many titles. I think we have great potential - whether this is enough for this tournament, we will see."

  17. Join the debate at #bbcworldcuppublished at 21:56 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Clyde Macfarlane:, external I hope the Greek manager explains the offside rule to his players at halftime.

  18. Postpublished at 21:56 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    The bad news is that Costa Rica did not have a shot on target in that first half.

    However, Costa Rica didn't manage a first half shot on target against Uruguay either. And then scored three quick goals.

  19. Postpublished at 21:53 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    Former Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts
    BBC Radio 5 live

    "It is an intriguing match. Greece can give you problems tactically, they play in waves, committing men forward for spells and then returning to hold their positions.

    "The Greeks had the best chance of that half through Dimitris Salpingidis. They won't be worried about any boos and will come out and do the exact same thing in the second half."

  20. Postpublished at 21:53 British Summer Time 29 June 2014

    First-half stats