'A constant carnival'published at 07:50 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2022
Croatia v Brazil (15:00 GMT)
In fairness to Brazil, they have had plenty to celebrate so far in this tournament - Emma Sanders was at Stadium 974 on Monday for their powerful display of attacking brilliance against South Korea.
She described the performance as 'street football from Rio de Janeiro brought straight to the Middle East - a legendary number 10 playing tricks, a juggling Richarlison scoring worldies - again - and a constant carnival sound coming from the thousands of supporters clad in yellow.'
BBC Sport pundit Chris Sutton agreed on BBC Radio 5 Live: "Devastating. Brazil are saying to the rest of the teams in the tournament: 'We're here,'" he said.