Neymar fires Brazil through

Neymar scored a superb free-kick as Brazil beat Colombia 2-0 to move into the semi-finals of the men’s football tournament at the Rio Olympics.

Brazil, who have never won the Olympic title, were nervous, especially in a first half that had 21 fouls and five yellows cards, four of them for Colombia.

Colombia rarely tried to play, preferring to hack at their opponents and it was from a 30-yard free-kick that Brazil took the lead after 12 minutes with Neymar curling the ball through a wall that disintegrated.

It was Neymar’s first goal of the tournament but he also may have been lucky to escape with just a yellow card for chopping down Andres Roa and provoking a brawl between the two teams just before half-time.

Brazil were the better team throughout and Luan got the second goal …

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