RECIFE: Keylor Navas created one in all the most effective goalkeeping displays at the globe Cup as Costa Rica
reached the quarter-finals for the primary time by beating Hellenic Republic 5-3 on penalties on Sunday having
contend nearly AN hour with ten men.
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After the Ticos had conceded a disruption time equaliser and further time had finished in a very 1-1 draw, it
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had been left to Navas to create the shaping contribution with an outstanding one-handed stop to stay out
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Theofanis Gekas's fourth spot-kick.
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That allowed archangel Umana to fireplace high into the highest corner and send the Central Americans into a
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final eight meeting with Netherlands and spark raucous celebrations.
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Navas had already created 2 gorgeous saves, the latter within the final minute of stoppage time, as Costa Rica
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persisted courageously having had accolade Duarte sent off when sixty six minutes.
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“(He was) sensible,” Costa Rica's joyous coach Jorge Luis Equus caballus aforementioned. “What he did can
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provide him confidence and facilitate his development and growth, he's one in all the most effective within the
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world. we have a tendency to sure him and he was au fait throughout the penalties.
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“He has big and is a unprecedented man, that was recognised these days.” The sentiment was shared by Greece's
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outgoing boss Fernando Santos UN agency cut straight to the chase.
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“If it weren't for him, the result would are totally different,” he said.
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Costa Rica can play the Dutch in Central American nation next Sabbatum.
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An otherwise dire match was delivered to life early within the 0.5|last half|half} once Bryan Ruiz sedately
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sidefooted Costa Rica ahead however defender Duarte was laid-off midway through the half, permitting the Greeks
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to search out a route into the match.
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With the clock ticking past ninety minutes, Navas may solely parry an endeavor into the trail of Sokratis
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Papasthathopoulos UN agency beat it into the roof of Infobahn.
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A match between the sole team to qualify for the knockout stage with a negative goal distinction and therefore
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the lowest scorers among all the cluster winners was invariably probably to be a cagey affair.
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And so it proven as Costa Rica probed and pushed within the early stages while not ever actually committing to
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the cause whereas Hellenic Republic looked as if it would be a team cognizant of their own limitations.
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After an ordinary half, wherever the sole meaningful moment was a superb save from Navas together with his
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legs to deny Dimitris Salpingidis from shut vary, the spark the match required to ignite it into a spectacle
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arrived seven minutes when the restart.
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The Hellenic Republic defence compound to administer Ruiz acres of house to sidefoot a Christian Bolanos cross
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into Infobahn from fifteen metres.
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Yet their hopes of seeing out the sport in routine fashion were scuppered once Duarte received his walk orders
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when a slippery tackle on Jose Holebas created a second yellow card and opened the door for a Greek comeback.
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Gekas swivelled within the box and his low shot was solely parried by Navas into the trail of Papasthathopoulos
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UN agency dismissed home.
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Extra time was for the most part unidirectional traffic, with exhausted Costa Rica defenders growing
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progressively desperate in their efforts to stay the ball out.
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Navas did well to beat away an attempt from Lazaros Christodoulopoulos before somehow keeping out an endeavor
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from Kostas Mitroglou when the clock had ticked past a hundred and twenty minutes.
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Santos was sent to the stands before the scrap started and therefore the tension mounted as seven penalties hit
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the rear of Infobahn before Gekas stepped up to the spot.
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The substitute hit it firmly to the keeper's left however Navas leapt athletically to push it clear with one
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hand, going away Umana to thrash his effort into the to left corner.
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For Pinto, there was AN certainty concerning the result the minute it visited a scrap.
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“If we have a tendency to may play till a hundred and twenty minutes with one player less, then the penalties
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were ours,” he said.
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“That is that the law of compensation.”
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