{"id":27703,"date":"2016-08-14T03:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rio-olympics-2016-neymar-scores-as-brazil-reach\/"},"modified":"2016-08-14T03:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:47:29","slug":"rio-olympics-2016-neymar-scores-as-brazil-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rio-olympics-2016-neymar-scores-as-brazil-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Olympics 2016: Neymar scores as Brazil reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Neymar scored his first goal of the Olympics as hosts Brazil beat Colombia 2-0 to reach the semi-finals of the men&#8217;s football.}<\/p>\n<p>The Barcelona forward curled home a free-kick after only 12 minutes, and Luan added a second after the break.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil will now play Honduras in Wednesday&#8217;s semi-finals after they won 1-0 against South Korea, thanks to Alberth Elis&#8217;s winner.<\/p>\n<p>Germany play Nigeria in the other last-four match.<\/p>\n<p>The Africans beat Denmark 2-0 in their quarter-final, while Germany won 4-0 against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s second pool win came after 0-0 draws with Iraq and South Africa, and a 4-0 victory over Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar, the poster boy for the Games, finally got off the mark at the fourth attempt when he curled home from 25 yards out.<\/p>\n<p>He then provoked a mass brawl between the two teams after a heavy challenge on Andres Roa, and five yellow cards were handed out.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil made sure of a place in their third consecutive Olympic semi-final when Luan&#8217;s effort from outside the area beat goalkeeper Cristian Bonilla.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14218 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90783427_rexfeatures_5828436g.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil&#039;s men&#039;s team won silver at London 2012\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Neymar scored his first goal of the Olympics as hosts Brazil beat Colombia 2-0 to reach the semi-finals of the men&#8217;s football.} The Barcelona forward curled home a free-kick after only 12 minutes, and Luan added a second after the break. Brazil will now play Honduras in Wednesday&#8217;s semi-finals after they won 1-0 against South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27703"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27703"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}