Their past two tournaments - the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016 - have both come to an end at the quarter-final stage. Can Belgium now win the World Cup?Д«elgium will feel a huge amount of spirit building after this fightback - and also when they reflect on the fact their last defeat was Martinez's first game in charge, against Spain in September 2016. Lukaku had scored 17 goals in his previous 11 Belgium games but his decision to not shoot on this occasion might prove more crucial than any of those. The Manchester City playmaker carried the ball 60 yards before feeding Meunier, his cross was stepped over by Lukaku, and Chadli was on hand to steer it home. Goalkeeper Courtois rolled the ball to De Bruyne, who had been quiet for 90 minutes but exploded into life when his country needed him. Fellaini, who signed a new Manchester United deal last week, powered in Hazard's centre to level the scores after 74 minutes.ДЄnd the winner was a real team effort. Inui booted the ball up into the air and Vertonghen's looping header flew over keeper Eiji Kawashima, who should have done better.ДЄt 20 yards, it is the longest headed World Cup goal since those stats were first recorded in 1966. Martinez and his players will feel they have gone some way to answering those, and finding a real winning touch, having looked dead and buried after an hour.Д¬helsea winger Hazard had hit the post in one of their few good chances in the opening 60 minutes.Д«ut they ground their way back into the game - even though the goal to give them hope was a bit of a fluke. They are now unbeaten in 23 games, but there are always questions about whether they are tactically astute. Listen to the latest World Cup Daily podcastД«elgium find a winning mentality at perfect timeД«elgium clearly have the players - Hazard, Kevin de Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and Thibaut Courtois are some of the Premier League's undoubted stars.How you rated the players in Belgium's win.Their fortunes changed after that as Vertonghen scored a looping header to get them back into the game.ДЇellaini then headed in Eden Hazard's cross to level before Chadli converted Thomas Meunier's pass to finish off a flowing move and help the Red Devils avoid being the latest victims of a World Cup of shocks.Д«elgium are the first team to fight back from two goals down to win a World Cup knockout game since West Germany against England in 1970. Takashi Inui's 25-yard strike made it 2-0 and looked set to take the Asian side into their first quarter-final.Д«elgium's Premier League stars - their golden generation - had put in a disappointing performance, and Martinez turned to the oft-ridiculed Fellaini and West Brom winger Chadli in his hour of need. Japan looked on their way to a famous win in Rostov after Genki Haraguchi ran onto Gaku Shibasaki's long ball, which Jan Vertonghen should have cut out, to open the scoring. They now face Brazil in the last eight on Friday.

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