Copa America: Brazil beat Paraguay on penalties to reach semi-finals

Brazil's Alisson celebrates winning the penalty shootout — Brazil are yet to concede a goal after four Copa America matches

Gabriel Jesus scored the decisive spot-kick as hosts Brazil beat Paraguay on penalties to reach the Copa America semi-finals.

Paraguay had Fabian Balbuena sent off after 58 minutes for a foul on Roberto Firmino, but the match ended goalless.

Gustavo Gomez and Derlis Gonzalez missed from the spot for the visitors as Brazil won the shootout 4-3.

The eight-time winners - booed by their fans in their first two games - will next face Argentina or Venezuela.

Brazil, who last won in 2007, were initially awarded a penalty following West Ham defender Balbuena's foul on Liverpool forward Firmino when he was through on goal - but the decision was overturned after a video assistant referee check showed the offence took place outside the box.

The hosts peppered the opposition goal in Porto Alegre, registering 26 attempts - Manchester City forward Jesus shot narrowly wide from close range before Chelsea winger Willian hit a post in the final minute.

Brazil were beaten by Paraguay on penalties in 2011 and 2015, but they triumphed this time despite Firmino dragging his spot-kick wide when they led 3-2.

They will play Argentina in the semi-final in Belo Horizonte next Tuesday, after they beat Venezuela 2-0.

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Brazil fined over homophobic chants

Brazil's football federation has been fined $15,000 (£12,000) over homophobic chanting by fans during the hosts' opening match of the tournament against Bolivia.

The South American Football Confederation said there were chants at goal-kicks and that Brazil supporters also lit flares as their side won 3-0 on 14 June.

Line-ups
Match Stats
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Line-ups

Brazil

1Alisson
13Alves da SilvaSubstituted forTolentino Coelho de Limaat 85'minutesSubstituted forTolentino Coelho de Limaat 85'minutes
4Marquinhos
2Thiago Silva
6Filipe LuísBooked at 44minsSubstituted forLobo Silvaat 45'minutesSubstituted forLobo Silvaat 45'minutes
8ArthurBooked at 84mins
15AllanSubstituted forWillianat 71'minutesSubstituted forWillianat 71'minutes
9Gabriel Jesus
11Coutinho
19Sousa Soares
20FirminoBooked at 47mins

Substitutes

3Miranda
7Neres Campos
10Willian
12Lobo Silva
14Militão
16Cássio
18Tolentino Coelho de Lima
22Fagner
23Ederson

Paraguay

12Fernández
2PirisBooked at 34mins
4BalbuenaBooked at 58mins
15Gómez
13AlonsoBooked at 37mins
16Ortíz
23Almirón
6SánchezSubstituted forEscobarat 78'minutes
17PérezSubstituted forRojasat 74'minutes
11Coutinho
18ArzamendiaBooked at 30minsSubstituted forValdezat 61'minutes
10González
20FirminoBooked at 47mins
12Fernández
2PirisBooked at 34mins
4BalbuenaBooked at 58mins
15Gómez
13AlonsoBooked at 37mins
17PérezSubstituted forRojasat 74'minutes
6SánchezSubstituted forEscobarat 78'minutes
16Ortíz
18ArzamendiaBooked at 30minsSubstituted forValdezat 61'minutes
23Almirón
10González

Substitutes

3Miranda
7Neres Campos
10Willian
12Lobo Silva
14Militão
16Cássio
18Tolentino Coelho de Lima
22Fagner
23Ederson
1Silva
3Escobar
5Valdez
7Cardozo
8Rojas
9Santander
11Iturbe
14Torres
19Domínguez
20Rojas
21Romero
22Aguilar

Referee:: Roberto Tobar
Attendance:: 44,902

Match Stats

Home TeamBrazilAway TeamParaguay

Possession: Home70%; Away70%

Shots: Home26; Away26

Shots on Target: Home8; Away8

Corners: Home5; Away5

Fouls: Home22; Away22

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Post update
Match ends, Brazil 0(4), Paraguay 0(3).
102'
Penalties over
Penalty Shootout ends, Brazil 0(4), Paraguay 0(3).

101'
Goal!
Goal! Brazil 0(4), Paraguay 0(3). Gabriel Jesus (Brazil) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
100'
Post update
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Derlis González (Paraguay) right footed shot is close, but misses to the left. Derlis González should be disappointed.
99'
Post update
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Roberto Firmino (Brazil) right footed shot is close, but misses to the left. Roberto Firmino should be disappointed.
98'
Goal!
Goal! Brazil 0(3), Paraguay 0(3). Rodrigo Rojas (Paraguay) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
97'
Goal!
Goal! Brazil 0(3), Paraguay 0(2). Coutinho (Brazil) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
96'
Goal!
Goal! Brazil 0(2), Paraguay 0(2). Bruno Valdez (Paraguay) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
95'
Goal!
Goal! Brazil 0(2), Paraguay 0(1). Marquinhos (Brazil) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
94'
Goal!
Goal! Brazil 0(1), Paraguay 0(1). Miguel Almirón (Paraguay) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
93'
Goal!
Goal! Brazil 0(1), Paraguay 0. Willian (Brazil) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
92'
Post update
Penalty saved! Gustavo Gómez (Paraguay) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Penalties in progress
Penalty Shootout begins Brazil 0, Paraguay 0.
90'+8'
Full Time
Second Half ends, Brazil 0, Paraguay 0.
90'+8'
Post update
Attempt blocked. Thiago Silva (Brazil) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Everton.
90'+8'
Post update
Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Brazil) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian with a cross.
90'+7'
Post update
Corner, Brazil. Conceded by Gustavo Gómez.
90'+7'
Post update
Attempt blocked. Coutinho (Brazil) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
90'+6'
Post update
Corner, Brazil. Conceded by Iván Piris.
90'+6'
Post update
Attempt blocked. Everton (Brazil) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	8	0	8	7
2	Venezuela	3	1	2	0	3	1	2	5
3	Peru	3	1	1	1	3	6	-3	4
4	Bolivia	3	0	0	3	2	9	-7	0

Team

Pts

Brazil

Venezuela

Peru

-3

Bolivia

-7

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Colombia	3	3	0	0	4	0	4	9
2	Argentina	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Paraguay	3	0	2	1	3	4	-1	2
4	Qatar	3	0	1	2	2	5	-3	1

Team

Pts

Colombia

Argentina

Paraguay

-1

Qatar

-3

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Uruguay	3	2	1	0	7	2	5	7
2	Chile	3	2	0	1	6	2	4	6
3	Japan	3	0	2	1	3	7	-4	2
4	Ecuador	3	0	1	2	2	7	-5	1

Team

Pts

-4

-5

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The samba football has been coached out of Brazilian players following years of playing outside of Brazil for big European Clubs. Of course they're not going to play like the Brazil of old which contained home based players with a free flowing beach style that thrilled and excited all of us back then. Sad fact of life is that money lured them away & the result is this. Organised, sterile football.
How about mentioning that Paraguay were down to 10 men for half an hour but Brazil still couldn't break them down.
Some dead Brazil team. I don’t like it. The side which had Ronaldinho, the original real Ronaldo (my favourite ever player), Rivaldo, Romario, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, Baptista, Romario, Gilberto Silva, kaka to name a few was the deadliest squad I can remember. Now it’s all these play acting overpaid mercenary flops with crap attitudes.
The quality of South American teams is as low as it's been for years. None made the World Cup semi finals; Colombia won all of their group games in this tournament and we saw what they had to resort to against England.

I hope there is a revival of sorts in the next few years!
Good god you really have to sift past at least 12 articles for 1 women's England game and even then there's a separate section for it anyway!

Anyway from what I've seen the AFCON has had better games than the Copa.

Really slow and boring which is a shame as central/south american football use to be exciting.

Agree with the comment that tactics and playing Europe has had an impact.
I still have some of that nostalgia of the old Brazil teams so have generally wanted Brazil to do well.

With no Neymar it makes it alot easier to support them. Tite needs to get his tactics right and play the right players.

His conservatism could come back to bute him.
Where has the samba style, free flowing, skill and tricks gone from Brazil?

Sad to see them become just another generic international team that looks the same as all the others
Strange how most other news outlets report it more like "Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker was the hero for his home nation yesterday after saving a penalty in Brazil’s semi-final shoot-out against Paraguay." Scoring a penalty should be easy for this level of player. Saving them is the hard part.
Didn’t realise the COPA and AFCON or anything else in sport was even taking place apart from WWC and Murray playing a bit of mixed doubles
Two Argentinian websites are already talking about their coming game against Brazil already assuming Venezuela will roll over and play dead. I hope the “vino tinto” win their game against Argentina.
Allison is superb, best keeper in the world. Firmino playing superb too. Hope Brazil win it. Keeping Citeh's Edison out of team is no mean feat either.

Uh oh Citeh fans, UEFA starting to hand out financial fair play sanctions, fines and bans ..... you're next !
Why isn't there any coverage of the Gold Cup? Do people know little Curacao have made the knockout stages? Of course there's loads of AFCON coverage.
Payers changed years ago when they joined European Clubs.

Money/Fake Diving has changed their style
They may talk about their Brazillian Love of this game but sad to say they are just another average team...nothing like the Teams of the 70's/Early 80's...way off the scales.
Only a couple of players since their have shone.

I used to enjoy watching them play but they are very boring now
Easily the highest quality football tournament happening this summer, by a very long distance. So, of course, the BBC take minimal interest.
HarryM. The poster so boring be signs another username up to post the exact same thing, verbatim but, add a new addendum to the bottom of one go make them look different. C'mon BBC, only allow one account per IP. How many more does the burk have, is he Darren from Devon and all those clones too? Some people treat this HYS as a social media, liking their own stuff on multiple pros. Very bizarre
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Pretty sure they were singing for Aidy Boothroyd, he’s the next Mark Hughes you know
@69 "Easily the highest quality football tournament happening this summer, by a very long distance."

Not wishing to be deliberately argumentative but which matches in your opinion have been of a high quality? In my view, it's been a very poor tournament so far.
At the current rate of progress my team, Hartlepool, could be serious challengers for Copa America next season.
You need to get Tim Vickery reporting on this!!!!
Good to see you're still just about managing to cover proper football! Looking forward to the Argentina game tonight. Last night's African CON game between Algeria and Senegal was a classic!

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