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Maradona to Ronaldo: Who’re the purpose scorers in FIFA World Cup semifinals earlier than Qatar 2022?


The FIFA World Cup has seen some sensible semifinal objectives traditionally, from Diego Maradona’s brace towards Belgium to Roberto Baggio’s stunner towards Bulgaria in 1994.

The World Cup, beginning in 1930, noticed a variety of modifications in its format through the years, with semifinals being launched in 1982. Until 1978, groups certified for the finals after group phases, the primary and second spherical respectively.

Up to now, 10 semifinals have been performed and 48 objectives have been scored, which incorporates Brazil’s notorious 1-7 loss to Germany within the 2014 World Cup.

The twenty second version of the FIFA World Cup will see the semifinals be performed between Argentina and Croatia within the first match and France and Morocco within the subsequent, in Qatar.

Here’s a listing of the goalscorers in FIFA World Cup semifinals to date:

1982 FIFA World Cup

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    Poland 0-2 Italy (Paolo Rossi 22’, 73’)
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    West Germany 3-3 France (Pierre Littbarski 17’, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 102’, Klaus Fischer 108’ – Michel Platini 26’ (P), Marius Tresor 92’, Alain Giresse 98’)

1986 FIFA World Cup

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    France 0-2 West Germany (Andreas Brehme 9’, Rudi Voller 89’)
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    Argentina 2-0 Belgium ( Diego Maradona 51’, 63’)

1990 FIFA World Cup

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    Argentina 1-1 Italy (Claudio Caniggia 67’ – Salvatore Schillaci 17’)
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    West Germany 1-1 England (Andreas Brehme 60’ – Gary Lineker 80’)

1994 FIFA World Cup

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    Bulgaria 1-2 Italy (Hristo Stoichkov 44’ (P) – Roberto Baggio 21’, 25’)
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    Sweden 0-1 Brazil (Romario 80’)

1998 FIFA World Cup

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    Brazil 1-1 Netherlands (Ronaldo 46’ – Patrick Kluivert 87’)
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    France 2-1 Croatia (Lilian Thuram 47’, 70’ – Davor Suker 46’)

2002 FIFA World Cup

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    Germany 1-0 South Korea (Michael Ballack 75’)
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    Brazil 1-0 Turkey (Ronaldo 49’)

Ronaldo of Brazil celebrates scoring the equalising purpose towards Turkey in the course of the second half in the course of the Brazil v Turkey, Group C, World Cup Group Stage match performed on the Ulsan-Munsu World Cup Stadium, Ulsan, South Korea on June 3, 2002.
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2006 FIFA World Cup

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    Germany 0-2 Italy (Fabio Grosso 119’, Alessandro Del Piero 120+1’)
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    Portugal 0-1 France (Zinedine Zidane 33’ (P))

2010 FIFA World Cup

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    Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands (Diego Forlan 41’, Alvaro Pereira 90+2’ – Giovanni van Bronckhorst 18’, Wesley Sneijder 70’, Arjen Robben 73’)
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    Germany 0-1 Spain (Carles Puyol 73’)

2014 FIFA World Cup

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    Brazil 1-7 Germany (Oscar 90’ – Thomas Muller 11’, Miroslav Klose 23’, Toni Kroos 24’, 26’, Sami Khedira 29’, Andre Schurrle 69’, 79’)
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    Netherlands 0-0 Argentina

2018 FIFA World Cup

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    France 1-0 Belgium (Samuel Umtiti 51’)
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    Croatia 2-1 England (Ivan Perisic 68’, Mario Mandzukic 109’ – Keiran Trippier 5’)



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