Brazil go through but fail to samba

Brazil 2 Japan 2

Thu, 23 Jun, 2005 - 01:00

The world champions progress to the competition's later stages courtesy of their 3-0 defeat of Greece which nudged them ahead of their Asian counterparts.

Brazil have stuttered throughout and will now face Germany shorn of confidence after failing to defeat Mexico and having now failed to beat Japan.

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