Belgium's Lukaku invites Brazil challenge at World Cup

KAZAN, Russia — Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku won't be heard grumbling that his group's reward for winning its World Cup bunch is winding up in what seems, by all accounts, to be the far harder side of the draw and meeting five-time champion Brazil in the quarterfinals.

Friday night's amusement in Kazan unites the two most elevated positioned groups left in the competition following Germany's initial exit. Brazil is positioned second and Belgium third. Whoever wins plays either France or Uruguay.

At a news gathering Thursday, Lukaku said Belgium's baffling knowledge at the 2016 European Championship indicated nothing ought to be underestimated in football and that Brazil will give a "benchmark" for his group.

"In the event that you need to accomplish something, you need to battle for it unfailingly," said Lukaku, who has inspired at the World Cup with four objectives and is second in the Golden Boot race, behind England's Harry Kane with six.

"Everybody was stating you should come in second (in Group G) ... in any case, take a gander at the European Championship when we had an indistinguishable course from England now and things turned out badly straight away."

At Euro 2016, intensely liked Belgium was thought to be on the simpler side of the attract to make the last however wound up being thumped out at the quarterfinal organize by Wales, which was in its first significant rivalry in almost 60 years.

Britain, which came next behind Belgium in Group G, has seemingly wound up on the less demanding side of the draw after the two sides rolled out huge improvements for their last gathering match, which Belgium won 1-0.

Belgium revived from two objectives down to beat Japan 3-2 in the round of 16.

Britain plays Sweden in the quarterfinals on Saturday, at confront esteem a far less demanding recommendation than meeting Brazil. The victor of England versus Sweden will then meet either Croatia or Russia.

With seemingly its most grounded gathering of players ever from Thibaut Courtois in objective to Kevin De Bruyne in midfield and Eden Hazard and Lukaku in advance, Belgium is attempting to achieve the World Cup elimination rounds out of the blue since 1986.

Despite the fact that Belgium and Brazil are uniformly coordinated as far as quality, mentor Roberto Martinez said there's a straightforward distinction between the two groups.

"The distinction is we haven't won a World Cup, it's as basic as that ... you go into a competition when you don't have the know-how to win the competition," Martinez said.

The mentor said having Thierry Henry, who was in France's 1998 World Cup-winning squad, among his private alcove staff has helped connect that hole.

"He realizes what you feel as a player when you are in that circumstance, when you see an opportunity, when you need to confront the weight," Martinez said. "His contribution to that regard has been vital."