The world champions survived their toughest test in many moons beating Russia 6-4 in an exhilarating quarterfinal match in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. The Seleção were twice behind, but a treble from Daniel helped take their unbeaten run to 71 games.
Goals from Egor Shaykov and Dmitry Shishin sent Russia into a completely unexpected early lead.
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The holders were stunned, but reigning FIFA World number one player Buru responded as a world champion should, deceiving his marker and thumping the ball past the impressive Andrey Bukhlitskiy to make it 2-1.
Nikolai Pisarev's came close to scoring on many occasions, however it was their opponents that completed the first-period scoring through a fine Bruno strike.
Ilya Leonov edged Russia back in front in the second, but Daniel responded immediately to send the sides in level at the 24-minute mark.
The Brazilian No. 5 then added two more in the last period, and although Buru was sent off and Shaykov eventually pulled one back, Benjamin found the net to put the game beyond the Europeans' reach and set up a date with Portugal.
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