FIFA World Cup 2014: Costa Rica are into the quarter-finals after beating Greece

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Costa Rica celebrates the moment their penalty shootout victory

Costa Rica are into the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time in their history after beating Greece 5-3 in a penalty shootout in Recife.

Costa Rica’s World Cup fairy tale will extend to a quarter-final against Holland on Saturday after goalkeeper Keylor Navas’s penalty shoot-out heroics eliminated Greece here.

It was Michael Umaña who scored the winning penalty for Costa Rica, their fifth, after Theofanis Gekas’s strike had been repelled by Navas’s strong hand — the only miss of the shoot-out.

RESULT:
Costa Rica1 Greece1 (Costa Rica win 5-3 on penalties)

GOALS:

• 52': Bryan Ruiz - Costa Rica
• 90+1': Socratis Papastathopoulos - Greece

PENALTI SHOOTOUT:

Costa Rica:

• Borges - Goal
• Ruiz - Goal
• Gonzalez - Goal
• Campbell - Goal
• Umaña - Goal

Greece:

• Mitroglou - Goal
• Lazaros - Goal
• Holebas - Goal
• Gekas - Fail