Paraguay beat Japan 5-3 on penalties to advance to the quarter-finals of the World Cup after their second round tie ended in a goalless extra-time stalemate in Pretoria.
Japan's Yuichi Komano hit the crossbar with his team's third spot kick, the only one missed in the first shootout of the finals.
Paraguay have become the fourth South American team after Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, in the last eight - a height hey have never scaled before in their participation at the World Cup.
The South Americans had enjoyed more possession during the scoreless encounter which had relatively few clear goal chances at either end.
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