Olympics: Brazil, Mexico through to football final

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Brazil's march towards their first Olympic title continued as a first-half Romulo effort and Leandro Damiao's brace booked a final showdown with Mexico.

South Korea produced a gutsy performance and were unlucky not to be given at least one penalty.

But Great Britain's conquerors lack the creativity Brazil are capable of around the penalty area and once the South Americans got into their stride, there was no holding them back.

It keeps the overwhelming favourites on track for another major international honour with a squad it is envisaged will become the bedrock of their 2014 World Cup campaign on home soil.

And having extended a remarkable record of scoring three times in all five matches so far, with Damiao top of charts with six, it is hard to see them being stopped at Wembley on Saturday.

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Mexico came storming back to reach their first Olympic men's final with a 3 - 1 victory over Japan as the Asian side dreams of double football gold were crushed at Wembley.

The Japanese men looked set to join their women's team in setting up a gold medal match at London 2012 when a superb third goal of the tournament from Yuki Otsu gave them an early lead in this afternoon's semi-final.

But Marco Fabian, Oribe Peralta and substitute Javier Cortes turned the game around as Mexico set up a final on Saturday against Brazil or South Korea and left their opponents playing for bronze.