BELGIUM forward Romelu Lukaku jumps over teammates to celebrate Brazil’s own goal during the Russia 2018 World Cup quarterfinal match between Brazil and Belgium at the Kazan Arena. AFP

KAZAN, Russia — Neymar’s Brazil crashed out of the World Cup on Friday, failing to erase the pain of their humiliation on home soil four years ago as Belgium beat them 1-2 to set up a semifinal brattle with France.

The five-time champion came to Russia desperate to make amends for its stunning 1-7 semifinal defeat to Germany in Belo Horizonte in 2014.

But three of Belgium’s so-called golden generation — Kevin De Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard — ran riot in the first half in Kazan and the Red Devils showed impressive resilience to hold on in the second period in the face of incessant pressure.

“These boys deserve to be heroes in Belgium,” said coach Roberto Martinez.

“The execution of the tactics was magnificent.

“It is special and we can’t let the people of Belgium down. We can pass that down the generations — beating Brazil.”

Coming into the match, Martinez acknowledged the gulf in World Cup pedigree between his side, which has never been further than the semifinals, and its illustrious rivals.

But after a bright start from Tite’s team, it was Belgium who looked more dangerous, scoring through a Fernandinho own goal in the 13th minute and increasing their lead with a superb De Bruyne strike just after the half-hour.

Tite threw on Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino for Willian at halftime and the famous yellow shirts poured forward in increasing desperation, only to find an impenetrable wall at the back.

Substitute Renato Augusto gave Brazil hope with just under a quarter of an hour to go with a deft header into the bottom-right corner of the net.

Neymar had a chance to equalize late in injury time but Thibaut Courtois produced a magnificent save to tip over the goal-bound curling effort.

Brazil has not lifted the World Cup since 2002 and will have to stand by and watch as a European side win it for the fourth time in a row.

“It’s a heavy, bitter feeling. This was very hard for us to swallow,” said a downbeat Tite, who refused to be drawn on his future.

Earlier, France became the first nation to book their place in the semifinals, making an ominous statement of intent in easing past Uruguay 2-0.

Uruguay was dealt a devastating blow before kick-off in Nizhny Novgorod when Paris Saint-Germain forward Edinson Cavani was ruled out after failing to recover from the injury he picked up in the win against Portugal.

Raphael Varane opened the scoring shortly before halftime from a set-piece, steering a header past a diving Fernando Muslera after Antoine Griezmann whipped the ball in.

But France was indebted to Hugo Lloris for pulling off a stunning save at full stretch moments before the half-time whistle to deny Martin Caceres.

Didier Deschamps’s team doubled their lead in the 61st minute when Muslera made a terrible error, failing to parry a speculative shot from Griezmann and watching in horror as it looped across his goal line.

Deschamps said his side had “again raised our level” after the 4-3 win that ended Argentina’s campaign in the Last 16.

“I have a good team that still has plenty of room for improvement,” he said.

“You can see our lack of experience sometimes, but we have so many qualities too.

“We played well but it was not the perfect match. There are so many things that we can improve on.”