2018 World Cup: Manzukic broke the hearts of English team in semi final
Mario
Manzukic scored the winning goal in the 109th minute, completing the
amazing return of a broken Croatian team and bringing the small country with
more than 4 million people to the World Cup for the first time in a short
history.
Kieran Trippier
gave England a dream starts inside the Luzhniki
Stadium, wind in a free-kick beyond the hopeless dive of Danijel Subasic in
only the fifth minute. but Ivan
Perisic hit the goal for Croatia within the 68th minute.
Mario
Mandzukic's goal in the 109th minute gave Croatia an advantage and
It makes possible to win this game with 2-1 goals.
The Croatian
team took the lead in the early stages of the second extra time. From the
England team, his defense has become more intensive because his defender has
been punished.
Kieran
Trippier's early free kick, it seems that the England team raised their first
final in 1966 because they won the trophy at home. But this is not the case in
this situation, as the Croatian team roared in the second half and equalized
the score with Ivan Pericic.
England manager Gareth
Southgate after match:
“At the moment we all feel the pain of
defeat. I don't think realistically we expected to be here, but once you're
here and played as well as we did, you want to take those opportunities in
life. The dressing room is a difficult place at the moment”.
"You have to suffer the result first
sometimes. I'm hugely proud of what we've done - I couldn't have asked for any
more. They've broken through a number of barriers in the past weeks."
Croatia
vs France
The greatest
winner of the night might be the French team, who took a day off in Sunday's
final after defeating Belgium 1-0 on Tuesday. But this is not important for
Croatia, the smallest country that has entered the final since Uruguay in 1950.Croatia will face France in the World cup final on Sunday 15
July, 2018 as per Pakistan time match will be start on 8:00pm.
England will face Belgium
Now England will play Belgium in
Saturday's for the third-place play-off in St Petersburg on Saturday 14 July,
2018.According to Pakistan time match will be start on 7:00pm.