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.