Croatia finish Morocco dreams and snatch third place
Croatia beat Morocco 2-1 and finished third in the World Cup in Qatar on Saturday evening.
Josko Gvardiol and Mislav Orcic scored for the Croats in the 7th and 42nd minutes, while Achraf Dari scored for Morocco in the ninth minute.
The Croatian team entered the match under pressure, and goalkeeper Yassine Bono almost scored by mistake in his own goal, when he tried to pass the ball to his teammate.
In the seventh minute, Croatia got a foul and the ball reached Perisic, who passed it to Vardiol, who scored the goal from a distinctive header.
The Moroccan team did not delay in responding, as the referee announced a foul for the Moroccan team carried out by Ziyech, to reach the ball to Dari, who scored the equalizer from a header in the ninth minute.
Confusion appeared on the defense and center of the Moroccan team, and the Croatian team was exploiting it with offensive rebounds, and Kramaric almost scored from a header that knew the intervention of goalkeeper Bono.
In the 22nd minute, Attiullah made a mistake and put the ball in front of Modric, who shot hard, but goalkeeper Bono intervened on two occasions and cleared the ball.
The Lions attack was active from two attempts, the first in the 25th minute from a beautiful work of art between Ziyech and Hakimi, who entered the box and passed to Nasiri but did not improve the follow-up of the ball, and the second from Boufal, who got a ball from Al-Khnous and shot strongly, but one of the defenders saved the ball.
In the 42nd minute, the ball reached Mislav Orcic and with a beautiful touch scored the second goal for the Croats.
Second Half Events Croatia vs Morocco
At the start of the second half, Elias Shaer replaced Sabiri on Elias Shaer, and Croatia were in the race to threaten a powerful shot from Orsic that flew past Bono's left post.
The Croatian team's attempts were very dangerous, taking advantage of the mistakes of defense and the middle, and in the 55th minute Onahi entered instead of Al-Khnous to revive the center, and the Croatian team relied on offensive rebounds and fell back, and Ziyech tried to surprise the Croatian defense from a shot near the penalty area line, but the ball went over the goal.
Al-Rakraki was forced to make two forced changes to injury, with the exit of Yamiq and Dari and the entry of Bannon and salts, and in the 74th minute Al-Nasiri singled goalkeeper Livakovic and shot, but the latter saved the ball, and in turn Kovacic missed an opportunity in front of goalkeeper Bono and shot aside, and Al-Nasiri missed an opportunity from a header.
Morocco pressed in the final minutes of the match to score the equalizer, but the Croatian team was present and saved all the attempts of the Lions, who finished And end the dreams of Moroccans in fourth place.