Croatia, runners-up from four years ago, beat Morocco 2-1 in the third-place World Cup match on Saturday.
Croatia matched their best-ever World Cup performance, emerging as the 2-1 winners of a vigorously contested third place match over the tournament’s darling, Morocco.
Third place games have often been said to be more open, positive affairs due to the relative lack of pressure, and both teams got right to work in this edition. Croatia took a sixth-minute lead with by far their earliest goal of the tournament, using a clever set piece routine. Lovro Majer clipped a free kick in for Ivan Perisic, who was running away from goal. Perisic came up with a critical moment of misdirection, spinning at the last moment to guide his header back from where he came, and Joško Gvardiol was free to hurl himself at the ball, sending a diving header just barely inside Yassine Bounou’s right-hand post.
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