FRANCE WINS WORLD CUP CROATIA WINS HEARTS
FIFA Football World Cup 2018 Winner France defeating Croatia 4-2 in an epic final in Moscow bringing curtains down. Not surprisingly, the epic match resulted in a deluge of memes, contributing to the FIFA frenzy on Twitter. Moreover, while many commemorated France’s win, others also appreciated Croatia for their performance in this world cup. The match between the two countries remained quite intense all throughout, even though France kept a lead of 2-1 till half time. A major boost for France in the first half was an unexpected own goal by Mario Mandzukic, which gave them an immediate lead, followed by a penalty that, where they scored again.
While Croatia gained momentum with Mandzukic scoring in the second half and touching the 4-2 score but it wasn’t much to pull the team through the second half. Though, the team tried really hard but failed to even score a third. France scored through Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappe before a Hugo Lloris blunder helped Mandzukic make amends for his earlier transgression. All three goals in the second half came in a crazy 9-minute period. France lifted the World Cup for the second time and Croatia once again couldn’t beat the French side.
Atrocious defending in the penalty box cost Croatia their first World Cup trophy
FIFA Football World Cup 2018 Winner France defeating Croatia 4-2 in an epic final in Moscow bringing curtains down. Not surprisingly, the epic match resulted in a deluge of memes, contributing to the FIFA frenzy on Twitter. Moreover, while many commemorated France’s win, others also appreciated Croatia for their performance in this world cup. The match between the two countries remained quite intense all throughout, even though France kept a lead of 2-1 till half time. A major boost for France in the first half was an unexpected own goal by Mario Mandzukic, which gave them an immediate lead, followed by a penalty that, where they scored again.
While Croatia gained momentum with Mandzukic scoring in the second half and touching the 4-2 score but it wasn’t much to pull the team through the second half. Though, the team tried really hard but failed to even score a third. France scored through Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappe before a Hugo Lloris blunder helped Mandzukic make amends for his earlier transgression. All three goals in the second half came in a crazy 9-minute period. France lifted the World Cup for the second time and Croatia once again couldn’t beat the French side.
Atrocious defending in the penalty box cost Croatia their first World Cup trophy
Croatia's defence has earned plaudits during the course of the 2018 World Cup. The defensive quartet of Vrsjalko, Lovren, Vida and Strinic have put in some splendid performance keeping the attacks of Denmark, Russia and England at bay. Although Croatia kept their shape in the first half, they were undone by some shoddy defending by their forwards in the penalty box and the Croatian defence failed to marshal their troops in the penalty box which led to costly errors. They were punished in the 18th minute after Mario Mandzukic failed to clear the ball and instead slotted the ball past his own keeper, giving France the lead. Although Croatia pegged back through Ivan Perisic's equalizer, they were undone yet again after Perisic handled the ball in his own box from an Antoine Griezmann corner in the 36th minute. VAR spotted Perisic handling the ball and Griezmann calmly scored from the penalty spot, sending Subasic the wrong way. Finals are won and lost during such moments and Croatia suffered from two calamitous mistakes on the night. This gave France an upper hand which resulted in the French piling more misery on the Croatians in the second half, with the game finishing 4-2 in favour of France.
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