Croatia Beat Morocco 2-1 To Clinch 3rd Place At World Cup

Croatia beat Morocco 2-1 to clinch third place at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Croatia beat Morocco 2-1 in the World Cup third-place playoff on Saturday to secure a top-three finish in the tournament for the second consecutive time.

Runners-up in 2018, Croatia also came third in the 1998 World Cup, beating the Netherlands 2-1.

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Josko Gvardiol put Croatia in front after a well-designed set-piece play. Lovro Majer lobbed a free-kick to Ivan Perisic, who peeled away from his marker to head the ball to the middle of the box, where Gvardiol was perfectly positioned to nod the ball into the net with a brilliant diving header.

But it only took two minutes for Morocco to find the equaliser, also from a free-kick, as Croatia’s Majer tried to clear the ball but miscalculated his header and missed badly, setting up Morocco’s Achraf Dari, who was alone in the six-yard-box to send home a close-range header.

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Croatia scored the winner three minutes before the break when Mislav Orsic netted a dipping, curled shot from just inside the area that went in off the post. They held their lead through an absorbing yet goalless second half.

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