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The second goal of Croatia was fantastic, one of the best in the tournament.

Croatia played better, and they deserved to win against Morocco.

As usual, Morocco tried to surprise everyone by scoring quickly after the first goal. And they did have a few chances, but in the end Croatia ended up winning with a great goal.

Yeah I also thought the same that Croatian player's performance this year was below that of last year. If the performance of last year was replicated this year they would have progressed farther than they did in this year's competition. Modric has always been a leader that leads by example and has lead his team to another successful outing in the world and I'm sure they will be proud of how far they came this year.

The both teams played well and shows they country that they are really defending their country, but the aspect of saying that Morocco entertained the world, actually what every country have in mind is to left the cup which was Morocco team intensions of participation and perhaps they could not make it, so Morocco fight and it's how a country supposed to participate in a contest, I'm proud of Morocco team on the level they got at this world cup finals.

I am pretty sure that everyone that is a fan of Morocco would have been extremely surprised and extremely happy and proud if you would have told them a few weeks ago that their national team would reach the semi-final of this years wold cup. I mean for most of the fans and experts they were a sure candidate to not survive the group stage of this tournament because they had Croatia and Belgium in their group, but they managed to surprise everyone and even finished the group on the first place.
I think that everyone in Morocco should now be extremely proud of their team and i am already interest how many players of Morocco will join strong european teams this winter or after this season.

The consecutive goals from the Croatia followed by Morocco within few minutes was really nice to watch. Performance from both the teams were incredible and the match will be remembered by the football fans irrespective of the team. Now it is time to buckle up to watch the much expected France vs Argentina. Mostly this is going to be a win for Argentina.

As I told you this match was the match that no one will remember in the future.
Perhaps only the fans of the two teams will remember it.

Incredible world championship for Morocco and confirmation of Croatia's third place like 4 years ago. Amazing result in my opinion.

A big congratulations to Croatia on their well deserved 3rd place finish up and also a big thank you to Morocco to for entertaining everyone around the world in this world cup. Todays third place final was not that tense as the game was a little bit one sider as Croatia played and perform very well.

Tomorrow is the going to be the last game of this world cup in Qatar and the world is anticipating to be entertained as the two nations involved are very strong nations and we wiil be hoping to see a very tense final atmosphere as the two teams are hosting some of the world top players and strikers. Cant wait to see Messi and mbappe compete tomorrow for the trophy.

Yes, Morocco has tried great efforts, they even have many opportunities to score more goals. Unfortunately, Morocco failed to score a second goal, so Croatia won the match. Another reason why Morocco can't win the match is that some of their main players can't play until the end of the match. I saw some Morocco main players get injured in 2nd half. So, many substitution players played in 2nd half.

However, we must appreciate Croatia, they played more effectively. We must admit that Croatia strikers and midfielders played better than Morocco players.

Congratulations Croatia!

Hopefully they are able to.
In this regard, Morocco's achievements have been very good, even though the results of the competition for positions did not meet expectations. But this can be a very good experience for Morocco. Maybe after this, they will develop more.

In last night's match, both Morocco and Croatia played very well and excitingly. They were getting excited to attack. But here, Croatia deserves to be the winner. Dan Marocco, well done for this country.

congratulations to croatia for winning 3 in this world cup, seeing last night's match was really a great match both teams played attacking until the end of the match, morocco had tried their best and finally they had to admit the superiority of croatia who was able to penetrate the defense by scoring 2 goals, world cup this will be history for morocco

what Morocco has achieved today is an extraordinary achievement. this is history for them. and the squad will always be remembered in their history books.
despite the loss, I'm sure the fun from the Moroccan fans will be immense. they did well this year. hopefully, in the next edition, Morocco will be stronger.

however, we must say congratulations to Croatia. third place is not something easy. they do well. they played well throughout the competition. Croatia has become a country worth considering in world football.

Morocco performance is very different from the last few matches, they have made mistakes at the bottom because they did not pass the ball to friends and even almost became a threat to their own goal, the ball control of Moroccan players is very bad. I thought Morocco could have a chance to beat Croatia because but my prediction was wrong that Croatia played their best in the last match and they are a solid team to chase scoring opportunities for the team's win.

Croatia finished quite well in tonight's match as there we were able to finish strong by winning with a goal ahead of their Morrocan opennet and their we're able to walk away as the third position in the world cup tonight is a big celebration night for Croatia as a country at least they had a successful world cup outing this season.

I am so happy for Morocco and same time also proud of the them as Africa first country to reached semi final despite they didn't win and qualify for final because nobody believed they will get where they are today. Morocco performance make Africa understand that it is possible for every Africa country or any country in the world that they can also win world cup but all it needs is determination and confident in country team and that is what brought them where they are today. I believe many countries especially Africa countries will learn great things from Morocco determination.

Croatia, fortunately, defeated Morocco 2-1 to claim third place in today's match despite minimal effort from both teams, who both tried and deserved to win. Croatia made a great effort, so I applaud them for that. At the same time, I congratulate Morocco for their performance throughout the competition and Croatia for finishing as the third-best country team in Qatar 2022.

I think in this case they had a bit of a nervousness and it was very visible early in the game and started to improve after the first goal.
But on the other hand they also couldn't make a good scheme in this match, Morocco was too hasty when they attacked and indeed the finishing from the start of this world cup was also not very good but they forced this too much.

I certainly doubt they will be able to repeat something like that, but even this match was great. Unfortunately, Morocco lacked quite a bit at the end to score the second goal. They attacked a lot and were very good on the counterattack throughout the match. But, deserved victory for the Croats, let's see what happens at the next World Cup, because the Croatian line-up will be completely different.

While I agree that Gvardiol deserves to win FIFA Young Player Award award (any doubt about that is imho removed after his performance today) I don't think that there is an award for the best defender. I expect him to finish in the team of the tournament though.


Even though there is no award for the best defender, I am curious to hear who are those few defenders that had better tournament than him? The way he played is even more impressive when you take into consideration the way our team played this tournament, and how busy he was every single game. In 6 out of 7 games we played he was either the best or among 2-3 best players in our team and I don't remember any of our defenders playing this good in any of our previous world cups. Not even Dejan Lovren when he was chosen into 2018 team of the tournament.


Unless they signed the contract, I don't think that they will get him. Not after the tournament that he has and definitely not for amount of money agreed before WC. Rumour in Croatia is that Man City and Real are frontrunners and I would rather see him in either of those two than in Chelsea.

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I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised when I see our starting 11 before the game started, especially seeing Perisic as LB ( position similar to the one he is playing for last few years in Inter and now in Tottenham) and Orsic ar LW, as that meant Dalic decided to completely change the tactic and showed that we are not one dimensional team like Greece was back in 2004 for example (btw I highly respect what Greece achieved) and that we can play attractive and attacking football if we want to, and still be pretty good at it despite the lack of a world class forward.

Once again I was worried about the referee, and for a good reason given the fact that we should have been awarded penalty for that foul on Gvardiol, but luckily that mistake didn't had effect on the final result. In the end, 3rd sport well deserved, we were the better team today.

edit: exclusive photo from VAR room that explains why they didn't see foul on Gvardiol  

I'm really looking forward to Argentina vs France, it's really hard to predict who will win but my heart wants France to win. I know it's an important match for Messi but when we look at the teams, France is one step ahead. When I look at the odds of the match, they are close to each other. I don't think you should take any risks in this match. It could go either way. I think it is a match with a high chance of going into extra time.

Considering the record for most goals in world cup is Miroslav Klose with 16 goals total, having 5 goals even before the final, potentially more goals with this game means that they did one third of it in a single tournament.

Mbappe has a bright future, and has a great team around him as well, there is a potential that if he keeps taking penalties as well, then he could beat Klose easily. The most goals in a single tournament is 11 though, which is pretty though, could it happen? Possibly if Mbappe faces very very easy teams and scores like 5-6 goals in just group stages, then in the other 4 games score just 5-6 more goals and it could be done, but it would be pretty difficult.

Morocco's performance was not what I had anticipated. The desire to defeat Croatia wasn't present in the game. Even so, both teams competed as if winning the bronze medal didn't mean much for their team or name. Their quarter-final defeats demoralize them to give us good football to watch.

Having said that, a hearty round of applause for Morocco, the first country from Africa to break the yoke of Africans making it to the world semifinals. Even though they lost to Croatia, they gave a fantastic performance in the world cup that deserves to be recognized.