Croatia beat Japan to qualify for the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup.
The match between Japan vs Croatia world cup 2022 was very spectacular, the heart was beating fast as everyone was thinking Japan vs Croatia who will win and this was also because the match had reached the penalty shootout. Croatia prevailed in the penalty shootout and defeated Japan 3–1. Croatia goalkeeper D.Livakonic gave his life and showed his experience in an important match to make Croatia the winner in the kick-off at the Al Janoub Stadium.
The first goal came for Japan in the 43rd minute of the match when D.Maeda of Japan gave his team the lead. From Japan, Don took the short corner and sent the ball into the cross and thanks to Yasoda's initial header, the female goalie was able to make his name and the score reached 1-0. This was the first shot of the first half from Japan, which was the first time I hit the target and that too in this FIFA World Cup 2022 and with the help of this first shot hitting the target, Maya Yashoda became the oldest player (34y 103d) to assist from Japan in this World Cup.
Trailing 0-1, Croatia showed their spirit and in the 55th minute of the game, I.Perisic scored the first for Croatia with his thumping header into the bottom right corner, a goal Croatia desperately needed at this point of time. This goal was also very useful for I.Perisic because after this goal he was directly involved in 10 goals (6 goals, 4 assists) in the World Cup along with Lionel Messi (11) and Mbappe (12).
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With the score of 1-1, the game went ahead and then went on increasing, so that after these 1-1 goals, no team got any goal and the score was like 1-1 for a few moments. It seemed as if someone had chained this Japan vs Croatia 1-1 score. 90 minutes of the game were completed but the score was still 1-1 and then came the other side of the game in the form of extra time, both the teams were given extra time of the first half, which was 15 minutes, then the game continued for 15 more minutes. But still no result was found and then got extra time of second half again 15 min 120 is about to be time players of both the teams were looking very tired but no one is ready to give up and their team Looking for 1 more goal to take them into the quarter finals but even these 120 minutes are over and the score is 1-1.
The last thing that was left now was the penalty shootout which means that if either team does not reach the result of a win or a loss, then both the teams get 5-5 penalty shots. In the penalty shot, the entire responsibility falls in the hands of the goalie. If we talk about the history of penalty shoot of Japan and Croatia, then Croatia comes out as the clear winner, who have won 2 World Cup matches from penalty so far,and Japan's record is the opposite because only 1 game has been taken till penalty and in that too we have to face defeat. Today, history repeated itself again as Croatia was once again the winner and Croatia beat Japan 3-1 in the penalty shootout. D.Livakovic was the superstar of the game because he saved 3 out of 4 penalties for Croatia and became the third goalkeeper to do so.
M.Takumi, who started the penalty for Japan, failed in his shot and missed his first penalty, then came N.Vlasic of Croatia and scored his puzzle penalty by firing the ball into the right corner.The details of the complete penalty are given below:-
With 3 misses, Japan also missed their chance to reach the quarter-finals and Croatia beat Japan and became the 5th team to advance to the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2022. Croatia will play their quarter final with the winner of today's match Brazil vs South Korea on 9th December, 2022 in Education City Stadium, Qatar.
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