By Lateef Adekola
Zlatko Dalic’s side were comfortably seen off 3-0 by Argentina in the semi-final,while the Atlas Lions fought valiantly against France but were put to the sword by goals from Theo Hernandez and Kolo Muani in a 2-0 loss.
Croatia remarkably reached the 2018 final and the semi-finals of the 2022 edition without winning a game in normal time, and they are not novices in bronze medal matches, having beaten the Netherlands 2-1 in the 1998 third placed play-off during their inagural World Cup campaign.
Had it not been for a lack of killer instinct in the final third ,Morocco-(The first ever African team to reach a World cup semi-finals) could have cemented themselves into greater football folklore by becoming the first team from the continent to make it to the final.
Saturday, December 17, 2022, would definitely go down in history of world football, for Croatia and Morocco, as well as, the African continent.
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