Croatia 2 Morocco 1 LUKA MODRIC EXITED football’s biggest stage with a bronze medal after captaining Croatia to victory over Morocco in the World Cup third-place play-off.
If Modric is about to bow out, a rising star of Croatian football opened the scoring with the masked Josko Gvardiol heading in early on, only for Achraf Dari to level less than two minutes later for a Morocco side still fatigued following their semi-final loss to France.A fine Mislav Orsic effort had Croatia, well beaten by Argentina in the last four, ahead at the break and they held that lead throughout a stop-start second half.
His powers may be on the wane and, with no Ivan Rakitic or Mario Mandzukic, he is helping to nurture the next batch of Croatian talent who will look to continue to defy the odds. He was soon beaten by brilliance rather than bad luck, however, with a well-worked Croatia free-kick seeing Lovro Majer loft the ball for Ivan Perisic to knock across goal and into the path of a diving Gvardiol, whose header was out of the reach of Bounou.
Amazing to think that the 1st, 2nd and 3rd in this WC will feature Messi, Mbappe and Modric - 3 of the greatest players in the modern game.
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