Croatia edged Morocco 2-1 to win the third-place playoff at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on Saturday.
Superb goals from Josko Gvardiol and Mislav Orsic, either side of a Achraf Dari equaliser, were enough to seal a happy ending to the World Cup careers of Croatia’s veteran stars Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic.
But the game at the Khalifa International Stadium was an unusually exciting affair and far better than the goalless draw that the teams played out when they met in the opening game of Group F just 24 days ago. But almost straight from the restart, Morocco won a free-kick, ironically off Gvardiol, with Dari heading home from close range from the subsequent set piece.
There were many close chances after the break, with Orsic’s deflected strike hitting the side netting just minutes into the second-half, with Mateo Kovacic fired wide late-on.
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