Congratulations to Croatia. Overall, even match with slight edge to Japan and a huge edge for Croatia on penalties.
Crual for Japan but i think overall we deserved it more. They stopped to play at half Time. We missed Borna Sosa a lot. Barisic is far very far from his level.
This year Djokovic said it best: Same goes for Japan until now they had nothing to lose and the PKs came and suddenly they had something to lose
Bold move taking Modric out, even if he was tired. They're going to need him against Brazil. The first two Japanese penalty takers had miss written all over their face. Completely scared.
Brazil will have it fairly easy, they will be dead in the legs. They even were today and it really showed. That extra time plus Brazil rested their team.
Japan outplayed Croatia in the first half. I thought Croatia would cave but they held in there. Good match.
We won't be dead on the legs. Most of our leaders Perisic Modric Kovacic didn't play much in extratime they have been subbed in few minutes. And We got Borna Sosa back.
Morocco can still prevent that. I tipped Spain to win but I wouldn't be surprised if Morocco would continue their fairy tale story.