Croatia beat Russia 4-3 in penalty shoot-out, 20 years later reached semi-finals

Sochi Croatia's dream of flying high on the dream of Croatia broke into the penalty shootout with a 4-3 victory over Saturday, and entered the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup football tournament for the first time.

After the match was fixed at 1-1 in the 90 minutes and then in the extra time, the fight was taken after the match was equal to 2 -2, in which the Croatian team managed to score. In the semi-finals of Croatia, the former champions will face England on Wednesday, who had previously beaten Sweden 2-0 in the quarter-finals.

The defeat of Russia caused the entire country to become stunned while the fans of Croatia fluttered in joy. Despite this defeat, the most satisfying thing for Russia was that, despite being the lowest ranking team in the World Cup, he came to the quarter-finals, ignoring all the assessments, which was his best performance as Russia. Russia had made a big change in the final-16 match by defeating a strong team like Spain in the penalty shootout 4-3, but in the Finch Stadium of Socci, she had to face 3-4 defeat at the Copa trophy at Croatia.

The match was really fantastic and its end was also exciting. Ivan Rakitich, who scored the winning penalty, reached Croatia in the semi-finals, and along with the 70th ranking team in the world finished the Russian dream swapnil campaign.

In the shootout, the first penalty of Fyodor Smolove was saved by Croatia goalkeeper Danijel Subasich, despite being dipped in the final time with one hand. Russia's goalkeeper Igor Akhifov saved the penalty of Matao Kovasich, but Mario Fernandes beat out the third attempt, and with this the destiny of Russia was fixed.
In the 120th minute of the match, Dennis Cherishche made a huge shot in the 31 st minute, forwarding Russia, which was his fourth goal in the tournament. But after 8 minutes, Croatia took the match, when Andreas Cramirich scored with the header.

After the deadlock was not broken at the scheduled time, the match entered additional time. Croatia took the lead in the 11th minute of extra time, when Domagose Vida scored a goal with a beautiful header but Russia got equal to remaining 5 minutes remaining. Born in Brazil, Fernandes gave the header to Russia 2-2.
Both teams had to undergo their second penalty shootout, in which Croatia's fate was much faster. Croatia became the second such team since 1990 in Argentina to win two penalty shootouts in the same tournament.

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