Russia vs. Croatia: 2018 World Cup live

16: Croatia receives a free kick

Rebic is shot a few yards outside the left turn of the penalty area, giving Croatia a dangerous free kick. But Ivan Rakitic sends his shot high

12: Missed opportunity

Mandzukic gets a good opportunity from a center near the six-yard area, but he can not make a good contact and his shot is wide. The pitch leaned a little in favor of Croatia in the final minutes

7: Russian goalkeeper test

Rebic force Akinveev to make his first stop right away at the l & # 39; another end of the field, sending a pbad to the goal center, but the Russian goalkeeper gets his hands on it and puts it out of play. Rebic also takes the lead on the corner kick that follows, but he is two feet tall. A lot of attack up here in this one.

5: Early Danger for Russia

Aleksandr Golovin produced another dangerous moment for Russia, with a good game play to win the ball before it crosses the bottom line and sends him to the zone, where Dzyuba gets a powerful foot on the ball. But it blew up the back of a Croatian defender.

2 & # 39 ;: Early Pressing

Russia with a first chance, Dzyuba feeds a Cheryshev sprinting into the box, but Cheryshev clears his shot and goes out for a goal to give a shot.

1: Kickoff!

We are on the road, with a place in the semifinals of the World Cup on the line: Russia is in red, and Croatia, unfortunately, is in dark blue instead of its clbadic white and red

One More Yellow and they left

Seven players are wearing yellow cards in today's match, which means that they would miss the semifinal if they were winning and shooting another yellow today: Aleksandr Golovin, Ilya Kutepov and Roman Zobnin for Russia; Mario Mandzukic, Ivan Rakitic, Ante Rebic and Sime Vrsaljko for Croatia

More penalties to come

If this one is sanctioned (which, considering the Russian strategy against Spain, does not seem very unlikely), no guardian is running out of trust.

The two teams made multiple saves in the knockout stages of their country: Igor Akinfeev stopped two Spanish shots in the Russian victory and Danijel Subasic overtook Kasper Schmeichel with three saves in Croatia's victory against Denmark. Both have a lot of experience on the club stage – Subasic, 33, with Monaco, and Akinfeev, 32, with CSKA Moscow – but Akinfeev entered the tournament with 110 international appearances, while Subasic had 41.

Starting Lineup: Croatia [19659020] Danijel Subasic

United Kingdom

Dejan Lovren

Ivan Strinic

Sime Vrsaljko

Andrej Kramaric

Ivan Rakitic

Luka Modric

Mario Mandzukic

Ante Rebic

] Ivan Perisic

Starting Composition: Russia

Igor Akinfeev

Sergei Ignashevich

Ilya Kutepov

Fedor Kudryashov

Mário Fernandes [19659036] Aleksandr Golovin

Zobnin Roman

Daler Kuziaev

Artem Dzyuba

Denis Cheryshev

Aleksandr Samedov

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