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Wednesday's match was extraordinary.
The Three Lions team blew up the Muscovite Luzhniki Stadium. Little to have started the game. Kieran Trippier scored a free kick, an exquisite charge on the barrier that left no option to goalkeeper Danijel Subasic.
The goal of Trippier, according to data from the famous statistic Mister Chip, meant the first of a player with the number 12 in Russia-2018. Thus all numbers, from 1 to 23, have already archived at least one bubble in the championship (including the goal of Yann Sommer, the goalkeeper of Switzerland, 1).
Trippier, we must not forget the elastic of England, and came here to do, in the semifinals of a World Cup and direct charge.
It ran five minutes and already the duel was conditioned: Croatia would attack as if there was no tomorrow and England would defend with nails and teeth, with the against Attack of the main ally.
The booklet bore a stamp. The Croats besieged the British, Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic moved the team at a good pace, but England panicked every time he stole the ball and Raheen Sterling and Delle Ali came run like bullets in search of the other goal. The English did not stop singing. Since the initial whistle, they have shown a vast repertoire and in a very short time they had already played more songs than the Beatles in their entire lives.
Half an hour ago, Harry Kane, the great Superstar of Tottenham, just before Subasic, it would have put in advance in the English part of the scale.
In the 35, Jesse Lingard also launched a golden opportunity, unforgivable, while Rakitic could tie the shares in 44, but behind the Three Lions, he disarmed the midfielder before attempting the shoot.
So came halftime. With everything open, with endless possibilities and dreams for both pretenders. France, which had ensured its presence in the match for the throne yesterday, watched every detail of the match.
England, where many say that football was invented, tried to be included in the grand finale for the second time in history. He was trying to make his debut in this case, he had never spent the semifinals.
Already in 55, the English could develop but Kane and Lingard, continuing to play, could not send the ball to the back of the net. Nine minutes later, the Croatians went to charge but the shot of Ivan Perisic, who was going to the goal, crashed on Kyle Walker's anatomy. But Croatia won the price of the limitless insistence. Perisic managed to tie the ball in the 67th minute when he scored a precise cross from Sime Vrsaljko's right, having masterfully anticipated his rival.
In 71 the Croatian revolution continued. Rakitic sent the ball to the post and rattled the stadium. The waves of the former Yugoslavs have increased. The animated English fans were barely heard in the stands.
It was now or never for Croatia. The Three Lions suffered as never before, it was an outrageous martyrdom duel for them at that time.
The ride of the emotions of the last 10 minutes was hellish. Mario Mandzukic was able to overtake the Croats but goalkeeper Jordan Pickford prevented him; Perisic, shortly after, also had in his boots the goal of the victory, but his shot went high, on purpose.
Demential, the Luzhniki was a madhouse; the 22 football players looked like dogs of prey; thundering cries of "England", "Croatia" … even "Rossia" are heard in the stands. The decibels were too numerous.
England could win in 91, but Kane, with all the support, nodded to the outside. So he let all his chances go around the gold ball.
Then, extra time, something that was not uncommon for a team. For Croatia it was something of every day: in the eighth it exceeded in Denmark and in the quarters to Russia, in both occasions to the penitentiary lottery. Meanwhile, England did the same in the second round against Colombia.
Back in action, in 1986, John Stone put a powerful head header, but Vrsaljko saved Croatia by pushing back the ball. Crossing the finish line, the goal was sung.
In the 105, Pickford made the best rescue of his life, or at least the most important, and again denied the goal to Mandzukic; bestial action of the English guardian, monumental.
But football wanted to reward Mandzukic. The powerful Juventus striker, left-handed, scored the advantage for the Croats in 109, a Perisic pbad, and sent England, once again, to hell anxious losers.
For the first time in the history of football, Croatia – a nation of just over four million inhabitants – will compete for the throne of the world, against France next Sunday, in Moscow.
The possibility of seeing a new world champion is still latent.
The inventors of football, meanwhile, come back disappointing their supporters, they only have the consolation match for third place, against Belgium on Saturday.
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