It feels like we've been waiting months for this Canada-Croatia match, but it's finally (almost) here 🙏
Canada was one spot kick away from making history on Wednesday. But the FIFA World Cup is nothing if not cruel — even to the most deserving — as a moment of defensive complacence, a lack of composure in front of the goal and a stingy performance from keeper Thibaut Courtois highlightedNow, after that arguably unjust defeat, Canada cannot afford to lose to Croatia, otherwise their World Cup dreams — 36 years in the making — will come to a halt, just like that.
With that first roadblock out of the way, the Canadian side now hopes they've shaken the nerves off and are ready to take the game to Croatia with hopes of earning a result that will keep their chances of qualifying for the Round of 16 alive. At the center of that group is mercurial midfielder Luka Modrić — the 37-year-old who has won everything there is to win at club level with Real Madrid in Spain, and who came painfully close to putting his hands on the World Cup with a cinderella run to the final in Russia in 2018.While they are a talented bunch, Croatia's success relies heavily on Modrić's form, and they lack bite on attack without the midfielder's deep-lying playmaking abilities.
Croatia is even more vulnerable to Canada's strengths than Belgium was, and it can be argued that De Bruyne and Co. beat Canada at their own game.
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