Russia Bowed Out!.

in #sprtshub6 years ago (edited)

Another prediction spot on!. England advanced, Croatia advanced, like i said few weeks ago. Yaaaay!.

We are drawing to the end of this World Cup. It has been exciting and full of surprises and it hurts to see it end, after waiting 4 years for this. This is one of the unexpected World Cup i have seen in a long while, in terms of results. This has been one of the most exciting i have witnessed till date. As usual, i am speaking from my own perspective.

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The match of the day started with Sweden and England. England had a slow start buy gathered momentum later on and dominated the exchange.

England got their lead in the 30th minute when Ashley Young in-swing cross from the left side found Mcguire and he headed home. That was his first international goal for England and from his celebration, you can see what it means to him. He stepped up on the night when Harry Kane would be muted.

Sterling could have doubled England's lead in the 45th minute when he was played through with a long pass. He beat the keeper and also beat the post. He opted to hit it rather than pass to two other England players waiting to pounce.

Sweden had their own opportunity in the 47th minute but it came to nothing but in the 58th minute, England made it 2-0. Jesse Lingard found Dele Alli and he buried his chance with a good header. This made Dele Alli to be the second youngest player to score a World Cup goal for England, behind Michael Owen who was at 18 years and 190 days, when he played against Romania in 1998.

Pickford saved England on two important occasions. He first saved expertly from Marcus Berg and also saved brilliantly from Viktor Claesson. That proved to cement England's lead and pushed them up to a semi-final berth for the first time since 1990.

England advanced!.

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The second match of the day started between Russia and Croatia. It promised to be an exciting one but i tipped Croatia for this one.

Russia had better chances to put the game to bed but it wasn't meant to be as they crashed out of the tournament.

Russia had the lead in the 31st minute when the sensational Cheryshev scored with a stunning strike that flew into the back of the net. Russia were in dream land but 8 minutes after, Croatia levelled as Kramarić nodded home from an inch perfect cross. Perisic would have given them the lead in the 60th minute when he did his foot works and burst forth with a great piece of individual brilliance, only to be denied by the post.

Croatia thought they had won it in the 100th minute, when Vida scored and put them ahead. The disappointment was written all over the Russians but they had renewed hope 5 minutes later when Fernandes gave them a lifeline and dragged the game into penalties.

Rakitic became the hero of the night again when the scored the winning penalty to give Croatia a 4-3 win on penalties. The host nation crashed out.

Now, England face Croatia and it is going to be a cracker. I look forward to this a lot. I tip England on this one.

We are getting there!.

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