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Croatia beat Morocco 2-1 within the third-place playoff on Saturday because the African aspect’s historic 2022 World Cup led to defeat.
It took Croatia simply seven minutes to open the scoring by a header from Joško Gvardiol, earlier than Achraf Dari equalized two minutes later.
In an open and thrilling sport, Croatia retook the lead by an excellent end from Mislav Oršić on the stroke of half time.
Regardless of its finest efforts, Morocco couldn’t discover one other equalizer, ending the match in fourth place to cap off a memorable few weeks in Qatar the place Morocco turned the primary African nation to achieve the World Cup semifinals.
Croatia’s third-placed end is its second at a World Cup, having completed because the runner up 4 years in the past in Russia.
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