After a devilish start from the Canadians. The Croats took control of the game and managed to beat the Americans.

The fastest goal in the cup was scored. Alphonso Davis makes Canadian history and scores his country’s first World Cup goal. This goal hit Croatia so hard that they struggled to take control of the game.

A few minutes later, the Europeans were able to hold the ball longer and thus managed to overturn a difficult game. First, Kramaric scores at minute 36′ after a good collective game, then Livaja shoots from far and beats the North American goalkeeper.

For the second half, everything belonged to the Europeans. They continued to dominate until minute 44′. Kramaric scores again and allows his country to dream of the round of 16. at 94′ the newly admitted Majer would score the fourth and final goal of those led by Zlatko Dalic.

In this way, Croatia takes the lead with Morocco with 4 units, followed by Belgium with 3 and Canada eliminated without addition in the contest.

Preview of Croatia vs Canada

After taking part in Russia 2018, where Croatia played the grand final against France and ended up being beaten by a resounding 4-2 in a high tension game. Today, the base of this Croatian team remains, even if some have decided to end their cycle in the national team, like Mandzukic, Rakitic and the goalkeeper Subasic.

Croatia emerged as champions of Group H of the European qualifiers, in which they shared a group with Russia, Slovakia, Cyprus and Malta. He played 10 games, won 7, drew 2 and lost 1, scored 21 goals and scored 4. He added a total of 23 points.

Croatia vs Canada: Their main driver is the midfield

Among his main footballers who reached second place in Russia 2018 are: Lovren, Vida Vrsaljko, Kovacic, Modric, Brozovic, Perisic and Kramaric. Led by Zlatko Dalić, Croatia are looking to include a generational replacement and for Qatar 2022 great care must be taken with their new values ​​like Gvardiol, a centre-back with a great season at Leipzig and Musa, a hard-nosed striker for Benfica.

Canada returns to World Cup after 36 years

For its part, Canada returns to a World Cup after having participated for the only time in 1986, it will join group F with Belgium, Morocco and Croatia. The Canadian team is Concacaf’s big surprise for this World Cup, which they qualified for after finishing top of the table with 28 units, the same as Mexico’s, but with a better goal difference. Canada is ranked 43rd in the FIFA rankings and its coach is John Herdman.

Alphonso Davies, Canada’s figure for the Qatar 2022 World Cup

The winger was born on November 2, 2000 in Buduburam, Ghana, but soon moved to Canada with his parents, a country which granted him asylum and where he trained as a football player, until that he can emigrate to Bayern Munich after training at Vancouver Whitecaps CF

Since 2019 he has been playing in German football and this will be his first World Cup. In the qualifiers, he played 13 games and scored 5 goals.

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