France wins 2018 World Cup

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Croatia couldn’t win a match in 90 minutes against three very average teams (Denmark/Russia/England). Pretty hard to figure out why they would have eventually beaten a superior French squad even if they hadn’t conceded those “clumsy” goals (as Modrić put it). They scored one legitimate goal the whole match (which was their 90-minute pattern from the knockout round on) and never really tested Lloris apart from that.

That said, their coach shouldn’t have panicked after it was 2-1 and moved his lines forward. Their initial approach was working. Once they did that they got shredded by the French, who could have easily added to their count if needed.