Sunday, November 27, 2022 – 10:19 PM
DOHA, November 27 / WAM / The Croatian national team boosted its hopes of qualifying for the second round of the 2022 World Cup, following its great victory 4-1 over its Canadian counterpart today, Sunday, in the second round of Group Six matches in the first round of the tournament.
The Croatian team, second in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, raised its tally to 4 points from two matches to lead the group on goal difference only once morest its Moroccan counterpart, who achieved a big surprise in the second match in the same group today and beat the Belgian team 2-0.
The Canadian national team took the initiative to score the net with a very early goal scored by Alfonso Davies in the second minute of the match, but the Croatian team escaped the surprises of the current World Cup and overturned its delay to a big victory, with a quadruple scored by Andrei Kramaric in the 36th and 70th minutes, Marco Levia in the 44th minute, and Lovro Meyer in the fourth minute of time instead. lost to the match.
The matches of the third round of this group will decide the two qualification cards for the second round (the round of 16 in the current World Cup), where the Croatian team (4 points) will meet its Belgian counterpart (3 points) in a match that the Belgian team will have no choice but to win in which to settle qualification.
The Moroccan team (4 points) will also meet its Canadian counterpart, who was eliminated from the competition for qualification following suffering two consecutive defeats and did not score any points in the group.
Ahmed Al-Boutli / Ahmed Zahran
