{"id":1264567,"date":"2022-12-13T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/croatia-to-face-argentina-in-world-cup-semi-final-today\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:08:25","slug":"croatia-to-face-argentina-in-world-cup-semi-final-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/croatia-to-face-argentina-in-world-cup-semi-final-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia To Face Argentina In World Cup Semi Final Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/950323367ac6404186acf8c9c834bc4c\" height=\"351\" width=\"624\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">European underdogs, Croatia are set to face Argentina later today in the semi-finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Croatia made it to the finals of the 2018 world cup but failed to stake a claim for the trophy after losing to France by 4 goals to 2. The European side are at it again despite having been rated as one of the weak sides in the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The team upset the odds by beating Japan in the Round of 16 and Brazil in the quarter finals to secure a spot in the semi-finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Facing Argentina will be like an uphill battle, but the Croatian side will be highly motivated after beating Argentina in their last meeting in the 2018 World Cup group stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Although the Argentina side they faced was quite weak on paper, the South Americans will also be on the lookout for a revenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Who do you think will come out victorious? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Kritiq (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nArgentina<br \/>\nCroatia<br \/>\nJapan<br \/>\nSouth Americans<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European underdogs, Croatia are set to face Argentina later today in the semi-finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Croatia made it to the finals of the 2018 world cup but failed to stake a claim for the trophy after losing to France by 4 goals to 2. The European side are at it again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5312,29244,262,1497,1450,300,285,784],"class_list":["post-1264567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-argentina","tag-croatia","tag-cup","tag-face","tag-final","tag-semi","tag-today","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}