{"id":193194,"date":"2024-06-25T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/25\/croatias-euro-2024-campaign-has-been-unfair\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:51:26","slug":"croatias-euro-2024-campaign-has-been-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/25\/croatias-euro-2024-campaign-has-been-unfair\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia\u2019s Euro 2024 campaign has been \u2018unfair\u2019 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Luka Modric bemoaned that football is \u2018merciless and cruel\u2019 after Croatia\u2019s 1-1 draw with Italy left them on the brink of\u00a0Euro 2024\u00a0elimination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Croatia have taken only two points from their group stage games and are in need of a minor miracle to secure a spot in the last 16. They finished third in Group C and need\u00a0England to beat Slovenia\u00a0by at least three goals on Tuesday to stand a chance of ranking among the four best third-place teams which would see them through to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Modric scored the opening goal of Croatia\u2019s matchday three encounter with Italy, but they were pegged back by a 98th-minute equaliser from Mattia Zaccagni which proved to be the final kick of the game.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second successive game in which Croatia conceded deep into stoppage time, succumbing to a 95th-minute goal from Klaus Gjasula during their 2-2 draw with Albania.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Monday\u2019s stalemate with Italy, an emotional\u00a0Modric\u00a0claimed Croatia\u2019s campaign has been slightly \u201cunfair\u201d due to their commitment and passion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kept battling right until the end but unfortunately football was merciless tonight, football was cruel,\u201d the\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0midfielder said. \u201cNot only today but also in our last game when we conceded a late goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard when you lose like this to find the words to describe how you feel. Of course we need to bounce back but that\u2019s the way it is. Perhaps it\u2019s unfair because we all fought for Croatia from the first whistle to the last, the footballing gods don\u2019t always smile on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Croatia are now staring down the barrel of a first group stage elimination since their 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign, while they have have only twice gone out before the knockout rounds of a European Championship twice when competing as an independent nation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Modric bemoaned that football is \u2018merciless and cruel\u2019 after Croatia\u2019s 1-1 draw with Italy left them on the brink of\u00a0Euro 2024\u00a0elimination. Croatia have taken only two points from their group stage games and are in need of a minor miracle to secure a spot in the last 16. They finished third in Group C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Croatia\u2019s Euro 2024 campaign has been \u2018unfair\u2019 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/25\/croatias-euro-2024-campaign-has-been-unfair\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Croatia\u2019s Euro 2024 campaign has been \u2018unfair\u2019 \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Luka Modric bemoaned that football is \u2018merciless and cruel\u2019 after Croatia\u2019s 1-1 draw with Italy left them on the brink of\u00a0Euro 2024\u00a0elimination. 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