Danijel Subasic (Monaco) Danijel Subasic (Monaco) 18. If you want to find out the detailed stats for Fifa Ultimate Team, go to the EA Sports official page here. Four of the top 10 come from the Premier League, while Bayern Munichs Manuel Neuer is first. In the end, it was a deserving end to an extraordinary World Cup.Tomorrow we’ll reach for sure the Hot Spots, with the Top 40-21 in the rankings of FIFA 18. They were fierce in attack, giving most teams a run for their money with their explosive pace, mostly thanks to a 19-year old Kylian Mbappe. Two decades after their first World Cup, this was a young French side (the youngest in the World Cup) that brought the trophy back home. They were resolute in their defence and made it count when they ventured up the field.
But France deserved full credit for their victory. His attempts to save looked half-hearted. In hindsight, Subasic was equally to be blamed for three of the goals. Croatia will rue their misses and two horrible defensive errors. France stepped up their game and ensured the Croats weren’t given even a sniff of goal after that.Ĭroatia had never beaten France before in their previous five meetings and that history wasn’t to be rewritten. Croatia were given a glimmer of hope in the 69th minute when Mandzukic pounced on a horrendous error from Lloris to make it 4-2.
The goal put Mbappe down in the history books as the only teenager to have scored in a World Cup final since the legendary Pele in 1958. He shimmied left and right before sending a low shot past Vida and into the bottom-left corner. Mbappe took advantage in the 65th minute, when he was left in acres of space near the box. It was all too much for Croatia who looked shattered. Subasic again didn’t do much as he just watched the Croatian net bulge.
Ball over the top to Fernandes but it looked like it was out for a goal-kick. Pogba’s first shot was blocked by Modric and the ball fell straight back to him, but his second shot was on target and unhindered. 17 Russia back on the ball and setting up their attack. He started the move, picking up the ball near the half-way line and played it through to Mbappe who returned it to him. It was France who did so in the 59th minute when Paul Pogba found the back of the net. They dominated in possession but couldn’t make it count in the final third. The second half saw Croatia attack with grit. Couple of minutes later, Griezmann had restored France’s lead. Perisic, cancelled out his goal by awarding a penalty to France in the 36th minute, courtesy a VAR review (the first in a World Cup final).
Croatia couldn’t hold on to the equaliser for long. Modric’s free-kick was headed into the penalty area by Vrsaljko, before Perisic blasted into the net. Perisic levelled in the 29th minute, when he blasted a shot on goal from the penalty box into the right corner. To be fair to him, Mandzukic didn’t know much about it, but Subasic did very little to defend and Croatia were behind just 18 minutes into the game. The resultant shot was headed towards goal by a rising Mandzukic, who managed to beat Varane, but unfortunately beat Subasic as well. Antoine Griezmann won a questionable free-kick just outside the box. Their first goal came courtesy an own goal. The game was mostly played in France’s territory. Rakitic sent a beautiful ball over France’s defence to find Perisic, but his first touch was heavy enough for Umtiti to put it out of play. If the first half started off rustily, Croatia and France certainly had their games greased well by the 11th minute. Pavard wonder strike voted best goal of World Cup.
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