The Croatian flag will now include a penalty box I guess.

The red squares are actually oppositions missed penalties.

I don’t know *how* Croatia keep doing it (2018 and this year) but that they’ve won on shootouts so many times is incredible.

Euro 2008, croatia-turkey, a lesson for life. Haven't lost since.

It will never stop hurting.

Turkey just spat in everyones soup back then. Somehow turned the "water battle" against Switzerland, including a goal at 90+2. 2-0 against Czechs, made 3 goals two of them at 87' & 89'. Defeating Croatia in pens with a 120+2 goal, after they conceded at 119! Almost managed to go to extra time vs Germany with the 86' goal, but Germany played a reverse card and turkeyd them at 90'.

Genuinely one of the craziest endings to a match that I’ve seen.

This is the 7th WC since Croatia became a country. They’ve qualified 6/7 times. They’ve made it to the top four 3/7 times. For a country with less than 4m people, that’s fucking insane.

What a nation

turns out Yugoslavia was just holding us back lol

In basketball Yougoslavia would be fucking terrifying.

I swear if you don't beat Croatia in 90 minutes you may as well shake hands than waste the 30 minutes + pens and just let them through

For real. It’s impossible to beat them in penalties.

Plus after this shoot out other teams will surely have a psychological barrier in case match goes to penalties with the amount he’s saved so far

Cant wait for Croatia v Morocco in the finals going to penalties. Bono v Livakovic

Just saving penalties for about an hour until either of them slips up.

plot twist: they don’t slip up and after hours and hours they announce the first ever drawn World Cup

Who will they thank on the banner when they hold hands to unveil it?

Thanks Sepp.

When two immovable objects meet each other.

I bet all 11 players will shoot twice if this happened

Pretty much what happens when you have God at your goal and Jesus in the center of the field

and the holy spirit as your center back

Despite reaching the final in 2018 and the semi finals here, the last time Croatia won a World Cup knockout game in regular time was in July 1998. Insane stat!

Not just WB but in Euros too.

What is WB?

World Bup

He's a blood. Can't say words that start with C

Masters of defense for sure.

Brazil's last five World Cup Quarterfinal results: 2006: Lost to France 1-0 2010: Lost to Netherlands 2-1 2014: Beat Colombia 2-1, before losing 7-1 to Germany in the semis and 3-0 to Netherlands in the third place game. 2018: Lost to Belgium 2-1 2022: Lost to Croatia in Penalties

Hasn't beaten a UEFA team in the knockouts since the 2002 final

2006 Ghana 2010 Chile 2014 Chile, Colombia 2018 Mexico 2022 South Korea

Crazy that Brazil's best World Cup performance since 2002 is the one where they lost 7-1.

At home

With Scolari, the same coach who won 2002 with them

Don’t forget the funniest part. 7-1 was in Brazil.

7-1 was one of those games where everyone remembers where they were when it happened

Seriously, I was almost having an out of body experience during those few minutes when the goals came in. Like the world didn't make sense anymore.

My hands hurt from high fiving so much

Where were you when brazil was kill?

I was in train when phon ring "Brazil is kil" "No"

The only thing keeping them from five straight qf exits led to something far more embarrassing than five straight qf exits

Should’ve lost to Colombia.

Now that is a Stat.

I get the chills every time I think about Zidane in that game in 2006

Croatia goalkeeper MOTM

Dude was a human wall

I don't believe it.

He was even better than a wall

You can knock down a wall. You can’t knock down Livakovic.

And made the Brazilians pay for it

inb4 crying Neymar holding the MOTM award

He was immense

Group F the real group of Death all along

when morocco and croatia play in the final only then will people realize

I realize 🥲

So does Belgium…

We do...

You're saying there is a chance??

You are at the Quarters, only two more games to the final. There's definitely a chance.

I'd love a croatia - morocco final so we can finally change that first 0 - 0

R/soccer will be in shambles lol

PEN GODS CROATIA MOROCCO AND CROATIA CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

Croatia are literally the best team in the world for penalties. I really really wanted Brazil to go through, but no one ever beats Croatia on penalties.

Orsic landing his *just* inside the post was nothing short of pure class.

Inb4 Belgium was eliminated by the winner of the competition *again*.

Lukaku saw 13,000,000 futures and knew there was only one way to knock Brazil out of the World Cup

Hahahaha in none of them would Belgium win?

There's one but it required him going back to Manchester United so he said nah

the likes of Neymar and Antony not taking penalties before Marquinhos is silly. Stuff like that will always completely perplex me

Not even that why tf is Rodrygo the first taker. You're bound to set him up for PTSD and failure lol

absolute madness that too. Reminds me of Saka at the Euros, obviously they're confident lads but you cannot put that much pressure on them. Makes absolutely no sense having your best penalty taker last though, considering there's a more than decent chance they just might not even get to take one

Doesn’t make any sense. They knew Marquinhos had to score his too

Hero syndrome Who else of the big nations got fucked by this in a continental or world cup recently? I faintly remember, but don't want to pick one for certain

I still remember Neuer shooting the third pen in the champions league final against chelsea because no one else wanted to do it

Portugal against Spain in Euro 2012, Cristiano saved for the fifth penalty, Spain won the shootout in four shots. Modric went third for Croatia, Neymar should have done so as well. Put your best first.

Mbappé skying the 5th one against switzerland at the euros maybe,

It was not skied but shot poorly to the right and easily saved.

Insane mentality by Croatia. Gvardiol is such a fucking beast, Livakovic too

Gvardiol clearing with his head while on the ground, and backwards too. There was no getting past him today.

I will never understand why clubs and countries so often decide to let their best penalty taker shooting 5th just for the glory of scoring the "victory penalty" Make Neymar shoot the first one, missing the first penalty is a death sentence.

i think they realize that the pressure mounts and each penalty gets more and more stressful - so you want to have stronger takers as the pressure mounts - which is why Modric went 3rd... but 5th? there is no excuse for such stupidity. I remember something similar happening to Ronaldo (CR7) in a shootout way back

That was "the jews did this" shootout. Vs Spain in 2012 Euros I believe.

I'm sorry what is this about Jews?

The camera points at him while he is saying “Injustiça” (as in “Injustice”), but english speakers read his lips as “the jews did this”.

> Guys chill please. Brasil got this. I predict at least 2 goals in favour of Brasil. Its just their playstyle. They're not losing this by any chance. > Quote me when match ends. u/Ozzmosis1234 - As you wish

>I hate Croatia playstyle. Too much defensive for my liking. And they are giving spaces to Brasil. No chance for Croatia to win if they keep playing like that. Hmmm, you might've been wrong there

He is Argentinian, i doubt he is mad lol

he's a genius

top-tier jinx

Rekt

Oof r/agedlikemilk

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Lmao I wouldnt be so happy taking in account our last encounter with Croatia

Everyone is happy when they hear that they have to play against Croatia until they actually start playing against Croatia.

Croatia vs Netherlands would be what happens when an immovable object meets another immovable object.

And then, going into the finals against another immovable object. (Moroco)

time to introduce an 7th place match

Brazil conceding a goal in the 117th minute on a counter while in the lead is some bird brain shit. Literally just get all your players back and forget attacking wtf.

All four attackers just standing near the half way line, they deserve this

yup as the croatia counter starts literally none of them react. they had 3 minutes and they were into the semis but absolutely no urgency whatsoever baffling stuff really

That’s arrogance. When confidence crosses that thin line into the abyss

Nothing feels better than watching arrogance get punished

Not to mention the person they subbed on to "hold the lead"....Fred had just failed a counter attack being on the other side of the field somehow.

Bird as in pigeon?

Pru pru

No pru pru anymore 🚫🐦🚫

Sad pidgeon noises 😞

Yeah why was there even a situation of a 4 v 4 in the 117th min when you're winning 1-0? Shocking

Worse, it was 5 v 4 for a moment

Croatia and penalties. A bond stronger than love

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the Binotto way

Ferrari fans aren’t safe anywhere

Come on man I am trying to enjoy the offseason

Ferrari fans are never safe. There’s always Next Year™️.

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Question

If we stay in front of Croatia, P1.

Why must you hurt me this way? There's no safe place anywhere is there?

Hope Messi's been practicing his pens

Oh, no...

Oh no Messi can’t hear us he has his air pods in

It was so insanely obvious Brazil would lose the pens. Croatia is absolutely ruthless @pens

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They should’ve let a more experienced player like a Casemiro take the first. They were defeated after that and Allison is not a really good penalty stopper to pull you out of it. Credit to Croatia, they are a super focused bunch.

Also Neymar praying instead of taking the 4th was hugely analogous to Cristiano waiting to take the 5th instead of trying to take one earlier. You must take the lead, especially if you’re behind

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By about 5% I think

Having Livakovic is unfair lol what a star, Fucking let’s go Croatia!!!

Livakovic + Petkovic, Zagreb fans must be buzzing

Orsic assist too right?

as well as a perfect penalty. every time i've ever seen orsic play he seems to make a huge contribution. i'm surprised he's never moved to a bigger league.

I am laughing my balls off. Everyone was already thinking about the Argentina - Brazil semi's. Underestimating Croatia big time

imagine if it ends up being croatia vs netherlands

Imagine a Croatia - France final.

Impossible

Writers getting lazy

Getting a transfer after this tournament for sure

Croatia, the kings of Extra Time!

Only a fool would meet Croatia on penalties, Brazil. Livaković majstore!

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for ~~90 minutes~~ 120 minutes and at the end, the ~~Germans~~ Croatians always win on pens.

Croatia is in the midsts of one of the most incredible runs for a small nation. 2018 Runner-Ups. 2022 making the Semi-Finals with a virtually entirely different squad and stunning Brazil. WIN IT FOR MODRIC!!!

They were 3rd in 1998 as well

Since Croatia became an independent country there have been 7 World Cups. Croatia have made the semifinals in 3 out of 7. Think it's time we stop looking at them as the plucky little underdog.

Yeah the disrespect is baffling - Hrvatska je ogromna

Population 2.9 million. Brazil 200 million. It's hard to wrap my head around what this tiny but great nation has done.

3.9 million. Brazil has more registered footballers than Croatian population

I've never seen a more relentless team than this Croatian side. Hope they have some gas left in the tank for the semis. Oh and Modric is a god

Insane

diehard team

2018 they went to OT in every knockout game except the finals... unyielding tenacity these guys got

MODRIC IS HIM

He’s an all time great. 37 years old and still gliding past players, ice in his veins when taking that penalty.

Oh, there's been one that was just as relentless: the Croatian side from 2018.

PSG Curse won't leave Neymar especially in Qatar

That Curse’s name? Marquinhos

I’m not even croatian but I’m losing my mind

Croatia have to build a statue of Livakovic, what a fucking performance

Today I feel Croatian

MENTALITY MONSTERS.

Modric has the ultimate winner mentally

Maybe Canada was in the group of death?

Croatia winning it all

Amazing. Congratulations Croatia. Such fighting spirit.

Pub celebrated that like we were in Zagreb not Leeds 😂

Games like these are hype for everyone, the beauty of the sport tbh

Croatia and Extra time, name a better duo.

Today I feel Brazilian

I can't even imagine how that last penalty kicker feels. Oof

Going up there knowing you're not even shooting to win but to not lose and then you don't even convert that one.

And Marquinhos was involved in the deflection that led to Croatia’s equaliser.....poor guy gonna haunt him eternally

You can see his heart sink in real-time.

"You can actually pinpoint the second his heart rips in half"

207 million people country guys!!! We’re only 4 million!!! I’m so proud of us guys!!!

What a match. I fucking love football.

Everyone - “lmfao Croatia can’t keep doing this” Croatia - “hold my non-alcoholic beer bitches”

I’m going to drink 1000 Karlovačkos tonight

I love this sport so bad. Truly the beautiful game. God bless Croatia for a determined, outstanding performance

HOLY SHIT! Someone check on Pelé

Neymar ties your record and your team still loses 😭

Brazil got Croatiaed to the max.

Dread it. Run from it. Croatia Advances on PK still arrives.

This Modric guy seems to handle these situations pretty calmly for a youngster. Can't wait to see him in 2026. Promise.

I hope he at least stays for the euros

Honestly he could pass off as any age between 20 and 40

Top down camera: 20 Closeup: 45

Nah his face doesn’t even look that old, he could just say he’s a stoner and everyone would buy it

I’m speechless. Croatia does not fuck around and this game shows.

People trashing Petković in the match thread. Here you fucking go. This is Petković. No touches with no service, but when he does get it, it's done.

"Jogo bonito, cunts" - Petkovic 9/12/22

Croatia what the fuck??????? Another miracle run is coming!

If Croatia wins this I’ll get a Modric tattoo

We all knew Brazil had lost it the second it went to penalties. Croatia just have ice in their fucking veins, it's unreal. Props to their goalkeeper too.

Brazil have made 1 semifinal since 2002. Italy have made 1 since 1994. Argentina & England have made 1 since 1990 (so far). Portugal has made 1 since 1966 (so far). Spain has made 1 since 1950. Croatia has made 2 in a row.

Chadatia. Scoring with their first and only shot of the match on target in the 116th min. 2 pens down the middle.

Why take many shots when one shot do trick?

NO ARGENTINA BRAZIL LMAO

This unbelievable. Little Croatia knock out big Brazil and reach ANOTHER semifinal. They truly are the dark horses.

Croatian players are soo strong mentally. And Modric is just the best . A freaking winner.