Croatia scores late to stun Spain 2-1 and win Group D

“We’re still in the competition, we are not on the path we wanted to be but we have to rise to the situation”. Not only do Italy stand in the champions’ way in the round of 16.

“We had spoken about Perisic and how unsafe he was in counter-attacks”, Del Bosque told Spanish television network Telecino when asked about the Inter Milan striker.

TURKEY 2, CZECH REPUBLIC 0: Turkey rebounded from two losses to win at Lens, France, and keep alive its chances of reaching the knockout stages from Group D.

Ivan Perisic’s 87th-minute victor for Croatia not only ended Spain’s unbeaten run at the tournament that stretched back to 2004, it also relegated the defending champions into second place in Group D.

With Italy guaranteed to finish top of Group E, Spain will have to beat them and then possibly Germany to reach the semi-finals.

“When you play against the world’s best, you have to play like this”, Ivan Rakitic said. Yilmaz got himself ahead of Tomas Sivok and neatly turned the ball in at the near post.

That will be made clear when the final round of group stage games is played on Wednesday.

David Silva s cute reverse pass picked out Cesc Fabregas s run and the Chelsea midfielder s cross was tapped into an empty net by Morata.

However, it was the Spanish who struck decisively in the seventh minute with a goal that encapsulated the technical prowess, the movement and the vision that sets them apart from the rest of this summer’s contenders.

Morata had a great chance to double Spain s lead when he failed to control Fabregas s fine through ball with just Subasic to beat.

It was hugely entertaining fare, thankfully unaffected by the crowd troubles that have accompanied Croatia’s other matches this summer.

There was a hold-up early in the second half after three players were hurt in an accidental clash of heads in the Turkey area.

La Roja had an opportunity to snatch the win when they were awarded a penalty in the 72nd minute.

Modric appeared to send on a message to Subasic when he saw his Real Madrid teammate Ramos step up to take the spot-kick.

“The team spirit helped us and we were fighting until the last minute”, Perisic said through a translator. “It wasn’t to be”.

Burak Yilmaz and Ozan Tufan fired Turkey to a 2-0 win over the Czech Republic that sent Northern Ireland into the last 16 of Euro 2016.

De Gea had already been beaten at his near post for Croatia’s equaliser, scored on the stroke of half time by striker Nikola Kalinić, although the close proximity of the strike would have lessened the blame on De Gea in that instance (though Sergio Ramos should be thoroughly ashamed of himself).

BORDEAUX, FRANCE Croatia’s players showed the world they are not like the supporters who brought shame on the country with their behaviour at Euro 2016, coach Ante Cacic said on Tuesday.