Ghanaians react to Russia’s shootout defeat to Croatia

Inui was the lightest player at the World Cup, but the brightest player for Japan.

England trio Harry Kane, Kyle Walker and Harry Maguire are looking to guide their side to only their second World Cup final.

Goldman Sachs has changed it’s mind about the World Cup final – again. “Of course he hasn’t scored the goals we would have liked to score but for myself and the players he has been a crucial part of the way we have been playing”.

‘We do not want to stop, we will try to play our best game.

Croatia captain Luka Modric said his side showed character on Saturday to get through “another drama” after edging to a second straight shootout win to knock out Russian Federation and set up a World Cup semi-final with England. They have achieved something that countries like Spain, Germany, Australia, who were expected to perform better, couldn’t achieve. But Croatia is also exhausted. To their credit, they didn’t give up and an equaliser deep in the second half of extra time reignited their hopes of a last four spot. At some point, that wave could crash.

“Yesterday and today I would have experienced the same feelings towards me, if I were in your place”, said Fedor Smolov, sharing the blame for the quarter-final defeat in which he missed a penalty against Croatia. You have to pay the toll for such exertions.

“We were lucky, thank God, and I was concentrated throughout the match, but after the penalties it came bursting out of me”.

Vedran Corluka Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic and Ivica Olic, who is an assistant coach in Russian Federation, were all part of that win in London 11 years ago. Alexander Samedov, who said earlier he would no longer play for the national team, stressed he was proud to be member of the team. We made ourselves happy but also everybody back home in Croatia happy. Those emotions burst out of me. “I would like to become a coach, a good coach”.

Belgium beat Brazil 2-1 in Sochi on Friday night, and are now the most likely team to take home the trophy, with a 32.6% chance of winning, according to Goldman.

Lovren added that he was confident right-back Sime Vrsaljko would recover from the muscle injury that forced him off in extra-time against Russian Federation.

Against Croatia, they played differently, going all out and scoring first.

He earned 127 caps, scoring nine goals, and holds the record for the most global appearances by any Russian player. “Hopefully our right-back Sime Vrsaljko is not so injured like he thinks, so hopefully we can manage”.