Sunday 17 June 2018

Costa Rica 0 Serbia 1

Widely predicted to be close, but Serbia looked much stronger on paper, Costa Rica’s previous tournament exploits probably making them appear better than they are.

And Serbia did dominate possession although CR looke dangerous when they broke. There was an injury scare for Kolarov before the start, but luckily for the Serbs he recovered to score a thunderous free-kick winner. 

Deserved victors too while Costa Rica were full of energy and running without properly threatening. 

Ian Dowie in the commentary box for this, and he gave us the classic “he simply has to score” nonsense at least twice. Also wondered what the delay was when the ref was clearly waiting for a VAR review. Talking of which, there were a couple of issues to be looked at in stoppage time which meant a few extra minutes had to be added. Which hardly made it a “never ending” game as was claimed.

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