The bronze final in the football World Cup ended with a 2-1 victory for Croatia over Morocco. After the match, Qatari referee Abdulrahman Al-Jassim and his team were booed off by the Moroccan crowd, who felt left out. The choice of the Qatari referee became a topic even before the match, and several pointed out that the referee was not qualified for such a task. – Scolded Infantino Dissatisfaction was also with Morocco’s players. SVT’s reporter Johan Kücükaslan witnessed this himself after the match. – Extremely tense atmosphere in the players’ tunnel when Achraf Hakimi scolds Gianni Infantino, just before the medal ceremony. Dissatisfied with the referee’s performance. Fifa staff quickly took care of us to ensure that nothing was caught on film, writes SVT’s reporter Johan Kücükaslan on Twitter after the match. Achraf Hakimi confirms to news that a situation arose between him and Fifa president Gianni Infantino. – I was a bit upset about what happened in the match. But it will be between Infantino and me, I have a lot of respect for him, and when I met him a little later I regretted the words I had used. I was hurt after the match, says Hakimi to news. – What were you mad about? – I was upset after what happened on the pitch, but I’ll let it stay on the pitch. We are happy with what we have done in this World Cup anyway, says the PSG player to news. 35-year-old Abdulrahman Al-Jassim had only refereed the group stage match between Wales and the USA earlier in the championship. He was mostly in good control in Saturday’s match, but missed a couple of situations that the Moroccans reacted to. – Embarrassing atmosphere SVT’s reporter Johan Kücükaslan tells news that the situation was startling. – We were in the “flash” to do interviews after the match. There was going to be a medal ceremony and Gianni Infantino was there. Then Hakimi came up to him and was very upset, and almost scolded him because of the level of the referee. He was very upset about the referee’s efforts after the match against France as well, and believed that they were robbed once again, Kücükaslan tells news. – How did Infantino react? – He acted quite professionally actually. It was quite an embarrassing situation for him. There are a lot of TV reporters and journalists there, they all came there because Hakimi was very upset and gesticulating. He tried to calm him down and played it down, but Hakimi continued for a good 20-30 seconds, says the SVT reporter. The Croatians are thus following up the World Cup silver from 2018 with World Cup bronze in 2022. An extremely strong performance by the small football nation with only around four million inhabitants. For Morocco, who had the round of 16 from 1986 as their best previous World Cup result, the World Cup ended with fourth place. Perhaps a slight disappointment when they first became the first African national football team to ever qualify for a World Cup semi-final, but regardless, the Moroccans have had a lot to enjoy about this championship. The match was also a worthy World Cup final for superstar Luka Modric (37), who by all accounts has played the last World Cup match of his career. He rounded off with a well-deserved WC medal after delivering a number of good matches in Qatar. Mislav Orsic sees that the shot he has just fired is about to sneak into the far corner. Photo: PETER CZIBORRA / Reuters Out with tears It was less cheerful for Andrej Kramarić, who had to leave the field with an injury in the second half. He had then managed to deliver the goal-scoring pass for the 2-1 score in the first half, but his emotions got the better of him when he hobbled off the pitch with an injury. He was holding his face and was obviously way down. It is currently unknown how serious the damage is. The match itself started like fireworks, and the spectators were served two scores before ten minutes had been played. First, perhaps the World Cup’s best defender Josko Gvardiol sent Croatia into the lead when he headed the ball into the goal after a practiced set piece variation, but just two minutes later Achraf Dari equalized, also from a set piece. Three minutes before the break, Croatia regained the lead, and it was Mislav Orsic who found the back of the net. In his first game from the start in the World Cup, he gave Croatia the lead in exquisite fashion when he shot the ball into the bar and in from an angle just outside the penalty area. 2-1 was thus the final result. The WC ends on Sunday. Then Argentina will play against France in the World Cup final broadcast by news at 16:00.
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