{"id":395025,"date":"2022-12-05T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395025"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:34:06","slug":"croatia-reach-quarter-finals-after-beating-japan-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/croatia-reach-quarter-finals-after-beating-japan-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia reach quarter-finals after beating Japan on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Goalkeeper Dominic Livakovic saved three penalties as Croatia beat Japan 3-1 in penalty shootout to qualify for the World Cup&#8217;s quarter-finals for the third time after the 120-minute contest ended 1-1 on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Croatia go through to the Quarter-finals on penalties! \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf7<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1599823282777235457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Livakovic became Croatia&#8217;s hero after parrying Takumi Minamino, Kaoru Mitoma and Maya Yoshida spot-kicks before Mario Pasalic netted the winning penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">With the scores deadlocked at 1-1 after an absorbing 90 minutes, Japan&#8217;s Kaoru Mitoma went closest in the scrappy half-hour of extra time, forcing Livakovic to parry away his powerful shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Daichi Kamada also went close after a flowing Japan counter-attack soon before Daizen Maeda deservedly put them ahead in the 43rd minute, firing home from close range after Ritsu Doan delivered an in-swinging cross into the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">Croatia striker Ivan Perisic, who was denied by Japan goalkeeper Shuichi Gonda in the opening minutes, leveled the score 10 minutes into the second half after heading in Dejan Lovren&#8217;s cross.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">Croatia will face either Brazil or South Korea for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goalkeeper Dominic Livakovic saved three penalties as Croatia beat Japan 3-1 in penalty shootout to qualify for the World Cup&#8217;s quarter-finals for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16940],"news_category":[16671,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Keeper Livalovic parried three spot-kicks","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395025"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395025"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}