{"id":437873,"date":"2023-06-14T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437873"},"modified":"2023-06-14T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:31:37","slug":"croatia-beat-netherlands-and-advance-to-nations-league-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/croatia-beat-netherlands-and-advance-to-nations-league-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia beat Netherlands and advance to Nations League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia won against the Netherlands 4-2 after extra time in a UEFA Nations League \u00bd final at De Kuip in Rotterdam, and the team will have a chance to win the championship in a few days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Croatia beat Netherlands 4-2 to reach the UEFA Nations League final. ??<\/p>\n<p>They play the winner of Spain vs Italy. ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SKLmuIEL0s\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SKLmuIEL0s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports Golazo \u26bd\ufe0f (@CBSSportsGolazo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsGolazo\/status\/1669093176135524353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Oranges led after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half as Dortmund&#8217;s forward Donyell Malen scored in the 34<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Mats Wieffer&#8217;s assist.<\/p>\n<p>After 10 minutes in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, Andrej Kramaric converted a penalty to tie the match 1-1. Croatia made a comeback when Atalanta&#8217;s Mario Pasalic netted in the 72<sup>nd<\/sup> minute after Luka Ivanusec pass to make it 2-1 for his nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands, however, evened in the last possible minute when in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> minute in the extra time, Brugge&#8217;s Noa Lang scored after a rebound to force extra time.<\/p>\n<p>However, Croatia kept their cool in the extra time and took the lead again when Bruno Petkovic scored in the 98<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Luka Modric&#8217;s assist. Real Madrid&#8217;s and Croatian legend Luka Modric netted a penalty in the 116<sup>th<\/sup> minute to secure the victory for his national team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">?? Luka Modri\u0107 vs Netherlands:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 120 minutes<br \/>\n&#8211; Scored a goal<br \/>\n&#8211; Won a penalty<br \/>\n&#8211; Assist <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vyc6Pz2d9r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Vyc6Pz2d9r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadridXtra\/status\/1669092220647907329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia won against the Netherlands 4-2 after extra time in a UEFA Nations League \u00bd final at De Kuip in Rotterdam, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437874,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16940,19859,16984],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[19861,19860,18423],"acf":{"announce":"Checkered Ones will play for the title.","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\/437873"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437873"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437873"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}