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Brazil holds off Croatia, 1-0
Defending champs win record eighth straight
From Wire Reports Originally published June 14, 2006

Croatia settled down after a
scratchy start and gave Brazil all it could handle.
It peppered goalkeeper Dida with several shots
in the second half, including one by Dado Prso
in the 51st minute that went off the Brazilian's
hands. And if captain Niko Kovac hadn't left
with what appeared to be a rib injury just before
halftime, the outcome might have been very
different.


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Alan Hansen's World Cup verdict By Alan Hansen
BBC Sport football expert

Croatia gave them a tough
game, but like England against Paraguay, they
came through with a win and that is all that
matters at this early stage.

I have to say that I felt Ronaldo was an absolute
disgrace against Croatia and it will be interesting
to see if coach Carlos Alberto Parreira is willing
to drop him.


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Croatia still eyes second spot From Andrew Gray in Berlin
14jun06

Croatia also seems to have
changed its style under Kranjcar. Where the
star-studded team of the late 1990s was more
about individualistic flair, this team is very
disciplined and plays very much as a unit.
In other words, not unlike Australia under
Hiddink.

To play the way they do successfully, the
Croatians need to have indefatigable midfield
players and, with Marko Babic, Jerko Leko
and the captain, German-born Niko Kovac,
they have ironmen.

Dado Prso is the sort of lone striker who is
a constant threat, and not just directly but
- again, not unlike Mark Viduka - because
he does so much work off the ball to set up
goalscoring chances for teammates.

If there was good news for the Socceroos it
was that three key Croatian players -
defensive standouts Robert Kovac and
Igor Tudor as well as Niko Kovac - go into
the game against Japan with yellow cards.

"Nothing is lost yet," Niko Kovac declared
afterward. "We have a realistic chance of
winning against Japan and Australia.

"We could be in a better position after this
match, but we can still manage it because
our team has a lot of quality (and) our fans
are unbelievable.

"We're in a strong group and it will go down
to the last match."

Australia need not fear Croatia but nevertheless,
the Socceroos could do worse than mention in
their prayers that it would be nice if he was wrong.

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