{"id":113778,"date":"2022-12-05T21:40:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/?p=113778"},"modified":"2022-12-05T21:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:43:36","slug":"croatia-edge-japan-3-1-1-1-on-penalties-to-enter-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/croatia-edge-japan-3-1-1-1-on-penalties-to-enter-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia edge Japan 3-1 (1-1) on penalties to enter Quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Croatia defeated Japan 3-1 (1-1) in a penalty shootout to book a quarter-finals berth.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Both Japan and Croatia squandered a few early opportunities to score. But, just minutes before the half-time whistle, Daizen Maeda opened the scoring for Japan from a well-worked corner kick. Early into the second-half, Ivan Perisic put Croatia level 1-1 through a terrific header. 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Early into the second-half, Ivan Perisic put Croatia level 1-1 through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6640,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fifa-2022","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Croatia edge Japan 3-1 (1-1) on penalties to enter Quarters - TimesKuwait<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/croatia-edge-japan-3-1-1-1-on-penalties-to-enter-quarters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Croatia edge Japan 3-1 (1-1) on penalties to enter Quarters - TimesKuwait\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Croatia defeated Japan 3-1 (1-1) in a penalty shootout to book a quarter-finals berth. 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