With the win, Croatia moves on to the semifinals and will face Hungary on Friday. Spain will play a classification game on the same day. Quarterfinal 2: Serbia 12, Greece 11 A game-winning goal by ...

But in the longer term, a 5–3, extra-time win over Croatia may come to seem like a vital game in the rebirth of Spanish football. It’s not just that this was Spain’s first win in a major ...

Mikel Merino was the hero for Spain as La Roja snatched a stoppage-time equaliser against 10-man Netherlands to secure a 2-2 draw in the first leg of their Nations League quarter-final. Merino, who ...

"We dared to take the game to Spain. We were the better team." Croatia put an early penalty miss behind them to gain revenge over the side that beat them in the 2018 World Cup final, winning 2-0 in ...

“We dared to take the game to Spain. We were the better team.” Croatia contained the attacking duo of Kylian Mbappe and Ousm­ane Dembele, and put an early penalty miss behind them in Split to ...

Croatia, Denmark, Ukraine, Ireland and Scotland. The first three will now be confident of progression to the Nations League semi-finals, as will Spain after their late draw in Rotterdam.

The game was played at the De Kuip stadium, where Spain beat Croatia in the 2023 final. Spain led 1-0 in the ninth minute after Lamine Yamal seized the ball on the right, passed it to Pedri ...

But we dared to take the game to Spain. We were the better team,” Koeman told broadcaster Ziggo. Elsewhere, Croatia put an early penalty miss behind them to gain revenge over the side that beat ...