Croatia takes out world Cup host –Russia

There's got to be a penalty designed for teams who defeat world Cup hosting countries because it's totally unfair to watch people play on your land while you just sit on the sidelines and look while providing them with entertainment, refreshments and safety. Russia will face this predicament as they have been kicked out from the world Cup semi final qualifying competition. This win is not as shocking as some people had earlier speculated that Croatia was going be the stars of the match. 

The world Cup championship has been particularly good to Croatia who despite missing three penalties during the match with Denmark, went on to win the penalties against Russia. 

According to Croatia's captain Luka Modric, they expected a difficult match after watching Russia battle it out with Sweden. 

The game between Croatia and Russia was a heated one with each side trying their possible best to outdo the other. 

Domagoj Vida, Croatia's defender thought he had saved the team when he headed the ball into the opponents net at 101 minute of extra time, but this was quickly countered by Mario Fernandes, Russia’s right back who headed the free kick played by Alan Dzagoev into Croatia's net. 

The extra time was up, with the two teams at a tie, the only way to get things forward was through a penalty. 

The penalty had started with Fyodor Smolov spot kick which was saved. 

What followed was a turn of save and wins with Russia's star boy, Mario Fernandes missing his penalty shots,  obviously out of fear. 

Croatia would have suffered the same fate if his Modric's ball did not nestle at the other side of the net when it looked like it would have been a miss. 

Alan Dzagoev, Sergei Ignashevich and Daler Kuzyayev from Russia all scored their penalty shots. Marcelo Brozovic, Luka Modric, Damagoj Vida and Ivan Rakitic from Croatia scored their penalties with Ivan Rakitic scoring the qualifying goal.

The penalty had ended in favor of Croatia who is looking forward to facing England in the semi finals. 

Russia had out in everything they had, but this year was probably not meant for them to

 It was a night of celebration for Croatians while Russian's coach Stanislav Cherchesov had attributed Russia's loss to bad luck. According to him, luck was against them. He further said his team players feel like soldiers who after being conscripted into the army were told their terms of service had ended as they were preparing to go to battle. 

This statement can be said to be true as Russia with everything they had and even took the lead with Denis Cheryshev’s brilliant goal in the opening of the match. This was after 30 minutes of playing with no side having any chances of outdoing the other.

"They still want to fight that war" he had said. But that is not likely to happen anytime soon. Stanislav and his team members will have to wait till the next world Cup to show their true war skills.