2022 World Cup: the Croatian press accuses the referee and FIFA: Orsato is a disaster!

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The Croatian press today blames Italian referee Daniele Orsato and FIFA for Croatia’s 3-0 loss to Argentina in the semi-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, while acknowledging that the Albiceleste have better played.

The scoring was opened in the first half by Lionel Messi from the penalty spot, before Julian Alvarez netted twice to book Argentina’s place in the final.

The penalty came when Croatian keeper Dominik Livakovic fouled Alvarez in the box as he came out to collect the ball.

Real Madrid and Croatia star Luka Modric was clearly very bitter about the refereeing, saying after the match: “Orsato is one of the worst, a disaster! The penalty destroyed us.”

Various elements of the Croatian press echoed Modric’s sentiments after the game, with Vecernji writing: “The Croatian national team lost 3-0 to Argentina, but who knows what would have happened if the Italian referee Orsato hadn’t made a serious mistake in deciding the penalty for the Gauchos.

Another outlet, Jutarnji, admits ‘Argentina were better’ but insists: ‘Look how FIFA favors Messi, and do you know who the VAR referee was? We’ll wonder a thousand times if that’s the way it is. that it had to end, if the concentration was to be the worst in the semi-finals alone, if Orsato was our executioner by chance like his compatriot Massimiliano Irrati in Moscow (at the 2018 World Cup), “says the newspaper .

“Nothing was on our side. Neither the circumstances nor, unfortunately, the play of the Ardents, the worst of this tournament, because, in any case, we conceded goals that we should not have and we have to admit it,” says Jutarnji.

The website also includes a message of support for the Ardents from tennis player Novak Djokovic, “one of the best of all time”, who congratulated Dejan Lovren and Luka Modric, and “the whole team for another brilliant championship “.

The newspaper notes that despite the defeat, thousands of fans who watched the match on the big screens in Zagreb squares “dried their tears and threw a party”.

“What would it have been like if they had won?” asks a headline, noting that they celebrated with firecrackers, fireworks and flares.

“These boys are our heroes. What they have done is a great success for all Croatians and for all Croatian players around the world. We should be grateful for everything they have done,” said the pundit Croatian soccer player Andrej Panadic in Vecernji.

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