Lionel Messi’s dream of winning the World Cup is still alive but the resilient and courageous Croatia stand in his and Argentina’s way.
“When you kick out of the World Cup a team like Brazil which surely were the biggest favourites, then you must be both happy and proud,” Dalic told reporters after receiving applause from Croatian media representatives when he entered the news conference room.
“I am tired but happily tired and… one should enjoy this moment, but not too much as today we already have to start to prepare for Argentina.” “At this moment, we are not anywhere, neither here nor there,” Dalic said. “If we crashed out of the group stage, we would have gotten over it, if we were eliminated in the quarterfinals we would have gotten over it too.
The Croats had also required two penalty shootouts and an extra-time win to reach the final in 2018 before losing to France, so fatigue at a tournament is not new to them.
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