Croatia beats Russia to qualify for 2022 World Cup

The reigning vice-world champions have 23 points, against 22 for the Russians. Faced with the Russians curled up on their goal, Luka Modric and his teammates won this “final” thanks to an autogoal from Fedor Kudryashov (81st). The checkered team has therefore won its ticket to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. If Croatia is already sure of playing its sixth World Cup, Russia will have to take part in the play-offs to try to participate for the fifth time in its history at the World Cup.

At its national Ta’Qali stadium in Attard, Malta was snapped 0-6 by Slovakia. There was never any suspense since the Slovaks led 0-3 after a quarter of an hour. The visitors had the life even easier in the second half after the exclusions for two yellow cards of Ryan Camenzuli (47th) and Teddy Teuma (51st), the midfielder of the Union Saint-Gilloise. Facing the Maltese reduced to nine, the Falcons added three goals.