football toilet | The battle ends peacefully, the Germans continue to hope. The vice-champions complete the turnaround, Belgium disappoints, Costa Rica surprises

Japan entered the match against Costa Rica as clear favorites. In the first match, they surprisingly beat Germany 2:1. Costa Rica, on the other hand, had to get up after being beaten by Spain (0:7).

The match didn’t offer many attractive situations for a long time. Fans started enjoying it more after the break. The Japanese had several chances, but in the end the Costa Ricans managed to prevail with a goal. Midfielder Fuller pounced on the Japanese goalkeeper with nine minutes remaining to decide the match. At the moment, all the teams in the group are hoping for promotion.

The Belgians will certainly not take the match against Morocco for granted. While in the first half they had a difficult moment in the end, when the video finally failed to recognize the opponent’s goal for offside, the Moroccans could already celebrate in the second act. First, twenty minutes before the end of the match, Sabiri scored from a free-kick, in the time set for a substitution, substitute Abuchlál sealing the victory.

Favorite Belgium rejected the opportunity to secure promotion from the group and in the table after an incomplete second round belongs to the second position. Following the win, Morocco moved up to first place.

Runner-up won for the first time, Canada will not advance

Favorites Croatia entered the match very sleepy, needing to finally win. In the second minute, however, they conceded after a precise header from Canadian sprinter Alphonse Davies, which unerringly went out of reach of the goalkeeper. After that, the Croatians started to play again, but their first joy was spoiled by the referee for offside.

However, things were happening at halftime. Andrej Kramarič was able to equalize first and Marko Livaja completed the conversion ahead of time. Croatia continued their sleepy run in the second half, where Andrej Kramarič scored once again after a string of chances. The Canadians failed to reduce, in fact, conceded for the fourth time in the stipulated time. Canada has thus lost hope of progressing, on the contrary, Croatia has risen to first place.