He has been a C-Daily, K-Murray and LME here with you and we got our first extra time

on our first penalties too in the game between Stuart Pan and Croatia. It is Croatia who

advanced. Luis Miguel Echigera, you seem a little bit upset by this.

Just to smash him! I hate these starters that I hate these walk-ups just to smash it,

Alan Scheer, it's so annoying and frustrating. Anyway, that's for another day, K-Murray.

Obviously, you don't ever want to, especially if you're part of the national team, you

ever want to lose on penalties, but I think experience once again proved to be Croatia's

strongest point. Not a very good penalty shootout journey for both sides, specifically Japan,

but all credit to Croatia. They knew what they had to do and they took care of it. But my

God, Japan, that was not a great way to end it. I feel sorry for them because they had such

a great journey and most of the new jobs were fighting for them, but in the end, experience

takes over. But just smash it, K! Why are you doing these silly penalties?

Well, didn't it just take over? I mean, Croatia have advanced both times before this that

they'd gone to penalties at the World Cup in 2018, round of 16 and quarter finals. Remember,

in 2018, three times it went to at least extra time for them and they kept coming through

it. Those guys, when you talk about experience and that mental fortitude as well, in this

Croatian side, they've definitely shown it. It would have been in Fernestau and Underdog

Story had Japan gone on to do this. The fact that they got as far as they did, that they

showed what they did as well is so much for them to take heart from. You have to say,

the high energy start that we had to this game is what it feels so long ago now because

we're all ready to start at the end of this game in case there was a late goal and it's

extra time than its penalties. But at first, they came out and it was all guns blazing for

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