After the great display of football provided by Germany and, to a lesser extent Portugal, on the previous evening I was looking forward to the game between the two underdogs Turkey and Croatia.
What the two teams actually served up was a few minutes of excitement and not much else other than whole hearted effort.
The first half passed with only one incident of note which summed up the general quality of the game. Modric cleverly created a gilt-edged chance for Olic who couldn t miss from six yards out. Unfortunately for him and Croatia he did miss. He managed to hit the bar. Luckily for Croatia the ball fell straight to Kranjkar who only had to nod the rebound into the empty net from eight yards. You ve guessed it, he missed as well.
Croatia pushed forward in th…