Croatia snatch second by beating Ghana but both through to World Cup knockout stage
It had been another rainy day in Pennsylvania and with no roof at the Philadelphia Stadium, the risk of 65,000 people in ponchos left feeling miserable was real. Fortunately this predicted dead rubber
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