Japan and Croatia are going into additional time as they mean to advance to the World Cup quarter-finals.
Ivan Perisic counteracted Daizen Maeda’s first-half opener to return the two countries based on level conditions.
The champs will take on one or the other Brazil or South Korea in the following round.
Japan XI: Gonda; Taniguchi, Tomiyasu, Yoshida, Nagatomo; Morita, Endo; Ito, Kamada, Doan; Maeda.
Croatia XI: Livakovic; Juranovic, Gvardiol, Lovren, Barisic; Kovacic, Brozovic, Modric; Kramaric, Petkovic, Perisic.
World Cup quarter-last, semi-last and last installations, dates, times and settings
World Cup bunch stage examined
It’s 1-1 at the end of full-time, which means we’ve got another 30 minutes of football to come.
That was an outstanding header from Ivan Perisic to level things up. After that the pace of the game dropped.
