Song Diusir Wasit setelah Pukul Mandzukic di Menit 40
Song Sent Off for Elbowing Mandzukic on 40 Minutes
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Manaus (B2B) - Unggul jumlah pemain membuat Kroasia menang telak 4-0 atas Kamerun pada pertandingan Grup A Piala Dunia 2014 yang digelar di Arena Amazonia, Manaus (19/6). Gol Kroasia dicetak oleh Ivan Olic (11´), Ivan Perisic (48´), dan Mario Mandzukic (61´ dan 73´).
Hasil ini membuat Kroasia berada di urutan ketiga klasemen sementara Grup A dengan nilai 3 dan tetap berpeluang untuk lolos ke babak selanjutnya. Kroasia hanya tertinggal dari satu poin dari urutan pertama dan kedua Brasil dan Meksiko yang memiliki nilai sama 4, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
Terakhir Kroasia akan berhadapan dengan Meksiko. Hasil ini juga memastikan Kamerun tidak lolos ke babak selanjutnya. Seluruh tim telah melakukan dua pertandingan dari tiga yang harus dilakoni.
Di babak kedua, Kamerun harus bermain dengan sepuluh orang pemain menyusul pelanggaran yang dilakukan Alex Song. Alex Song memukul punggung Mario Mandzukic yang berlari tanpa bola sampai membuatnya terjatuh. Sementara Kamerun harus bekerja lebih keras untuk membalas gol Ivica Olic untuk menjaga peluang lolos dari fase grup.
Manaus - Croatia gave themselves a fighting chance of reaching the World Cup knockout phase when they thrashed toothless Cameroon 4-0 on Wednesday, helped by a needless first-half red card for Alex Song as defeat condemned the African side to an early exit.
Ivica Olic put Croatia ahead after 11 minutes and Ivan Perisic seized on a poor clearance by Cameroon keeper Charles Itandje to race forward and drive in the second after 48. An unmarked Mario Mandzukic headed the third just after an hour and tapped in his second after 73 as Croatia strolled to a comfortable victory.
Cameroon, who have won only one game in five World Cups following their 1990 heroics, were reduced to 10 men five minutes before halftime when Song bizarrely elbowed Mandzukic in the back as the two man chased back in a benign situation on the halfway line and, without injured striker Samuel Eto´o, barely managed an attack all night.
Brazil and Mexico each have four points in Group A with Croatia, beaten 3-1 by the hosts in their first game, on three. Cameroon have zero points from two games. A win for Croatia against the Mexicans in Recife on Monday would put them into the last 16 for the first time since they reached the semi-finals in 1998.
