Spain's match against Croatia behasil win and qualify for the quarterfinals. But
Andres Iniesta et al. Croatia's defense struggled to dismantle the meeting.
Face Croatia in their final Group C match at PGE Arena, Tuesday (19/06/2012) pm dawn, Spain pemguasaan appeared dominant with the ball by 72 percent to 23 percent.
Domination of the Spanish attack also evident from the number shot was fired. Soccernet noted Spain to 15 shots with eight times the lead target. While Croatia is only seven times and shot three of them on target.
However, La Furia Roja attacks that broke a lot of defense meeting Croatian Vedran Corluka raised by cs. Spain also often bothered by the Croatian counterattack quite dangerous.
Spain finally broke the deadlock new in the 88th minute through Jesus Navas. Cesc Fabregas Iniesta send feedback on the offside trap and then forwarded by Navas for Croatian goalkeeper.
"We have trouble because of this heavy, difficult game. This is one game where you are getting to the goal, but you do not succeed," said Iniesta on the official
UEFA website.
"We fought to the end and got the victory. We are depleted, we are not machines."
"We had a moment where we fight. Croatia meyulitkan us and show that they are a great team," he concluded.
