Croatia boss Zlatko Dalic has questioned the decision to award Argentina a penalty during his side’s 3-0 World Cup semi-final defeat.
The penalty which Lionel Messi converted was awarded after Julian Alvarez poked the ball beyond Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic, with the two colliding in Croatia’s box.
Speaking to reporters after the match, Dalic said awarding the penalty was suspicious. He said;
“The first goal as very suspicious, to be honest. First, we had the situation with the corner. Apparently [we should have had] a corner, according to the reaction of our players. Then we had the situation with the penalty… It was a little bit too cheap and easy.”
