Argentina v Croatia, 21 June 2018

Kick-off: 9.00pm local Argentina v Croatia was Match 23 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan) Assistant Referee 1: Abduxamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan) Assistant Referee 2: Jakhongir Saidov (Uzbekistan) Fourth Official: Norbert Hauata (Tahiti) Reserve AR: Bertrand Brial (New Caledonia) VAR: Felix Zwayer (Germany) This win confirmed that Croatia would progress to the knock-out stages of a World Cup finals for the second time. They went on to reach the semi-finals in 1998. Argentina had now failed to win either of their opening two group games at a World Cup finals for the first time since 1974 in Germany. This was Argentina’s biggest defeat in the group stages of a World Cup finals since a 6-1 loss to Czechoslovakia in Halsingborg in 1958. This was Argentina's first defeat at the World Cup finals by a margin of three goals or more since their 4-0 quarter-final defeat to Germany in Cape Town in 2010. Vedran Corluka became the seventh player to make 100 international appearances for Croatia.