Iceland v Croatia, 26 June 2018

Kick-off: 9.00pm local Iceland v Croatia was Match 40 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain) Assistant Referee 1: Pau Cebrian Devis (Spain) Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Diaz Perez (Spain) Fourth Official: John Pitti (Panama) Reserve AR: Gabriel Victoria (Panama) VAR: Paolo Valeri (Italy) AVAR 1: Gery Vargas (Peru) AVAR 2: Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy) AVAR 3: Felix Zwayer (Germany) Croatia had now won three consecutive games at the World Cup finals for the first time. In their final group game and having already guaranteed their place in the knock-out stages, Croatia made nine changes from the previous game; the most by a nation in a World Cup finals game since England made nine for their game against Costa Rica in 2014. Iceland, who could have qualified for the knock-out stages with a win in this game, were now without a win in their last nine games (lost six); their longest such run since September 2011 (also nine games). Gylfi Sigurdsson’s penalty was the 17th scored at Russia 2018 to equal the most scored in at a World Cup finals (also in 1998).