Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic was the main talking point of Croatia’s victory over Japan in the World Cup's Round of 16. With the game finishing in a 1 - 1 draw after extra time, the tie was sent to penalties.
Croatia managed to, thanks in large part to Livakovic, repeat their penalty shoot-out success in the Round of 16 in the 2018 Russia World Cup.
Livakovic, who plays his club football for Dinamo Zagreb, saved three penalties in the shoot-out, cementing him as the goalkeeper to watch from the first stage of the knock-out rounds.
3 - Croatia’s Dominik Livakovic is the third goalkeeper to make three saves in a single World Cup penalty shootout after Portugal’s Ricardo in 2006 versus England and Croatia’s Danijel Subasic versus Denmark in 2018. Hero. pic.twitter.com/7BrtzYZbmM
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