No player from the Croatian national team has scored more goals in the knockout stages of the World Cup and European Championships than Ivan Perisic (9 goals).
Luka Modric faces Japan for the first time in the World Cup with Croatia 6000 days ago, since June 2006 in the World Cup Germany. Luka Modric is the first player from Croatia to participate in the World Cup in three different decades, the 2006 World Cup, the 2014 World Cup, 2018 World Cup and the 2022 World Cup.
After his goal in Japan - Ivan Perisic scored his 6th World Cup goal with Croatia, more than any other player with Croatia. Ivan Perisic has scored the most goals in the World Cup and Euro tournaments combined (10 goals).
With his goal against Japan – Perisic became the first Croatian player to score in three separate World Cups, after the 2014 World Cup and the 2018 World Cup.
Ivan Perisic has been involved in 10 goals in 14 matches played in the World Cup (6 goals + 4 assists) since his debut in the competition in 2014, only Lionel Messi (12-8) and Kylian Mbappe (11-9) have had more goals in from croatian.
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Only three players have scored goals in the Euros and World Cups in 3 different editions: Ivan Perisic, Cristiano Ronaldo and Shaqiri.
The only players to have scored in the last 3 World Cups: Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Shaqiri and Ivan Perisic.
7 of the last eight matches in the knockout stages of major international tournaments (Euro and World Cup) played by the Croatian national team went to extra time, except for the 2018 World Cup final against France.
The Croatia national team has never won a regular-time knockout match since 1998.
Goalkeepers who have stopped 3 penalty kicks in the World Cup: - Ricardo against England in 2006 - Danijel Subasic against Denmark in 2018 - Dominic Levakovic against Japan in 2022.
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