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Harsh on Given for the first goal. He was going the opposite way, if you knew how hard it is to be a keeper and change your direction like that you'd know how difficult it was for him to save that. Not the most powerful of headers yes, but he managed to get fingertips to it. Had he not been moving the other way he would have saved it.
As for the second one, massive good fortune hitting off his head. Absolutely nothing he could do.
Fair enough, maybe not poor keeping for the first, just fortuitous that Given happened to be going the opposite way, just seemed like a bit of a soft goal. The header wasn't exactly powerful and was quite far out.
Either way, I don't think Croatia created much of quality and despite Ireland being poor looked vulnerable at times.
L10's just defending them because he's a huge fan of the 442 chocolate teapot tactics !