The football is back. Yay. It's the third-place play-off. Oh do f*** off.
The reward is certainly not worth the risk of making weary players lace up one more time while their clubs wait anxiously. So, on Saturday, they probably won’t. Zlatko Dalic and Walid Regragui will almost certainly rotate their squads and the 2022 World Cup finals will offer up Croatia against Morocco for the second time in a few weeks, the only difference from that 0-0 draw being that this will be a rematch of the reserves.
The apathy and general disinterest in a game to decide who finishes third has been rife for years. The European Championships canned the play-off in 1980 and not once has anyone missed it. Some overachieving third-place finishers may contest that it is a hollow triumph. Croatia were chuffed to win it at their first ever World Cup in 1998 and so too were Sweden four years before. But, like Morocco now, their achievements would be held in no less esteem had they not been made to play Holland and Bulgaria respectively.
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