For some bizarre reason, Uefa has decreed that all electrical plug sockets inside Hampden Park must be switched to the continental two-pin style, but events on the pitch here failed to produce a similar culture shock.
Admittedly Croatia’s Ivan Perisic and Luka Modric ultimately succeeded in raising the tone but, for much of an only intermittently entertaining afternoon, the play was more Scottish Premiership than highly technical mainland European league.
That was largely down to the Czech Republic’s gameplan of hassling and harrying Croatia off the ball at every opportunity and, to a large extent, it succeeded.
No matter that Zlatko Dalic’s 2018 World Cup finalists finished the stronger side; the early
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