{"id":1135,"date":"2018-06-18T06:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T06:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2018-06-18T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T06:44:15","slug":"world-cup-beating-eagles-wasnt-easy-modric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Beating Eagles Wasn\u2019t Easy \u2013 Modric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia captain Luka Modric rejected suggestions that the Blazers strolled to a 2-0 win over Nigeria in their Group D Russia 2018 World Cup opener in Kaliningrad on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Madrid\u00a0 star insisted they worked off their socks to seal victory over the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not an easy win for us because we played a good side,\u201d the former Tottenham midfielder, who scored Croatia\u2019s second goal told reporters after the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a difficult match for us but we started creating chances after we scored the first goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe practised a lot of set-pieces in our training and we are happy that our goals came from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe win\u00a0 has\u00a0 boosted our confidence and we hope to pick up a point against Argentina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIt was very important that we won the first match\u00a0 in the World Cup and it\u2019s a perfect moment for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia captain Luka Modric rejected suggestions that the Blazers strolled to a 2-0 win over Nigeria in their Group D Russia 2018 World Cup opener in Kaliningrad on Saturday. The Real Madrid\u00a0 star insisted they worked off their socks to seal victory over the Super Eagles. \u201cIt was not an easy win for us because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[952,954,857],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-eagles","tag-modric","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}