“With the 4-1 roaring success of Mario Pašalić’s Croatia over Canada, the Vatreni take the lead of Group F on the strength of their 4 points accrued so far, tied with Morocco, which also found their winning ways in Matchday 2 with a 2-0 victory over Belgium (currently 3rd in the standings with 3 points); with Canada bringing up the rear with 0 points and, on those grounds, being the earliest team of the group to fall out of the contention.

Since qualifying for the round of 16 now all boils down to a three-way battle, thus, the last two fixtures as of Matchday 3 of the Group Stage are clearly bound to be riveting: namely, Croatia-Belgium and Canada-Morocco, both to kick off at 16:00 CET.

The Atalantino played the last 11 minutes (extra time included) of the match against Canada.
Tomorrow’s fixtures will entail none of the four Atalanta players called up for Qatar 2022; whilst, on Tuesday November 29, Teun Koopmeiners and Marten de Roon will try their hand at punching their ticket into the round of last 16 as the Netherlands take on the hosts of Qatar in the match scheduled at 16 CET.