Croatia cruise thanks to illogical Song: how Stats Zone saw Cameroon 0-4 Croatia

Croatia faced Cameroon for the first time in their history, in a match with everything at stake. Having both lost their opening game – Croatia with some misfortune to hosts Brazil and Cameroon with no adventure to Mexico - neither team could afford to lose again, as that would guarantee an early exit; even a draw would leave them in severe difficulty in Group A. It was win or bust.

Cameroon made two changes from their previous game, Vincent Aboubakar replacing an unfit Samuel Eto'o and Schalke's Joel Matip coming into the midfield with Stephane Mbia dropping in at right-back (the team reverted to type at half-time, Mbia moving into midfield while substitute Dany Nounkeu – who started against Mexico - took over at right-back).

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Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.