The CROATIAN futsal team beat Armenia 3:0 in the quarter-finals of the European Championship and qualified for the semi-finals.
Croatia won with goals from David Mataja (3′, 16′) and Nike Vukmir (7′). With that, she equaled her greatest success in history.
In the semi-finals, they will play against the winner of the match between them of Spain and of Italy. Their meeting is scheduled for Sunday, while the semifinal match is scheduled for February 4 in Slovenia Cones.
Croatia’s best result in history is fourth place from the Euro in Croatia in 2012.
Big congratulations to the Croatian futsal team, which is in the quarterfinals #FutsalEURO beat Armenia 3:0 (Mataja 2, Vukmir) and thus entered the semifinals of the European tournament for the second time in history – they will fight for medals next week in Ljubljana! 🇭🇷🎆🙌🎇🎉#Family pic.twitter.com/Gse47Pm9Vd
— HNS (@HNS_CFF) January 31, 2026
Fantastic edition in the first part
The chosen ones Marinko Mavrović they played a mature, tactically disciplined game in Kaunas, and they created a key advantage already in the first half, when they were more specific and effective than their opponents.
Croatia opened the match brilliantly and took the lead in the third minute with a goal David Mataja. Just four minutes later, the advantage was doubled after a big mistake by the Armenian goalkeeper, which Niko Vukmirafter an intercepted ball by Vitor Lima, punished with a kick from his own half for 2:0.
Armenia tried to respond mostly with shots from a distance, but Ante Piplica he kept the Croatian net calm, while Croatia patiently waited for a new opportunity.
The third goal arrived in the 16th minute, after a coordinated action from the break. Josip Jurlina took a throw-in, captain Franco Jelovčić passed the ball, and Mataja scored his second goal of the game from the far post for big 3:0.
The defense closed the approach to the Armenians
With that, Croatia practically solved the match even before the break, and forced Armenia to take risks and look for quick solutions in the sequel. In the second half, the Armenians started more aggressively, they even hit the crossbar, but Croatia remained calm, closed the approaches to the goal and controlled the rhythm of the matchwrites Index.hr.
More than ten minutes before the end, Armenia switched to the game with a goalkeeper-playerbut even that move did not bring a turnaround, because Croatia played a very solid defense and without major problems kept the advantage until the end.
(www.jabuka.tv | Photo: X)
