Croatia and Greece meet the script and qualify for the World Cup in Brazil

The selections of Croatia and Greece met on Tuesday with the odds and qualified for the World Cup in Brazil next year with little difficulty after beating Iceland and Romania , respectively .

In the Maksimir stadium in Zagreb , Croatia abandoned its bad now and managed to defeat 2-0 to Iceland , which closed the door to the first major international event in its history after a game where you just had problems despite playing with ten nearly an hour of play.

The Croats left very strong and locked early Icelanders , who devoted everything to the counter , but they did not create any real danger chance on the goal defended by Pletikosa , although the goalless draw in the first leg gave a great advantage if box .

Thus it was that brighten up Halldorsson to curb local connections , but could do nothing to prevent Mario Mandzukic prove his ' smell ' to put in a ball at the combined area of ​​the visitor.

The 1-0 did not wake Iceland, which continued to suffer , and he could not even go up when Mandzukic was ejected for stomping an opposing player . Was repeated , but in reverse , the situation of the first game , but then the Icelanders demonstrated that they lack arguments yet to reach the elite.

Also , just start the second half , made ​​it 2-0 Srna and ended any glimmer of hope of those Lars Lagerback , who could not even put some fear in front of a return to Croatia after missing finals in South Africa .

GREECE, NO PROBLEMS .

Meanwhile, there was no emotion in Bucharest , Romania where he crashed the strength and experience of Greece, who saved a draw (1-1 ) the return match and qualified for their second consecutive World Cup , third in its history .

The Victor Piturca went all out , but again showed their defensive weakness last 20 minutes, Konstantinos Mitroglu extended his good form with both opening the door to Brazil to Fernando Santos .

The Romanian team felt the blow and , with more heart than head, quickly fetched goal to give her back the options, but his opponent made ​​clear its ability to move in these situations . Romania found air with Torosidis bizarre own goal , although there practically ended the troubles for the 2004 European champion .