Costa Rica won 1-0 against New Zealand in the intercontinental playoff. The Costa Rican team made good predictions to take a long-suffering victory in Qatar and thus secure their ticket to the World Cup, where they will share the complicated Group E with Spain, Germany and Japan.
Despite the long wait for the intercontinental playoff, the Ticos maintained their concentration and took to the Al Rayyan Stadium field with the same determination that allowed them to win 19 of the last 21 points of the tie to win the right to play the half ticket .
That condition allowed the Central American team to take the advantage quickly, with a blow after three minutes that would ultimately be decisive. The play came in a deadly sin by New Zealand, who failed to cut off a throw-in and had the brilliance of Jewison Bennette, who shot a delayed diagonal down the left wing, just at Campbell's move. The winger finished off something bitten with his left foot, but with enough direction to send it to save.
By: Iran Minuve
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