{"id":118789,"date":"2026-07-03T05:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/explained-why-croatias-103rd-minute-equaliser-against-portugal-was-ruled-out\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:39:01","slug":"explained-why-croatias-103rd-minute-equaliser-against-portugal-was-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/explained-why-croatias-103rd-minute-equaliser-against-portugal-was-ruled-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why Croatia&#8217;s 103rd-minute equaliser against Portugal was ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Croatia&#8217;s stoppage-time equaliser against Portugal was ruled out after VAR determined that Igor Matanovic had made a slight touch before the ball reached offside player Mario Pasalic, who assisted Josko Gvardiol&#8217;s goal. Officials used ball sensor &#8220;Snicko&#8221; technology to confirm the touch, sparking outrage among Croatian players and fans.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Croatia&#8217;s stoppage-time equaliser against Portugal was ruled out after VAR determined that Igor Matanovic had made a slight touch before the ball reached offside player Mario Pasalic, who assisted Josko Gvardiol&#8217;s goal. Officials used ball sensor &#8220;Snicko&#8221; technology to confirm the touch, sparking outrage among Croatian players and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}