{"id":867421,"date":"2026-10-01T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867421\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:44:09","slug":"croatia-vs-england-why-is-nations-league-match-being-played-behind-closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867421\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia vs England: Why is Nations League match being played behind closed doors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s match against Croatia in the Nations League on Saturday will be played behind closed doors in Rijeka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game will take place in front of a reduced crowd in the same venue in which the two sides met, also behind closed doors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/45755081\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a 0-0 draw<\/a> in October 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The limited capacity is because of crowd disturbances involving Croatia fans during a Nations League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c70e7y626ejt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">match against France<\/a> in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven fans were taken into custody on suspicion of making Nazi salutes during the match, and released without prosecution because of a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In their section of Stade de France, where that match took place, Croatia supporters also set off fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On top of that, Croatia were also prohibited from having travelling supporters in their 2-1 win in the Czech Republic last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s match against Croatia in the Nations League on Saturday will be played behind closed doors in Rijeka.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-867421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}