Croatia coach Niko Kovac lamented his team's decision not to play more defensively in their 3-1 defeat to Mexico, which eliminated them from the World Cup.
Goals from Rafael Marquez, Andres Guardado and Javier Hernandez put Mexico three ahead before Ivan Perisic was able to net one for Croatia.
"It's a moot point whether we should have kept it 0-0 until the last 10 minutes and then go all-out on the attack," Kovac after the match.
"We decided to attack earlier but it wasn't successful.
The goals from Marquez and Hernandez both came from corner kicks won late in the second half.
"We kept the game open for a long time, but two corners decided the game," Kovac added.
"We weren't bad but the opponent was better."
The last time Croatia emerged from the group stages of the World Cup was in 1998, when they made it all the way to the semi-finals.
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