Football. ua represents the announcement of the final tour of Group D between Iceland and Croatia.

June 26, 3rd round, group D, Rostov, Rostov-Arena Stadium, the beginning of the match at 21:00 Icelanders could be close to the playoffs, if in the last round did not lose to Nigeria. Now the Vikings are the outsiders of the quartet together with Argentina, and they will meet with the leader of the group Croatia. The team has chances to leave the group under favorable hands of another match and mandatory victory over Croatia.

The task will not be easy, but do not forget that the Icelanders have already furnished the Croats in qualifying for the World Cup, ranking first in the group. In personal confrontations, they lost 0: 2 at home, but won 1-0 at home.

The task of "Vikings" and the intention of Zlatko Dalich to provide rest to the leaders of the team will facilitate.

Tentative compositions Iceland: Halldorsson - Seversson, Arnason, Sigurdsson, Magnusson - Gislason, Gunarsson, Hallfredsson, Bjarnason - Sigurdsson - Finbogasson.

Croatia: Kalinich - Edway, Corluka, Vida, Pivarich - Badel, Brozovich - Piaza, Kovacic, Perisic - Kramaric.

Interesting facts - the teams will play together for the seventh time, but only for the first time - in the group stage of World Cup. Previously, they played only in the qualification.

- Opponents met among themselves in the selection, exchanging home victories. Iceland took first place in the group.

- Croatia won in the first two World Cup games in a row for the first time since 1998. But she never won in all three meetings of the group stage.

- Croatia did not miss out on 3 of the last 4 matches. The same number of dry fights she had in the previous 12 meetings.