Football. ua presents preview of the playoff selection match at the 2018 World Cup, in which Croatia will host Greece.
Croatia - Greece Thursday, 21:45, Zagreb, Maksimir. Live broadcast on Football 2.
Approximate compositions:.
Croatia: Subasic - Vrsalco, Vida, Lovren, Pivaric - Modric, Rakitic - Brozovic, Kramaric, Perisic - Manjukic.
Greece: Carneses - Torosidis, Papastopoulos, Papadopoulos, Tzavellas - Zeka, Samaris, Tsiolis, Stafylidis - Fortunis - Mitroglu.
Will not play: ... - Manolas.
Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy).
After the draw of the qualifying tournament, Croatia seemed to be the clear favorite of Group I. But the "checkers" frankly failed the second round of selection: defeats from Iceland and Turkey, a minimal victory over Kosovo and a draw with Finland - all this led to the resignation of Ante Chacic even before the end of the selection.
In the last round of Croatia it was necessary to beat Ukraine. With this task, the wards already Zlatko Dalicha coped - Kiev's double Andrei Kramarich brought them to the play-offs.
Greeks did not make a miracle in group H - and to outstrip Belgium could only be a miracle. But they fulfilled their task, ahead of the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is worth noting the reliable defense of the Hellenes - only 6 goals conceded for 10 rounds (3 of them - from Belgium) became the key to success for the Michael Skibe team. True, against the Croats will not play a fundamental defensive player - Costas Manolas. He received a yellow card for the delay in the last minutes of the 9th round. FIFA considered that the player of Roma did it intentionally to "zero" the cards before the playoffs and therefore issued him another banquet match.
The trainers say:.
Zlatko Dalich, Croatia:.
"My players, who have extremely high international experience, mainly play in the defense. It would be foolish not to use it.
The Croatians are an incredibly experienced team with such stars as Modric, Rakitic or Manjukic. They are the clear favorites. But in the group match against Belgium (1: 1) we have already shown that we are able to achieve a positive result, being outsiders "Michael Skibbe, Greece:.
"My players, who have extremely high international experience, mainly play in the defense. It would be foolish not to use it.
The Croatians are an incredibly experienced team with such stars as Modric, Rakitic or Manjukic. They are the clear favorites. But in the group match against Belgium (1: 1) we have already shown that we are able to achieve a positive result, being outsiders "forecast 1: 0 Eugene Music, Football. ua Do you want to learn the main football news first? Subscribe to our channel in Telegram! You can also follow our website in Viber and Twitter.
Author: Евгений Музыка.