The England squad is much younger than their rivals in the semifinals, will it help them?.
Either Croatia or England will meet in the final match of the 2018 World Cup with the team of France. On the side of Croatia experience, while England is one of the youngest teams of the championship.
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Immediately 13 players of the Croatian national team perform at the second world championships in a row, whereas England has 18 debutant mundials. Only Rahim Sterling and Jordan Henderson are solid base players both at the 2014 World Cup and World Cup 2018 (Brazil was also visited by Gary Cahill, Phil Jones and Danny Welbeck).
If Gareth Southgate leaves the same composition, as was during the match? final against Sweden, it will mean that only three players in the starting lineup were born when England last played in the semifinals of the World Cup. Four-year-old Ashley Young may have watched that semi-final against West Germany, but infants Kyle Walker and Jordan Henderson hardly remember him.
In the English only three players over the age of 30 - Young, Cahill and Jamie Vardi. Of these, only Yang can be considered the main player. Croatians rely on their experienced players. 32-year-old Modric held all the matches of the tournament from start to finish, and this World Cup was his fourth.
What to say, when the main goalkeeper of the "three lions" George Pickford, during the last World Cup was leased in the non-professional Alfreton Town, and Harry Maguire and Dele Allie played in League 1. In contrast to them, Modric, Manjukic, Rakitic and Perisic went to the third joint World Cup.
This four together played 366 matches for the national team - 32 more than all 12 players of the England team, declared at this World Cup as forwards or midfielders.
Not only in terms of age and number of matches Croatia has more experience. In the team Zlatko Dalicha there are three players who took the last place in the victory of their teams in the Champions League (Modric 4, Rakitic, Mandzhukic once, and this is not taken into account Kovacic, who was not the main player in Real Madrid), and Southgate has six The guys were defeated in the English League Cup.
The only one who won the Champions League in England, is unlikely to appear on the field in the semifinals (Gary Cahill).
Immediately in seven countries, players became the champions of the Khovartii team, and the number of these championships is seven times higher than the number of championships for players from England.
Harry Kane - the best scorer of the World Cup in 2018, but he is still far in terms of the number of goals for the team before Mario Mandzhukich, who have 31 goals in 87 matches.
Perisic Rakitic and Modrica have 48 goals for the team for three teams - Jordan Henderson is still waiting for his debut in the national team, and Rahim Sterling is not different for the "three lions" since October 2015.
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