On the eve of the League of Nations match between the national teams of Croatia and England, we present to your attention the history of confrontations of these teams.
Today, October 12, in the Croatian city of Rijeka, the local team will face off with the England team. An important fact is that both teams in their first matches were defeated by the Spanish national team and it was in the in-person match that the opponents decide who will try to impose the Fury Rohe fight for first place.
National teams of Croatia and England met eight times before. Two matches were friendly, another four were held as part of the selection for the European Championship or the World Cup, and the remaining two matches took place in the final parts of the Euro or World Cup.
April 24, 1996, England, London, Wembley. Friendly match.
England - Croatia 0: 0 August 20, 2003, Ipswich, England, Portman Road. Friendly match.
England - Croatia 3: 1 Goals: Beckham, 10, Owen, 51, Lampard, 80 - Mornar, 77 June 21, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, Erstadio da Luz. European Championship 2004, Final.
England - Croatia 4: 2 Goals: Scholes, 40, Rooney, 45, 68, Lampard, 79 - Kovacs, 5, Tudor, 73 October 11, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia, Maksimir. Euro 2008 qualifying match.
Croatia - England 2: 0 Goals: Eduardo, 61, Neville, 69 (in own gates) November 21, 2007, England, London, Wembley. Euro 2008 qualifying match.
England - Croatia 2: 3 Goals: Lampard, 56 (penalty), Crouch, 65 - Kranjcar, 8, Olic, 14, Petrich, 77 September 10, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia, Maksimir. 2010 World Cup qualifier.
Croatia - England 1: 4 Goals: Mandzhukic, 77 - Walcott, 26, 59, 81, Rooney, September 9, 2009, England, London, Wembley. Qualifying match World Cup 2010 England - Croatia 5: 1 Goals: Lampard, 7 (penalty), 59, Gerrard, 18, 66, Rooney, 77 - Eduardo, 73 England: Green, Johnson, Terry, Upson, Ashley Cole, Lennon ( Beckham, 80), Barry, Lampard, Gerrard (Milner, 81), Rooney, Heskey (Defoe, 60) Croatia: Runye, Srna, Krizanac, Simunic, Pranjic, Mandzukic, Vukojevic, Pokrivac (Rakitic, 46), Krancar, Eduard, Eduard, Krancar, Eduard, Eduard, Vukojevic, Pokrivac (Rakitic, 46) (Klasnic, 74), Olic (Petrich, 46) Warnings: Terry - Simunich July 11, 2018, Russia, Moscow, Luzhniki. Semifinal World Cup 2018.
Croatia - England 2: 1 Goals: Perisic, 68, Mandzhukic, 109 - Trippier, 5 Croatia:
Subasic - Vrsalko, Lovren, Vida, Strinich (Pivaric, 94) - Brozovic, Modric (Badel, 118), Rakitic - Rebic (Kramarich , 101), Perisic - Mandzhukic (Chorluka, 115) England: Pickford - Walker (Vardi, 111), Stones, Maguire - Trippier, Alli, Henderson (Dyer, 97), Lingard, Young (Rose, 91) - Sterling (Rushford , 74), Kane Warnings: Mandzukic, Rebich — Walker.
Match Croatia - England will begin at 21:45 Kyiv time. On football. ua will be a text online broadcast of this fight.