The president of the Croatian Football Federation, Davor Shuker, called the England national team a head-on, but noted her desire to win.

In the semifinals of the World Cup-2018 Croats will play against the British.

The way of "three lions" to the semifinals lay through a confident victory over Sweden with a score of 2: 0, but in the 1/8 finals the soccer pioneers had to suffer with Colombia. Then the victory was obtained only in the series of post-match penalties (1: 1 in regular time).

According to Shuker, in a duel with the Colombians, the team of Gareth Southgate was lucky.

"I saw the game of England against Colombia at the stadium in Moscow. The British are lucky, "said Shuker.

"Colombia had two chances to score and lead in a penalty shootout, because fart was on the side of England".

"Do you know why luck was with them? Because they were trying to go ahead. For this I love the current English team ", - quotes Davor Daily Mail.

Earlier, FFU president Andrei Pavelko congratulated Shuker on Croatia's victory over Russia.