The Match Croatia vs. Denmark is one of the most even matches of the keys to the knockout rounds of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Both showed good football in the group stage and eliminated rivals of weight, so a match to the death is expected from the first minute.This game will be played at the Nizhny Novgorodov Stadium this Sunday, starting at 1:00 p.m. (Colombia time).
The Croatian soccer
team achieved a 100% performance in the
first phase of the world championship and qualified as Group D leader with
perfect score (along with Uruguay) for the first time in its history. The
challenge now is to improve the 3rd position obtained in France 1998, and has
with what, because in his payroll is Modric, Perisic and Manduzkic.
The Danish eleventh qualified for a round of 16 after 18
years and now dreams of reaching the quarterfinals after being absent from
France 1998. For this, he must continue to maintain his defensive strength that
only allowed 1 goal in 270 minutes. The table directed by Áge Hareide does not
lose since 2016, and it is to indicate that in the 4 friendlies of this year he
did not receive a goal.
In his 3 starts at the 2018 World Cup in Russia he has only
scored 2 goals (1 in each half), his most colorful player being Christian
Eriksen. It should be noted that when Denmark has reached this instance of
eighths the match always ends with +2.5 goals (in Mexico 1986 lost 5-1, in
France 1998 won 4-1 and in Korea and Japan lost 3-0).
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