Croatia face Canada in a Group F fixture at the 2022 FIFA World Cup with each groups in search of their first win in the opposition
Canada and Croatia each
failed to win their opening team games, with Sunday's showdown between the two
taking on introduced magnitude in race to qualify from Group F. Belgium are
lengthy odds-on to win the crew with Croatia, Canada and Morocco all set to
conflict it out for 2d place.
Last edition's runner-ups,
Croatia, did now not get off to a sturdy begin to their World Cup marketing
campaign as had been held to a disappointing 0-0 stalemate towards underdogs
Morocco.
Despite dominating
possession in opposition to the African team, the Croats had been unable to
carve out significant possibilities in the last third. They should now not come
up with the money for any greater slip ups, and have to win this recreation to
keep away from dealing with Belgium in a do-or-die match.
On the different hand, the
Maple Leafs showcased that notwithstanding their relative inexperience at World
Cup, with their remaining participation coming in 1986, they are no pushovers
at this year's tournament, and absolutely gave second-ranked Belgium run for
their money, going toe-to-toe in what was once a fearless display.
While it was once a
disappointing end result for Canada, supervisor John Herdman will be eager to
focal point on the positives of their performance. The North American's have
been enterprising at some point of and had honest share of spells of dominance
in the high-intensity game.
If talismanic wide-man
Alphonso Davies had no longer botched the 10th-minute penalty, the story should
have grew to become out very pretty differently, doubtlessly triggering any
other giant-killing at this year's World Cup. Regardless, they will be aiming
to put any other sturdy displaying in opposition to some other set up European
aspect in Croatia.
Croatia vs Canada confirmed lineups
Croatia XI (4-3-3):
Livakovic; Juranovic, Lovren, Gvardiol, Sosa; Modric, Brozovic, Kovacic;
Livaja, Kramaric, Perisic
With mighty Belgium being
their last crew game, Croatia would be determined to take hold of three-points
right here as it would put them in a extremely good role for qualification into
the knockout rounds, specifically if Morocco fail to get whatever out of their
recreation towards Belgium.
