The National Team (Croatia) will meet England in the 2018 World Cup semifinals which took place at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Thursday, July 12, 2018 AM GMT. This meeting is the first for the two countries in the World Cup according to throughout history.
Coming to the game later, both Croatia and England hit by injury problems. Vatreni-the Croatian nickname-certainly will not be reinforced by injured Sime Vrsjalko. Meanwhile, Danijel Subasic and Dejan Lovren missed training earlier this week for lacking support in terms of his health. In the British camp, Jordan Henderson and Kyle Walker also have not reached 100 percent fitness of the injury in his feel.
Before watching the game above, it's good to glance at the facts that cover both countries. Here's an interesting fact ahead of Croatia vs England in the 2018 World Cup semifinals:
the later game is the eighth for Croatia and England. England are more dominant in getting four wins, one draw and two losing.
Of the seven meetings, only one time England and Croatia meet in major tournaments (European Cup and World Cup). The two countries met in the 2004 European Cup. At that time, England won 4-2 over Croatia.
Before this edition, England have already performed twice in the semifinals. At the 1966 world cup the Three Lions-England nickname-won 2-1 over Portugal. While in 1990, England lost on penalties from Germany.
Of the 10 goals Croatian made in the 2018 World Cup, scored by eight different players. Only Belgium (9) who sends scorer more different than Croatia.
England have scored 11 goals in the 2018 World Cup. That achievement has equaled England's most goals in the World Cup that was created in 1966.
Croatia becomes the second country capable of twice defeating opposing teams (Denmark and Russia) via penalties in the autumn phase. Previously, Argentina did it in 1990 after eliminating Yugoslavia and Italy on penalties.
Croatia have only lost one of their last six appearances in the knockout phase of the World cup