Saturday’s World Cup activity closes at the Kaliningrad Stadium in Kaliningrad, when Croatia faces Nigeria, in a game where seemingly second place in Group D is placed at the 2018 World Cup Russia.
Croatia:
Those led by Zlatko Dalic do not want to complicate their stay in the 2018 World Cup Russia and avoid the European qualifiers where they had to wait until the repechage against Greece to seal their classification to the most important party of “Planet Soccer”.
Croatia knows that winning the Africans would put a foot and a half in the knockout stages of the competition, also would allow him to arrive with great confidence for the games against Argentina and Iceland.
The Blades have a good squad half of the front field, with players like the fliers Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic who come to make an excellent season with Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively; He also has Ivan Perisic and Andej Kramaric who are projected a lot to the opposite goal and without forgetting to mention their main attacking weapon like forward Mario Mandzukic, who were important in the 2-1 victory over Senegal at the close of the season. preparation stage.
Nigeria:
Meanwhile, the Nigerian national team has gained a lot of professionalism from the German coach Gernot Rohr and this led him to qualify with great solvency in his elimination group over powerful teams like Cameroon, Zambia and Algeria.
The Super Eagles come to play a big role in the recent edition of the African Cup of Nations where they reached the final, unfortunately they lost focus in their last game against Morocco and lost 4-0, but the behavior within the field is very interesting and this has led him to beat Argentina 4-2 and Poland 1-0 in the preparatory friendly, unfortunately the end of the preseason has not been as expected as it was lost in three of its last four games, where the remaining was tied to one before a modest Congo.
Rohr puts his hopes in what can be done by John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses, who are very experienced players, but their weakness is in the arc where Vincent Enyeama retired, while Carl Ikeme was diagnosed with leukemia and thus the incumbent is a young and inexperienced Francis Uzoho, 19 years old.
Possible alignments:
Croatia: Subasic; Life, Lovren, Vrsaljko, Strinic; Brozovic, Rakitic, Kramaric, Modric, Perisic; Mandzukic
Nigeria: Uzoho; Troost-Ekong, Balogun, Abdullahi, Idowu; Ndidi, Onazi, Iwobi, Mikel, Moses; Iheanacho
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / NO @ 1.63
