FIFA World Cup 2018 Croatia v England Semi-final, July 11 Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
HEAD-TO-HEAD All-time meetings
Croatia 2 England 4
Coach Coach Zlatko Gareth Dalic D1 Southgate Captain Captain Luka Harry Modric Kane Recent meetings Best finish Best finish Third place 2009 England 5-1 Croatia Winner 1998 2008 Croatia 1-4 England 1966 WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018 ROAD TO SEMI-FINAL Group D W Nigeria 2-0 Match 1 W Tunisia 2-1 Group G 18 winner W Argentina 3-0 Match 2 W Panama 6-1 runner-up W Iceland 2-1 Match 3 L Belgium 0-1 Pens 3-2 W Denmark 1-1 Last 16 W Colombia 1-1 Pens 4-3 Pens 4-3 W Russia 2-2 Q-final W Sweden 2-0 Luka Modric Player to watch Semi Final 2 Player to watch We feel proud to makeLuka Modric COMPETITION STATISTICS Harry KaneWe expect a very the fans proud because 10 ENGLAND Goals scoredVS CROATIA 11 difficult, tight and that’s what we wanted 78 Total shots 70 demanding match to do when we set out. 19 Today Shots on target 19 against England. We wanted to play good Every match at 2261 Passes completedLuzhniki Stadium2318 football, we wanted to 26 this World Cup is work hard, play with a Capacity: 80,000 such. We have to 54%9 PM passion and I thought enjoy this moment we’ve done that. We’re and then we have to enjoying it. No one wants prepare for England. to go home We watched their HARRY KANE win over Sweden and we saw how good they are from dead-balls LUKA MODRIC Wednesday July 11 Moscow Wednesday July 11 Moscow 1800 GMT Luzhniki Stadium England dreaming but Croatia set to 1800 GMT Luzhniki Stadium provide biggest World Cup test CROATIA ENGLAND Captain | Harry Kane CROATIACaptain | Luka Modric ENGLAND Luka . Harry Luka Harry Modric Kane Modric Kane Aged 32 Aged 24 Aged 32 Aged 24
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AFP | Moscow Both of those runs ended in achievement of Alf Ramsey’s tential, and I think the games aside a poor Panama, edged out his career at the same time a defeats on penalties, but there side? that we’ve prepared for, we had Colombia on penalties and easily young Kane was starting out, has ngland are dreaming of is a belief that something could “We were not certain what belief we would win, but there beat Sweden in the quarter-fi- been a particular inspiration. a first World Cup final be different this time. this team might be capable of,” is still pressure in all of those nals. The captain was the man of Esince 1966 but first they England have already won Southgate admitted to ITV, matches, so I’m really pleased Their one defeat came against the match again in the penalty GOALS must come through Wednes- a shootout in Russia, against mindful of England’s many re- with how the team have emerged Belgium in theirGOALS final group shootout win over Russia in So- 16 0 day’s semi-final at the Luzhniki Colombia in the last 16. And cent failures. and developed.” game, in a match16 between two chi at the weekend.0 1 1 14 Stadium against Croatia in what a young, likeable side with an They had won just one knock- Southgate has been just the essentially reserve14 sides. That allowed Croatia to reach 2 looks like their toughest test yet eminently sensible and hum- out match at a major tour- voice of reason England have The challenge posed by Cro- the2 semi-finals for the 12 12 3 in Russia. ble manager in Southgate nament in 16 years be- needed to prevent anyone from atia is likely to be more 3 first time since the 1998 10 10 WORLD CUP PERFORMANCESScored 4 Excitement has reached fe- have captured the hearts of fore coming to Russia, getting too carried away. 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