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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 OF SEMI-FINALISTS Lions fight BlazersOF SEMI-FINALISTS 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. WORLDdemanding, CUP PERFORMANCES especiallyScored as 4 World Cup in France, WORLD CUP PERFORMANCES8 5 WORLD CUP PERFORMANCES8 5 Wednesday July 11 ver-pitchMoscow levels back in England, a nation. a 1-0 victory against For all of the hype around Zlatko Dalic’s side features which was their first 6 6 1800 GMT Luzhniki Stadium Wednesday July 11 Moscow 6 6 Conceded with Gareth Southgate’s young Can Southgate now be- Ecuador at the 2006 England, they have yet to come one1800 of GMT the best midfieldLuzhniki Stadium Conceded as an independent 20 FIFA ranking SHOTS GAME teamFIFA making ranking it to the12 last four of come the first manager to World Cup in Ger20- upFIFA against ranking one of the reallySHOTS big pairings around, in Luka GAME nation. FIFA ranking 12 100 CROATIA ENGLAND 100 Modric and Ivan Rakitic. 700 2.8 a major tournament for the first win a World Cup semi-fi- many. guns at the World Cup. CROATIA ENGLAND700 2.8 90 32 Luka time sinceHarry Euro ‘96, and for the nal with England on for- “We be- They beat Tunisia in their90 Real Madrid playmaker32 Modric Kane Luka Harry RECORD 28 600 2.6 Aged 32 Aged 24RECORD RECORD Modric 28 Kane 600 2.6 RECORD 80 first time at a World Cup since eign soil as he bids ul- lieved in tournament opener thanks to a 80Modric,Aged 32who was at TottenAged 24 - st Attempted Km covered* st st Attempted Km covered* st 1 round 70 24 Italy in 1990.1 round timately to match the its po- 1late round Harry Kane goal, brushed ham70 Hotspur earlier24 in 1 round 500 2.2 500 2.2 OF SEMI-FINALISTS 60 20 thousands 60 20 OF SEMI-FINALISTS thousands FIFA World1.8 Cup 2018 FIFA World Cup 2018 1.8 2 0 Nigeria 16 400 2 1 Tunisia 2 0 Nigeria 16 400 2 1 Tunisia 1.6 1.6 On target 350CroatiaCompleted v England passes Croatia v England On target 350 Completed passes Semi-final, July 11 England Semi-final, JulyCroatia 11 FOULS Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow FOULS 3 0 Argentina 6 1GOALSPanama 3 0LuzhnikiArgentina Stadium, Moscow 6 1 Panama 0 Nickname | The Three Lions Nickname | Vatreni (The Blazers) 90 16 GOALS 90 50 1 0 50 14 16 HEAD-TO-HEAD 2 HEAD-TO-HEAD 1 12 14 80 3 80 2 60 All-time 10 All-time 12 60 Scored 4 Best finish | Third place 1998 3 1 Iceland WORLD1 CUPBelgium PERFORMANCES8 1 Iceland 10 1 Belgium 2 0meetings 5 2 meetings 4 0 Best finish | Winner 1966 WORLD CUP PERFORMANCESScored 70 6 6 8 5 70 Conceded 6 6 70 20 FIFA rankingCroatia 2 SHOTSEngland 4 GAME FIFA ranking 12 Croatia 2 England 4 Conceded 70 60 100 FIFA ranking SHOTS 60 FIFA ranking 700 2.8 20 GAME 12 Against 90 32 100 Against Last 16 Last 16 Last 16 700 2.8 Last 16 80 RECORD 28 2.6 RECORD 90 32 80 50 Coach 80 600Coach Coach Coach 50 st Attempted Km covered* st RECORD 28 600 2.6 RECORD 1 round 70 24 1 round 80 Zlatko Gareth500 2.2 Zlatko st Attempted Gareth Km covered* st 1 round 70 24 1 round 60 20 thousands Wednesday July 11 Moscow 500 2.2 40 90 Dalic D1 Southgate 1.8 Dalic D1 Southgate 40 90 2 0 Nigeria 16 400 2 1 Tunisia 60 20 thousands 1 1 Denmark 1 1 Colombia 1.6 Kyle Walker, Dele 2 0 AndrejNigeria1 1KramaricDenmark was surprisingly picked1.8 2 1 Tunisia 1 1 Colombia CommittedCaptain On target Captain 350 Completed passes 1800 GMT Captain Luzhniki Stadium 16 Captain 400 Committed On target 350 1.6 Luka 3 0 Argentina FOULS Harry 6 1 Panama Alli and Ashely Luka to start ahead of MarceloHarry Brozovic againstCompleted passes 90 50 3 0 Argentina FOULS 6 1 Panama Penalty shootout Modric Penalty shootout80 Kane Modric Penalty90 shootoutKane 50 Penalty shootout 3 2 4 3 60 3 2 4 3 Recent2 1 Iceland meetings 0 1 Belgium Young recovered Recent meetingsRussia on Saturday80 night but the latter 70 Southgate 60 Southgate Best finish Best70 finish Best finish 2 1 Iceland Best finish 0 1 Belgium 60 Gareth 70 Gareth 2009 England 5-1 Croatia Against 2009 England 5-1 Croatia 70 Coach Third place Last 16 80 Winner Last 16 from minor injuries to start ThirdCoach place could return to theWinner starting60 XI here. This 50 Last 16 Against Last 16 1998 2008 Croatia 1-4 England 1966 CROATIA 1998 ENGLAND2008 Croatia 1-4 England 196650 80 Quarter-finals Quarter-finals 1 1 Denmark 40 90 1 1 Colombia Quarter-finals Quarter-finals Committed against Sweden on Saturday but would enable1 1 Denmark Luka Modric40 90 to play1 1 Colombia further ROAD TO SEMI-FINALPenalty shootout Penalty shootout ROAD TO SEMI-FINAL Committed 3 2 4 3 Southgate Gareth Luka Harry Penalty shootout Penalty shootout Zlatko Dalic Coach Coach Jamie Vardy remains a doubt. Zlatko Dalic forward.3 2 4 3 Southgate Coach W Nigeria 2-0 Match 1 W Tunisia 2-1 W Nigeria 2-0 Match 1 W Tunisia 2-1 Gareth 2 2 Russia 2Group0 D Sweden Quarter-finals GroupQuarter-finals G Modric Group D Kane Coach Group2 G2 Russia 2 0 Sweden winner W ArgentinaZlatko3-0 Dalic Match 2 W Panama 6-1 runner-up Gareth Southgate may consid- W DejanW LovrenQuarter-finals and DanijelQuarter-finals Subasic both Ivan Rakitic 2 2 Russia 2 0 Sweden Coach winner Argentina 3-0 Match 2 Panama 6-1 runner-up Aged 32 Aged 24 Zlatko Dalic Coach W Iceland 2-1 Match 3 L Belgium 0-1 W Iceland 2-1 Match 3 L Belgium 0-12 2 Russia 2 0 Sweden 3 Penalty shootout 4 3 Penalty shootout er Eric Dier or Fabian Delph to missed training at the3 startPenalty of theshootout week 4 Pens 3-2 W Denmark 1-1 Last 16 W Colombia 1-1 Pens 4-3 Pens 3-2 W Denmark 1-1 Last 16 W Colombia 1-14 3 Pens4Penalty 4-3 shootout WORLD CUP RECORD Champion Finalist Participant Did not qualify ease the pressure on Jordan Hen- but are expected to recover in time to face Pens 4-3 W Russiath 2-2 Q-final W Sweden 2-0 Pens 4-3 W Russia 2-2WORLDQ-final CUP RECORDW Sweden 2-0 Champion Finalist Participant Did not qualify 5 participation 3rd best result derson but may feel no reason to th participationEngland.
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