Argentina – Croatia World Cup Prediction

Argentina and Croatia meet on Thursday at 21:00 in Novgorod, in an extremely important match, especially for South Americans.

After a surprising draw with Iceland, score 1-1, Argentina can not afford another wrong step in group D. Croatia is instead more relaxed after winning the first match in Russia, 2-0 with Nigeria.

I think Argentina will seek to score as soon as possible in front of Croatia and I am counting on the fact that South Americans will try to put pressure on them from the beginning, especially as Dalic’s team has no such defensive, even if it has escaped without a blank with Nigeria.

As happened in the case of Switzerland, in the match against Brazil, (1-1), Croatia will have to foul enough to stop the offensive game of Argentina. Messi has a revenge to take on the pale-fledged performance with Iceland and I think Croatian defenders will have a lot of luck in the duel with the star of Barcelona.

So we will count on the fact that the Croatian team will take at least two yellow cards at a rate of 1.63.

Croatia shines in the middle and in attack, but has rather rudimentary defenses, led by Lovren. It is worth mentioning that Dalic’s team has received two yellow cards in the first match from the World Cup, Nigeria (2-0). Although Croatia has clearly controlled the match and Africans have not posed problems on the offensive, Rakitic and Brozovic have been warned. Now Croatian defenders will be seriously trained, especially with Argentine star Leo Messi, able to easily remove opponents from the game.

PROBABLE TEAMS:

Argentina: Caballero – Mercado, Otamendi, Tagliafico – Salvio, Mascherano, Meza, Acuna – Messi, Aguero, Pavon

Croatia: Subasic – Vrsaljko, Lovren, Vida, Strinic – Rakitic, Badelj – Brozovic, Modric, Perisic – Mandzukic

Prediction Today: Croatia over 1.5 yellow cards
Odds: 1.63