Croatia national team takes on the visitors from Turkey in the round 1 match of the World Cup 2018 qualification. The match will be played in Zagreb at Maksimir Stadium on Monday, September 5th.
Croatia have quite strong national team in recent years, who simply unlucky at main stages of big tournaments. Today’s hosts showed nice football in France and won their group, finishing ahead of Spain, Turkey and Czech Republic. The draw wasn’t favorable for Croatia and they had to play with title winners Portugal. However, Croatia prevailed in the match but conceded from rare counterattack on 117th minute in second extra time. The team lost their captain Srna, who finished international career, but the rest of the stars is still available and this talented generation makes another attempt to succeed in it tournament.
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Fatih Terim’s men failed in Euro 2016, failing to qualify for the round of 16 and the federation made decision to renew their national team. The most recent friendly with Russia featured numerous new played in Turkey’s squad, most of them were under 23. However, neither of the opponents showed solid football in that match.
Croatia and Turkey faced one another six times in their history. Today’s hosts succeeded three times and three other matches ended with draws. However, one of these draws turn out to Turkey’s win on the penalties at Euro 2008 and Croatia keep punish Turkey since then. Croatia have home-field advantage and they have balanced team while Turkey are in the process of rebuilding their team so we should expect the hosts to prevail in the match and take three points.
Prediction for the match: Croatia to win.
