France takes on the visitors Croatia at “Luzhniki Arena” in the final battle of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The match will be played in Moscow on Sunday, July 15th.
At this tournament France is proving its status of one of the strongest sides of the world. The team appeared in the final of the UEFA EURO 2016, having lost the title to Portugal, however, participation in the final of the second major football forum in a row is a great evidence of the side’s class and mastery. The current undefeated streak of Didier Deschamps’ team counts for 10 encounters and covers eight victories with two draws. “Les Bleus” collected five triumphs and a draw with 10 goals for and four goals against in six battles conducted at this Mundial. Having showed powerful performance in the group, the French broke Argentina 4:3, Uruguay 2:0 and Belgium 1:0 in the Play Offs. In the knock-out rounds “Les Bleus” demonstrated high effectiveness in attack together with rock-solid performance in defense.
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In its turn, on the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Croatia has not been considered as the team which was capable to promote to the semi-finals and then to the final. During this competition Zlatko Dalic’s side showed unbelievable mental toughness and physical conditions alongside with a stroke of luck. At the group stage the Croatians won all three clashes against Nigeria, Argentina and Iceland. However, afterwards “Vatreni” have not succeeded in the statutory playing time of the Play Offs tackles, having earned three draws with the same 1:1 scoreline in them. At the 1/8 final stage the upcoming visitors broke Denmark by penalty shoot-out after 1:1 draw, then in the quarter-final they knocked out Russia by penalty shoot-out after 2:2 draw after 120 minutes of football and, finally, in the semi-final Croatia passed over England with 2:1 scoreline after extra time.
The teams have met five times in their history in which France celebrated three victories while two other head-to-heads were finished in draws. The most recent clash between the rivals ended with 0:0 scoreline in 2011. Taking into consideration that two last finals of the FIFA World Cup were finished with 0:0 score after 90 minutes of football, not many goals are likely to be scored in the upcoming decider as well.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.0 scored goals.
