Croatia - Iceland
Croatia - IcelandIn this meeting of the qualification group "it" for a place in the finals of the World Cup in Russia Croatia accepts Iceland. These are the two strongest teams from the beginning of the group still have admitted defeat. In a similar situation is the Ukrainian national team, who just two draws in their three matches played, while Croatia and Iceland won 2 times. Just these two teams have very serious differences among themselves but have a similarity that is associated with that were part of the group stage of last EURO 2016.
However, it can hardly be compared. Croatia hosts have a lot of larger properties than those of opponents, while their national coach - Ante Cacic has an abundance of world-class players in their ranks. Interestingly Which players will rely on it to attack his team. It is very likely to trust Mario Mandzukic, who in recent weeks is close to its normal condition.
Icelanders are a very well organized team that comes out on the field with a very clear idea of how to counter your opponent.
In the history of football these two teams have played four matches each other in three of them, "chess players" have achieved the desired result. Only one of these 4 cases did the team of Iceland has found time to celebrate the goal, which does not speak very well for him.
However, it should be noted the main - that over the past two years islanditste are the biggest rise in all its football history and have little to do with the team who were as in the last century.
However Croatia will meet the challenge and will eventually lead to a landslide victory.
I expect great performance from "chess players" to put Iceland mat.