📏 Form Guide

Croatia

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Croatia will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 0-7 WC Qualifiers - Europe triumph over Gibraltar.

In that game, Croatia had 68% possession and 30 shots at goal with 13 on target. For Croatia, the goals were scored by Mario Pašalić (28'), Ante Budimir (30'), Franjo Ivanović (60', 63'), Ivan Perišić (73') and Andrej Kramarić (77', 80'). On the other side, Gibraltar got 3 shots at goal with 0 on target.

In their preceding 6 fixtures, Zlatko Dalić's Croatia have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 11 times which gives them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.83.

Czech Republic

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Czech Republic come into this game after a 2-0 WC Qualifiers - Europe win with the downing of Montenegro in their last game.

In that game, Czech Republic managed 57% possession and 13 shots on goal with 7 on target. For Czech Republic, goals were scored by Adam Hložek (23') and Patrik Schick (65'). At the other end, Montenegro got 6 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

A series of effective displays from the Czech Republic defenders has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their previous 6 fixtures combined. During the same period of time, their forwards have scored 9. We will just have to see if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

↔️ Head to head

The last league contest between the two was Euro 2024 match day 2 on 18/06/2021 which ended up with the score at Croatia 1-1 Czech Republic.

That time, Croatia had 49% possession and 11 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Ivan Perišić (47').

Czech Republic got 11 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Patrik Schick (37') scored.

The match was refereed by Carlos del Cerro Grande.

🗞️ Team News: Croatia

It looks as if Vatreni look set to kick off with a 4-4-1-1 system for this one with Dominik Livakovic, Josip Stanisic, Josip Sutalo, Duje Caleta-Car, Josko Gvardiol, Ivan Perisic, Luka Modric, Petar Sucic, Mario Pasalic, Andrej Kramaric and Ante Budimir.

📋 Team News: Czech Republic

We’re of the thinking that Czech Republic could decide to utilise a 3-4-3 formation, going with Matej Kovar, Tomas Holes, Ladislav Krejci, Jaroslav Zeleny, Vladimir Coufal, Michal Sadilek, Tomas Soucek, Lukas Provod, Pavel Sulc, Patrik Schick and Vaclav Cerny.

💭 Prediction

In our view, Croatia will likely create enough chances to score more than one when they come up against Czech Republic, who might well find it a difficult task scoring a goal of their own.

Accordingly, we see a pretty comfortable 2-0 winning score for Croatia at the conclusion of the game.

Lucas Pereira, 18:00 09/06/2025