We can now bring you our experts’ predicted line-ups as well as player fitness updates for Monday’s big WC22 clash.
Japan will be looking for another win after a 2-1 WC22 victory versus Spain. In our view, Samurai Blue look set to make use of the 3-4-3 formation this time, beginning the first half with Shuichi Gonda, Hiroki Ito, Maya Yoshida, Shogo Taniguchi, Junya Ito, Ao Tanaka, Hidemasa Morita, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Takefusa Kubo, Daizen Maeda and Daichi Kamada.
Japan manager has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash owing to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from.
Possible Japan team to take on Croatia
In their previous fixture, Croatia drew 0-0 in the WC22 match with Belgium. From our viewpoint, Vatreni appear most likely to utilise a 4-3-3 lineup, starting Dominik Livakovic, Josip Juranovic, Dejan Lovren, Josko Gvardiol, Borna Sosa, Luka Modric, Marcelo Brozovic, Mateo Kovacic, Marko Livaja, Andrej Kramaric and Ivan Perisic.
Due to a completely healthy group to choose from, Croatia boss Zlatko Dalić doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game.
Predicted Croatia team
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