Euro: R16: Croatia v Spain, 6/28/2021

[Savi]

Venue: Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
Kickoff: 12:00 EST, 18:00 CET

Croatia
- Group D runner-up (1-1-1)
- Lost

England 0-1
- Tied

Czech Republic 1-1
- Beat

Scotland 3-1
- Top goalscorer: Ivan Perišić - 2
- Luka Modric holds the record for youngest (22 vs Austria, 2008) and oldest (35 vs Scotland, 2021) goalscorer for Croatia at the EURO

Spain
- Group E runner-up (1-0-2)
- Tied

Sweden 0-0
- Tied

Poland 1-1
- Beat

Slovakia 5-0
- Top goalscorers: 4 players with 1 goal, also two owngoals

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[al secord]

Hrvatska!

 

[HajdukSplit]

I know there was that 6:0 drubbing after the World Cup in the NL but recently Croatia have gotten results against Spain. They are heavy favorites of course. Unlike Sweden, Croatia won’t bunker which will help Spain

 

[Adele Dazeem]

Prediction: 1-0 Croatia; Perisic heart-breaker.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Croatia is not looking good so far imo. Good passing game but something is missing.

Spain have their tika taka but needs to bench Morata and play other players then it will be 3-0 to Spain. With Morata, only 1-0 to spain, in overtime.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

If Spain just does the hold-the-ball-the-whole-game-and-do-absolutely-nothing-with-it routine all game it could burn them against Croatia. They're not deep but their best players are more than capable of scoring a goal against Spain.

I wouldn't bet on Croatia though.

 

[Power Man]

Laporte OG

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Unlike Sweden, Croatia won’t bunker which will help Spain

They kinda did against England.

 

[KlausJopling]

Perisic has tested positive for COVID. Not good for Croatia

 

[HajdukSplit]

Huge blow because he is one of the few goal scoring threats. My guess one of Rebic or Brekalo comes in because Dalic doesn’t seem to rate Orsic who at times wasn’t even on the bench this tournament

 

[lud]

Perisic is positive on Corona. Terrible News.
Orsic in, i hope.

 

[Bondurant]

Tough break for Croatia. Perisic ruled out.

 

[Evilo]

0-0, penalty shootout.

 

[HajdukSplit]

Maybe the Cro media is over sensationalizing but they claim there could be 10K Cro fans in the stadium which would make it almost a home game, though that didn’t help the U21s much a few weeks ago against Spain

 

[PanniniClaus]

Dalic seems to not rate Brekalo...many German Bundesliga observers feel he should be a starter and impact player.

Peresic is certainly missed..

 

[Havre]

I had Holland and Portugal yesterday, so I guess it doesn't matter what I think, but with Perisic out I think Spain will win.

Not sure how much Lovren will be missed. Don't know Croatia well enough to say, but I guess it won't help either.

Croatia are funny in this kind of games though. Like their handball team they are experts at making it difficult for the opponent, the more is at stake the better they are it seems.

 

[cgf]

Expecting Spain to go through, but the line on Croatia was too tempting not to throw 20 bucks at them.

 

[kovacro]

I had Holland and Portugal yesterday, so I guess it doesn't matter what I think, but with Perisic out I think Spain will win.

Not sure how much Lovren will be missed. Don't know Croatia well enough to say, but I guess it won't help either.

Croatia are funny in this kind of games though. Like their handball team they are experts at making it difficult for the opponent, the more is at stake the better they are it seems.

It's not much of a loss. However, not having Perisic is significant. He just does so many things so well.

 

[gary69]

Spain wins 2-1, Azpi with a winner.

 

[Blender]

Spain should take this one.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Lucho hitting the bottle early

 

[Savi]

First Pau Torres gets benched, now Alba

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

First Pau Torres gets benched, now Alba

Pau is on yellow maybe that’s it? Otherwise ya the bottle is at work.


Spain in all white is confusing

 

[Savi]

Pau and Alba are both on a yellow, but how does that matter if you go out?

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Randall grew up to be a ref….good for him. For keeping to snitch.