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Exceeding Expectations: Croatia's World Cup Odyssey

Like most fortunate enough to reach this stage, it’s true Croatia used up some of their luck against Brazil. Neymar’s goal in extra time came from Brazil’s 10th shot on target in the match, and Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livaković had one of the games of his life with 10 saves while conceding just once – that superb Neymar individual strike – from an expected goals on target total of 3. 2. It’s obvious that the biggest threat to Croatia’s chance of reaching another World Cup final comes via Lionel Messi.

Of all the teams at the 2022 World Cup, only Mexico (19. 7) have attempted more open-play crosses per 90 minutes than Croatia (18. 2), while just France (19) and South Korea (11) have created more chances than Zlatko Dalić’s side (10) in this manner. Thirty-eight of Croatia’s 103 open-play crosses (37%) have been via full-backs Sosa (18) and Juranović (20), and no Croatia player has been on the end of the team’s 28 successful crosses more than Perišić (five). Croatia commonly used open-play crossing via their full-backs to their advantage at the last World Cup, and one of the goals that helped them reach the final came exactly in this manner – full-back Šime Vrsaljko’s right-wing cross was cleverly converted by Perišić running inside from the back post to equalise in the semi-final versus England.

Exceeding Expectations: Croatia’s World Cup Odyssey | The AnalystWorld Cup Dec 12, 2022 Croatia are just one match away from appearing in a second successive FIFA World Cup final. We take a deeper look at the national team who make clever data-led decisions to enable themselves to compete with the big hitters of international football. Only Argentina stand in the way of Croatia’s second successive World Cup final appearance.

Against All Odds No European country has punched above its weight more in world football since the modern-day Croatia returned as a recognised FIFA nation in July 1992. It only took them six years to make a massive impact, with their first-ever World Cup campaign in 1998 ending with a third-place finish. In fact, of the 14 World Cups and European Championships that it’s been possible for them to participate in since 1996, Croatia have only failed to qualify twice – Euro 2000 and World Cup 2010.

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Croatia is only the 30th most populated country in Europe with a shade over four million inhabitants. It’s a notably smaller population than plenty of UEFA footballing nations that have nowhere near as much success on the international stage. Despite this, the Croatians could become just the fourth European nation to reach consecutive World Cup finals after Italy (1934, 1938), the Netherlands (1974, 1978) and Germany (1982, 1986, 1990). The list of players that Croatia have provided to some of Europe’s biggest clubs across the last 30 years is long and includes top-class talents such as Davor Šuker, Zvonimir Boban, Robert Prosinečki, Niko Kovač, Mario Mandžukić and of course, current players Luka Modrić and Ivan Perišić. Croatia’s 1998 FIFA World Cup Side So how do nations like Croatia continue to pull up trees and impress on the international stage without the huge pool of players that previous World Cup-winning nations have at their disposal? Top-level preparation helps.

This was seen against Brazil in the quarter-finals, as they doubled up on the South American wide players: Sosa and Perišić on Raphinha and Antony (who came on in the 56th minute) and right-sided Juranović and Pašalić doubling up to stop the threat of the skillful Vinicius Junior and later on his Real Madrid team-mate Rodrygo. The same works in Croatia’s attacking phases of play, with the full-backs working in mini-teams with their wide midfielders to provide support in the final third of the pitch.

Both Modrić and Brozović were in Croatia’s central midfield that day. Can they have as much success this time around? Messi often drifts wide to the right to pick up the ball, which might see forward Andrej Kramarić drop deeper to support Sosa and Perišić in taking out the opponent’s main threat. So far at this World Cup, Kramarić has found himself dropping much deeper on the right side than the usual striker would. In the last game against Brazil, none of his 33 touches were in the opposition box, with 17 of these on the right side in the opposition half of the pitch (52%). Cross Examination Croatia are a team that like to get the ball out wide and send in crosses.

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Of course, preparation for matches (and penalty shootouts) relies on both top quality and depth of data to analyse. Croatia use many of Stats Perform’s professional tools, such ProVision, to access Opta data using the latest in AI and machine learning to enable them to make intelligent data-led decisions both pre-match and in-game. Cutting Off the Threat by Opponents Croatia are a team who try to build through the lines with a patient and controlled approach, with both Dejan Lovren and Joško Gvardiol comfortable as ball-playing central defenders. But the absolute key to Croatia’s style is the central midfield trio of Modrić, Mateo Kovačić and Marcelo Brozović. At times it may seem that all three are attached to one another by a rope, working in tandem to support different areas of the pitch and constantly breaking up play and exchanging short passes.

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After equalizing with Brazil in extra time, Croatia eliminated the South American soccer titan 4-2 on penalties. The Netherlands forced the game into extra time with goal No. 2 at 101 minutes, but fell 4-3 on penalties to Argentina. Argentina fought a rough game against the Dutch, with 15 total cards shown to players on both sides — the most in World Cup history.

** ** **Story by The Associated PressDOHA, Qatar (AP) — Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni dismissed criticism of his players’ behavior during the feisty World Cup quarterfinal match against the Netherlands, saying Monday it is “out of touch with reality. ”There were 17 yellow cards — a record for a World Cup match — and one sending-off as players clashed on numerous occasions before and after Argentina won a penalty shootout to advance to the semifinals. Scaloni said it was unfair that his players were accused of bad sportsmanship, pointing to previous examples of how they have behaved after matches — whether they won or lost. “We have to remove this taboo that we do not know how to lose and we do not know how to win, ” said Scaloni, speaking a day before Argentina’s match against Croatia in the semifinals.

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In that tournament four years ago, Croatia were also one of the most prolific crossing teams from open play, with only Germany (26. 3) and Portugal (17. 3) attempting more per 90 minutes than they did (16. 8). In this year’s quarter-final versus Brazil, we saw Croatia utilise their strength out wide, with only 18. 7% of their attacking-half touches coming in the middle third of the opposition half and the remaining 81.

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The Croatians have already knocked out Brazil and could become just the second side to eliminate both the Seleção and fellow South American giants Argentina from the knockout stages of the same World Cup, after Germany in 2014. As one of the numerous World Cup 2022 participants to have a close relationship with Stats Perform and having Opta data at their fingertips, we analyse how they’ve reached consecutive World Cup semi-finals.

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The Croatians will need to find a plan and execute it as successfully as they did against Vinícius Júnior last time out. They managed to completely stifle the threat of Messi in their 2018 World Cup group game against Argentina, where they restricted him to a single shot off target in 90 minutes, and it was the game in which the Argentina legend had the fewest touches of the ball (49) and attempted the fewest passes (24) at the tournament. In fact, of every World Cup game that Messi has played more than 70 minutes in, that 2018 meeting with Croatia saw him have the fewest touches of the ball and joint-fewest shots.

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Lionel Messi was one of those handed a yellow card, after arguing with the ref over a free kick. Here’s how to tune in. What: FIFA World Cup SemifinalWho: Argentina vs. CroatiaWhen: Tuesday, Dec. 13Where: Lusail Stadium, QatarTime: 2 p. ETTV: FOX, TelemundoChannel finder: Verizon Fios, XFinity, Spectrum, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DirecTV, DishLive stream: fuboTV, DirecTV Stream, Peacock (Spanish language), Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TVFans can stream the games live with free trials of fuboTV, DirecTV Stream or YouTube TV. Cable subscribers can login with their cable credentials on FOX.

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