Croatia vs Spain predictions and betting tips on June 18, 2023

Prediction on game W1(0)

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On June 18, De Kuip (Rotterdam) will host the match for the 1st place in the League A of the Nations League Final Four, in which Croatia will compete with Spain. The battle will start at 21:45 CET.

Croatia

The team reached its maximum tempo in the previous year again. Having overcome a strained qualification for the World Cup, when everything was decided only in the last round, by means of a heavy 1-0 victory in the battle against Russian at the home arena, Zlatko Dalić’s wards appeared at the very end of the tournament. It was not possible to completely repeat the result of the “silver” year of 2018, but the 3rd place was a very serious achievement for Modrić and the company. Moreover, the Croats demonstrated great performance in the Nations League on the “eve” of the trip to Qatar. Having started hard (a 0-3 score in the home match with Austria and a 1-1 draw in the confrontation with France), they eventually “climbed” to the 1st place of the quartet. This time, “the Checkered Ones” began with a duel with the team of the host country. And they did their best despite the circumstances. The Dutch scored first, but were able to send the game into the overtime only in the last attack. Nevertheless, the hosts conceded two goals more.

Spain

The team, speaking about the previous years, played under the rule of Luis Enrique. On the one hand, it was an unambiguously successful segment. First, it finally managed to appear at a big tournament, reaching the semi-finals of the Euro 2020. Moreover, “La Furia Roja”, headed by “Lucho”, won both times in its group in the League A of the Nations League – this success provided the current trip to the Netherlands. On the other hand, the team constantly complained about the way how this coach chose the squad, and there were questions about the game of the Spaniards. The higher mentioned vents resulted in the failure at the World Cup. Being already at the group stage in Qatar, the national team had troubles, but it managed to get into the play-offs – still, that happened only for the sake of defeat on penalties to Morocco (a kind of déjà vu of 2018). Then, the position was taken by de la Fuente, who had previously worked with the youth team. Having debuted with a 3-0 score in the match against Norway, Luis and his team got a click on the nose in the form of a 0-2 misfire in Scotland. Taking into account the performance in the Nations League, even with a kind of advantage, a draw after regular time would not have been surprising. Still, Joselu showed the instinct of a striker once again and scored the decisive goal into the gates of Italy in the 88th minute of the game – and the opponent had no time for comeback.

The statistics of head-to-head matches

National teams strictly alternate victories. Four matches proved the statistics in regular time. And speaking about the previous Euro, the Croats bounced back from a 1-3 score after the 85th minute of the game, but conceded twice in extra time, which also continued the trend.

Predictions

Bookmakers consider _ to be the favourite of the current battle. Still, why shouldn’t the tendency continue and Modrić take the title? Thus, we bet on the Croats (odd: 1,).

Prediction on game W1(0)

Odds: 2.91

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4.75

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