{"id":652956,"date":"2025-03-22T18:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=652956"},"modified":"2025-03-22T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:45:05","slug":"croatia-predicted-lineup-vs-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/22\/croatia-predicted-lineup-vs-france-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia Predicted Lineup vs France for March 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

After having shocked France on Thursday evening in the first-leg<\/a>\u00a0in Split by a score line of 2-0, Croatia simply need to finish the job in Sunday\u2019s second leg in Paris, to reach the final four tournament of the Nations League. Last Word on Football brings you our Croatia predicted lineup for the match.<\/p>\n

Croatia Predicted Lineup vs France<\/h2>\n

How Croatia Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n

In that big first-leg victory, Croatia lined up as follows: Dominik Livakovi\u0107 was in goal, while the backline consisted of Josip Stani\u0161i\u0107, Duje \u0106aleta-Car, Josip \u0160utalo, and Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol. Luka Modri\u0107 and Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107 played in the holding midfield positions, as Ivan Peri\u0161i\u0107, Martin Baturina, Andrej Kramari\u0107, and Ante Budimir made up the front four.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong>A Look Back at the Three Spain vs. Croatia Euro Meetings<\/a><\/p>\n

Coach Zlatko Dali\u0107 used a 4-2-3-1 formation this time around. He usually does not have one formation, which he always goes back to. This makes a lineup prediction all the more difficult.<\/p>\n

Croatia Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n

Spirits in the Croatia camp are high, after the win in the first-leg, which was only the second-ever victory against France, despite the fact that the two sides have often played each other over the years. Beyond that, there cannot be much talk of form of course, as the national team hasn\u2019t played together since November before that.<\/p>\n

As stated above, Dali\u0107 is far from being an open book, when it comes to his tactics. He has used the 4-2-3-1 formation sometimes while playing with a 4-3-3, or even with a back three on other occasions. The 4-2-3-1 has worked very well in the first leg, therefore we will assume that he keeps that in place for the second.<\/p>\n

Read More: Croatia Players to Watch at UEFA Euro 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the French like to hit their opponents on the counter attack, Croatia will again prefer to let Les Blues have the ball at times. Dali\u0107 has fared the best in his meetings with Didier Deschamps when possession was more or less even. Conversely, in the 2018 World Cup final, Croatia had most of the ball, and the French counter-attacked with brutal efficiency.<\/p>\n

Croatia Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n

As of this writing, there are no known injuries to the players in the current squad.<\/p>\n

Croatia Predicted Lineup vs France<\/h3>\n

Livakovi\u0107, Stani\u0161i\u0107, \u0160utalo, \u0106aleta-Car, Gvardiol, Kova\u010di\u0107, Modri\u0107; Peri\u0161i\u0107, Baturina, Kramari\u0107, Budimir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After having shocked France on Thursday evening in the first-leg\u00a0in Split by a score line of 2-0, Croatia simply need to finish the job in Sunday\u2019s second leg in Paris, to reach the final four tournament of the Nations League. Last Word on Football brings you our Croatia predicted lineup for the match. Croatia Predicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":642836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,1831],"tags":[3282,1777],"class_list":["post-652956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-starting-line-up","tag-predicted-lineup","tag-uefa-nations-league"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652973,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652956\/revisions\/652973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}