Croatia – Portugal. Forecast and announcement for the League of Nations match

On October 18, the match of the 6th round of the League of Nations will be held at Poljud, in which the Croatian national team will meet with the Portuguese national team. The match will start at 21:45 Kyiv time.

Croatia

The team managed to show the maximum result: entry to the finals of the 2018 World Cup, bronze at the World Cup in Qatar. And last year, the decisive match of the last cycle of the League of Nations was lost only in a penalty shootout. Especially since the failed result at the Euro was shocking. Spain, with whom they fought so hard a year earlier, simply crushed Dalich’s wards. Then they lost victories with Albania and Italy. Zlatko kept the post and is trying to rehabilitate. Yes, Modric and company lost at the start, in Portugal. But then they managed to take four out of six possible points with the Poles and beat Scotland 2:1. Glasgow lost 0:1 in the last round. As a result, there is now a threat of falling back to third place after losing – you need to at least not lose.

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Portugal

The national team changed its coach a little less than two years ago after the last World Cup. If in 2023 Roberto Martinez and his wards showed a hundred percent result, then at the Euro it was much more modest. Ronaldo did not score in that tournament, and the team, after starting with several victories, first lost to Georgia in the group stage, and then, in the playoffs, they played to a goalless draw both times. But if Diego Costa did not concede against Slovenia not only in playing time, but also in the penalty shootout, then the goalkeeper lost to Megna from France after another 0:0 duel. Instead, in the League of Nations, the team won three. And only in October did Scotland fail to score, drawing 0:0 away from home. November began with the reception of Poland, which lost Lewandowski due to injury. There they achieved a crushing 5:1, and, thus securing the final lead, let go of a number of leaders.

Statistics of personal meetings

There are already nine head-to-head matches behind them, and the checkers have won only once. September 2-1 was the sixth victory of the team over this opponent.

Forecast

The bookmakers consider the guests as favorites, but they don’t need anything. We bet that Dalich’s wards will not lose to such an opponent (coefficient – 1.65).