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 the Portuguese national team. The match will start at 21:45 Kyiv time.

Croatia

The team was able to show the maximum result: reaching the final of the 2018 World Championship, 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 the penalty shootout. All the more shocking was the failed result at the Euro. Spain, with which they fought so much a year earlier, simply defeated Dalych’s wards. Then they missed victories with Albania and Italy. Zlatko saved 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, if he loses, he will fall back to third place – at least he must not lose.

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Portugal

The national team changed its coach a little less than two years ago, after the last world championship. If in 2023 Roberto Martínez and his wards showed a one hundred percent result, then at the Euros it was already much more modest. Ronaldo did not score at that tournament, and the team, after starting with a couple of victories, first lost to Georgia in the group stage, and then, in the playoffs, both times they drew 0-0. But if Diego Costa did not miss with Slovenia not only in playing time, but also in the penalty shootout, then the goalkeeper lost to Megnanu from France after another 0:0 duel. However, in the League of Nations, the chosen ones won three times. And it was only in October that Scotland failed to score, drawing 0:0 away from home. November began with the reception of Poland, which left Lewandowski due to injury. There they achieved a crushing 5:1, and, having secured the final leadership in this way, let go of a number of leaders.

Statistics of personal meetings

They have already played nine head-to-head matches, and the checkers have won only once. September 2-1 became the sixth victory of the chosen ones over this opponent.

Forecast

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