Football Previews
Brazil vs Croatia
Competition – International Friendly
Stadium – Anfield
Date: 3rd June 2018
Kick-off time – 15:00 GMT
This is arguably the most exciting warm up friendly for this summer’s World Cup.
Most teams look to play lesser oppositions, but brazil have chosen to take on this very talented Croatian side, while there is nothing at stake apart from pride, the players would be looking to stake their claim for a starting place in Russia.
Brazil are going to play Croatia’s bitter rivals Serbia in their last group game at the World Cup in a few weeks so this is a good warm-up match.
The Brazilian team should enjoy some home support as they have the duo of Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino in their team, however, Neymar remains a major doubt.
Croatia play Argentina in their group stage, with Nigeria and Iceland completing the group and they would be optimistic that they can reach the knockout stage of the competition.
Croatia are a good team, however, they made their qualification unnecessarily difficult for themselves and it will be interesting to see if which Coratia turns up when they play the Brazilians in this game.
Croatia have won just six of their last fourteen games.
Even without Neymar, Brazil still have the quality to get the win here and it will be interesting to see how the Croatians can cope with the firepower of the South Americans.
These teams met in the 2006 and 2014 World Cup and Brazil won both of those matches.
Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions
Brazil
| LAST FIVE GAMES | DATE | COMPETITION | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Germany |  |
0-1 |  |
Brazil | 27 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
| W | Russia |  |
0-3 | |
Brazil | 23 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
| D | England |  |
0-0 | |
Brazil | 14 Nov, 2017 | International Friendly |
| W | Japan |  |
1-3 | |
Brazil | 10 Nov, 2017 | International Friendly |
| W | Brazil | |
3-0 |  |
Chile | 11 Oct, 2017 | FIFA World Cup Qualifying – CONMEBOL |
Croatia
| LAST FIVE GAMES | DATE | COMPETITION | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Mexico |  |
0-1 |  |
Croatia | 28 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
| L | Peru |  |
2-0 | |
Croatia | 24 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
| D | Greece |  |
0-0 | |
Croatia | 12 Nov, 2017 | FIFA World Cup Qualifying – UEFA |
| W | Croatia | |
4-1 | |
Greece | 9 Nov, 2017 | FIFA World Cup Qualifying – UEFA |
| W | Ukraine |  |
0-2 | |
Croatia | 9 Oct, 2017 | FIFA World Cup Qualifying – UEFA |
H2H
| DATE | COMPETITION | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | |
1-0 | |
Croatia | 13 Jun, 2006 | FIFA World Cup |
| Croatia | |
1-1 | |
Brazil | 17 Aug, 2005 | International Friendly |
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