Doha: After getting rid of one South America country in a crucial Penalty Shootout contest, Croatia will look to book to their ticket to final against formidable Argentina team here on Wednesday. Semi Finals 1 will be held in Lusail Stadium, Doha.
With this mouthwatering contest Argentina will also look to avenge of defeat against Croatia in FIFA World Cup 2018 held in Russia, where Scaloni men lost to Croatia by 3-0 in Group stages match. This will be fifth semi Finals for the Albicelestes after an chaotic win against Netherlands via 4-2 in Penalty Shootout after the match ended in 2-2 in extra time.
For Argentina two players Marcos Acuña and Gonzalo Montiel will be left out. Meanwhile, Alejandro Gomez is pushing hard to come back from an ankle sprain, while Rodrigo de Paul and Angel Di Maria were expected to be fit to start in semi Finals.
For Croatia, Dalia will be blessed with full strength squad against Argentina, as it was against pre- world cup favourites Brazil.
For Argentina Lionel Messi will be key and for Croatia Luka Modric will be the key man In head to head battle both teams met 5 times with 2-2 wins for Argentina and Croatia respectively and one game has ended up in draw, although Bookies are picking Argentina as the winner of this game but seeing Croatia’s solid back four wall this game is expected to be tight affair. This mouthwatering clash will also be a clash between Emiliano Martinez and Dominic Livakovic both goalies of Argentina and Croatia respectively.
