Greece vs Croatia
The cheers at Stadio Georgios Karaiskaki will be a bit louder on Sunday.
Croatia visit Greece in what will be the final notch in their long campaign to Russia. Both nations played lots of football games in the hopes of making it to Russia, and they’re now down to this.
Betting websites definitely favour the Blazers to finish what they started at home and come away with the win. Asian Handicap betting odds of Croatia -0.25 @ 1.94 show just how much trust they place on Luka Modric and Nikola Kalinic up front.
However, bookies still don’t count the Greeks out just yet. Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Kyriakos Papadopoulos may be the most recognizable names for neutrals, but they should be able to mount considerable resistance in front of their home fans.
Michael Skibbe and the Greek faithful will be looking at Greece’s admirable performance against Belgium during the qualifiers. Facing off against stars such as Romelu Lukaku, Toby Alderweireld, Yannick Carrasco and Dries Mertens, the Greeks fought hard-nosed football and weren’t afraid of getting carded. It will be likely that we will see this side of Greece in this do-or-die battle.
Meanwhile, all Zlatko Dalic needs to secure the win is to either hunker down on defence or snag an away goal early on. If they can establish the pace of the game from the start, it’d be nearly impossible for the Pirate Ship to try and plunder an improbable win from them.
This game has the makings of an instant classic or a merciless rout written all over it. It will be up to the players on the pitch to show us where this match will go.
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Disclaimer: Odds are correct at time of publish.
