The Croatian team is ranked 12th in the world, and 10th in Europe. Croatia finished first in the group with 23 points in 10 European preliminary rounds, beating Russia, Slovakia and other teams to qualify for the World Cup.
Croatia is participating in the World Cup for the 6th time, having previously reached the semifinals twice in the previous 5 competitions, finishing third in 1998, and runners-up in 2018 after losing 4-2 to France in the final.
Team Vatreni had 5 wins and 1 draw in the last 6 matches including wins over France, Denmark and other top 10 teams in the world, where they kept 4 clean sheets.
Luca Modric will still be a player that coach Zlatko Dalić relies on. The Real Madrid player has won three main awards namely UEFA Best Player, Ballon d’Or and World Footballer. It is estimated, Qatar may be the last World Cup for Modric.
Detained in a goalless draw by Morocco, Croatia had to fight extra hard to win over Canada to keep the chance of qualifying for the knockout stages.
The problem is, the Canadian team also performed extraordinary against Belgium in the first round. John Herdman’s squad has grown in the game and can even provide resistance to Belgium. If it weren’t for bad luck, the Canucks might have scored a point.
It is predicted that the Canadian Team, which has just entered the World Cup for the second time in team history, will struggle not to go home early. Canada participated in the World Cup for the first time in 1986.
Kick-off time, & Live Streaming Links
Match | Croatia vs Canada |
Competition | World Cup Qatar 2022 (group stage) |
Match week | 2nd |
Venue | Khalifa International Stadium (Ar-Rayyan) |
Date | Sunday, November 27, 2022 |
Kickoff | 11:00 EDT |
Official TV | Fox, FS1, Telemundo, Universo |
Watch link | Fox, TV-Bola |
Croatia – Canada Head-to-Head Record
Last 5 Match Performance
Croatia
- 06/14/2022 France vs Croatia 0 – 1
- 09/23/2022 Croatia vs Denmark 2 – 1
- 09/26/2022 Austria vs Croatia 1 – 3
- 11/16/2022 Saudi Arabia vs Croatia 0 – 1
- 11/23/2022 Morocco vs Croatia 0 – 0
Canada
- 09/24/2022 Qatar vs Canada 0 – 2
- 09/27/2022 Canada vs Uruguay 0 – 2
- 11/11/2022 Bahrain vs Canada 2 – 2
- 11/17/2022 Japan vs Canada 1 – 2
- 11/24/2022 Belgium vs Canada 1 – 0
Croatia vs. Canada Squad Predictions
Croatia (4-3-3): Livakovic; Juranovic, Lovren, Gvardiol, Sosa, Modric, Brozovic, Kovacic, Pasalic, Kramaric, Perisic.
Canada (5-4-1): Borjan; Laryea, Johnston, Vitoria, Miller, Davies, Buchanan, Hutchinson, Eustaquio, Larin, David.