Croatia-Scotia is a match valid for the third day of the group stage of the Nations League and is played on Saturday at 6 p.m.: free streaming, likely lineups, prediction.
Group 1 of League A is Portugal’s, still with full points after the first two days. Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates have been the talk of the town right away, while a tight battle looms for second place, which from this edition still gives access to the knockout stage via a play-off.
Croatia and Poland are the two main suspects to vie for second place behind the Lusitanians. Scotland, on the other hand, is in danger of staying out of the race and having to resign itself to immediate relegation to League B.
Steve Clarke’s men, despite some good individuality (the “Neapolitan” McTominay above all) are unable to break out of the downward spiral in which they had already got themselves into last summer during the European Championships – their last success in an official match dates back more than a year – and in the Nations League they did not score even a point in their first two matches, surrendering 3-2 to Poland and 2-1 to Portugal. Against the Portuguese, Croatia also raised the white flag, beaten 2-1 in the opener, but the Balkan selection promptly made up for it in the match against Poland, folded 1-0 thanks to a goal by its endless captain Luka Modric, who wants nothing to do with saying goodbye to his national team. Dalic against Scotland will be without Juranovic, Majer and Stanisic, but decidedly more important are the absences Clarke has to deal with, lacking three potential starters such as McGinn, Gordon and McKenna.
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The prediction
Croatia may not be what it was a few years ago, but it has all the cards to impose itself even on Scotland, which is struggling and without several starters. The number of total goals is likely to be less than three.
Croatia-Scotland likely lineups
CROATIA (3-5-2): Livaković; Erlić, Ćaleta-Car, Gvardiol; Jakić, Modrić, Kovačić, Sučić, Sosa; Matanović, Petkovic.
SCOTLAND (4-2-3-1): Gunn; Ralston, Hanley, Souttar, Robertson; Gilmour, McClean; Christie, McTominay, Doak; Dykes.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-0
