Japan vs Croatia

Japan was in a really hard group and ended up in 1st place what is amazing but they way it happen was crazy. In the 1st game against Germany they were outplayed by Germany in the 1st half and were lucky to be only down by 1:0 and than in the 2nd half they beat Germany by 2:1 and with that win they only needed to beat Costa Rica and they would be in the next stage and for my surprise out of nowhere the Japanese Coach rotated key players in that game what I don't understand and even they were the better team they lost to Costa Rica by 0:1 and were in big risk to miss the chance to advance in this group since they would face the very good Spain team. Against Spain the same happened like in that game against Germany, they where outplayed in the 1st half and were down 1:0 and in the 2nd half they played great and beat Spain by 2:1 and conquered the 1st place in the group, it's just strange how they lost to the very weak Costa Rica team and beat Germany and Spain but like I said, they rotated key players against Costa Rica and now in the knock-out stages there is no rotation, the best players are playing.

Croatia hasn't lost any game yet in the World Cup, in the first game they got a draw against Morocco, it was a very tactical game without many chances for both teams and the draw was fair for both teams. In the 2nd game they had no issues to beat Canada by 4:1, they took advantage of the very poor defensive line of Canada and since they have smart players in the mid-field they explored that very well. In the 3rd game they got super lucky with that 0:0 draw against Belgium, they played a good first half but in the 2nd half Belgium missed chances after chances, especially Lukaku had at least three very good goal chances that he usually don't miss but in that game he missed everything and Croatia survived in 2nd place of that group so they are very lucky to be here.

This is a very even game in my opinion, I give 50% 50% chances for both teams and that's why I see good value on Japan not to lose this game in the 90th minutes, both teams have similiar strenghts, they are very solid overall has an collective team and even in theory Croatia has better players because of Modric for example who is the sheriff on the field for them Japan has also very decent players with great speed what can give Croatia a hard time too. I wouldn't be surprised here to see this game going to extra-time, it will not be an easy game for any of those teams but looking at those odds I don't see Japan has the clear underdog here, I see Japan fighting here to advance to the next round, they already showed that they are a team that needs to be respected and who play really well together and with great spirit, so take Japan or Draw here in the end of the 90th minutes.

Good Luck

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日本vs克罗地亚

日本队在一个非常艰难的小组，最后以第一名的成绩结束比赛，这是令人惊讶的，但他们发生的方式是疯狂的。1日对阵德国,他们击败了德国第一一半,很幸运只比下半年下降1:0,他们通过2:1击败德国,赢得他们只需要击败哥斯达黎加和他们将在下一个阶段,我惊喜的日本教练旋转关键球员在这游戏我不理解,甚至他们是更好的球队0:1,他们输给了哥斯达黎加的巨大风险,错过的机会在这个组因为他们要面对的是非常优秀的西班牙队。对阵西班牙发生了同样的事像在对德国的比赛,他们在第一一半和1:0,下半年他们伟大,2:1击败西班牙征服了组中的第一名,只是奇怪他们怎么输给哥斯达黎加非常弱的团队和击败德国和西班牙,但就像我说的,他们对哥斯达黎加和旋转关键球员现在在淘汰赛阶段没有旋转,最好的球员在踢。

克罗地亚队在世界杯上还没有输过一场比赛，在第一场比赛中他们和摩洛哥打平，这是一场非常有战术意义的比赛，两队都没有太多机会，平局对两队来说都是公平的。在第二场比赛中，他们毫无问题地以4:1击败了加拿大，他们利用了加拿大非常糟糕的防线，因为他们有聪明的中场球员，他们很好地探索了这一点。在第三场比赛中，他们0:0战平比利时，他们上半场踢得很好，但是下半场比利时失去了一个又一个的机会，特别是卢卡库至少有三个非常好的进球机会，他通常不会错过，但在那场比赛中他错过了所有机会，克罗地亚在小组第二的位置存活下来，所以他们非常幸运能来到这里。

这是一个非常甚至是游戏在我看来,我给50% - 50%的机会两支球队,这就是为什么我看到价值在日本不输掉这场比赛第90分钟,两队有类似力量,他们非常坚实的整体有一个集体的团队甚至在理论上克罗地亚有更好的球员因为莫德里奇例如警长是谁为他们在球场上日本也很体面的球员以极大的速度可以给克罗地亚也很难。我不会惊讶这里看这场比赛加时赛,这不是一件容易的游戏的那些团队却看着我不明白日本的几率明显处于劣势,我看到日本战斗晋级下一轮,他们已经表明,他们是一个团队,需要尊重和谁一起玩的很好和伟大的精神,所以日本或画在第90分钟结束。

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