England are often overrated as their players are the most known in the world because of Premier League. They are not quite my favourite to win this tournament, but yes, this time the team is really good, and they have the home advantage perhaps all in all in 6 games, including this one.

The main question here is how the teams can use the weaknesses of the other ones defense, and the worries are a lot bigger at Croatia.

At England their top defender Maguire is still out, and if he was anyone else coach Southgate would had replaced him, now he waits for a recovery as England will qualify without him.

England are not free of other problems, or questionmarks. The keeper Pickford did not have a good season at Everton, and United’s Henderson seems like a better choice, but lack of inexperience probably keeps him on the bench. No mistakes allowed in that department!

The form of England is a good one, they have won last 6 games and conceded only once in those, latest loss came v Belgium last November, and Trippier on the right win might be the man to create the most chances after a brilliant season at title winning Atletico Madrid!

Croatian defense.. well. In their last 14 competitive games Croatia have conceded 1.6 goals per game, and especially the better teams France and Portugal have humiliated the Croatian team, who lost several of their key players since the World cup final v France. Danijel Subasic, Ivan Strinic, Mario Mandzukic and Ivan Rakitic have retired, and even if the replacing players have been ok, they are not great, and far from the class of their midfield class. In the attack they do rely too heavily on Perisic, and the coach Dalic has had to make a lot of experiments with the form as they lack reliable strikers.

With Luka Modric in the team there is always the element of danger, but the introduction of young players have not gone well. Legend Dejan Lovren has complained about lack of respect from them, the coach admits there are problems in the locker room.

As said I am not convinced England will reach top-4 this time, but the signs are out there that for Croatia this tournament will be a big disappointment!

England to score at least 2, and to win.

Likely lineups:

Pickford/Shaw-Mings-Stones-Trippier/Phillips-Rice/Grealish-Mount-Sterling/Kane

… there is also Rashford and Foden.. no lack of class and depth!

Livakovic/Barisic-Vida-CaletaCar-Vrsjalko/Modric-Brozovic/Rebic-Vlasic/Perisic/Petkovic

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英格兰经常被高估，因为他们的球员是世界上最知名的，因为英超联赛。他们不是我最喜欢的赢得这次锦标赛的球队，但是是的，这一次他们真的很好，他们可能在6场比赛中都有主场优势，包括这次。

这里的主要问题是球队如何利用其他球队的防守弱点，而克罗地亚的担忧要大得多。

在英格兰，他们的顶级后卫马奎尔仍然缺席，如果他是其他教练的话，索斯盖特会取代他，现在他在等待恢复，因为英格兰将在没有他的情况下出线。

英格兰也有其他问题或疑问。门将皮克福德在埃弗顿的表现并不好，曼联的亨德森似乎是一个更好的选择，但缺乏经验可能让他留在替补席上。那个部门不允许有任何错误!

英格兰是一个很好的人,他们赢得了近6场比赛,在那些只承认一次,最近损失了v比利时去年11月,右边这位球员赢得机会可能是男人创造最辉煌的赛季后在马德里竞技获得冠军头衔!

克罗地亚防御. .好。在过去的14场比赛中，克罗地亚场均失球1.6个，特别是实力较强的法国队和葡萄牙队羞辱了克罗地亚队，自从世界杯决赛对阵法国队后，克罗地亚就失去了几名关键球员。苏巴奇、斯特里尼奇、曼祖基奇和拉基蒂奇已经退役，即使替补球员还好，他们也不是很优秀，离他们的中场水平还很远。在进攻方面，他们确实过于依赖佩里西奇，教练戴瑞克不得不对他们的阵型做了很多实验，因为他们缺乏可靠的前锋。

莫德里奇在球队中总是有危险的因素，但是引进年轻球员并不顺利。传奇球员德扬·洛夫伦抱怨他们缺乏尊重，教练承认更衣室里确实存在问题。

预测英格兰获胜，比分2:0。