Croatia – Brazil, 17.00, Al Rayyan

Today, December 9, the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup will start in Qatar. Two big powers from South America take the stage: Brazil, the main favorite, and Argentina, the champion of the continent.

On the first day of this stage of the competition, Brazil, the big favorites for the final title, play in action. On Friday, from 17.00, he will face the Croatian vice-champion of the world. Last head-to-head, in 2018, 2-0 to Brazil in a friendly, goals from Neymar and Firmino, the latter not invited to this edition of the final tournament. In 2014, Brazil won the World Cup with a score of 3:1. A 1-0 win at the World Cup, and since 2006, also for Brazil, the goal scored by the character in the stands, Kaka. In 2005, the control match ended in a draw with a score of 1:1. So, a total of 4 matches, without success for the Europeans.

Having just joined Schengen, Croatia still has reasons to be sad. FIFA imposed a fine of 50,000 euros after “xenophobic” remarks by Croatian fans during the group match against the Canadian national team (4:1). Dalich’s Croats are no longer in their prime. Modric, Lovren, Brozovic, Perisic are old and start after the match against Japan, which lasted 120 minutes plus penalties.

In the camp of the vice-champion of the world, Sosa and Stanisych have health problems. Sosa is important for the first 11, Stanisych is less important.

Brazil is in excellent form. Defeat with Cameroon was an unfortunate accident, she should have shown “optime” against South Korea. The South Americans are dealing with a tradition of rivalry when it comes to European opponents in the World Cup playoffs. The last success was against Germany in the final in 2002. Since then, there have been five defeats, including three in the quarter-finals (against France in 2006, the Netherlands in 2010 and Belgium in 2018).

Gabriel Jesus, Alex Telles and Alex Sandro have health problems. The latter has a high chance of recovery. If he is unable to play, Tite has prepared the solution of Militao, a stopper who can be repurposed into the right lane.

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Netherlands – Argentina, 21.00, Lusail

The match between the Netherlands and Argentina, scheduled for Friday at 21:00 at the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Lusail (Qatar) as part of the quarter-finals of the World Cup, is a football “classic” that fans are looking forward to. final tournament. Both teams have shown themselves to be very strong and constantly improved from one match to the next, so we are in for an exceptional game.

The Netherlands is one of the great powers of world football that has yet to win the trophy, although they have competed in no less than 3 finals so far (1974, 1978, 2010). The current generation, led from the bench by the experienced Louis van Gaal, faced some difficulties at the start of the tournament, where they ended up only beating Senegal and drawing with Ecuador, who absolutely dominated the game. But the engines were spinning along the way, and the “eighties” from the USA never had a question about the winner.

Today we have a very talented generation of Dutchmen in the national team, where young players are mixed with experienced ones. The strength of “Machine Orange” again lies in the large number of valuable footballers who know the game and can make a difference. In the 4 games played so far (3 wins and a draw, goal difference 8-2), at least 6 players have scored!

Argentina have sprung a big surprise at these World Cups, making history with an inexplicable loss to Saudi Arabia in their debut. This failure has no logic, it happened after 3 years in which the Argentinians did not lose a single game and remained isolated after that, because the South American formation showed its huge playing power in the following games, winning without any problems.

“Avaria” went unnoticed in the group: the national team under the leadership of Lionel Scaloni easily won the 1st place. Messi and company prevailed over the opponents in all sections. Then, in the 1/8 finals, the scenario was repeated with Australia, which was still able to score the honor.

It is absolutely clear that Argentina should be viewed through the prism of the last three games, not the questionable loss to the Saudis. They are a very strong team in possession and high value players are looking to impose their game.

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