This is the third World Cup meeting among Argentina and Croatia, and first in the knockout stages. Argentina won 1-0 out of 1998, preceding Croatia's 3-0 win in the 2018 release in Russia.
Argentina are hoping to arrive at the World Cup last for the 6th time, a figure bettered simply by Germany (8). They've never been disposed of at the semi-last stage previously, most as of late beating the Netherlands in 2014.
Croatia were losing finalists in 2018, and could turn into the fourth European country to arrive at sequential World Cup finals after Italy (1934, 1938), Netherlands (1974, 1978) and Germany (1982, 1986, 1990).
Following their punishment shootout triumph against Brazil in the quarter-last, Croatia could turn out to be only the second side to dispose of both Brazil and Argentina from the knockout phases of a similar World Cup, after Germany in 2014.
Argentina have won only one of their last seven World Cup games against European sides (D3 L3), beating Poland 2-0 in the gathering stages this year. Notwithstanding, two of those three draws have brought about punishment shootout triumphs.
In spite of being nearly arriving at successive finals, Croatia haven't scored first in any of their last nine World Cup games, since a 2-1 win over Iceland in the 2018 gathering stages. This is the furthest into the opposition any side has without opening the scoring in any of their matches.
Croatia have never neglected to score in their 10 World Cup knockout stage matches. Be that as it may, they've likewise yielded somewhere around once in every one of their last eight, with five of their last six such games going to additional time.
Argentina have scored first in each of the five World Cup matches this year, in spite of the fact that they neglected to win in the wake of going on in a World Cup match without precedent for their 2-2 draw with the Netherlands. To be sure, 12 of the last 13 objectives they've surrendered at the World Cup have come in the final part of matches.
Croatia have won each of the four of their punishment shootouts at the World Cup, taking out Japan and Brazil in the last 16 and quarter-last in 2022 separately. The main country to win more punishment shootouts in the opposition are Argentina (5).
In the event that Lionel Messi plays, he will approach Lothar Matthäus for the most appearances in World Cup history (25). As well just like Argentina's joint-most noteworthy goalscorer in the opposition (10), he's one help away from equalling Diego Maradona's general record of eight at World Cup finals (beginning around 1966).
Argentina's Lionel Messi has both scored and helped an objective in three different World Cup matches, including two at the current year's competition (versus Mexico and Netherlands). Beginning around 1966, no player has at any point done as such in four separate games.
Luka Modric has made the most World Cup appearances (17) and most appearances at significant competitions (30) for Croatia. He's begun every one of the five of their 2022 World Cup coordinates and could turn out to be just the fourth player to begin six matches at a World Cup matured 37+, after Brazil's Nilton Santos in 1962, Italy's Dino Zoff in 1982 and Britain's Peter Shilton in 1990.
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