Croatia’s Starting Lineup

Croatia sticks with familiar faces. Brozovic did a lot of the support work against England to allow Rakitic and Modric the freedom to work. Perisic and Rebic will need to be active on the wings again, to try to spread out the French and create some gaps. Many have tried, though; accomplishing that is a bit of a bigger ask.

Goalkeeper: 23 Danijel Subasic (Monaco)

Defenders: 21 Domagoj Vida (Besiktas), 3 Ivan Strinic (Milan), 6 Dejan Lovren (Liverpool), 2 Sime Vrsaljko (Atletico Madrid)

Midfielders: 10 Luka Modric (Real Madrid), 7 Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona), 11 Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan)

Forwards: 4 Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan), 18 Ante Rebic (Fiorentina)

17 Mario Mandzukic (Juventus)

Forward Nikola Kalinic of A.C. Milan is the only one who definitely will NOT play today; he’s listed as absent on the Croatia teamsheet.