<h1>Euro 2020 Fantasy Football Tips &#8211; Croatia</h1>
<p><i>Euro 2020 Fantasy Football Tips by the Hub&#8217;s Euros&#8217; expert @CoysFPL. </i></p>
<p><i>In this team preview series, Dan reviews all 24 teams participating in Euro 2020 and details their route from qualification, expected lineups, best player picks, under the radar gems and players to avoid.</i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400"><strong>Croatia</strong> are in <strong>Euro 2020 Group D</strong> with: </span><b><a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/euro-2020-fantasy-football-tips-england-best-players/">England</a>, <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/euro-2020-fantasy-football-tips-scotland-best-players/">Scotland</a> </b>and <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/euro-2020-fantasy-football-tips-czech-republic-best-players/"><strong>Czech Republic</strong></a>.</p>
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<h2>Route from qualification</h2>
<p>The Croatians topped their qualifying table, featuring fellow qualified teams Wales, Hungary and Slovakia. Unsurprisingly, their group featured the most teams to qualify for the finals, so qualifying in first was an impressive achievement.</p>
<p>Across their eight encounters, they only lost once, scored 17 and conceded seven. Both their goal-scoring and conceding records were bang-average compared to the other 23 qualified sides.</p>
<p>Since the qualification period, the Croatians had a miserable Nations League campaign, only winning once out of their six ties against Portugal, Sweden and France, losing all the others.</p>
<p>It was their defensive <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a> that let them down, conceding 16 across the six matches, failing to keep a clean sheet, whilst conceding four twice and more than one in all but one game. Five of the 16 goals conceded were from set-pieces, which was the highest out of the 16 teams in the top Nations League tier &#8211; a nice stat for the likes of <strong>Harry Maguire, John Stones </strong>and<strong> Tomas Soucek</strong> for example.</p>
<p>In World Cup qualifying they have far-from impressive. They started with a 1-0 loss to Slovenia, before scraping past Cyprus in a 1-0 win before comfortably beating the fifth worst ranked European side Malta 3-0.</p>
<p>In conclusion, it is fair to say Croatia are not in the form they would want to be in coming into the competition, and the international retirement of key-player <strong>Ivan Rakitic </strong>has weakened them.</p>
<p>The quality of their players should see them scrape through to the Knockout Phase, but recreating their World Cup form seems far-fetched. They are similar to the likes of Turkey and Russia: they shouldn&#8217;t fail to score, but are prone to letting goals in at the other end.</p>
<p>I predict they will narrowly lose in their opener to England, following up with an entertaining draw to the Czech&#8217;s, thereby leaving it all to do in their final game against Scotland.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://fanteam.co/euro2020-fantasy"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-33609 size-full" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1.jpg" alt="euro 2020 fanteam guide" width="2200" height="400" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1.jpg 2200w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1-300x55.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1-1024x186.jpg 1024w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1-768x140.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1-1536x279.jpg 1536w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1-2048x372.jpg 2048w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1-610x111.jpg 610w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/euros-1100x200-sterling-1-1080x196.jpg 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px" /></a></h2>
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<h2>Euro 2020 Croatia Expected lineup:</h2>
<p><strong>                              Livakovic</strong></p>
<p><strong>Vrsaljko &#8211; Caleta-Car &#8211; Lovren &#8211; Barisic</strong></p>
<p><strong>               Modric &#8211; Brozovic &#8211; Kovacic</strong></p>
<p><strong>                  Rebic &#8211; </strong><strong>Petkovic &#8211; Perisic</strong></p>
<p><strong>                             </strong></p>
<p>The abundance of midfield options means skipper<strong> Luka Modric</strong> could also play more in the number 10 role, so that <strong>Marcelo Brozovic</strong> can partner <strong>Mateo Kovacic</strong> in the centre of midfield.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the back four looks pretty set-in-stone other than Marseille&#8217;s centre half <strong>Duje Caleta-Car</strong> who faces a tight battle from <strong>Domagoj Vida</strong>, who offers the major-tournament experience that the former does not. <strong>Dejan Lovren</strong> looks unfit for the first group game so Vida and Caleta-Car will start together.</p>
<p>Ante Rebic is at most risk of the front three, despite looking a safe starter. He could be<strong> Josip Brekalo</strong>.<strong>               </strong></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-35225 aligncenter" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1167089088.jpg" alt="euro 2020 croatia team" width="1024" height="685" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1167089088.jpg 1024w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1167089088-300x201.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1167089088-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1167089088-610x408.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
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<h2><strong>Euro 2020 Croatia Best Player picks:</strong></h2>
<p>Attacking-midfield triplet <strong>Ivan Perisic</strong>, <strong>Ante Rebic</strong> and <strong>Nikola Vlasic</strong> have all been involved with plenty of goals for their respective clubs this season.</p>
<p><strong>Perisic</strong> is the side&#8217;s direct free kick taker. In addition, he was involved in the joint-most goals in the qualifying campaign, with three goals and two assists in eight. He has the potential to play up top, and has the most experience out of the three; in the 2018 World Cup he scored on three occasions and assisted once.</p>
<p><strong>Rebic</strong> has had a fine season for AC Milan, where he has 11 goals and seven assists in 27 Serie A appearances. Unfortunately, he has missed the last three international breaks through injury, but he does have four assists and a goal in his last 10 caps: not the best record. He does, however, face a lot of pressure from Wolfsburg winger Josip Brekalo.</p>
<p>Additionally, his three goals in 36 caps is not an attractive record. However, if this season&#8217;s domestic form translates into the Euros, he will be a great option.</p>
<p>The problem is that all three forwards should chip in; no stand-out option means their fantasy prospects are aggravated.</p>
<h2><strong>Under the radar players:</strong></h2>
<p><strong>Luka Modric</strong> is a good option if you&#8217;re happy to rely on penalties and set-pieces. He only has 3 goals and a single assist in 23 international appearances since the World Cup, despite getting just one goal less in the actual tournament. Only one of those 3 goals was not a penalty, underlining his lack of open-play goal threat. On the other hand, you could argue that doesn&#8217;t matter. I would expect him to be overpriced in the Fantasy game you wish to play, because of the quality of player he is, rather than his actual Fantasy prospects.</p>
<p><strong>Bruno Petkovic</strong> looks likely to start as the centre forward. He scored 14 and assisted 11 for Dinamo Zagreb this season, and has six international goals in only 15 caps. Should be the Croatian&#8217;s top scorer.</p>
<p>Rangers left-back <strong>Borna Barisic</strong> likes to bomb down the left flank and will take the occasional set-piece. He has racked up a whopping 5 goals and 14 assists in all domestic competitions this season. That all being said, Croatia have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last 10 ties against sides that qualified for the competition. With a tough opener against England, I don&#8217;t expect that to change.</p>
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<h2><strong>Players to avoid: </strong></h2>
<p>Meanwhile, midfielders <strong>Marcelo Brozovic</strong> and <strong>Mateo Kovacic</strong> doesn&#8217;t really offer much goal-threat.</p>
<p>Aside from <strong>Barisic</strong>, the rest of the back four offers basically no goal threat and I don&#8217;t rate their clean sheet chances.</p>
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