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Fight the pursuers in the qualification group E! The European Championship next year is a very special one. Because this competition has been around for 60 years. That is why UEFA has chosen a European Championship, not in one country but across Europe.
Two of the coveted starting places will be played in qualification group E. In the duel between Slovakia and Croatia, in our view, a forecast is quite difficult.
But we are trying to face arguments for and against the two national teams to place our bet in the end. Currently, Slovakia is in second place in this group and has the chance to take the league lead with a home win. This is related to the fact that the league leaders Hungary has this time free of play.
Slovakia hopes for its enormous home strength. Finally, the team of coach Pavel Hapal has lost only one of the last eleven home games. As a favorite, at least for the bookmakers Croatia in this pursuit duel. Where the Croats after the vice-world championship no longer seem so strong.
Hope for the Croatian team is that you have lost none of the four duels with Slovakia in the past 20 years. This should be primarily because the Croatians objectively have the much stronger squad.
Slovakia:
The Slovak national team made the leap to a European Championship in 2016 for the first time. In the final round in France, the Slovaks even survived the group stage and moved into the second round. However, Slovakia did not stand a chance against Germany and had to beat 3: 0.
Unfortunately, from a Slovakian perspective, it was not enough to participate in the World Cup last year in Russia. For this reason, hopes in Slovakia even more to a participation in the EURO 2020. So far, the squad of coach Hapal in qualifying Group E completed three games.
After all, it was enough for two wins and only once had to accept a defeat. It started for Slovakia in qualifying with an important 2-0 home victory against Hungary. In this match in March, the Slovaks were the much better team; that led to a well-deserved opening victory after hits by Andrej Duda and Albert Rusnak.
Three days later, things did not go so well in Wales. There was a narrow goal defeat after an early goal. In June, Slovakia had no problems in a friendly against Jordan and easily prevailed in the local City Arena Trnava.
In the subsequent qualifier in Azerbaijan, the team played into a frenzy and celebrated, among other things, by two goals by Marek Hamsik a 5-1 one-way victory. Now home-strong Slovakians are back at home.
Here, Slovakia has developed into a power and has won a total of nine of the last eleven home games for themselves. It is also interesting for the Slovaks that the team has scored at least one goal in eight of the last nine home games in the second half.
Croatia:
The Croatian national team was one of the big positive surprises last year at the World Cup in Russia. Certainly, the Croats were called before the 2018 World Cup again and again as a secret favorite, but in Russia, the team of coach Dalic could deliver then really.
The bottom line was for the Kockasti even into the big final. But it was not enough to win the World Cup, because the Croats were clearly inferior to strong Frenchmen. After this tournament, it is for the Croatian national team to connect as possible to the achievements of the World Cup.
After all, Croatia also wants to be back at the European Championships next year. However, if you look at the performances this year, the performance curve for Croatia seems to be a bit down. Even at the first qualifier against Azerbaijan, the Croats had their problems.
Therefore, the national coach would have been happy that in the end at least a narrow 2-1 home win jumped out. Croatia had to face Hungary in Budapest on Matchday 2. There Rebic brought his team into the lead, but then the Croats lost more and more the thread.
The bottom line was an annoying 2-1 defeat. In June, the Kockasti embarrassed in a friendly against Tunisia and dealt in Varazdin a defeat. A few days later, Croatia again improved significantly in a qualifier against Wales. By a home win the next three points could be retracted.
In the upcoming match in Slovakia, the coach has to do without the injured Kramaric, Kovacic and Pjaca. Moreover, this time Ivan Rakitic is not in the squad of the Croatian national team after much speculation about his situation at Barcelona.
Slovakia vs Croatia head to head matches
11.08.10 FI Slovakia Croatia 1 : 1
16.10.07 FI Croatia Slovakia 3 : 0
29.05.04 FI Croatia Slovakia 1 : 0
15.08.00 FI Slovakia Croatia 1 : 1