The third-place play-off for World Cup 2022 takes place on Saturday 17 December at the Khalifa International Stadium, as Croatia go up against Morocco. Kick-off is at 15:00 GMT.
It’s a rematch of their opening Group F meeting, which finished 0-0. From here, both nations progressed to the semi-finals without defeat.
Both sides have made several alterations to their starting line-ups, with full-backs Borna Sosa ($3.5m) and Josip Juranovic ($5.0m) benched as two of Croatia’s five.
Dejan Lovren ($4.5m), Marcelo Brozovic ($6.0m) and Mario Pasalic ($5.0m) also make way, with Josip Stanisic ($4.0m), Josip Sutalo ($4.5m), Lovro Majer ($5.0m), Marko Livaja ($5.0m) and Mislav Orsic ($5.0m) coming in to enable an apparent switch from 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1.
Morocco have had a wonderful tournament, becoming the first African side to ever reach the semi-final.
To face France, they initially took a calculated risk on three defensive injury doubts – Nayef Aguerd ($4.0m), Romain Saiss ($4.5m) and Noussair Mazraoui ($5.0m) – which all happened to backfire.
Aguerd was removed for Achraf Dari ($4.5m) just before kick-off, whilst the other two gone were by the second half. None of this trio can start, with midfielder Azzedine Ounahi ($5.0m) also named as a substitute.
In a 4-3-3 system, the incoming names are Yahya Attiat-Allah ($3.5m), Bilal El Khannouss ($4.0m) and Abdelhamid Sabiri ($4.0m).
Popular picks Ivan Perisic ($7.5m), Luka Modric ($8.5m), Hakim Ziyech ($7.0m) and Achraf Hakimi ($5.0m) all start.
MATCHDAY 7 LINE-UPS
Croatia XI (4-2-3-1): Livakovic; Stanisic, Sutalo, Gvardiol, Perisic; Modric, Kovacic; Kramaric, Majer, Orsic; Livaja
Morocco XI (4-3-3): Bounou; Hakimi, Dari, El Yamiq, Attiat-Allah; Amrabat, El Khannouss, Sabiri; Ziyech, En-Nesyri, Boufal
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1 year, 5 months agoPerisic still at left back even tho he needs 1 goal to be Croatia's all time leading WC scorer...hhmmmmmm