Croatia is playing one of the best football’s in these qualifications, if not the best. They are well organized in the defense, they have great midfield with good destructors and many creative players and their attack is pretty good. Now playing in Zagreb, where they have not felt the feel of defeat for more than 15 years in one qualification match, both for European or World championships and with win here they can qualify for Euro 2008.

Israel had good qualifications too, made few surprises, but they are nothing special, in my opinion. Forth place in this group is the maximum that they can get. They got draws with Russia away and England at home, but then those teams weren’t playing at their best.

Croatia has Niko Kovac, Petric and Balaban injured, but I think that they will not miss much, or maybe only Niko Kovac. For the other two, Petric is a started, but he can be easily replaced by Eduardo, Olic or even Rakitic, so these absences are not a big blow to the team. Israel will have troubles, especially in the defense, goalkeeper Awat and defenders Benado and Ziv will not play, so as Colautti, Saban, Katan, Badir and Tal.

I think that Croatia is much stronger than their opponent, even if Israel is playing with full squad. Croatia managed to beat them in Israel with 3:4 and now in front of sold out stadium with fanatic fans who are expecting their team to win to secure the place in European championship, against team who needs to attack in order to keep its chances for qualification, home win is very likely outcome.



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Odds : 1.40
Stake : 10 / 10
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