Croatia were the first team to finish playing two games at this years Euros, but they were not able to win either of them.
A huge struggle for them was their defensive play.
Conceding five goals through their two games against Spain and Albania, pushing them towards the edge of elimination in the group stage of the tournament, heading into their last game in group B against Italy.
In this tactical analysis, we’ll take a look at what Croatia has been doing and where they have areas of their tactics to improve off the ball.
Firstly, our tactical analysis and scout report will be taking a look at the lineups Croatia used in their two games.
Against Spain, they started with a back-four consisting of four centre-backs in Joško Gvardiol at left-back, Marin Pongračić and Josip Šutalo at centre-back and Josip Stanišić at right-back.

After conceding three goals against Spain in their opener, Manager Zlatko Dalić made a couple of changes in his starting backline.
Gvardiol moved inside to play centre-back, and Ivan Perišić came into the lineup as left-back.


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