Croatia will certainly require to maintain property as high as feasible to agitate Spain in its Euro 2020 last-16 clash in Copenhagen on Monday if it is to progress to the quarter-final, goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic stated.
Croatia got to the kos with a 3-1 Team D sway Scotland on Tuesday to establish an encounter Spain, which proceeded from Team E many thanks to a 5-0 walloping of Slovakia.
The sway Scotland increased Croatia’s self-confidence after bad efficiencies in a 1-0 loss by England and also a 1-1 draw with the Czech Republic, however Livakovic stated this group should currently forget the ups and also downs of the team phase.
” The knockout phase resembles a brand-new competition entirely and also although Spain are a superior group loaded with top-notch gamers, I make certain they will certainly watch out for us also,” Livakovic informed a press conference from Croatia’s Rovinj base camp on Thursday.
” We require to maintain property as high as feasible and also make them distressed due to the fact that they do not such as betting groups that can do that. It’s going be difficult however at this phase just the very best groups are still in the competition.
” From right here on you need to win every video game to come to be the European champs.”
The Croatians defeated Spain 3-2 in your home in the 2018-2019 Nations Organization after being hammered 6-0 in the reverse component, while they likewise dominated 2-1 in the team phase at Euro 2016.
Train Zlatko Dalic was not enjoyed find out that Croatia would certainly deal with Spain and also not Sweden, which secured leading area in Team E many thanks to a stoppage-time objective in a 3-2 sway Poland.
” We’re up versus among the greatest groups left in the competition that are pacy and also energetic, having revealed their course versus Slovakia,” stated Dalic.
” It will certainly be a high-octane clash and also an actual difficulty however we displayed in the secondly of those 2 Nations Organization conferences that we can stand our ground versus them.
” We’ll need to take the video game to them and also reply to their ruthless pushing if we are to progress to the quarter-finals. Having our followers in numbers for the clash in Copenhagen will certainly be a large reward.”
The champions will certainly tackle either globe champ France or Switzerland in the quarter-final.