Saturday 25 / January / 2025
Muscat: Last World Cup finalists Croatia take on two-time tournament winners Argentina at the Lusail Stadium on Tuesday for a place in the final. The match kicks off at 11pm, Oman time.
The battle will see two of the most recent Ballon d’Or winners and respective captains for their countries, Lionel Messi and Luka Mordric, go head to head, as both seek to end their international careers on a high. Both sides required dramatic penalty shoot-outs to progress to the semi-finals, as Argentina edged out the Netherlands 4-3 while Croatia beat Brazil 4-2. Argentina and Croatia have met twice before in the World Cup.
In their first encounter in 1998, it was La Albiceleste who prevailed by a narrow 1-0 scoreline, but more recently, Croatia secured a 3-0 win over Messi and Co. at the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018.
