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Squad

Goalkeepers

Goalkeeper 1 Dominik Livaković
Goalkeeper 12 Lovre Kalinić
Goalkeeper 23 Danijel Subašić

Defenders

Defender 2 Šime Vrsaljko
Defender 3 Ivan Strinić
Defender 5 Matej Mitrović
Defender 6 Dejan Lovren
Defender 13 Zoran Nižić
Defender 19 Marin Leovac
Defender 21 Domagoj Vida
Defender 22 Josip Pivarić

Midfielders

Midfielder 4 Ivan Perišić
Midfielder 7 Ivan Rakitić
Midfielder 8 Nikola Vlašić
Midfielder 10 Luka Modrić
Midfielder 11 Marcelo Brozović
Midfielder 15 Marko Rog
Midfielder 18 Filip Bradarić
Midfielder 20 Mario Pašalić

Forwards

Forward 9 Andrej Kramarić
Forward 14 Ante Rebić
Forward 16 Nikola Kalinić
Forward 17 Mario Mandžukić

Coach

Coach Zlatko Dalic

Legend

Suspended

Matches

05 September 2016

Stadion Maksimir Zagreb

06 October 2016

Loro Boriçi Stadium Shkoder

09 October 2016

Tampere Stadion Tampere

12 November 2016

Stadion Maksimir Zagreb

24 March 2017

Stadion Maksimir Zagreb

11 June 2017

Laugardalsvöllur Reykjavik

03 September 2017

Stadion Maksimir Zagreb

05 September 2017

Eskişehir Yeni Stadyumu Eskisehir

06 October 2017

Stadion HNK Rijeka Rijeka

09 October 2017

NSC Olimpiyskiy Kyiv

09 November 2017

Stadion Maksimir Zagreb

12 November 2017

Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis Piraeus

Form guide

W

UKR Ukraine 0-2 CRO Croatia
2017/10/09 European Qualifiers 09/10/2017
W

CRO Croatia 4-1 GRE Greece
2017/11/09 European Qualifiers 09/11/2017
D

GRE Greece 0-0 CRO Croatia
2017/11/12 European Qualifiers 12/11/2017
L

CRO Croatia 0-2 PER Peru
2018/03/24 Friendlies 24/03/2018
W

Mexico 0-1 CRO Croatia
2018/03/28 Friendlies 28/03/2018

Statistics

Played 12

Won 7

Drawn 3

Lost 2

Average scored 1.6

Average conceded 0.4

Cards 9 Yellow cards

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