Zlatko Dalić, especially in recent years, has set his team to play an unattractive but practical pragmatic football in significant tournaments, focused on disrupting the opponent's game. Such opponents, especially when they have quality players in their lineup, have never been liked by Spanish footballers and have always been inconvenient for them. In the last two head-to-head meetings, the Spaniards failed to win in regular time. The most indicative was the game in the Nations League final, where the Balkan team successfully defended against Luis de la Fuente's squad for 120 minutes and reached the penalty shootout.
Considering all this, we can expect a rather sluggish and low-scoring game in this match, which gives the visitors a chance for points. Our final choice for this confrontation is that Croatia will not lose.