Croatia vs Albania prediction and betting tips

Tournament:European Championship

Game time:19 jun 2024, 21:00

A match between the national teams of Croatia and Albania will take place in the 2nd round of Euro on June 19, 2024. Both teams started the tournament with defeats, and another setback could be fatal.

Croatia vs Albania: key statistics and trends

• Croatia had been unbeaten in 6 matches in a row before the defeat at the Euro.
• Albania has won twice in 7 previous games.
• Croatia wins the first half in 60% of matches, Albania does the same in 54% of confrontations.

Croatia - form analysis:

“The Checkered Ones” have the most successful (but also older) generation in history. Modrić and the company took silver and bronze at the World Championships and dramatically lost in the Nations League final a year ago. On the whole, the team easily qualified for 2023, although it suffered defeats to the main competitors in the autumn.

The team approached the Euro on the back of victories in control matches, capped by a 2-1 away win in the battle against Portugal. Starting the Euro, it completely failed the first half, conceding 3 times, and failing to even score a prestige goal after the break, even getting the right to a penalty, in the confrontation with Spain.

Albania – the shape of the team and its analysis:

“The Red and Blacks” repeated the success of Di Biasi’s time in the middle of the last decade, qualifying for the second Euro in history. For this, being already under the leadership of Sylvinho, fifteen points after the group stage were enough (on par with beaten Czech Republic and 4 more points than in the case of the favourite, the Poles).

The team played several friendly matches, beating Liechtenstein and Azerbaijan in 2024, but losing to Chile and Sweden before that in March. It started at the Euro with the high-status geographical neighbours, the Italians. There, even after scoring very quickly, the team ended up losing, although it tried to fight with dignity, especially in the end, when “the Squadra Azzurra” held a 2-1 score – still, the result did not change in the end.

Croatia: team news

Perišić and Vlasic did not come to the tournament in the best shape.

Albania: team news

The veteran, Cikalleshi ended his international career in the spring.

Croatia vs Albania: possible starting line-ups

Croatia (possible line-up): Livaković – Gvardiol, Pongračić, Sutalo, Stanisic – Kovačić, Brozovic, Modrić – Pasalic, Kramaric, Budimir.

Albania (possible line-up): Berisha – Ajeti, Balliu, Ismajli, Mitaj – Asllani, Bajrami, Gjasula – Asani, Broja, Hoxha.

Previous head-to-head matches: Croatia vs Albania

“The Red and Blacks” haven’t played even friendly matches with this neighbour before.

Free prediction for the match Croatia vs Albania

“The Checkered Ones” are obliged to do their best and use their higher class. We bet on Dalić’s team to win with “a -1.0 goal handicap” (odd: 1.87).