Doha: Argentina and Croatia will meet in the first semi-final of the World Cup football series today. The ongoing World Cup football series in Qatar has reached its thrilling finale. While 16 teams have left the league round of this series with a total of 32 teams participating, many leading teams including Brazil, Portugal, England and Netherlands have left in the ’round of 16′ and the quarter finals.
Defending champions France, former champions Argentina, first-time champions Croatia and Morocco are in the semi-finals. Two-time champions Argentina (ranked 3rd) will face Croatia (ranked 12th), who finished 2nd last time, in the first semi-final tonight at midnight. Argentina team has many star players like Captain Messi, Dybala, Emiliano Martinez, Alvarez, Di Maria. Argentina is also a strong team as they play for the top clubs in the world.
However, the first league match of the ongoing series was not to be forgotten when the team suffered a shock defeat against Saudi Arabia. They recovered from that first defeat and progressed to the semi-finals today. At the same time Croatia cannot be underestimated. Croatia, led by Luka Modric, are unbeaten since the league stage. Also, talented goalkeeper Dominic, Lavro, Marko, Andrej, Tysen, Nikolo Vlasic, Mario are the star players in the Croatian team. Hence, there will be no dearth of excitement and excitement in today’s match where 2 strong teams will clash.