Croatia vs Belgium Predictions

• Croatia may rest their stars ahead of the World Cup
• Belgium scored 29 goals in eight qualifiers

Belgium can secure warm-up win

Croatia’s grand old performers Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic will lead the nation into another World Cup, but before the Canada, Mexico and USA extravaganza, Zlatko Dalic’s men meet Belgium in an Stadion HNK Rijeka friendly contest.

Croatia are boosted to the return to fitness of Manchester City duo of Mateo Kovacic and Josko Gvardiol, who were given some gametime following a lengthy spell on the sidelines at the end of the domestic campaign.

Dalic’s men enjoyed a near perfect qualifying campaign winning seven of their eight matches, but it was a pretty weak section containing the Czech Republic, Faroe Islands, Montenegro and Gibraltar.

Modric made his return from a broken cheekbone in the final fixtures of the Serie A season, but Dalic is expected to make full use of his 26-man squad against Belgium,

The Red Devils ended Domenico Tedesco’s disastrous spell, when appointing Rudi Garcia last year and there were some positive signs in qualifying, with Belgium having to deal with Wales and North Macedonia to top the group.

Star duo Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku may have reached the final World Cup, but they are complimented by Leandro Trossard, Youri Tielemans, Amadou Onana and Jeremy Doku and the Red Devils could have enough to get a result in Rijeka.

Belgium made some good progress in their qualifying campaign and the Red Devils can get the better of a Croatia side, who may choose to rest some of their aging performers. Rudi Garcia’s men scored 29 goals in eight qualifying games and they may win this tie 2-1.