Turkey (7-3-0) vs Croatia (6-4-0) - UEFA EURO 2016 - - ShareMyTactics.com
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The starting line-ups for Turkey and Croatia in their opening games of the 2016 European Championships. Croatia name La Liga duo Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric in the middle, who will look to create chances for powerful Juventus forward Mario Mandzukic. As for Turkey, young Hakan Calhanoglu is a superb striker of the ball and will play in behind Tosun, as Fatih Terim matches Croatia's 4-2-3-1 shape. Oguzhan Ozyakup of Besiktas is also an interesting player, while Mehmet Topal has moved back into centre-half to cover for the absence of Serder Aziz. Both sides will look to take the 3 points today which could be crucial to secure qualification from the group. Many fancy Spain to comfortably take the top spot from this group, leaving these two today and the Czech Republic to fight for either one or two qualification places into the knockout round. I fancy the Croatians will qualify in second place to the Spanish, starting with a 2-1 win today. Ivan Perisic will open the scoring in the first 20 minutes, before Calhanoglu delivers a sublime 25-yard free-kick upon the hour. A header from substitute Andrej Kramaric will earn a late win with 10 minutes to go for the Baltic side.
