World Cup Group F: Tactical preview

Try The Athletic for FREE for 30 days: 📗 Tifo’s new book, “How to Watch Football“ is now available to pre-order internationally: Featuring Belgium, Croatia, Canada and Morocco - Group G is shapes up for some fun ties with some serious tournament favourites. Croatia were finalists in 2018, beaten by France 4-2 in the final after dumping England out in the semi finals. Their squad is however ageing, but still has some huge names in Luka Modric and Ivan Perišić that are still a force to be reckoned with Belgium as usual come into the tournament with a lot of expectation, featuring huge talents like Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard. They finished 3rd in 2018 and come into this tournament with a lot of expectation behind them after being tipped so often to achieve big things, but often coming up short. This is only Canada’s 2nd appearance at a World Cup, their last outing was at Mexico