Spain tests surprising Russia and Croats bet on the road to Denmark

Spain will look to return to the lost luster in the 2018 World Cup, once the pressure of the group with defensive, rival approaches that have leads to a loss of identity, it is Russia that is the first test.

The match of the 16th day will be disputed today from the 11th, at the Luzhniki stadium and with the refereeing of the Dutchman Bjorn Kuipers.

The Spanish team is facing the moment of demonstrating the competitive gene that has led to dominate the world in the last four years of glory. With a generational change but with survivors of the "golden generation" to advise on demand. At the arrival of all or nothing, Russia appears as the first rival of a road liberated from the world champions.

Spain is not fighting in a similar scenario since the end of Johannesburg, when Andrés Iniesta delivers his latest deliveries of magic On the grbad in Russia 2018 without getting rid of the debate, he scored the goal for the # 39; eternity.

Nearly eight years later, he returned to the crossings of a World Cup with the need to recall the image of an immaculate qualifying phase and that shown in the friendly of substance that has contested. Always with an untouchable timbre, combining good results with the best ball chords.

An unparalleled duel in a World Cup but with memories that move at the beginning of the golden phase of Spanish football. Ten years ago, on two occasions, he beat Spain to Russia in the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland. The last with a landslide in the semifinal when she had broken all the barriers to her room fears the penalties against Italy. The time later, the hostess appears as a team of punches and verticality that increases her power with the full Luzhniki and 81,500 spectators creating an environment that will be a supplement.

croatia vs. Denmark, the other duel of the eighths

In the second game of the round of 32, Croatia and Denmark will find the heavy memory of the 1998 World Cup in France, during which both teams have achieved their goals. best historical records that they want to overcome after two decades of attempts

The match will start at age 15 in Nizhny Novgorod, and will be refereed by Argentine Néstor Pitana.

This championship marked the limit of the success of the two sets. in the tournament. Croatia reached the semi-finals and finished third after beating the Netherlands. He has never repeated this success again. Denmark, meanwhile, reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated by Brazil, which is their best record.

Now, other generations are trying to overcome them to avoid the same issue as Suker's. . The current president of the Croatian federation, at the start of the World Cup, admitted to being tired of comparisons with this team in 1998.

Therefore, Luka Modric's Croatia, also questioned by the same subject insistently, wants overcome his predecessors to settle the matter once and for all. And, first, he must eliminate Denmark to choose to face Spain or Russia in the quarterfinals.