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<p> -finals on Saturday after a 12-year absence from the last eight of the competition, hoping to make the semi-finals for the first time since 1990. </p>
<p> Gareth Southgate led the Three Lions to a penalty-shootout victory over Colombia in the round of 16, but Sweden have only conceded in one of their four matches in Russia </p>
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<p> We provide a preview of the game 's last round to reach this point. 19659004] </p>
<p> <strong> Saturday's Schedule, Predictions </strong> </p>
<p> <span> Sweden 1-2 England AET, 6 pm local time / 3 pm BST / 10 am ET </span> </p>
<p> <span><span> <span> Russia 1-2 Croatia, 9 pm local time / 7 pm BST / 2 pm ET </span> </span> </span> </p>
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<p> <span> <strong> Saturday 's World Cup Match Odds </strong> </span> </p>
<p> Sweden <span> <span> (39-10), Draw (51-25), </span></span><span> </span> England (77-100) <span> <br /> </span> </p>
<p> Russia <span> <span><span> (29-10), Draw (21-10), </span> </span></span><span> </span> Croatia (32 <span> -25 </span>) </p>
<p> <em> All odds courtesy of <span> </span> OddsShark. </em> </p>
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<p> <strong> England Eke Out Win Narrow, Croatia Keep Cruising </strong> </p>
<p> Sweden Fought to fight against this group of people </p>
<p> Only through a 95th-minute Toni Kroos missile were able to win their way to their country of the World Cup so far, and ESPN FC pundit Shaka Hislop warned of their aerial threat as being a particular concern: </p>
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Mexico was unable to break a Swedish defense by captains and captains penalty-taker Andreas Granqvist, keeping clean sheets against Mexico and Switzerland in their last two outings.
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It's a clash of styles that could be treacherous for an attacking-oriented England, but commentator Ian Darke did not miss a spot in the opposition's armor:
Ian Darke @ IanDarke
Strong case for natural pink footer. Especially as Sweden No 1 right back Lustig suspended
As if that was not enough, This Morning 's oinking oracle, Mystic Marcus, vouched for the Three Lions ahead of their match at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium :
Roughly 1,500 kilometers to the south, Croatia will seek to halt Russia's breakthrough through the competition, which saw the return of defeat to Uruguay with a dramatic shootout win over Spain.
large population deficit when they run into England, the gulf in Croatia's head count compared to their own quarter-final opponents is a lot steeper, per statistician Simon Gleave:
Simon Gleave @ SimonGleave
Population per #WorldCup quarter-finalist
Brazil: 210.8 million
??Russia: 143.9 million
??France: 65.2 million
???????England: 53.0 million
??Belgium: 11.4 million
??Sweden: 9.9 million
??Croatia: 4.1 million
Uruguay: 3.4 millionvia @DMerken
This head-to-head is an interesting one in that Russia has already shown, in beating Spain, they can implement a frustrating defense against a passing team based on hard work, which works against Croatia.
Except Zlatko Dalic's men have the alternative weapons to change their minds that they might not, with forwards Mario Mandzukic and Ante Rebic also impressing en route to the last eight.
Reuters showed Russia have some animal fortune-tellers of their own that he is likely to come back to, but it is likely to be better than the following:
Reuters Top News @ Reuters
Dolphins in Russia, predict their home country will win World Cup match against Croatia https://t.co/YQ8QmKmfSw
Russia have won the World Cup, but Uruguay's 3-0 win in the group stage showed they can be unsettled and perhaps do not possess the fortitu Back to top the all-important mental game.
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