Croatia

Croatia have not one but three ‘magicians’ in their team, if their coach Slaven Bilic is to be believed. "We need our three magicians Luka Modric, Niko Kranjcar and Mladen Petric to make things happen." They will need them all in top form to make up for losing Eduardo da Silva, who scored 10 goals in the qualifiers, to injury.

Croatia who denied England a place at Euro 2008 when they won 3-2 at Wembley reroute to topping their qualifying group, should fancy their chances of joining Germany in the last eight.

Croatia's best performance to date came in Euro Championships came on their debut. Having topped their qualification round group for Euro 96 with 23 points from ten games, the Croatians recorded emphatic in their opening two clashes against Turkey and Denmark. Facing eventual winners, Germany, in the quarter-final phase, the Croatians exited following a 2-1 defeat.