End of the road for this golden generation of Croatia. They are lucky to be in this quarter-final because Nippon shot themselves in the foot with some poor penalties, or Livakovic was on a great day, but also Perisic scored a beautiful header to equalize the game after a first-half dominated by Japan, not to mention that Croatia could have been already out if not for Lukaku bad luck. They do look like an aging team, slow in the build-up and their offensive ideas were limited to only crosses by a stubborn Nippon. For sure, Croatia can play better than that but will need their talisman Modric to pick it up, so far he showed glimpses of his quality, overall below average tourney for the great midfielder, and also the bench does not look offering for the Croats, so they'll have to rely on Perisic and maybe Kramaric will return to form after a poor game against Japan, but few weapons and some slow players in areas where Joga bonito will thrive. Brazil had it easy against Korea, mainly because Bento decided to have a go and played offensive which was really naive as they were done by the end of the first half, not much to say, except Vinicius Jr., continues to shine, does not see how they gonna stop him. For Croatia to even compete in this one, they will have to be at their best and they have not been at all so far, they are just too slow for the Brasilian pace and I doubt they will be offensive-minded here like South Korea, they are more pragmatic and have Gvardiol in great form and the gk looks good so maybe they won't be trashed but Brazil will control this game and will penetrate the Croatian goal probably 2-3 times.