Croatia’s hopes of making it to a second successive World Cup final were dashed in Lusail by Lionel Messi and Argentina, who prevailed 3-0 in front of a 88,966 strong crowd. Here are our talking points from the fixture.
Paredes starts for Argentina; Croatia unchanged
Argentina reverted to a back four for this fixture with Man Utd defender Lisandro Martinez making way for Leandro Paredes. The other change- a forced one, saw Nicolas Tagliafico come in for the suspended Marcos Acuna. Croatia boss Zlatko Dalic chose to keep faith with the same XI that had upset favourites Brazil in the last eight.