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L’Equipe player ratings Croatia 2-0 France 2025- How did Saliba, Konate, Gvardiol fare?

Here is a look at how some of the big French newspapers rated Les Bleus’ players following their 2-0 defeat against Croatia in the first leg of their Nations League QF on Thursday night. France lost 2-0 to Croatia in Split, with Ante Budimir and Ivan Perisic scoring for the hosts.

L’Equipe player ratings Croatia vs France 2-0 2025 Nations League

French sports paper L’Equipe wasn’t pleased with Les Bleus’ performance in Split, giving them a team rating of just 4.1/10.

Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate got the worst player rating in their books, with a 2/10 for the CB. His defensive partner, Arsenal’s William Saliba, only fared marginally better with a 3/10 rating. Konate was replaced at half time by Bayern’s Dayot Upamecano.

Croatia vs France 2025 Player Ratings

On the Croatian side, Man City defender Josko Gvardiol got a 7/10, which was the highest player rating on either side (shared with some other Croatian players). His MCFC team mate Mateo Kovacic however only got a 5/10 from L’Equipe.

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O Jogo Record 24Sata Newspaper Predicted Lineup for Portugal vs Croatia 2024 Nations League

Here is a look at how the Portuguese and Croatian papers think their respective national sides will lineup for tonight’s Nations League clash.

Both O Jogo and Record concur in most aspects of the Portuguese starting XI except one- O Jogo think Joao Neves will start in midfield while Record are of the opinion that Bayern’s Joao Palhinha will partner Bruno Fernandes and Vitinha in the centre of the park.

The others players in the XI are common in both papers- Diogo Costa in goal; Nuno Mendes, Inacio, Ruben Dias and Nelson Semedo at the back, and Ronaldo, Rafael Leao and Bernardo Silva upfront.

In Croatia, 24Sata is of the opinion that they will try a 3-5-2 formation tonight against Portugal. Zlatko Dalic last employed it against Bulgaria back in 2022 and is expected to try it in the light of injuries to Stanisic and Juranovic.

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Bild L’Equipe Marca Paper Player Ratings Spain vs Croatia Euro 2024- Cucurella, Rodri, Gvardiol

Here are the player ratings from Spain 3-0 Croatia at Euro 2024 from some of Europe’s biggest sports newspapers. It was a rare game when Spain had less than 50% of possession, but they won it on the back of a strong first half performance.

Marca player ratings Spain v Croatia

Spanish paper Marca thought Gvardiol wasn’t worthy of a rating in this game and gave Rodri a single star. They had a favourable view of Cucurella, giving him 2 stars.

Espana Croatia Player Ratings 2024

Diario AS player ratings Spain-Croatia 3-0

Cucurella got 3 stars from Madrid based AS- the highest rating they gave to several Spanish players in this game. Gvardiol was again deemed not worthy of a rating here, while Kovacic got a single star. Two stars for Rodri from AS.

Diario AS player ratings Spain vs Croatia Euros

L’Equipe player ratings Spain 3 Croatia 0

L’Equipe was a rare publication which thought Cucurella had a poor game- the Chelsea left back was given a 5/10 for his performance by the French paper

Gvardiol got the same rating too while midfielder Rodri emerged with a 7/10, the next best for Spain in their eyes after Fabian Ruiz. Mateo Kovacic got a 6/10 (better than Luka Modric and Marcelo Brozovic)

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