Both teams need to bounce back from opening defeats at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. We look ahead to Wednesday’s Group L clash with our Panama vs Croatia prediction and preview.
Panama vs Croatia: The Key Insights
The Opta supercomputer expects Croatia to win; they overcame Panama in a convincing 63.0% of pre-match simulations. Panama have lost each of their four World Cup matches, scoring just two goals. Croatia could lose back-to-back World Cup matches for just the second time.Croatia and Panama will both hope for a response in Toronto on Wednesday after the pair fell to disappointing defeats in their World Cup openers.
Zlatko Dalic’s side suffered a 4-2 defeat to England in their Group L encounter last Wednesday. Having fallen behind twice, Luka Modric became just the second European player to make an appearance at 10 different major tournaments, along with Cristiano Ronaldo (12).
However, Modric was removed before the hour, playing the fewest minutes (58) of any of his 34 starts across either the World Cup or the European Championship. He will hope to make more of an impression on what will be his 200th appearance for Croatia, while Dalic may opt to bring in Andrés Andrade also impressed, playing the fourth-most line-breaking passes of any player in the opening round of games at the tournament (21). He also recorded the joint-most line-breaking passes starting from his own half (15), alongside United States defender Tim Ream.
But Panama put in the hard yards as well. No side recorded more tackles than their 29 on MD1, while only France (37 against Tunisia) made more across the entire 2022 tournament.
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