UEFA Nations League Holders Portugal will close their 2020-21 League A Group 3 campaign with a home match against Croatia on Saturday night.
Portugal captured the title by beating the Netherlands in the final last year, but Croatia failed to make their mark in the same tournament when they won just one of their four matches.
Croatia, meanwhile, will also be present at the European Championships next summer, scoring 17 points from its eight matches during a strong qualification campaign after being at the top of Group E.
Unbeaten in their last six competitive matches, Waitrani will also enter this match in good form, and there is no question that they are a team to be taken seriously on the world stage.
Zlatko Dalic insisted ahead of the match that the UEFA Nations League is "important", but wanted to emphasize that the nation's main focus is on their upcoming World Cup qualifiers and European Championships.
Croatia, which has lost four of their last five matches against Portugal, will continue their UEFA Nations League campaign in France on 8 September before being in Sweden on 11 November.
As mentioned, the 2018 World Cup Finals failed to make an impression in the 2018–19 competition, winning just one of their four matches against Spain and England.
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