Croatia vs Albania LIVE: Euro 2024 football score, predictions, line-ups and updates

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Both of these teams lost their openers so this has become a big game for them.

Albania scored so early against Italy and then seemed to think ‘what do we do next?’.

They did have a chance late on, but Italy should have been out of sight by then.

Croatia, meanwhile, were flat as a pancake against Spain. Their fans were brilliant, but their team were beaten by half-time and you could tell they started thinking about this game because Luka Modric and Mateo Kovacic both came off midway through the second half.

I don’t think Croatia will find things easy here either, though. They will have plenty of possession, but they need to do something with it, and Albania will always be dangerous on the counter-attack.

Croatia have some quality players who can affect games but they are an aging team and they are my choice as flops for this tournament – I have picked them to finish fourth in Group B – so let’s go for Albania to get something here.

Sutton’s prediction: 1-1