World Cup 2022: Croatia ready to challenge 'terrifying favourites' Brazil - Zlatko Dalic

Zlatko Dalic has been successful complaint of Croatia since 2017

Croatia are acceptable to situation "terrifying favourites" Brazil successful their World Cup quarter-final connected Friday, says manager Zlatko Dalic.

Croatia beat Japan successful the past 16 connected Monday connected penalties pursuing a 1-1 gully aft other time.

"Brazil is the favourite, let's look it," Dalic said.

"Brazil is the astir almighty and the champion nationalist squad astatine the World Cup. What I've seen truthful far, erstwhile you instrumentality a look astatine their enactment of players, their quality, skills and value, past it is so terrifying.

"I deliberation we person a large exam up of us, a pugnacious task against the squad which plays large shot with truthful galore bully prime and accelerated players."

Dalic added that Croatia, ranked 12th successful the world, winning the knock-out lucifer would not beryllium a immense upset.

"I deliberation we person thing to fear," Dalic said. "We request to participate the lucifer with overmuch faith, self-confidence and looking for our chances, bask the juncture of playing Brazil, that's it. [It's] excessively early, if lone it were the final.

"It is simply a large team, but I judge that we tin situation them, we request to beryllium astute ... The lucifer is not 50-50, but we are besides not outsiders."

Croatia would look Argentina oregon the Netherlands successful the semi-finals if they bushed Brazil.

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