What people need to know is that this is not the same Croatia from 2018 World Cup in Russia, some key players have left (Rakitic, Mandzukic, Subasic (GK), Corluka), and Modric is 35 years old. In the match with Slovenia, they had only one real chance, which speaks enough that they have very big problems with realization.
Cyprus is nominally a weaker team than Croatia, but they showed that they can offer good resistance to stronger teams than themselves, and it is no coincidence that they played a draw with Slovakia.
Modric is old yeah but I always thought of him as "old" and all due respect, that tourney was a sort of fluke for me that he stood out -- not that I rate him poorly at all, he still features in my "to score" or "to assist" at club level. Betting against Croatia hasn't been good enough odds-wise, so yeah, I did fall for them at the first game. Still think this is theirs to win though -- group I mean.
Russia - Slovenia 2-1
The first half was very productive! Slovenia managed to score a goal in the last minutes of the first half...
Now the odds on their victory is 15... Knowing the game of my national team, anything can happen in the second half!
Wouldn't exactly call 36 min "in the last minutes" but haha good game. I had Ilisic to score in UCL but he didn't start, nice to see him grab one on the big stage. Good luck to you! I'd be taking those odds now except they were probably lucky not to concede at least one more. Still, you'd be chuffed with a draw, wouldn't you? =)