During Argentina's quest to win their first World Cup title since 1986 in Mexico, The Flea has scored in four of Argentina's five games in the competition thus far. Argentina is now in the finals of the competition.
In the first semifinal of the competition, which will take place on Tuesday, Argentina will play Croatia, who finished as the runner-up in the 2018 World Cup.
After prevailing in a penalty shootout against Neymar and Brazil, Croatia earned a spot in the tournament's semifinals.
Zlatko Dalic is going up against one of the most dominant teams in world football, and he wants to come out on top again.
There have been five prior matches between Argentina and Croatia that took place in international football tournaments.
During the course of their five matches, both sides had a record of two wins and one draw.
The most recent match between Croatia and Argentina took place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, where Croatia emerged victorious.
During the group stage, the sides competed against one another, and Croatia emerged victorious with a 3-0 victory thanks to goals scored by Ante Rebic, Luka Modric, and Ivan Rakitic.
Argentina is left with psychological wounds as a result of the event.
In the quarterfinals, Argentina prevailed against the Netherlands by the narrowest of margins.
The Argentine team was able to go on to the next round thanks to the outstanding goalkeeping of Emi Martinez during the penalty shootout.
Despite this, Argentina's defence once again revealed its shortcomings by allowing two goals to be scored by the Dutch in the game's closing seven minutes, despite the fact that the Netherlands scored their second goal in the eleventh minute of stoppage time.
KBC will air the semi-final match between Argentina and Croatia live on KBC channel one.
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