Costa Rica look to build on breakthrough Brazil 2014 showing

Serbia return to world finals after missing out last time


Costa Rica and Serbia are ready for lift-off at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ as they arrive in Samara, a city that is famous as Russia's aerospace centre.

Costa Rica are coming off an historic Brazil 2014 journey, where they were the Cinderella story of the tournament, advancing all the way to the quarter-finals after getting out of a tough group with England, Italy and Uruguay. Although they have lost the majority of their recent international friendlies, Los Ticos will take confidence from their qualifying campaign, which included a 4-0 rout of USA on home soil.

Serbia are back at the world finals for the first time since 2010, where they failed to advance past the group stage despite defeating Germany 1-0 in their second match. Serbia finished top of Group D in European qualifying ahead of the likes of Republic of Ireland, Wales and Austria.

Did you know?
Serbia have won all three of their previous World Cup fixtures against CONCACAF opposition (all as Yugoslavia, and all in the group stage) — 4-1 v Mexico in Porto Alegre in 1950, 1-0 against Honduras in Zaragoza in 1982 and 1-0 v USA in Nantes in 1998.

Possible line-ups

Costa Rica: Keylor Navas; Giancarlo Gonzalez, Oscar Duarte, Johnny Acosta, Cristian Gamboa, Bryan Oviedo; David Guzman, Celso Borges, Bryan Ruiz, Christian Bolanos; Marco Urena

Serbia: Vladimir Stojkovic; Branislav Ivanovic, Nikola Milenkovic, Dusko Tosic, Aleksandar Kolarov; Nemanja Matic, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Dusan Tadic, Adem Ljajic, Filip Kostic; Aleksandar Mitrovic

Tmonex:
Na Brazil Match I dey wait

Tmonex:
Na Brazil Match I dey wait

ANNOY:
What's our biz. We only care about the super eagles

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