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Good evening and welcome to live coverage of Croatia's match against Greece in the World Cup play-offs. Team news to follow.

World Cup Qualification UEFA / Matchday 1
Maksimir / 09.11.2017
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Kevin Coulson

Updated 09/11/2017 at 21:39 GMT


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And we're under way!
Croatia in their traditional red and white chequered kit, Greece in blue.
Right there's just five minutes to go.
What are your predictions?
However having said all that Croatia have won their last four play-off matches, be that European Championships or World Cup.
HEAD TO HEAD
In their last six matches together there have been three draws, two wins for Greece and a solitary victory for Croatia.
GREECE TEAM NEWS
Karnezis, Maniatis, Papadopoulos, Sokratis, Tzavellas, Samaris, Tziolis, Fortounis, Zeca, Stafylidis, Mitroglou.
Like Mandzukic for Croatia Greece have a big name on the bench after injury, captain Vasilis Torosidis. They do have Sokratis back though.
CROATIA TEAM NEWS
Subasic, Vrsaljko, Lovren, Vida, Strinic, Rakitic, Brozovic, Modric, Perisic, Kramaric, Kalinic.
So the big talking here is that Mario Mandzukic is on the bench after his recent injury.
Also interesting to see Ivan Strinic get a rare start.