Argentina will look to pick up their first World Cup win they take on Croatia in Group D.
The South Americans were held to a 1-1 draw by Iceland in their opener after Lionel Messi's missed penalty.
Messi will be under more pressure to deliver at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium as Cristiano Ronaldo continues to take the tournament by storm.
The Portugal skipper already has four goals to his name and all eyes will be on his old rival once again.
Argentina come into this one two points behind Croatia, who beat Nigeria 2-0 in their first clash.
GOAL! Argentina 0-3 Croatia (Rakitic)
20:49
GOAL! Argentina 0-2 Croatia (Modric)
20:38
GOAL! Argentina 0-1 Croatia (Rebic)
20:10
Follow all the action from the encounter below.
Argentina: Caballero, Mercado, Tagliafico, Acuna, Mascherano, Otamendi, Salvio, Meza, Perez, Messi, Aguero
Croatia: Subasic, Vrsaljko, Strinic, Lovren, Vida, Rakitic, Modric, Brozovic, Perisic, Mandzukic, Rebic.
They go to their fans in celebration. They deserve the right to cavort. That’s the team performance of the World Cup so far. With Modric and Rakitic in such good form, and assisted by the likes of Perisic, Mandzukic, Kramaric and Rebic, they could go very deep in this competition. Argentina by comparison ... oh dear. They were dreadful from front to back. Caballero suffered a nightmare of Karius proportions, while Messi was a total non-event. They now need to beat Nigeria in their last game to have any chance of progressing to the next round, and even then their fate won’t be in their own hands. Their fans are accordingly miserable.
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