England vs Croatia: Three key battles

Youth faces encounter when Britain's young weapons and Croatia's old watch go head to head in Wednesday's Reality Glass semi-last in Moscow, with the prize of an arrival outing to the Luzhniki Stadium for the last.

Britain has not achieved the last four for a long time and has just once before achieved the last when they won the World Glass on home soil in 1966.

Croatia has never gone past the semis, yet in the wake of coordinating the accomplishments of their much-loved 1998 side, a lavishly skilled age's fortunes may have turned so as to arrive the greatest prize in football.

AFP Game takes a gander at three key fights that could choose where the diversion is won and lost.

Jordan Henderson v Luka Modric

A little more than a month and a half on from Liverpool's annihilation to Genuine Madrid in the Champions Alliance last, Henderson has his opportunity to correct retribution on Modric and expand his mind-blowing keep running of 30 matches without overcoming in a Britain shirt - the longest unbeaten keep running for any player in Britain's history.

Henderson's authority, teach and appropriation as Gareth Southgate's most profound lying midfielder has been critical to permitting Jesse Lingard and Dele Alli to get forward and score objectives in Russia.

Notwithstanding, that midfield faces its hardest test yet with Modric as his life at 32.

Modric has played barrier part passes, scored objectives and managed the beat of the diversion amid three man-of-the-coordinate exhibitions in the four amusements he has finished at the World Glass.

After a third Champions Alliance achievement in the same number of years, Modric has even been touted as a Ballon d'Or hopeful should Croatia go the distance.

Harry Kane v Dejan Lovren

Confronting the competition's best scorer brings back terrible recollections for Lovren. The Liverpool protector was supplanted after simply 30 minutes into a 4-1 overcome by Tottenham in October in the wake of being run worn out by Kane.

It was an execution that numerous accepted would end Lovren's vocation at Anfield. However, he battled to win back Jurgen Klopp's certainty at club level and has marshaled a Croatian guard that close down Lionel Messi and Argentina in the gathering stages.

Altogether, Kane has scored five times in five gatherings with Lovren and will hope to seal the Brilliant Boot by adding to his six objectives as of now at the World Glass.

Kieran Trippier v Ivan Perisic

Trippier has been one of the breakout stars of the World Container. Nicknamed the "Cover Beckham" for the likenesses in the nature of his intersection to the previous Britain commander, Trippier is matching Neymar and Kevin De Bruyne for making the best number of chances at the competition up until now.

Southgate's 3-5-2 framework with another normal ideal back, Kyle Walker, in the back three has enabled Trippier to get forward at each opportunity. Be that as it may, his protective abilities will be inspected up against Perisic.

The Bury Milan winger has scored five times in his previous 11 appearances at real universal competitions and is the one player in the Croatian assault with the pace to extend the Britain safeguard.