- Costa Rica look to build on breakthrough Brazil 2014 showing
- Serbia return to world finals after missing out last time
Costa Rica are falling off a notable Brazil 2014 voyage, where they were the Cinderella story of the competition, propelling the distance to the quarter-finals in the wake of escaping an extreme gathering with England, Italy and Uruguay. In spite of the fact that they have lost the larger part of their ongoing universal friendlies, Los Ticos will take certainty from their qualifying effort, which incorporated a 4-0 defeat of USA on home soil.
Serbia are back at the world finals out of the blue since 2010, where they neglected to progress past the gathering stage in spite of crushing Germany 1-0 in their second match. Serbia completed best of Group D in European qualifying in front of any semblance of Republic of Ireland, Wales and Austria.
Group journalist examination
Diego Picado with Costa Rica
This first amusement will be a key one for Oscar Ramirez and his players, and they know it. Costa Rica have been losing their ongoing benevolent matches and they are feeling the squeeze, yet they will utilize this weight emphatically to center around winning this diversion. Brazil 2014 motivates them and Costa Rica need to rehash that in Russia 2018.
Sonja Nikcevic with Serbia
Serbia go into their first World Cup coordinate in eight years after a pounding 5-1 triumph in their amicable against Bolivia and spirits in the group camp are high. The principle ideas are that there's an extraordinary climate in the group with numerous key players having finished their club seasons in top shape – and that is precisely what mentor Mladen Krstajic will search for his group to duplicate against Costa Rica.
Did you know?
Serbia have won every one of the three of their past World Cup installations against CONCACAF resistance (all as Yugoslavia, and all in the gathering 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.
Conceivable 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
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