England World Cup Dreams Will be Ruined With Loss to Croatia

Every analyst agrees if England lose - again - to Croatia tonight, it could end our World Cup dreams. This according to Ray Diation of The Sun.

"THE world could be blown up at 8.30 this morning. But far worse than that, if we survive, England's World Cup hopes could disappear into a black hole if they lose in Croatia tonight. In Switzerland, scientists are recreating the Big Bang in a massive £4.4billion experiment underground. Some experts fear that could spell the end of the world if it goes badly wrong.

The odds are against England winning here.

Croatia has never lost a home competitive game and knocked England out of contention for the 2008 European Championship with double qualifying victories over Capello's predecessor, Steve McClaren.

"I will be very happy if Croatia would play like Andorra. But I don't think that is going to happen," Capello said. "Croatia are at home, they have to go forward and try to score goals.

"The game will be different ... I think we have to play to win, always," he said.

England will be missing key midfielder Steven Gerrard, who underwent groin surgery late last month.

The Chelsea man gets the nod on the left of midfield after scoring twice as a sub in the 2-0 win against Andorra on Saturday

Boss Fabio Capello looks like fielding a positive side with Theo Walcott also starting in Zagreb.

The Arsenal star played as a second striker as well as on the right side of midfield in the final training session.

Wes Brown replaces Glen Johnson at right-back and Rio Ferdinand should be fit again.

Capello switched between a 4-4-2 formation, which had Emile Heskey and Wayne Rooney up front, and a 4-3-2-1 which saw David Beckham on the right.