How can your team reach the final and win World Cup 2026? Click here to find out.Who: Portugal vs CroatiaWhat: FIFA World Cup 2026 – round of 32Where: Toronto Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, CanadaWhen: Thursday at 7pm (23:00 GMT)How to follow: We will have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 20:00 GMT before our live text commentary stream.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPortugal play Croatia in Toronto in a game that could mark the final career World Cup match for either 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo or his former Real Madrid teammate and veteran Croatian midfielder 40-year-old Luka Modric.Croatia have again shown the resilience that has marked their recent World Cup runs, recovering from an opening loss to England with a 1-0 victory over Panama and a 2-1 win against Ghana.Portugal, meanwhile, have underwhelmed with just one win and two draws in the group stage and Ronaldo looking well off the pace.A last-16 meeting against either Spain or Austria awaits the winners in Toronto.But for one of football’s all-time greats, the World Cup curtain will come down in Canada.Ageing stars Ronaldo, Modric clashRonaldo and Modric will make history when two outfield players aged over 40 face off for the first time in a World Cup.But both men are facing questions over whether their status as national heroes is now more of a burden than a boost to their countries’ hopes of progressing far in the competition.Before this tournament, only Cameroon’s Roger Milla had played in a World Cup as an outfield player after turning 40. Advertisement At 41, Ronaldo defiantly screamed, “I’m back,” after netting twice against Uzbekistan as he became the first player to ever score at six World Cups.Yet either side of a 5-0 romp over a team ranked 60th in the world, Portugal failed to beat the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Colombia and fell into a tougher section of the draw as a result.Ronaldo played every minute of the …
