Croatia at this World Cup can be said to appear normal but can survive for the semifinals at this time, well, in 2018 it was a finalist, but if you look at it from the H2H at the 2018 World Cup in the group stage, Croatia was able to beat Argentina 3-0, but maybe now it will it's slightly different, although we don't know the results later or there is a possibility that the 2018 final will be repeated again between Francis vs Croatia, maybe that can happen.
They were considered as weaker than they were in World Cup 2018 in Russia. There is no good replacement for their legendary striker, Mario Mandzukic. Ante Rebic used to be considered as a good replacement for Mandzukic and he had a good World Cup 2018 too. Unfortunately, after that successful World Cup and a good transfer to AC Milan, Ante Rebic failed to develop more and he even lost his position in AC Milan.
Other key players of Croatia are older than they were four years ago so in general it makes sense to consider Croatia are weaker than themselves four years ago. Anyway, weaker or not, stronger or not, are the same as four years ago, they are still able to have another semi final match.
It is big surprise to see a very small nation with only about 4M citizens can have three semi final in World Cup history since France 1998.
Still, the ideal is that between France vs Argentina is my dream hope, this might be beyond reason, but I think some of my predictions will come true.
Morocco and Croatia remain the surprise teams.
In my opinion, a final match either between France vs Argentina or between Croatia vs Morocco will still be great. If we witness a new champion in history of World Cup, that is great too.