Croatia coach Slaven Bilic admits they will miss Tottenham crock Luka Modric for next week's World Cup qualifier against England.

"Modric is at least one of our top players," he said. "He is making a difference every week for Tottenham, so we are missing him.

"It will be difficult to compensate, because we do not have an equivalent player to him. But we are going to try, working with the whole team. Modric is a top, top player, but he is not the only player in our team that has such skilful characteristics.

"We have Niko Kranjcar, we have Ivan Rakitic - so every one of us has to do something more to make up for the loss of Modric.

"In the last three years - this is my fourth now - I know that we have a group of players who can cope with anybody. We can compete at any level, we have our chances to beat anybody."