Croatia have secured Pot 2 seeding in the 2022 World Cup draw after drawing Slovenia 1-1 in Qatar on Saturday. Andrej Kramarić opened the scoring in the 39th minute for the Vatreni, finishing a beautiful long ball from center-back Duje Ćaleta-Car. Slovenia answered in the 91st minute of the match, as Jaka Bijol’s set-piece header barely crept over the line (but did it really?). Despite the underwhelming result, Croatia looked solid on the pitch, considering the fact that they played at 70% intensity. We would be much more upset if one of our players left the match with an injury sustained during a friendly against Slovenia.
Here are five key takeaways from Saturday’s match vs. Slovenia:
- Let’s start with the biggest issue: Dominik Livaković should NOT be Croatia’s starting goalkeeper. Livaković is 27 years old and still craps his pants when a cross is whipped into the box. He needs to step out of his comfort zone, realize that not every team is Slaven Belupo, and stop expecting his opposition to politely allow him to collect the ball. Ivo Grbić is a much more talented, confident individual, and, despite his recent blunder against PSG, should be Dalić’s first choice in net.
- Croatia’s young defenders are the real deal. Joško Gvardiol, Marin Pongračić, and Duje Ćaleta-Car were ready for the occasion and played with poise. For the first time in a very long time, the Vatreni are on the verge of having a reliable, world class back line. We already know what Borna Sosa is capable of, and Josip Juranović again proved his class. No problems with the defense on Saturday.
- Andrej Kramarić looked very good in the secondary striker role. The position compliments his dribbling abilities and creates yards of open space for him to work. If Dalić can continue to properly integrate Kramarić into the lineup, Croatia’s attack will become a serious threat in the World Cup. Kramarić won “man of the match” in my eyes.
- Aside from the fact that Croatia secured a Pot 2 seed in the World Cup draw, Saturday’s 1-1 result does not matter. Croatia completely controlled the game with hardly any effort, possessing the ball for 66% of the game and shooting 10 more times than Slovenia. Yes, the finishing could have been a little better, but scoring on Slovenia’s Jan Oblak is no easy task. Slovenia tied the match with a lucky, questionable goal against our B-team. Football powerhouses often times draw and lose friendlies, but it doesn’t matter when they take the stage in a major tournament.
- The 3-5-2 formation was solid today, but one friendly against Slovenia is not enough to entirely judge the new tactic. However, planning ahead, the tactic perfectly suits the next generation of Croatian defenders. Josip Stanišić, Mario Vušković, and Josip Šutalo will adapt wonderfully to a 3-CB formation due to their pace, abilities and confidence on the ball, and size. Add those three to Gvardiol, Ćaleta-Car, Pongračić, Sosa, and Juranović, and we’ve got ourselves a dream defense! I am excited to see the 3-5-2 in Nations League with our official starters playing at 100% intensity.
You don’t need to know the Koran, it’s insignificant like Mohammed.
In the first place, it was necessary that He should be foretold through a long series of times and years; for it was not something insignificant that was to come: He who was to be ever held, had to be for a long time foretold. The greater the judge that was coming, the longer the train of heralds that preceded him.
– Saint Augustine
Ezechiel 36:25-28
And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them. And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
John 3:5
Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Matthew 11:11
Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist.
Luke 3:16
John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water; but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
John 16:7
But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
The Paraclete is the Holy Spirit that Ezechiel prophesied would be put in the midst of us believers by the Lord.
No divine pronouncements on the part of preceding prophets offer Mohammed any witness. But I do read a warning about false prophets i.e. Mohammed.
Anyway, enjoy your man made faith, you know what to do if a fly falls in a vessel lol! And remember Satan resides in your upper nose lol!
I hope Croatia beats Morocco also.
Matthew 22:29-30
And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.
What do the angels of God do in heaven? They don’t copulate I can tell you that.
People convert to Mohammedanism because they believe they will be copulating in heaven while your god who never sleeps watches them.
All your false prophet Mohammed really did was pervert almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them into fabrications of his own, and no divine pronouncements on the part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. That’s knowledge.
have you done watching the video?|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-OmlOb_dFg
Don’t argue with an ignorant for you will be tired][ … At least I can do that, you speak with a very weak knowledge, but it shows the high level of ignorance you have reached, you don’t know the first thing about the Quran, but you claim that it’s a new book, you don’t know history..
@LAknat
No divine pronouncements on the part of preceding prophets offer Mohammed any witness. That’s knowledge to me.
“We should believe that Satan actually stays in the upper part of one’s nose, though we cannot perceive how, for this is related to the unseen world of which we know nothing except what Allah tells us through His Apostle.” Bukhari vol.4 book 54 (The Beginning of Creation) ch.10 no.516 p.328.
That’s nonsense.
“learn history
the deaths of millions of men during the war
increased the gap between men and women!!”
Lol, I don’t see history buff coming from you.
Which war you talking about history major?
What is the Mohammedan solution now though when there is more men than women?
Is it back to God’s way of “two in one flesh” like it was in the beginning, and like the Christians have it now, you would agree that is better for today wouldn’t you ya fool? Or do you stick with carnal Mo’s man made law?
Also, you gotta give the statistics of how many Mohammedan men died in whatever war you’re talking about muppet, because it is a law Mohammed gave to his carnal followers at that time. You can’t count non Mohammedans in the statistics lol, what have they got to do with Mohammedans and the book Abu Bakr conspired to write with his illiterate son in law Mo?
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: prophet Muhammad ﷺ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
is a man of prophecy and prophesied many things that later occurred to him and to the Muslim community after he died you need to have knowledge about the subject that you came to discuss knowledge is in the context of understanding the subject!!
P.S. I will respond you after you watch that video {I
His Prophecies about Muslims at the end of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-OmlOb_dFg
Do you want to engage in a discussion upon knowledge or upon ignorance?
[any discussion upon knowledge is beneficial … upon ignorance, it’s not]
“He married Aisyah because of her wit and intelligence”
Lol!
She was six years old playing with her dolls, and the illiterate Mo was so intelligent he joined in lol!
Do you really believe that Satan actually stays in the upper part of one’s nose lol!?
you actually do not comprehend my words |
or you are just stuck with your ignorance! _
you demonstrate your level of ignorance!
just as the prophet Muhammad predicted 1400 years ago
there will be an increase in literacy ::: so many people will be able to read and write but actually, knowledge will decrease! :::
more people will read | and what do we end up reading?
–> most of us read rubbish stuff!
but the knowledge – especially of the religion
despite the fact that more people can read…
Ignorance has become prevalent!
@LAknat
He married her when she was six, copulated with her when she was nine. Married for three years before he copulated with her. His other wives were not that age were they?
“In Kyrgyzstan today the average age of marriage is from 10 to 13.
In Mexico, in some states, they have that the age of marriage is 14 and
In some it’s 18 even the Jews the Christians for 13 centuries –> no one had ever spoken about why is he or was he married to such a young girl because this was normal.”
You probably talking shit again, but prove that they’re copulating with those kids, your people wrote of Mo copulating with a 9 yr old and playing with dolls.
Matthew 11:11
Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist.
Luke 3:16
John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water; but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Hadith Number 236.
Narated By Hisham’s father : Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married ‘Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.
Do you really believe that Satan actually stays in the upper part of one’s nose lol!?
gather information _
do your homework _
make a research {!}
you just lack knowledge! |
|l study history and your own bible l|
Let alone 1400+ years ago. See human beings 100 years ago !!
Laws from that point in time is completely different compared to today. The UK alone had its Age of Consent at 11-12 in the early 1900s, and that JUST over 100 years ago. So we cannot really tell how things were waaaaay back 1400-2000 years ago.
Back then, public prostitutes, slavery, and torture was the full – norm of that society at the time… Islam came in to demolish all of those altogether and set a limit on many things –> including marriages like the Prophet Muhammad’s (Peace Be Upon Him) to Aisha (May Allah Be Pleased With Her)
It’s a known fact that the fact that he waited for a few years until she developed or was ready to take responsibility on her own proved that she was a grown woman at that point naturally.
Gather information !! Do your homework !!
—- – to understand the circumstances – —-
The norm at the time of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
This is the age that girls got married in ~
Don’t judge their era with the standards we have today!!
In Kyrgyzstan today the average age of marriage is from 10 to 13.
In Mexico, in some states, they have that the age of marriage is 14 and
In some it’s 18 even the Jews the Christians for 13 centuries –> no one had ever spoken about why is he or was he married to such a young girl because this was normal.
@LAknat
Your people say that Mo copulated with a 9yr old and played with dolls, not me. And I’m supposed to believe that a man like that, that wasn’t even worthy to be prophesied about, will come after the Lord Jesus Christ, lol I’d have to be a moron like you.
Ezechiel 36:25-28
And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them. And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Matthew 11:11
Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist.
Luke 3:16
John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water; but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to loose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
How do you understand rested from His work?
To me it means that there will be no newly created virgins you idiot, you take your flesh from male and female in this life.
Your false prophet Mo had issue with Gen. 2:2 because he had to sell his 70 virgins story to carnal men because he knew they would follow him in exchange for promises of copulating in heaven, while your god, who you say doesn’t sleep, watches, you believe your god is omnipresent also yes?
You said that there was more women on earth than men, blatantly lying. Then when I show you that you’re a fool you try spin some new shit, that was embarrassing lol!
Lol, you gave your Mohammedan solution to something that didn’t require solving you idiot, all the while leaving my genuine question unanswered lol! You’re an idiot.
All your false prophet Mohammed really did was pervert almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them into fabrications of his own.
No divine pronouncements on the part of preceding prophets offer him any witness.
You see Catholics use the Books of our enemies to prove our faith, you Mo’s can’t do that, that’s why illiterate Mo was told by his tutors to pervert everything in the Old and New Testaments.
You know you Mo’s had to force people to accept Mohammedanism, while Christianity spread under persecution?
the prophet Muhammad ﷺ
– married a young girl
– married an old woman
– married a widowed
– married the daughter of his fierce enemy Abu Sufyan
– married the daughter of a jew
He married different types and arrays of women to collect and combine and join the community and the society!!
He married Aisyah because of her wit and intelligence and intellect he knew that she would teach his Ummah which actually happened the affairs of her religion … so this is in a summary why he married her!
learn history
the deaths of millions of men during the war
increased the gap between men and women!!
there are many wars beforehand –
… and do you know what !! |{}
there will be many wars in the future –
so that’s the solution _
you should have to marry! |+
Not doing fornication! | be responsible!
@LAknat/Luka/Turkey
Making shit up as you go long lol!
“I’m saying is that there’s not a single statement in the Old Testament that says don’t marry more than one woman <– has always existed …. Islam came to restrict it!!"
Lol, Mohammedanism "came to restrict it"? lol!
How do you interpret "two in one flesh"?
Genesis 2:24
Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.
Matthew 19:3-11
And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away? He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry. Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.
Mohammedanism still gives you the choice to be 2, 3, 4, 5 in one flesh, marriage was always to be 2 in 1 flesh from the beginning, obviously early on concessions were made to populate the earth.
You act like the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was driven by his desires, when if you just look at how He lived you can see that this wasn’t the case!! ~ while the bible says that Solomon had 700 wives and 300 slave women that were like wives to him –
The bible claims that prophets committed adultery and murder …
So if you just internalize all of this, it becomes blatant that you have no leg to stand on!!
You are completely hypocritical and inconsistent hence your argument is not based on propagating your worldview… It’s just based on insulting the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.
And what this debate points out -> is that you really have no right to do so… based on your own beliefs based on what he believes about his own prophets!!
And what he actually does is he gives fuel to the atheists!! because the Quran is a miracle that we can actually observe for ourselves…
whereas all of these other miracles that you claim happened which is based on your blind faith in the bible –> were miracles that we weren’t around to witness || not only were we not there… but there’s not even authentic chains of narration showing us that they’re trustworthy stories
We have authentic chains of narration because since the time of the prophet peace be upon him, the companions have made it a priority to preserve the religion>
How is it that somebody is going to be quoting the bible which is filled with fabrications, which is written and passed down by completely anonymous people!
How much self-awareness must one lack to trust the Bible as authentic, and then criticize the science of hadith in Islam
~ It truly is difficult to think that such people exist!!
I wonder how canada will do against real tough competition ..lot of minnows in their group for qualifying We will find out in a few months..I can only imagine ..france belgium spain canada..then we will know. Cans ranked 33 now.
CANADA!!!!
Ivusic will be the goalie.
Livakovic just needs to go away. He’s 27 and has had enough chances to prove himself at the national team level (29 caps). There’s a reason no top-5 Euro league picked him up when Dinamo had their mini fire sale of Gvardiol, Majer, Orsic. Dinamo was on Europe’s map.
He simply has zero confidence in the box. It shows when you watch him on the pitch. Too many blunders.
If I were Dalic, I would take him off the national team altogether during June’s Nations League matches to let it be known to the rest of the team that it’s open season for a new goalie.
Grbic will get a new home this summer. Ivusic has held serve and has done what he can. Add one more to the mix and let them battle it out.
Totally agree- Livakovic should be done and focus on who will play – we finally have 2 or 3 solid D and now we can find a goalie- it’s never easy.
2 takeaways- been saying it for a long time if you are a regular- Livakovic , nice kid but terrible in net – nema chance and Kramaric has to show more- he’s decent but not a player that can do it in big games
I think he needs to just go away.
He’s already 27 and has actually gotten worse over the past few years.
At the end of WC2018, he was 23 years old, starting for Dinamo, and looked like a solid prospect (after showcasing some good reflexes in some games). Foreign clubs were looking at him, and it seemed like it was only a matter of time until he moved on to bigger and better things.
Now, nobody is looking at him. He will likely just stick it out with Dinamo until his contract expires in two years.
He’s made good money, and has a very cute girlfriend…so he’s done well for himself. But future NT keeper, he is not.
Dalic has mostly announced the next lineup :
…………. Vlasic….. Livaja……..
……Moro……Pasalic…… Majer
Barisic…………………………….???????
……Skoric…..Vida…..Caleta-Car
………………….???????
So, 3-5-2 again.
He said that surprisingly Sosa came injured and won’t risk him. He also said that he wasn’t sure who would play RWB, maybe Juranovic but he didn’t really want him to play 2 games. He made no mention of who would defend the goal in the interview I saw.
Hmm. I wouldn’t mind trying Pongracic at RB.
It seems like our ‘backup’ RB will be Vrsaljko…but since he’s pretty much always injured, the de facto RB has been Josip Stanisic.
But Stanisic is really a CB and doesn’t have any real RB skills running up that flank. Good player, but probably a future CB for us.
Pongracic is a CB, but the guy apparently used to play RB growing up (and he’s actually pretty fast and makes good passes). He’s probably better than Stanisic in that regard.
Transfermarkt actually has RB as his secondary position. If we’re just going to use stop-gap RBs as Juranovic’s backup…then I would try Pongracic for this friendly.
Orsic is the rwb he wants to try orsic is right footed full of energy thats what media in croatia are reporting
So why the excitement over 3-5-2. All it means is lovren or vida are more likely to keep playing at the expense of a more talented younger player
Playing 4 in back with sosa and juranovic provides plenty of that wing back formation given the way they play
It reminds me so much of Christianity…
as a former Christian and seeing how in this generation, it seemed to have essentially left Christianity… Christianity has become a joke and part of the reason is .. because -> we were told to believe in Jesus, you’re going to heaven
Christianity became so watered-down that it’s like what’s the point you know yeah it appeals to more people.. perhaps more people will.. you know say okay || sure I’m a Christian but essentially people are going to find it as insignificant!! and leave it and that’s why nowadays!!
you see the churches are empty ..
you see people leaving Christianity ..
you see Christianity has become a joke ..
Laknat I hear you friend
But even you were calling the god of halilovic for years when maybe you were a Christian;)
Anyways I hope you find peace with your spiritual journey my friend
You’re an American you come from America like Auslan
like you’re you were born and raised in America… And you became Muslim?? -> is because there is this campaign to influence the people abroad … and even people within America that chasing the Dunya | chasing the life of this world | and what’s pushed upon you in the music and in Hollywood and on TV, you know people think that’s what life is all about!! that’s where you achieve happiness ~
So when people see someone coming from a society where they can drink alcohol and they can party and you know the women don’t cover and you can commit adultery and you know you have this quote-unquote freedom to do whatever you want!!
When they see you coming from a society like that yet you choose to practice Islam you choose to leave all of that to practice Islam
that’s very powerful so us in the West!
Lol, and Mr. Kvartuc is blocking my comments, like I give a fuck lol!
@LAknat/Luka/Turkey
Dannyj is funny, he thinks the “god of Halilovic” and the God of Brekalo are the same God, I’ll leave him to you, educate him, sell him your faith, I can see him buying it.
Mohammedans can have how many wives and divorce them (that’s very powerful lol!?), and you have the gall to talk about adultery?
And if you get bored of copulating with one, two, three, or all them, you can just divorce them, and start copulating with different women, to like you say, be happy in this temporal life (powerful stuff indeed lol!).
The Mohammedan faith to me is the faith of carnal men, men who want to have the option to divorce their wives so they can change sexual partners (that’s powerful stuff lol!?)
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2015-003081_EN.html
You should teach your own people idiot.
Then, if you’re a suicide bomber (a real Mohammedan, and one who rapes women around Europe) you get 70 virgins to copulate with while your god, who never sleeps (you took that from the Catholics as I already proved) gets to watch, or does he busy himself with something else while the Mo’s copulate, or does your god join in the copulating and partying?
Are the virgins newly created women or women that existed in this life, if women that existed in this life does your god just restore their vaginas, can he restore vaginas? If your god can’t restore a vagina how can he restore the whole man when dead and buried in the earth?
If the virgins are newly created women, who copulates with the loose women that existed in this life, or do they just watch with their worn out vaginas while their men copulate with the newly created virgins?
So many questions that no Mohammedan can give me answers to.
To me, carnal and filthy men convert to Mohammedanism, and there’s nothing powerful about that at all.
Tommorrow I’m going to read about the false prophet Mohammed and Aisha’s whirlwind romance and how he wooed her? I know your false prophet had many voluptuous women, I don’t know what makes Aisha so special, I’ll find out and I’ll get back to ya?
Islam allows four wives, Christianity only allows us one …
the statistic tells us there are more than 80 million more women than men in the world. That’s almost eight million more women in your country the land of your domicile.. eight million women who can’t get husbands.
If every woman if every man in this world got married they’ll still be eighty million women who can’t get husbands…
I am asking in this book of god that you are boasting about what is the solution to your problem. This is the solution to your problem –> the Quran says to marry women of your choice by twos and threes and fours but if you cannot do justice between them marry only one
The only religious book on the face of the earth which has this expression marries only one is the Quran there is no other book on earth
@LAknat
“If every woman if every man in this world got married they’ll still be eighty million women who can’t get husbands…”
Why can’t the Mohammedan women that never got married and copulated in this life make up the 70 virgins? So it seems to me you believe the virgins are newly created women, that’s fucked up lol!
Mohammedan scholars like yourself are still debating that nonsense also, are they newly created? are they “believing” women from this life? that’s some funny shit right there lol! It seems you have the answer though lol!
You said: “the statistic tells us there are more than 80 million more women than men in the world.”
You just believe anything some dumb Mo puts on YouTube don’t ya? You gotta verify things you idiot.
In an article I just read it said: “As of 2021, There are 3,970,238,390 or 3,970 million or 3.97 billion males in the world, representing 50.42% of the world population. The population of females in the world is estimated at 3,904,727,342 or 3,905 million or 3.905 billion, representing 49.58% of the world population. The world has 65,511,048 or 65.51 million more males than females.”
So if every man had 4 wives, that would leave many single men, what is the Mohammedan solution now?
I’d be going and focusing on what’s happening before, like that statistic in the war era |because the men going out into a war| so the population of women going up!
Different climates are different you know a context different environment and society |l go and read the history l|
Having many wives is always there all throughout history
By the way, you know even if you look at the whole Testament everything almost every single prophet got many waives,.. look at the greatest Old Testament Moses peace be upon him as He married only two and Abraham has married more than one wife
you know –> King Solomon it says in 1st Kings chapter 11 verse number 1-3 He had seven hundred wives no no what
I’m saying is that there’s not a single statement in the Old Testament that says don’t marry more than one woman <– has always existed …. Islam came to restrict it!! :::
I guess it’s different and exciting
I would feel comfortable
Wth sosa gvardiol cc juranovic
Then something like Perisic broz luka majer(orsic if he can play that role)
Then your two up front striker types krama budimir pasalic
Feels pretty balanced to me especially seeing how well gvardiol and CC can move the ball
The work load won’t be heavy for the midfielders to pick up the ball
Vida lovren basically you have to get the ball from their feet and carry it up
That CC ball yesterday was so nice and hasn’t even been talked about that much
I never expected a lovren or vida deep ball. Not even so much from luka. I would be rakitic really the last few years that was mostly dangerous with that
I think many of us want to see more of orsic but sadly or not sadly there is no where to really put him as that side is Perisics most likely till retirement
We know Perisic can play the other side
Do we risk putting him on his weaker side tho just to get orsic in? Or is that maybe something we can do during a match with subs
Switch Perisic to the right bring orsic in on left and depending on formation either sosa is in at the start or bring him in on the left as a sub as well
I am on the sosa needs to be playing cause of what he can bring with passing and offensive mindset in general
Someone mentioned the midfield was off
Maybe it was that kovacic modric waste as Ante puts it
Maybe it’s a matter of not having broz on
I thought it wasn’t so bad. But luka wasn’t on for sure
I think that Barcelona drumming messed with him a bit to be honest
As others have said jakic looks ok. I’ll take an aging rakitic all day over him right now If I had to throw it all in for qatar
Orsic is right footed and he might be able to work well on that right side (in terms of sending in crosses).
The Croatian midfield needs to improve its passing if they want to score more goals. The 3 defenders played very well together and advanced the ball and pressure effectively. However, Kovacic and Jakic, and even Modric, misplayed too many balls, leading to turnovers. Kramarić and Budimir were hustling nonstop off the ball, which is why they got the starting positions. But without good passing to them, most of their movement was wasted. It got better when they started moving further back to receive the ball, but that meant being farther away from the goal…
Rog is fit again and could challenge Jakic for the backup DM rôle on the basis of his superior passing and IQ
Neither guy should be playing a minute for us to be honest.
Agreed about budimir and krama. I saw budimir getting a decent amount of heat today, the crosses and passes weren’t necessarily accurate. I think hes pretty good in the air, would like to see more long balls occasionally to move the ball forward
Bring in Jedvaj, uremovic, moro, muric, basic, toni bok, musa, lovre kalinic, rog
Nah.
Just Musa from that group to be honest.
Wish we called up Musa, so we could see how he would have done in the Budimir role.
I think he’s faster from what I’ve seen, so it might have worked better.
yup, i guess its the “dalic delay” youve been talking about
Never fear.
Dalic will give him his first cap as a starter in the opening game of the World Cup.
kovacic still sucks, pongracic lacks defensive awareness and will get exposed like at wolfsburg. if dalic was smart that should be livakovics last game. perisic lacks discipline when playing wingback for us, but its fine cuz gvardiol is a boss and covers for him. jakic tries hard and will be useful as a sub but has little talent. budimir/kramaric combo uptop is finally here but two years late. Sosa should be starting for us 100% in every game regardless of formation we are playing. modric played poor and looked foolish for the aggressive kick on kurtic. its was nice to finally see 3 in the back, but i would like to see 4-4-2 with Perisic and Orsic on the wings.
Kovačić and Pongračić were both solid today.
Yeah, I hope Jakić isn’t seriously being considered for playing time. He’s not good enough to ever start. Decent end of the bench guy, but we have several better midfielders than him…even off the bench.
I do want to see more Oršić. If we go back to 4-5-1 then he has to be tried out at RW.
We need to get Sosa into the starting eleven.
Orsic’s key attribute is cutting into the middle of the pitch and placing the ball top bin with his right foot. Can’t play him RW, he won’t be able to do that.
True, but he would very likely be able to send in clear crosses from that right side (with that same right foot) by shaking defenders in the same way.
Sosa and Perisic overlapping and sending in balls on the left side, and Juranovic and Orsic doing the same on the right side would be a striker’s dream.
If Orsic and Perisic ever swap sides during the game…then Orsic can do his patented ‘cutting into the middle’ and top corner shot.
We really need Ivušić to have a strong showing or Dalić will just go with the status quo at the World Cup
Someone mentioned the u19s are a good squad but poorly managed
Who on the u19 or u20s are can’t miss prospects currently?
Gabriel Vidovic, of course. Should undoubtedly be on the U21 squad, and probably even start there. Really not sure why he’s on the U19s.
Ivan Saranic is immensely talented, but he’s been very stagnant lately.
Some other notable names who have the potential to explode are: Cvijanovic (LB), Rak (CM), Frigan (ST), Barisic (ST), Stojkovic (LW/RW), Ivanovic (AM).
Incredible how many potential defenders we have going forward
It’s like what I wonder if we will lose all our midfielders in some sort of weird swapping phase
But from what the boys report here the midfield should be solid for years to come
Majer broz kova when luka retires?
I wonder what the score would be if you swapped the goalkeepers from the two teams around.
6-0 CRO
Did Gvardiol have more saves than Livaković?
Yep
Only watched the highlights, but from what I hear, a solid performance.
I hope Dalic sticks with Budimir and Kramaric up front as they compliment each other well in regards to their skill sets. Give them a chance to build up some chemistry with the team and each other. Hopefully Sosa can get some minutes against Bulgaria and throw in some crosses.
I’d love see Majer in for Modric and maybe rest a few other vets and let the new boys get some playing time in.
3-0 Croatia next game.
Ajmo!
Bog i Hrvati