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Former Dinamo Zagreb captain Milan Badelj impressed for new club Hamburg SV Tuesday night in front of 47,127 at Imtech Arena in Hamburg. The 23 year-old defensive midfielder started and played the full 90 minutes for Hamburg, assisting on Maximilian Beister’s 52nd minute rocket past Schalke keeper Lars Unnerstall. Badelj played a perfect through-ball after winning the ball at midfield to keep the German onside and Beister had enough room to put Hamburg up 1-0. Artoms Rudņevs doubled the lead for the home side 13 minutes later before Klaas-Jan Huntelaar put his own rebound in off a blocked penalty in the 80th minute to make it 2-1 Hamburg.
With Schalke pressing for a draw late in the game, Hamburg’s Dennis Aogo was fouled in the box and Badelj stepped up to the spot and hit home for the 3-1 victory; his first goal with the German club. With Hamburg claiming a win over third place Schalke, they now sit only four points behind a Champions League berth in the tight Bundesliga table.
More importantly, Milan Badelj has been playing every minute for Hamburg this season; holding his own physically in the midfield while setting up his teammates with key passes. Now, he has his first Hamburg goal to his name and has to be Croatia’s #1 for the defensive midfielder role the way he has consistently played this season.
The days of Ognjen Vukojević and Tomislav Dujmović are surely over.
Badelj assist 0:08, penalty 1:10
Armada876426800 pizdo . You and your Italian team of Rejka are Lame . Ide doma , lameo .
It’s funny that Cico/Sime/whatever lame nicknames he uses still makes the same grammar, spelling mistakes and bad use of punctuations on all his nicknames lol
hej Sime, ti si veliki kreten
Hey Matija , no need for foul language . Jerk
Mateo Kovačić je na pravom putu
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hey cico,…………………………………….jebi se tovar
Sammir best in HNL LOL thats just a brain washing done in croatia, against Hajduk, RNK Split,NK Zagreb,Belupo,Osijek Rijeka and CL and Europa liga he SUCKSSSSSS Not worth a national team place for Croatia and Brazil for that matter. This year he will win best HNL player beacuse everone else sucks this year Sharbini beat him 3 straight years lol,
My mid ahead of Sammir is Ilicevic,Kovacic,Kreilach,Rebic,Abdurahimi,
Ask Bogut if everything he touches breaks.
To everybody here’s the HNS warm up outfit. It’s kind of pricy but if you your looking for one here it is.
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Ante get a signed jersey from him and ship to Zivas basement. LET THE JOCK SNIFFING BEGIN!
@ Ziva,
I’m gonna try to catch up with Bogut when he’s in LA on Jan 4th. He went public about the generals and is very happy about the decision. I will talk to him about that.
Anything else you boys would like to hear from Bogut?
Off topic here……..to the NBA followers. Where is porcelain doll Bogut these days. It was funny reading his defenders last here claiming he is not a broken-down NBA players. Seems like he is.
Matija go home , ide
Matija go home , ide
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It is awesome compared to many other countries. And these are all very good players.
Modric…No he does play well for Real, and is intelligent in possession and distributes the ball well.
Perisic…Is a talented player. Scored the vital goal against Belgium.
Sammir…Best player in HNL.
Rakitic…Agree with your statement.
Badelj….Agree with your statement.
Let’s not forget the synergistic effect between Croatian players. Where “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” When you combine them together they become Awesome! Being in the Top 10 consistently is awesome.
I saw Badelj’s play last night and happy to see his decent performance. But I think he is not yet reached high expectation when he first came to Hamburg SV. He should raise his passing accuracy-vital ability for his role. But I’m little bit afraid that his passing accuracy was not very high from when he was Dinamo player, in my opinion. Rakitic looks more and more out of his best, more and more Badelj was needed.
I wouldn’t call that an awesome MF……
Modric….. is not playing “awesome” at Real.
Perisic….. is not a rgular in the starting 11
Sammir…..plays in the HNL
Rakitic…….playing very well
Badelj……..playing very well
I hope Badelj keeps up his form, we are going to need it.
Badelj, Modric–Sammir, Rakitic, Perisic….looks like an awesome 5 man midfield to me.
We dont need cico
We don’t need him . We have enough trouble maker Dinamo players . Sammir , etc……
If he can take PKs,we need him on the national team.