Croatians Around Europe

20 year-old CSKA Moscow midfielder Nikola Vlašić scored the lone goal of the match in a 1-0 victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League Tuesday night. Vlašić hustled to get to the ball in the second minute following a poor Real Madrid back pass in their own end and lost Varane to slot home inside the right post. In arguably the biggest match of his young career, … [Read more...] about Nikola Vlašić Goal Downs Real Madrid In Moscow

After a disastrous start to the Serie A season, where Inter Milan have only earned four points from the first four matches of the campaign, they played out a hard fought come-from-behind victory at the San Siro Tuesday night against Tottenham Hotspur; which marks their first Champions League victory in six years. Ivan Perišić and Marcelo Brozović got the start with Šime … [Read more...] about Perišić Underperforms As Inter Milan Defeat Spurs 2-1 In CL, Rakitić Assists Messi

Editor's Note: This was one of the quietest weekends in the past decade for Croatians at club level, so I will focus on some key young players and their playing time in this edition of CAE. Mateo Kovačić got the start for Chelsea in a 4-1 victory over Cardiff City on Saturday but was subbed off in the 50th minute with an apparent thigh injury, The Sun reported. … [Read more...] about Croatians Around Europe IV

  Andrej Kramarić has returned! After a lengthy rest following the World Cup and being sat in Hoffenheim's season opener vs. Bayern Munich due to a minor knock, Kramarić came off the bench in the 44th minute for Hoffenheim and scored a late injury time insurance goal to seal the 3-1 victory over Freiburg. With the Freiburg goalie all the way up the field in a last ditch … [Read more...] about Croatians Around Europe III

Ivan Perišić and Inter Croazionale were in full effect Sunday vs. Torino but blew a 2-0 first half lead in a 2-2 draw. Perišić, Marcelo Brozović and Šime Vrsaljko all got the start for Inter with Vrsaljko being subbed off in the 72nd minute. Perišić opened the scoring in the sixth minute with a one-timer inside the box from a long sideline pass, but Inter couldn't hang on to … [Read more...] about Croatians Around Europe II

Mateo Kovačić is officially on the board as a Chelsea player. The Real Madrid loanee made his Stamford Bridge debut Saturday in a 3-2 victory over Arsenal; coming off the bench in the 59th minute with the game level at 2-2. Kovačić was rated an '8' in his half an hour of play as he "made some crunching tackles after his introduction and looked a brilliant bit of business by … [Read more...] about Croatians Around Europe I

29 year-old Ivan Santini scored his seventh goal of the season for Belgian club Anderlecht, in just their third game of the season. After posting back-to-back hat tricks in his first two games, Santini had an easy one Sunday night as he tapped in the game winner in a 2-1 victory over Sporting Charleroi. Santini was scrapped from Croatia's final 23-man World Cup squad … [Read more...] about Santini Scores 7th Goal Of Season…It’s August 12th