1st Half Report: It was all Croatia in the first 45 minutes as Russia is playing for a draw and doing well. On the rain soaked Poljud pitch, the Vatreni held the ball for 67% of the half and had three attempts on target. Kramarić had a wide open chanced on goal but headed it right into the Russian goalie’s hands. Brozović sent a long range shot that beat the keeper but sailed right over the corner of the posts.
90 minutes stands between the Vatreni and a 2022 World Cup berth in Qatar. All they have to do is defeat Russia on home soil in front of a packed Stadion Poljud crowd in Split. Manager Zlatko Dalić has stated that their won’t be much change from the starting lineup that took on Malta on Thursday.
Lovro Majer and Duje Ćaleta-Car are on the bench from the Malta game for Dejan Lovren and Nikola Vlašić are in vs. Russia. Lovren currently plays in Russia for Zenit and Vlašić just left CSKA Moscow for West Ham.
Wonder how much of the fluidity and one touch combination play today was due to Kovacic not being on the field. He is a fantastic talent but is most effective in a deep midfield role, breaking the press and carrying the ball. I think he slows down our play too much when he plays advanced midfield.
I agree with this. In the matches where both Modric and Kovacic played, you could see that when Kovacic was put in a deep midfield role, and Modric as an advanced midfielder, Croatia created enough quick passes and ball distribution.
I wonder how it feels for some of these fringe players to win this game and Croatia to be going to the World Cup knowing there is a good chance they won’t be going. Like livaja actually made significant contributions to this qualification but theres probably a decent chance rebic (who did nothing) goes instead of him
So people think rebic has been cheering for Croatia or hoping for failure in his absence?
I bet rebic is salty as shit
He’s got an attitude for sure
But you harness him and if he comes back and plays like he can he can add enough value
But I hope he realizes that really only luka is irreplaceable
He is not bigger then the team
Just as kalinic wasn’t
Really kalinic’s career while was already on it’s down swing went to way more shit
If he rode the bench at played a few mins at the World Cup and wwho knows what would have happened, it would have helped his club career no doubt
Had Kalinic accepted his role and stayed on with the team…who knows, it could have been a catalyst for better things in his career. Just to be apart of something like that is special.
As for Rebic, he’s the paragon of Dinaric stubbornness. Only way he comes back if he repents. And if that happens, he’s gotta be willing to accept he may not be an automatic starter. If not, then we have Kalinic 2.0 in Qatar!
Let’s all appreciate the fact that we had to play for the win today
Playing for a tie for us and as Russia and Portugal showed is not so ideal
What’s the story with ivusic? I know he was supposed to have surgery?
What’s actually wrong with him?
I forget who posted his overall rating on I forget what site had him rated higher then both liva and grbic
Can we also take a minute and appreciate dalic didn’t call in kalinic for the home town advantage;)
I posted it, but I wasn’t being serious about it. It’s just WhoScored ratings, and Ivušić’s stats are from a very small sample.
Ante Rebić will be in the form of his life over these next 12 months.
Mark my words.
He will perform at a level for Milan that you haven’t seen.
Dalic will offer an olive branch.
We have the opportunity to once again make an historic run in ‘22. We need Rebić and his explosive self in the ranks. Group H was tougher than most but now where near the level of where we want to be.
Kovačić will be at his peak as well.
I agree..I think Rebic if focused can be a monster for us on the pitch..he is one of the fastest running players in the world and his physicality is dominant. It really is up to him what happens next
pick a time and place zorro ill cobra kai boban your head off your shoulders. pussy faggot. How about May 13 2022. sounds about right. jealous serb losers LOL actually hilarious how you run your mouth when your soccer team is beyond shitttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
zorro you dumb ass loser lmao your a joke – learn some history. maminjo told you right. go learn history dumb ass- ever since you serbs been independent you can’t tie a grade 1 croats shoes.
It’s now evident your special needs so i won’t roast you too much as i feel sorry for you… look up the definition though. Suits you perfectly mongaloid cetnik.
Your beyond learning disabled which is an unfortunate learning disability but in your case it makes sense. I like how serbia made the WC as they’ll finish dead last in the groups as usual and would love to play them cause like you faggot zorro, you mongaloids have no cohesion/chemistry and just suck at football/soccer and would get smashed by us.
Your just a sad sack of serb shit who aint worth the shit off the bottom of your catnip shoes. serbo turbo pusa mi kurac. Za dom spremni!!!!!
PS – lemme know your address and ill share mine with you. CRO cop your head in its skull Stipe Miocic style and send you back to the cetnik underworld where u belong.
Pittsburgh checking in. Great win
Oh srbski govno. How sad you come to a Croatian soccer site. Pray hard that Serbia doesn’t see mighty Croatia in the World Cup because it would be a beating the chetniks will feel for years. On an international stage. You pathetic chetnik smece. Jebo vam srbski pas mater u picku.
I’m glad Portugal lost, just something about Pork chops annoy me. Especially since that Round 16 game in 2016.
Serbia are good. And I think they’ll be competitive at the World Cup. But they are nowhere near Croatia in terms of quality.
Now for today’s performance, excellent play by the Vatreni. We continuously attacked the Russian 16 yard box, and it was only a matter of time before we scored (by any means: deflection, own goal, or shot etc).
And if Rebic is willing to repent and atone for his sins, would be great to have him as an addition to the squad (likely he would take Livaja’s spot).
ahhh, russia finally got exposed. despite dalics best efforts to go to the playoffs by ruining our attacking chemistry, we got saved by some random 34 year old bald russian. that was one of the worst own goals i’ve ever seen.
funny how dalic says he only likes to play players who are inform, yet puts vlasic and lovren in the lineup lol. playing lovren was risky, duje is clearly better.
having both kramaric and vlasic on the field ruins our attacking chemistry, we have seen this dozens of times now, yet dalic is somehow still oblivious.
also, why was the gameplan to send in a hundred crosses if kramaric and vlasic are 5’6 midgets. it would have been smarter to start petkovic this game.
orsic/majer would have played RW much better than vlasic.
grbic is kinda sketch. ivusic is still the best keeper we have.
everyone likes to talk about how kramaric is selfish, but perisic is just as well.
sosa-gvardiol-caleta-juranovic should be locked as our back four no matter what.
dalic subbed in stanisic after the goal haha! at least dalic is learning and gaining experience on how to be a coach…at our expense!
Serbs are going to have another nightmare World Cup, where they show up to the tournament with the greatest number of fans, only to be sent home after finishing bottom of the group, while Croatia makes another deep run. If everyone stays healthy, I think we will have the strongest team ever next year.
This whole Rebic situation may have been the biggest blessing. Hopefully, he humbles himself, repents and joins the team without causing problems in the locker room. If he puts his mind and heart into it, he’s a BEAST!
are you sure?
Dalic still keep his stupidity :L
don’t expect it too much p]
You think so? Wouldn’t say that but Serbia’s track record at the World Cup hasn’t been good. They beat Germany in 2010 which was the only accomplishment. They had a tough group in Russia being placed with Brazil & the Swiss. I honestly think they have quality to have quarter finals run. They’ve managed to draw and beat Portugal..we couldn’t pull that off. They got fresh talent; Pavlovic, Djuricic, Lukic. Then you have vets like Tadic, Mitrovic, Savic. Look the qualifying record, they didn’t lose a game, scored more goals than Portugal, last major loss was to Hungary.
– Serbia isn’t Yugoslavia
– All of Yugoslavia’s greatest ever players were Croats
– Yugoslavia only ever made it to 4th place (when there were fewer teams)
– Croatia surpassed that twice, despite playing in a larger 32-team format
– Since independence, Cro has qualified for as many tournaments as the remaining Former Yugo national teams combined
Serbia was always yugoslavia fucking croatian utase the so called croatian players for me will never count in yougoslavia so Yugoslavia was=Serbia always
Nonsense.
Yugoslavia, Partizan and Crvena Zvezda’s greatest ever players were all Croats lol.
Zebec is Yugo’s all time scorer, and he is Partizan’s greatest ever player.
Prosinečki is Zvezda’s.
Skoblar led Yugo to a fourth place World Cup finish. Jerković won the Golden Boot at a World Cup (before Šuker ever did).
Quality soccer in the “region” is ALL Croatia, man.
Sorry I meant Stjepan Bobek, not Zebec
Maminjo, you are arguing with an absolute fucking idiot, whose argument is that Serbia has been in more World Cups than Croatia, even though Croatia was part of Yugoslavia for about 50 years. You might as well bang your head against the wall. Serbia has won two games against elite teams in 30+ years (Portugal today and Germany in the 2010 World Cup). Croatia has beaten the likes of Spain, Germany, England and Italy multiple times. And made the World Cup final and semis in another. You can’t argue with people that live in a fantasy world.
mile hopefully this will shut this dumb ass serb up – well put
in case all our hrvati brothers didn’t know, zorro is learning disabled and mentally retarded and lives in a group home. this is his only fun. let him enjoy while he can lol
ubi ubi ubi srbinja
He probably sucks the teets of his bearded granny, whenever she visits him in the mental asylum. Nothing new from our Eastern neighbours, then….
your are douche bag!
Honestly ppl, if we have any dream about making another run in 2022 and potentially winning it all, we shouldn’t give a shit whether Serbia did or didn’t make it.
We should be happy that Portugal might not make it.
True. Although you must admit, a potential matchup against Serbia in the World Cup does add some spice to the festivities — regardless of how we otherwise perform at the tournament. If given the option, would you rather (1) beat Serbia in the last game of the Group stage in the World Cup (knocking them out and ensuring our own advancement to knockouts) and then we get knocked out in the Round of 16 or (2) not play Serbia at all in the ’22 World Cup, and we get knocked out in the QFs? I’m not 100% sure, but I’d probably pick option (1). And I’d definitely choose option (1) if Serbia advanced past the QFs in option (2). So yes — we should keep our eyes on the prize (i.e., going as far as possible in ’22). But the regional rivalry is not insignificant.
Relax, servia won’t even get out of the group stages at the World Cup. They’ll get trashed and humiliated like 1-5 vs Argentina or 1-6 vs Holland. In football, they’re a complete joke and that’s that. End of story.
I don’t give a crap about Chetnikstan / serbia. They played one match well today vs Portugal. So what? They’ll go out like the bomb, just like they did the other two times they reached the World Cup. It’ll be 1-6 vs Netherlands or 1-5 vs Argentina. Whatever. They’re 11 bums on a team who played well in a couple of qualification matches….and that’s that.
The Serb win is annoying, but it is kind of fun to see Portugal struggle to qualify. Watched pretty much the whole game, and it was like Ronaldo wasn’t even there. Also funny that the Serbs qualify because there was no VAR in the first game against Portugal, when Ronaldo scored in extra time and it wasn’t given. Today’s game would have been like friendly.
Portugal deserved to lose.
They sat back and were playing for the draw. I can’t stand it when teams do that.
Reminds me of those games (like the Greece game) where we sat back because a draw was good enough.
Wow Serbs with a big game
Well we will see y’all in Qatar
Even a broken clock is right twice a day and I guess they landed it right
But they still play like goons overall
When we really play our game it’s so nice to watch
Poetry in motion
The ONLY time the Serbs move with fire up their buts, is when they play Croatia.
Or when they’re evacuating from Krajina
Serbs have talent, but they are a bunch of slow and lazy bums. They won’t get past the group stage.
Thankfully, Croatia has been developing shorter, quicker and technically gifted players over the years.
How come Serbs can play better against portugal than us lol?
We only really played Portugal seriously in Euro 2016 and it went deep into extra time, with the ref ignoring their blatant fouling strategy.
Every other time we played them it was not serious. We played our B team against them at Euro96 (when we already clinched the quarters) and during our Nations League experiments.
I still cringe every time i hear Renato Sanchez’s name now due to this hideous, disgusting foul on Luka where he tried to basically break his legs
Second biggest victory in Serbian history
Biggest victory was the great Traktorijada after Operation Storm.
I agree and see that as future as i hear nothing but great things on stanisics development at this age. Hopefully it progresses as i imagine it will.
lovren and vida need to retire.
We all know that pitch was a complete disaster but anyone remember lovren going forward somehow ending up with possession ROUND THE 18 and completely happy Gilmored’ the putt/pass.
Was one of, if not the worst of many many bad passes from both teams due to the soaked pitch.
He had that one long ball that was nice and overall not bad performance from him but a few gaps and with our new blood he should be phased out with vida.
We don’t need a repeat of 02 playing past our prime players (certain positions cost us) Boksic against ecuador best chance of game coulda sent us through but woulda, coulda, shoulda!.
france 02′, italty 10′, germany 18’…
they all didn’t make past the group stages cause 4 years is too long for using the same world class talent unless they start and develop and play together from a really young age. tiki taka spicks only one to kinda do it but they had some luck also ( a few pk wins in knockout rounds).
grbic
juranovic -stansic(DCC)-gvardiol-sosa
kovacic- Brozović
modric pasalic
perisic
(Kramarić)
( ) subs or straight swaps… you guys might be thinking i smoking glue but perisic wins aerial duels like Ronaldo and has the heart and chase down effort as mandzukic. so many formations and confusions on where to put our talent but perisic can finish orthodox and unorthodox style and Krama for the replays is hot or cold like katy perry. although katy lubenica I’d motorboat those alllll day long.
like to hear your opinions on that formation
PS …what a day hope every hrvati enjoying!!!
half a 26er of sjlivovica in and 6 karlovacko pivos haha
NO _o)
this is not right!
Dalic will keep his stupidity and bring it to the world cup
look at how he will keep going to select someone like
Lovren Vida Petkovic Livaja __ over __ Pogracic Sucic even Majer
poor Modric :I
this is his last world cup and career for the national team
I would like to see him go for the best line up ever (vs Malta)
don’t expect too much – for the world cup
hoping -> a miracle hits Dalic’s head!!
Congratulations to the vatreni
Left it late but hey that’s the way we roll
We need to develop roko in the next year
Try him out in the next 12 months
Krama is not doing the job I’m afraid
Rakitic back for sure
Back up for Kova during deep into extra times and before penalty shootouts
Lightning can strike twice boys
Russia’s coach gave us a huge compliment today, I fully agree with his comments:
Ruski izbornik Valerij Karpin kazao je u najavi da se ne smiju samo braniti jer bi ti bilo pogubno, na kraju su tako igrali i izgubili.
– Branili smo se, to je istina. Govorili smo da će jedna momčad igrati koliko joj druga dopusti. Nama Hrvatska nije dopustila da igramo napadački nogomet. Oni su dominirali, a nama je ostalo da vidimo zbog čega je došlo do ovoga – kazao je Karpin te dodao:
– Ruskoj se reprezentaciji dogodilo da se nismo uspjeli sastati s loptom. Ne može se dogoditi da se branimo svih 90 minuta, kao da kod igrača nije bilo odgovornosti da preuzmu loptu i počnu igrati. I tada se zbio “rikošet” (odbijanac) iz koje smo primili gol. Hrvatska je radila luđački presing.
Ya we have to see the dominance we had
Every loose ball they fought for
When we put that effort with the above average skill level Croatia consistently possesses it’s hard for some luck not to go our way
Then we defended well at the end. Locked it down
There wasn’t 08 turkey happening this time
And Serbia just scored
They do look dangerous have to give credit where credit is due
They are outplaying Portugal badly. Goalie screwed up for Portugal though.
Ya it was catchable for sure
Ronaldo will get one
I think Serbia are must win as well tho
Turned on the Serbia game after they were losing 1-0 In second minute
But they look organized and dangerous to be honest
Doubt Portugal will be letting in two unanswered goals tho at home
@the truth….so, boy, are you watching the Portugal vs Chetnikstan game yet? Already 1-0 to Portugal after 2 mins. Guaranteed victory for Portugal today. No need to bring out your XBOX calculations and predictions. Enjoy! After that, go back down in your basement and cry about yet another World Cup without your beloved bearded nation.
I just got back what a game kapa do poda momci. Great effort pitch second half terrible a win is win lets build and make run 2022.
Did you say Rakitic??? Rumours he might be coming back??? Yes please!!!
I’m not sure
Maybe if he took a limited role
It’s kova’s time
Sucic train gonna be coming up
I would take mandzo coming out of retirement at this point for a striker
Roko simic one year to develop!!!
How does ticket packages normally work when you want to follow a team at the WC?
You pay the full amount (assuming your team goes all the way) then they reimburse you for the rounds they do not qualify for.
Since we have to wait a year for the World Cup, at least we have the Nations League to look forward to in June. It’s good because we play good teams. Draw is December 16. Hope they get France, Portugal and the Czechs to hopefully get at least one of them off the winless list in non-friendlies.
Hello, my mentally retarded friend Zorro. Tell us more about that match. Was that when you got smashed 1-5 by Argentina afterwards? Or was this when Holland trashed you 1-6 in the Euros? Refresh our minds, please.
The Lovren inclusion didn’t hurt us. He played ok. Vlasic was trash and it’s absolutely inexplicable why he played over an in form Majer. Because he played in Russia? Because he’s from Split? Only Dalic would think that playing someone who has played probably 15 minutes of meaningful soccer in the last month is a good idea. Majer is probably our most in form offensive player right now and you’re desperate for a goal and he doesn’t see the pitch? Dalic is just crazy, crazy lucky.
At least bring Majer off the bench if you’re not going to start him lol.
Instead, he brings in Livaja off the bench ahead of him because he thinks some Hajduk magic will take over.
I guess Dalić was right. 😉
I’m beginning to buy into his “magic” strategy.
We need to load up on Qatari players before the World Cup.
WE ARE CROATIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m still not convinced grbic is our man or ivusic but he handled the ball fairly well overall
Livakovic would have been giving out all kinds of souvenir balls to the fans today:)
Gvardiol made a couple plays where you could really see his physical prominence
He was thrown in the fire at euro and is doing more then fine now
Sosa can and hopefully play better
For us going forward
Juranovic is one of Those guys who will probably just play better for us then a fancy club career
Leaves it all on the pitch and his crosses are pretty darn spot on
If we can find a solid rw that side will become more dangerous then the left
We need to stick with Grbić.
He seems ALOT more confident with the ball at his feet. Made some decent passes. No way Livaković could do that.
But in terms of actually making saves, yea, we just have to wait and see.
It’s quite possible that Dalić just reverts back to Livaković in the next Nations League games, and that’s the end of that.
I guess their league play will have to determine what’s going on
I just hate how it somehow defaulted to livakovic and keeps going back
It’s not bloody Buffon where he can shit teh bed and you go back to him cause he had a bad stretch
I’m sorry until he goes and proves himself in a bigger league forget it
He is shitting some bricks in the HNL
Beauty video!! Im so extactic as well we going Worlds baby!!!!!! What a dominant, dominant performance today!!!!! Should have been 3-0 but we’ll take it! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
To be honest, Dalic pissed his pants and put on Petkovic. Which he never should have done. You then go from an 11 man squad to 9 men….coz someone has to work twice as hard to make up for Petko’s mistakes. Fortunately, all the boys (minus silly Petko) were on fire today, so we managed to get the win we needed. Also, Dalic gets unjust credit. Why the f*ck let both Vlasic and Pasalic play just coz they’re Splicani? They’re not in form….! Not by a mile. I’m suggesting we would have scored twice, maybe even 3 goals with Majer and Brekalo on the field from get go, instead of Vlasic and Pasalic. We won today, but that’s not Dalic’s “fault”….
Wonder where are rankings will be for the draw
Surely we picked up a couple spots?
Maybe we will be 15th
Job done! Hvala Bogu. We definitely dominated the game. To get the result in conditions like that is very difficult.
Dalic is a much better manager than many on here give him credit for.
Hrvatska, the perennial dark horse team.
We will be underestimated again in Qatar….watch out world!!!
Bog i Hrvati
Anyone have a link to the full match? I couldn’t watch it live and highlights aren’t enough.
Dalić was in tears as the final whistle blew. At the end of the day he gets it done…in the messiest way possible. He also has to deal with the huge head cases that Brozovic and Rebic are. Is he officially the greatest Croatian coach of all time? Has he passed Ciro?
Croatia: 4 million people. Only missed one World Cup. FUCKEN AMAZING!!!
I did not want a playoff. These playoffs are going to be tough. Mark my words. Lots of good team will be int there. Although Croatia would have hosted the semifinal against team #1 in the playoff, it would have been a coin flip to host the final if the other seeded won their semifinal. We got it done today in the messiest way possible in the messiest of conditions. We’re Croatian. It’s never easy. I’m a happy camper.
Bog i Hrvati get the job done!
Given the horrible conditions, Hrvatska was awesome.
God made sure we kept Sosa, and He brilliantly finished the cross from Sosa for the goal, the win, and the automatic world cup qualification.
Kind of funny that Grbic played two games with zero shots on goal. The only shot on goal was Brozovic’s own goal.
Kind of poetic justice. Russia got dominated by Slovakia at home and only won 1-0 on an own goal. If they would have escaped Split by getting dominated again and winning the group, that just wouldn’t have been right. The best team won the group. Now Russia and probably the Serbs will have to go the playoff route. They both will be top seeds, so they will play lower ranked opponents in the first game, but you have to win two games, and the second could be on the road. It would be funny if the Swiss outscored Italy tomorrow, got first and then Italy drew the Serbs in their playoff group.
sosa stanisic juranovic gvardiol – is there every a way in the future we could move one out of natural position I imagine stanisic who can play as full back but mostly is a RB. DCC is great, i like him and obivoulsy better then lovren but slow as we know. I pray dalic gets the combo right. why the moron brings brekalo in as sub RB i don’t know. Did he not learn from extra time euro 2021 ET spain game
I read somewhere that stanisic is loved by Bayern cause he has potential to play all over the Back line and even in midfield
Need to find the article
Think of him like a better tin jedvaj
Hopefully much better
no shit – please send if you find it…danny J haha excellent…
i think that could be perfect potential future back line- could be one of the best in our history.
DCC is great but slow and stanisic could only get better that’s why id love to see those 4 together.
DCC and Gvardiol did well against malta but after all it was maltese players not nearly as athletic without the speed of a Raheem sterling racing against us.
For christ sakes my sisters dog is named montebello and its almost older then that dude lol
in this order to be specific
juranovic- stanisic-gvardiol-sosa
DCC ?
for once perhaps were spoiled with D that hravti dude recruiting our diaspora snagging them from block head germans excellent
having stanisic and sosa gonna be wicked. mid great as always should be better then fine. we need a mandzukic, dude eduardo, olic mix type of alien striker six million dollar man type lol and we be unstoppable
sjlivovica kicking in – enjoy the day boys ZDS!!!!!!!!!
Stanišić is actually a CB, but with the ability to play RB as well.
He could very well be paired with Gvardiol as our CB pairing for the future.
However, I really like Pongračić’s size and speed. He’s like a faster version of Ćaleta-Car. Would love to test him out.
This is my beef with Lovren. He’s preventing us from moving on to younger and better players who are getting better every year. We need to prep for this World Cup.
I agree and see that as future as i hear nothing but great things on stanisics development at this age. Hopefully it progresses as i imagine it will.
lovren and vida need to retire.
We all know that pitch was a complete disaster but anyone remember lovren going forward somehow ending up with possession ROUND THE 18 and completely happy Gilmored’ the putt/pass.
Was one of, if not the worst of many many bad passes from both teams due to the soaked pitch.
He had that one long ball that was nice and overall not bad performance from him but a few gaps and with our new blood he should be phased out with vida.
We don’t need a repeat of 02 playing past our prime players (certain positions cost us) Boksic against ecuador best chance of game coulda sent us through but woulda, coulda, shoulda!.
france 02′, italty 10′, germany 18’…
they all didn’t make past the group stages cause 4 years is too long for using the same world class talent unless they start and develop and play together from a really young age. tiki taka spicks only one to kinda do it but they had some luck also ( a few pk wins in knockout rounds).
grbic
juranovic -stansic(DCC)-gvardiol-sosa
kovacic- Brozović
modric pasalic
perisic
(Kramarić)
( ) subs or straight swaps… you guys might be thinking i smoking glue but perisic wins aerial duels like Ronaldo and has the heart and chase down effort as mandzukic. so many formations and confusions on where to put our talent but perisic can finish orthodox and unorthodox style and Krama for the replays is hot or cold like katy perry. although katy lubenica I’d motorboat those alllll day long.
like to hear your opinions on that formation
PS …what a day hope every hrvati enjoying!!!
half a 26er of sjlivovica in and 6 karlovacko pivos haha
Even if Croatia didn’t won today, I’d still would give credit to them. They fought like lions, all of them.
Say what you want about Dalic, but he manages to let the player give their best for the team.
I don’t think one Croatian player had a bad game today. Vlasic did more than okay. Perisic struggled sometimes but worked extremely hard for the team.
Brozovic as Man Of The Man for me.
@the truth(AKA Ziva Istina AKA serb goat f*cker AKA whatever): Why don’t you just piss off with all your silly ch*etnik comments. I personally don’t give a f about your predictions, XBOX generated statistics and whatnot. Enjoy the game vs Portgual. I know I will. Portugal for the win….!
That’s Kralj Zvonimir to all you uneducated chetn*ks and whatnot. OK I’ll admit I’m piss drunk but well deserved since we won today. Za dom…!
Good to see dalic learn from his euro mistakes and sub in an rb after the goal
The team has generally looked the best it’s looked in some time these past six games or so
A big part is likely sosa
I almost sympathize with sosas crazy move. He’s looking like a top notch lb for the repka which has no lb, was 23 years old and must’ve really been thinking what is dalic/hns doing not even calling him
Well done. The players gave it all and showed up. Glad for Dalic and what he has accomplished with this team. He deserves a lot of credit despite the naysayers.
if we had this team at euro when we played Spain and they were in form like they were today we would off beat Spain and could off made a run . A lot of work still left to do. We need to stay healthy and learn from the mistakes of the past . Major improvement today. Lets hope we stay healthy and our boys continue to be in form. If that happens and depending the group we get its off the races for us
We had this team against Spain.
Dalić just didn’t realize it.
He is slowly realizing it now, which is why our lineups have been better, but there’s always the chance he reverts.
No need to call up Modric, Perisic, Brozovic, Lovren or Vida till the World Cup.
Time to give the new guys a chance to see who does best.
The only complaint I have about today’s game, is why Majer didn’t play. Was he slightly injured? Makes zero sense.
Majer isn’t from Split.
Belive it or not, that is the actual reason.
Stadion Poljud deserve’s major praise for the way they showed support to our boys today…first class display from the fans!
I felt we’d win and after watching today, I felt we deservedly won, regardless of how we scored.
I had some questions regarding Dalia’s decision to start Vlasic and I’m sorry for Vlasic but the kid has completely lost his mojo. On the other hand, Pasalic worked hard and even though I don’t usually think he adds much, he did well for us today!
In my opinion, Krama did very well! He was always threatening and I think it was hard for him because of the condition of the field. Good game for him!
I give Perisic a pass for not having one of his better games. He couldn’t get things going but he was always looking to make something happen and he attracted 2 defenders on him at all times.
Modric and Broz are heros for working through that disaster field…I’m not sure anyone could have done better.
Juranovic and Sosa were involved and pushing forward, this is a really good thing for us…I’m so glad we are pressing forward down the wings.
Overall, we deserved this win…own goal or not, we were much better than Russia and I knew this before we even played the game. We have a quality they don’t have…period!
Now I can finally calm down and chill for the rest of the day!
@ Salvonac today we saw a fire in that team that we had not seen in a long time. I will take the win but it does bother me that we still have not been able to beat Russia in regular time. We won by a own goal. Again I will take the win. We deserved it and were the better team. But all that fire power and relentless attack we were not Able to score. This team has turned the page today. We need to learn how to put a game way in regular time . I agree with your comments and think we Are on the right track with a lot of room for improvement
Tough field to play on and Russia was very compact snd solid defensively, today’s win was harder than at the World Cup against then if you ask me. We completely pressured them and didn’t let up. That’s the kind of game we will win every time. I was very impressed with our overall effort and I really can’t find reasons to complain about anything other than the decision to start Vlasic…he was lost and irrelevant and I really hate to say it.
Hi zorro, enjoy the playoffs for Serbia and Russia ya dick. When was the last time Serbia was in a major tournament. LOLOLOL!!!
Great win, bit lucky in the end but fortune favours the brave as we were the only team trying to play and in the end it was well deserved. Shocking pitch, impossible to play on in the second half. Well done to Dalic, his team selections and substitutions. Also to all those that hate Lovren, he was our best defender today. Experienced and held the defence together throughout. Sosa finally delivers a decent cross and we score or should I say they score. Every player put in a 100% including Perisic but in my opinion it was one of his worst performances that I have seen for the repka.
How do you measure that?
Was he better than Gvardiol? And how exactly?
Our defense was never tested at all and anytime the Russians had possession, our entire team defended well to strip them off the ball. Lovren doesn’t get the credit for that.
Lovren didn’t mess up today, but didn’t get many chances to either.
I’m not going to hate on him for this game today, but he’s not a starting CB for us at this World Cup and we need to spend the next 8-10 months ensuring that Gvardiol gains chemistry with the rest of our CBs not named Lovren.
Deserving win !!!! wtf is with the drainage at Poljud? cannot believe it’s that bad .I knowing was raining a ton but still
Ajmooooooo
HNS really needs to invest money into these existing stadiums.
Too many qualifying matches coincide with rainy weather in Croatia.
We need to get some proper draining in all NT stadiums, and any new stadiums may be better off with a retractable roof even lol.
Can’t believe the pooling in the center of the Poljud field.
Tooooooooooooooooooo ..
That display is the reason we exist as a modern nation state.
ZDS
Luka legend to go out with yet another World Cup run.
I am flying to Milan tonight to broker peace between Rebić and Dalić.
Add Kovačić and Rebić to this crew.
Spremni.
Dalic put the horses in the courses.
5 legit chances.
OG was created by our pressure.
Bog i Hrvati.
Dalic deserves some overdue love. What he’s done since taking over can’t be understated. He’s also managing to qualify for tournaments while in a generation chance, that’s extremely hard to accomplish.
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What a game woooooo! So happy the boys did it 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪
That was a hell of a game, from start to the very last two Livaja touches to mess with Russia. I felt the whole time that Croatia was going to win. A defensive mistake like that is inevitable in those conditions. I was sure the keeper was going to misplay something eventually, but it was one of his defenders. Great stuff from Dalić and the players to close out qualifying. The coach made the right substitutions at the right moment. Grbić played well, Lovren played great, Pasalić played great, Brekalo and Petković made a positive impact, and putting Stanisić in to protect the lead was also crucial. Imagine this as the starting point for the next year of preparations for success in Qatar. The younger players have been phased in. Now they will become the core of the team. Ajmo!
On the edge of my seat entire game, we’re going to the dance!. We have a year to figure out what lineups will help us to make it deep in 2022. Enjoy the victory boys. Big I Hrvati!!!!
Fuckin Poljud. Always something with that pitch.
Scrappy stuff! Gonna be a treat watching Luka on the biggest stage one more time. Livaja brought it doing his best Colin Farrell from Miami Vice.
Fuck what a weight off my chest!
Lovren was solid today. Great game all the way around given these conditions…poetic that an OG puts us through…love it.
And I’m guessing the dominant performance was Dalic’s fault too?
I have been watching every Croatian national team game for years.
The way we have been playing since the Euros, is the BEST football Croatia has ever played. We haven’t taken their foot off the gas for even a minute.
If everyone stays healthy and the young studs continue to progress, we will be one of the favourites to win the World Cup!
@Maminjo
Never underestimate we Livnaci.
Truer words have never been spoken!
I was sitting in my dark room watching on my shit small phone(and yes I could see their heart with the small screen;)
And I’m like the only way we score is like if it goes off the back of someone’s ass or something
We totally deserved it
Regroup redesign and let’s go show
The Arab world what’s up!!
You know rakitic be in the locker room saying you know I would hit those headers today;)
Dear Zorro, are you still sore about Operation Storm and the Great Traktorijada which followed? Go cry somewhere else. End of story.
Time to let the kids run the team and let Modric be the field coach- we won despite goat herder Dalic- congratulations and who would have predicted Sosa to be our guy- bloody good win boys-
#FAMILY? Pound your family? What in the Sam Hill is going on?
Starting a petition to give that bald fuck who scored the OG Croatian citizenship
For all those Lovren haters, you were wrong!! He was superb today.
True. And u know he’s being super annoying to all those Russians wishing them well
Zorro, the truth, Ziva Istina and all those other serb chetnik fu*kers can just go blow their own dads smelly dicks and suck milk from their bearded grannies. It’s business as usual. Croatia is in the World Cup and Chetnikstan is still a piece of crap….Like it always will be.
Dalić bawling his eyes out, lol
Send this guy back to Livno already haha
Shut up you idiot. You talk too much and know shit.
liquor store sjlivovica time
Hold the fucking line !!!!!
The Croatian Gods answered my prayer. keep playing the same boys – similar attack more possession and waste time like those shitty rouskis have done. stanzaic yes ! although why the fuck didn’t be he bring majer on
fuckin auto stanisic***
omg omg omg lmao just as i wrote that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this pitch is ridiculous. too much dancing with it around, in, near the box. Pašalić one shoulda went in. we need a PK, cross or some bullshit error that the big 5 or so countries always benefit from
Note to Dalić: Next training session…practice headers. Fuck, every header has been straight at the goalkeeper.
Mods gotta find a way to block posts from scum bags like zorro. Don’t need sad, delusional, pathetic trolls on this board.
shows what pathetic piece of shit loser he is – luka got em nice haha
I’m on it
Vlasic is shit. Dalic is shit.
Petkovic ? cmon guy blows .Majer or Orsic or Brekalo !!!!
zorro u dumb cetnik don’t be upset cause your a mongaloid and your country is one of the most garbage soccer teams to come out of former Yugoslavia. za dom spremni faggot loser ! go hand out with your turbo serbo losers this is a cro site. were happy and peaceful. go start your war somewhere is loser. or ill get clinton to bomb your house like he did to stop you dirty serbs. pce out loserrrrrr
its like a gaelic football match out there and rugby also lol
Is it possible the HNS does this every qualification cycle just to make a little extra money in the playoff round?
how the fuck have we not scored yet omg lol please tell me its not one of those fuckin games – they surely can’t hold us if we keep playing like this – my baba from the grave woulda headed that Pašalić miss in – 2 yards out maybe 1
The boys are playing really well today, although under horrible muddy rainy conditions on the pitch. It’s unfathomable that this inept Russian team is ahead of us in the overall group standings. I predict one, maybe even two hard fought goals for us if we’re able to keep on the pressure. And maybe even one lucky goal for the Russkies, because our boys need to start taking bigger risks now in the second half. Ajmo, decki, samo naprid….! Za dom…!
Pasalic does a Kramaric. We are being too cute. Too many passes. Just shoot on the bloody goal.
Croatia is very good against the Malta’s and Scotland’s but they pretty much suck against everyone else.
If someone said we just have to win 1-0 against Russia in one half of play in split at the start of the campaign after the disastrous start to it all
We all take it
Ajmo!!!!
As they say throw enough shit against the wall something will stick
Keep it up boys
Have to be happy overall the way we are playing
That broz blast if it went in top corner would have been most epic broz ever
He is definitely hungry
Sosa not so good on any crosses thus far
Juranovic I have to say he has to be on of the most pleasant surprises that came out of this qualifying campaign
Still a proper target man is needed
Our left side is not functioning so far. Perisic and Sosa not having a good game going forward, seem to be getting in each others way. Juranovic from the right has put in one or two good crosses. Wet pitch and rain just like against Slovakia and also Milanovic in the VIP area just like in Osijek. I hope it is not a bad omen ?
As expected the Russian bus is parked.
We need to play the ball quicker. Both Sosa and Juranović have been doing this and good to see. Perisic can’t keep trying to take on two players. Vlašić has been decent. Lovren had a great long ball to create a good chance. Krama has to do better with that header. Brozo with a couple good shots from distance and likely saved a goal on the long ball.
All in all decent half. Bring on Majer…..
I hope the rain stops- you can see water splash up as the ball is kicked.
Pasalic and Vlasic out!
Majer and Brekalo in.
Ya the pitch is troublesome
Keep the press somehow we will break through
I hate to say it but rebic causing havoc on their back line is just what the doctor ordered right about now
The longer it goes scoreless makes the chances of a Russia goal more possible but let’s see if we can crack it early in the half
It will change the outlook
I know they are playing for a tie but Russia is the equivalent of the New Jersey devils trap like hockey they used to play
Utter garbage
danny j lol all points well played!
I actually like Vlasic today.
Brozovic our best player so far.
Perisic not impressive so far.
Technically we are way better but if we don’t score we’ll be forced to start taking risks.
Seriously? What the hell has Vlasic done other than nothing!?!?
Keep your negativity of this thread
Excellent high intensity first half
Stay positive for the second
Well not a bad half from Croatia. A fair amount of opportunity against a fairly stingy bunker in tough conditions. It kind of is what it is that it’s an uphill battle but they did enough that they could’ve scored one
The field still acting as a major drag on Croatia speed of play. I’m sure it’s further fatiguing players as every dribble and pass requires a touch more effort
Models show 60 percent chance of tie, 27 percent chance of Croatia win, 13 percent Russia win
Croatia World Cup real time odds down to 60 percent
great atmosphere .great stadium and hopefully they make the right moves in the 2nd half .AJMOOOOOOO
As expected. Russians parking the bus.
Too bad about the weather…I think we would be up by 2 by now under better conditions.
Jebiga…Grbić looks a bit nervous/rusty
??? He hasn’t had to do a single thing, lol
Time to see what Majer can do
perisic almost connecting with a similar england cobra kai kick lol
Sad that this garbage Russian team is ahead of us and we have to chase. Screw up in Slovenia and VAR bs.
was thinking the same we may need a dirty garbage goal against this dirty garbage time wasting, dump the ball shit team aka pro slovenia 06 Wc qualifying lol
prso
vlasic and Pašalić pissing me off already- miss reads, heavy touches
Shame to play under these conditions. Kramaric straight at keeper, as is tradition.
Krama should have done better.
He should have copied and pasted his goal from the World Cup.
fuck krama raketa was there for inspiration and reminder head down away from the goalie as per euro 12. looking good kremlin wasting time already eating the clock. wow nice ball lovren pure give away
This field is going to be mush
Hey peeps, the uefa.tv doesn’t work for me. Does anyone have a good link for this game? Thanks!
Here are some Links
http://www.redditsoccerstreams.tv/
http://www.hesgoal.com/
Enjoy
Perfect, thanks!
Things have started to get heated in Split.
https://www.xnxx.com/video-y0gi9aa/girls_fight_split_croatia
Vlasic starts over Maher because the game is on Split.
Nice touch having Rakitic there for extra support
Those two winning penalties at WC will live with us forever
Lovren isn’t playing bc he plays in Russia league (nobody cares about that)
He is in bc of his “big game” experience (both club and country)
That’s esp. needed when there are three other “kids” on defence incl. a 19 yo
In “big games” Lovren is more often than not played really well
Relax
Well dalic lovren loyalty lives on…i heard there was a lively debate amongst the staff to pull corluka out of retirement and pair him with lovren since he also had played in Russia
What i don’t get is if lovren was always going to start, why not play him vs malta so he can build chemistry with the new young guys like sosa and gvardiol. They need to know how to press high with him or how to react when he touches the ball with his hand in the box or let’s the other teams players sneak behind him
They absolutely would. Don’t underestimate the bosanska glava.
DCC is a better player than Lovren at this point in the their careers, but I’m a fan of experience in big games.
Does anyone have a link for a Croatian stream?
Uefa.tv
Majer and DCC had great games against…Malta. Relax people. Russia is a significant upgrade in opposition. Lovren has miles of high stake game experience and Vlasic has probably previously scored against half the Russian lineup.
Very annoyed by the changes. There’s no reason to shake things up, especially Vlasic (who’s been very out of form) for Majer (who just put on a masterclass).
Anyway, it is what it is and let’s just roll with this.
Ajmo Vatreni!!!
I think Vlašić will probably have a good game since he’s like a rugby player and the rainy conditions won’t affect his game.
However, I think Majer is red hot right now and it’s stupid not to ride that wave.
Having both Pašalić and Vlašić over him right now (with how well he’s been playing this month) is tough to swallow.
I guess Dalić thinks he can always use him as a sub. Will be a tough game to watch if we’re just planning on trying to score through the middle with Vlašić, Krama and our other mids. Wish we could swing some balls in to Duje with Sosa, Perišić, or even Oršić on the flanks.
I really hope we don’t play some slow tika taka game, in the rain (which makes it less effective) and then have to rely on Lovren to defend the counters lol.
Do Lovren and Vlašić really have familiarity with playing against these Russian players?
This is a relatively newer group of Russian players. With Lovren largely on the bench this year at Zenit and Vlašić gone… Do these guys even have any game time against these newer Russian players? Or even know who some of them are?
I would assume Dalić at least watched some game tape of Russia’s matches (and you don’t have to be a player in the Russian league to watch video). I assume Dalić watched all the Russia matches and some Russian league matches on video, in order to properly scout their players, right? Most of our players (I assume) would benefit from this, rather than relying on one Russian league benchwarmer to be on the field today and somehow scream scouting reports to his teammates during the live game.
Dalić’s Bosanska glava is showing.
If we win today, it will be in spite of Dalic. What a turd.
No major issues with this lineup. Playing the two guys who the know the Russian players better than most. Experience goes a long way in games like these.
I did love Majer on the right but just a hunch that I think Vlasic shows up today.
let’s cheer up for Russia …
then kick this stupid ass Dalic :L
there is no more Lovren after this! _+|
we will build chemistry through a playoff with youngsters _o)
the world cup will be – another Final match – that only a referee can stop us!
Poor Duje.
Has good games against Malta and Cyprus, even scores a goal, but Dalić still doesn’t trust him over Lovren haha.
If Lovren doesn’t screw things up for us today (and we actually qualify) it’s sad that Duje won’t even be starter at the 2022 World Cup.
Dumb choices fuckin Dalic -although I understand the lovren call over DCC a lil more but vlasic for majer who earned that spot with his performance on Thursday not to mention he’s obviously the more in form player. Wtf is wrong with this guy ? If we don’t win this game, sack that idiot
sack this stupid ass | Dalic
kick out – some trouble maker )_I
then we will be alright going to WC _o) through play off
100%
Lovren > DCC
Because his “big game” experience (both club and country) is needed to steady the other three kids on defence. He’s mostly rose up to occasion for most “big games”
Vlasic > Majer
Poor choice. Majer played great and earned this start – one of the best “right wing/mid” performances in years for the team. Message is “even if you play great doesn’t mean you get in”.
NO :L
Lovren will mess up! )_I
please wake up Stupid Dalic
I am also afraid of that. Maybe he should have used caleta car. although I am not big fan of him also
On UEFA site , two changes Lovren in for DCC and Vlasic in for Majer.
Dalic can’t help himself. Seems like loyalty to Lovren and the “Plays in the Russian league” factor going on here. I can’t stand that mentality that just because he plays in Russia he’ll have familiarity with playing against them. Wouldn’t that same logic apply to the Russian forwards knowing how to score on Lovren.
Also Vlasic hasn’t been in form and doesn’t play well on RW. We just saw Majer have a great game there, but Vlasic Hajduk and Russian league connection must be factoring in his decision here.
Game day.
AJMO!!!
Driving down from Zagreb. Rainy and wet to start but we are passing Zadar and the sun has broken through. Hope stays like this
Aaaaand we just got to split and it’s dark and cloudy haha. Gonna be a wet one
Jebi ga it is what it is
It’s just gonna make this day even bigger in repka legend
We win this we can just forget about this past little struggles and re-tool for maybe a run out of group play next year!!
Joe simunic gonna get on the mic before to pump everyone up!!
Ajmo!!!!
Enjoy! Pivo i pobjeda!