It’s always nice to get a fresh perspective from the other side. I sat down with Joe and Kei from United Mates Football Podcast to discuss Sunday’s match between Croatia and England. The Vatreni may have a new defensive core with the Vida/DCC partnership running alongside Barišić or Gvardiol at left-back, but England definitely have their own questions in that department.
Both sides have top class midfields but England will have Harry Kane up top while Croatia may need to rely on Ante Rebić in the striker role.
But it sounds like Joe and Kei understand all the pressure is on the Three Lions at Wembley in the EURO opener.
Prayers for Eriksen. That was scary shit.
Eriksen plays with perisic and brozovic…how is that gonna effect us ?
If the Danes are now able to play I think our boys will be fine
Prayers for Christian Eriksen – incredible scene
I just listened to Dalic and Modric’s interview. Dalic said they plan to press high and they’ll try to keep England further away from our goal.
Does this tell us anything about who we will have in our lineup up top?
Seferovic was awful today, missed several chances and gave away the ball numerous times, including the goal for Wales.
Gavranovic should have started – scored a hat trick in their last friendly.
Big time! What happened to Marko Arnautovic? Went to China and not playing with the national team now? What Id give for a decent #9. That should be Petkovic
Nevermind, he’s Austrian
England betting moves lines, just because of the sheer number of people that put money on England! It’s nit actually a reflection of statistical odds to win a game
Agree Slavonac. Italy looked great…Personally I don’t see the Turkey hype. It could be that their attempt
to bunker backfired. The own goal opened up the game and they had no chance.
If we can weather the initial storm against England and get one relatively early, I love our chances.
England is expected to stomp us…I don’t see that happening. An early goal would put enormous pressure on them….Ajmoooooo!!!
Croatia’s odds in game versus England continue to grow:
England -155
Draw +292
Croatia +519
Yes, I would have guessed us to be paying maybe $3 for a win but placed a bet today and got $5.50. Who do they think we are?
New Zealand?!
Italy very good in this game. Tons of movement off the ball and they weren’t getting frustrated by Turkey with 10 men behind the ball.
Turkey on the other hand are nowhere near what I was expecting! Everyone has been saying they’re awesome…they don’t look that awesome to me.
Italy look very good!
Hopefully we can play like this against England.
We have the midfield.
italy vs turkey, at the end of the first half italian player crosses the ball and it hits a turkish players arm. Ref doesnt call handball and rightfully so imo cuz it was only from 2m away and they were both sprinting. but if that happened to us vs england, refs would 100% give them a penalty against us
Turkey was guilty of TWO handballs.
The first one was a block from Soyuncu, but it was close to his body. Kind of similar to what Perisic was guilty of against France.
The second one was a clear handball that actually blocked a cross into the box. That should have been a penalty.
Both were inadvertent handballs, but this referee is not calling penalties (and it looked like he was dismissing VAR calls).
I hate that everything is just up to the referee or VAR’s discretion. Both of these handballs were worse than ours, but none given.
I can’t explain the rules around handball calls to anyone anymore, and neither can UEFA or FIFA.