Croatia’s final friendly before the World Cup opener hit another snag Friday night.
With injuries to Milan Badelj, Ivo Iličević and Ivan Strinić already sidelining the trio for the world’s largest sporting event, potential starting XI left back Danijel Pranjić hurt his ankle Friday night vs. Australia and may be joining the list. An MRI will be taken Saturday morning; giving us more information on the severity of the injury.
Pranjić injury
Manager Niko Kovač went with a starting lineup which consisted of Pletikosa in goal; Vida, Lovren, Srna and Pranjić in the back line; Brozović, Modrić, Perišić, Eduardo and Kovačić in the midfield with Jelavić alone up top. Croatia managed four shots on goal compared to Australia’s one, with the lone goal of the match coming from Nikica Jelavić in the 58th minute. Modrić found the Hull City striker alone in front of the net, and although he seemed to be offside, the flag stayed down as Croatia would win 1-0.
Jelavić goal vs. Australia
Although Croatia played two light opponents in Mali and Australia leading up to the World Cup curtain lifter on Thursday, the midfield duo of Modrić and Kovačić are coming together in spectacular fashion just at the right time. If our defense can hold tight with Rakitić and Perišić making solid runs up the wings, Croatia can surprise the world next week.
Brazil defeated Serbia 1-0 in their friendly Friday night. Northing to boast about.
Kovačić, Modrić magic at 4:40
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2089301-film-focus-brazils-full-backs-exposed-by-serbian-width
@ IvicA
That Siege of Siget post got me so fired up!
It’s truly an inspirational story about the courage and ingenuity of our people.
Prle- great comments, I think many of your points are bang on!
@CvA
You really liked that Siege of Siget story when I posted it, didn’t you?
😉
In Cameroon…
Ante, where did the Cameron game take place today?
Kovac hasn’t revealed his starting 11. Keeping his cards close to his chest. Something tells me he’s laying a Siege of Siget-like trap for the Brazilians. Now that’s starting the WC with a Bang!
Speaking of Cameroon, they beat Moldova, a small Eastern-European nation 1-0. Lemme guess, they were supposed to simulate Croatia? lol.
they scored 2 against germany in a 2-2 draw, not 3 ante.
but yeah.. idk
tbh if u look at the teams we should get out of the group
we have the most skilled players out of mex, cro and cam.. but idk i have a bad feeling : (
also the game v cameroon in the amazon wont help us
u know how europeans are with heat, lol
need more aussie diaspora on the team : P
Cameroon defeated Moldova 1-0 in Cameroon earlier today. This team can’t score goals. I have no idea how they put 3 past Germany…didn’t watch.
They will be the last team from our group to make it to Brazil .They won’t be settled in before Sunday night/Monday morning. That’s only giving them 4 days in Brazil before game time.
I don’t know about that.
If we can get 2 goals in on them…we should be fine.
That Jelavic goal causes more harm than good, do you think?
I mean, is he seriously a contender to start v Brazil?
I didnt think so.. i thought it’d be Olic as the lone striker but who knows.. what now and why bother playing Jela anyway ?
Bit unsure about that one..
Croatian citizenship is a joke. Everyone goddamn criminal in Eastern Europe has Croatian documents. Now compare that to the red-tape and the headache they cause diaspora Croats and their children when they seek citizenship…
Fucking joke.
the basketball repka is even worse, apparently they are going to add a stranac to the team that has no Croatian ties whatsoever and has never even lived there,he will replace previous insta-hrvat Dontaye. Truly pathetic that our citizenship is given away so cheaply.
I used to explain to folks why Eduardo gets the nod and Sammir doesn’t, or shouldn’t. But it’s clearly pointless.
Many people have binary ways of thought. If it isn’t this, it must be that. No room for compromise, combinations, variety. Very primitive and shallow. Most labelers and race-baiters are.
You don’t think Sammir is deserving of the national team, then you must be a racist. And, of course, if you’re OK with Eduardo but not with Sammir, then you must be a hypocrite. That seems to be the narrative. As if Eduardo and Sammir are one and the same. Whatever happened to individualism? Hmmm…
I see countless nations, ethnic groups, religious groups getting away with putting their own kind first, throwing the logic and argument of merit completely out the window, yet they seem to evade labels of racism, xenophobia, intolerance, etc. Croats seem to be unable to avoid such things. Even when they are using sound logic and rational arguments. You can’t win.
It is a fact that Sammir made the national team purely based on his race and ethnic make-up, certainly not for his soccer abilities. Yet those of us that are opposed to it are the racists.
Never ceases to amaze. But that’s what a Western/liberal education/indoctrination will get you….
Labels are a powerful weapon now.
You label someone something, and they will do anything you say to wash the label off.
Mark Cuban said it best.
If you want to win an argument these days, just call someone, or an entire nation, for that matter, racist. Discussion is over.
well sammir definitely aint croatian neither is dudu, but they are brazillian that live in croatia.
As always the racist croatians when eduardo did goo for you that was good for you team now that he don do things as always is not good, about sammir period he is croatian either you like it or not your goverment gave him croatian cityzenship and you can not do anything about it grow up even i think eduardo and sammir will be the only non-croatian player that ever play for croatia i see that the new generation of croatians either are born there or are from the diaspora , but you need to grow up
I like the first line up with Srna pushed up onto the wing, that is his natural position, but i don’t see that happening one of Lovren or Schifo wont be starting
Even if Pranja does recover would you seriously consider him a legitimate option at LB?
Or this:
___________Olic____________
__Perisic___Kovacic___Vrsaljko_
______Modric___Rakitic_______
_Corluka_Schifo_Lovren_Srna__
_________Pletikosa__________
I wouldn’t mind trying this lineup as it has all of our best available talent in our starting eleven, but it would be risky.
___________Olic____________
__Perisic___Kovacic___Srna___
______Modric___Rakitic_______
_Vrsaljko_Schifo_Lovren_Corluka
_________Pletikosa__________
Whoever plays on our RW position is going to be invisible.
Everyone who has played there thus far (Perisic, Ilicevic, Eduardo, Olic, etc) have been very unimpressive.
Vrsaljko is the only one who plays there naturally who has not been tested out, but it looks like he may be our LB after this Pranjic injury.
Either we go with Kovacic there, or shuffle things around in our defense with Srna being moved up to RW. Otherwise, I think it will be wasted space.
For Brazil:
…………….Olic………..
Rebic….Kovacic….Perisic
…….Modric…Rakitic….
Vrsaljko..Lovren..Corluka..Srna
…………Pletikosa….
Vrsaljko has been playing excellent this season for Genoa, and he was easily our best player in that U21 match against a very strong Ukraine side (better than Rebic and Kovacic).
He may be played out of position at LB, but I think he’ll do well.
During these friendlies, I’m not sure if Kovac was serious with these lineups (I was very unimpressed with the player selections), or if he’s just been keeping his cards close to his chest.
As per reports, it looks like Pranjic is very doubtful for the Brazil match, and Kovac has already commented that Vrsaljko looked very good there and that he has an idea of how he’s going to play Brazil.
RantSports lists every teams worst player. They got it spot on!
http://www.rantsports.com/soccer/2014/06/04/2014-world-cup-every-teams-worst-player/#slide23
June 7, 2014 at 3:50 am
Our biggest weakness is our coach. Like I said before and I’ll say it again, I loved Niko Kovac as a player. I had the official Niko Kovac Euro 2008 jersey and the Niko Kovac Euro 2004 jersey. The Euro 2004 Kovac jersey wasn’t official though. Do you know how hard it was too find a non-official Niko Kovac jersey in Croatia???????? LOL. It took me forever too find one, all the jerseys back in Croatia when I was there in May of 2004 were Prso or just a blank name on the back. Niko Kovac played his HEART OUT and BLED each and EVERY time he played for us . He was not the most talented player we had while he was on the team , but WOW!!!!! He bled the RED AND WHITE CHECKERS.
Point being, do we really know how good a coach he even is?He only coached a few games for us. But now it’s the World Cup, and we are not playing teams like Iceland or Mail. For anyone who actually played organized soccer , you know, it doesn’t matter how good each individual plays. Each and every player can all individually play great, but at the same time we can be out-coached. I hope that doesn’t happen. Knowing Niko Kovac’s style just by watching him, he will be prepared. Watching a ton of game footage and all that shit. But he is going up against some pretttyyyy good coaches in the group . Scolari, and the German dude who coaches Cameroon. This is Mexico’s 15th coach in the past 16 months lol, even though I hate too admit it, even the Mexican coach has more experience coaching than Kovac. But all in all, I would rather have Kovac than that nut job Stimac any day .
Brazil will beat us, but not crush us. It’ll be close. I won’t even be surprised if we tie them. Cameroon will be even more tuff than Brazil I think because of the conditions and we’re playing in the Amazon. Mexico we can beat. But Mexico scares the shit out of me because they can shoot the ball extremely well and accurately from way outside the box. And Mexico is extremely underrated when it comes too set plays such as free kicks up close and far indirect kicks. But I am hopeful we will make it too the next round.
We just got too stop as fans taking these friendlies too serious. They are practice games, that’s all they are, trying out new tactics and shit like that. Brazil has everything too lose, we don’t. I truly believe the Brazil team we played in the World Cup 2006 was better than the present Brazil team. Even though Mandzukic will not be playing against Brazil, we still have a better team minus Mandzukic than we had in World Cup 2006.
We play to the level of our opponents. That is why I believe Cameroon with the climate conditions is scary. Mexico we can take care of, hopefully the last game is up to us, we win or tie, we go to the next round. The WORST thing that can happen TO US IS when we play Mexico is we need to BEAT the Mexicans by a certain amount of goals and NOT CONCEDE any GOALS. WE DEFINITELY CANNOT RELY ON ANOTHER TEAM TO WIN OR LOSE. OUR LAST GAME IN THE GROUP STAGE, WE HAVE TOO CONTROL OUR OWN DESTINY. Croatia can do it, Niko Kovac could surprise us all and maybe, just maybe have all the capabilities too be and excellent coach.
LETS GO CROATA!!!!!!!
No surprise if we don’t make it out of the group stage haven’t done it at a World Cup since 1998. Pranjic was good at Euro 2008 but after that he was below average. Australija KLOKANSKA ZEMLJA. Kenguri.
I know the Serbian offense did not play that great today against Brazil. But Serbia’s defense is good, real good actually. I am not just talking about this game today the Serbs played, I am saying in general. You can say that Brazil didn’t play all out, neither did the Serbs. Who know how late the Serbs were all night drinking the night before lol. But besides Srna, because I always consider him a midfielder , even though he plays right back, Srna has offense running through his blood . My point is how many of our defenders can actually start on the Serbian starting 11? Maybe Lovren….but kolarov and Ivanovic are outstanding players. I believe Serbia will do well in the qualifiers for the qualifications for 2016. And thank them for playing physical against Brazil. They were throwing the brazilians, clipping, fouling them all over the place.
According to the EA simulator we didn’t even make it out of the group stage. I think we all know what that means …
WE ARE DOOMED !!!!!
for you EA fifa fans, their simulators picked germany to win it
i wonder if we were even in the simulator? must have not been cause surely it would have picked us;)
I know you’re taking the piss 😀
Nah haven’t seen the wolf creek films
Now these were the days, according to the aussie commentators we were arrogant and confident 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuRDziZNK4
cmon i was joking too
the whole thing was a bit of a dick up the arse
ie, a joke
hey have u seen the first 10 mins of wolf creek 2? its hilarious and aussie roflol
Easy on the vodka there mate, i’ll take the win but its a nothing match, not the ideal opponent to hone our game plan on. Even Skoko without trying to be too direct said that if you look at the few minutes we decided to up the tempo we were streaks ahead, he will say Australia did well to “match it” with a world class team but with the other statement he said that we didn’t even try bar the couple minutes when we pushed for that goal. If i remember correctly when asked a few months back where he would be spending the world cup, he said he is going to Cro, so this was his last bit of business 😀
you can take SHITALOSA DAMLE ANTE
WE ARE OW GONNA WIN THE WORLD CUP
lollolol
This is a Friendly. Hence the title. Nothing to get worked over about.
You cant take anything from this match, the players were weary of not getting injured and only turned it on for a couple minutes and snagged a goal.
According to Croatiansports fans they weren’t pleased how Croatia played
According to the Australian press, Croatia came with a game plan and did well….according to the Croatian press, Australia was extremely aggressive and chippy!
so far ko fuck is not good enough .. I just say >
he doesn’t make any sense to make a good decision about the squad.
1) why he shouldn’t bring The God of Halilovic
2) why Mocinic over Pasalic
3) Pranjic still on LB .. instead of he usefull on wing midfilder
4) I don’t think Sammir can make fast Ball control, he just turn it off when any player goes to counter attack .. he is so lame .> better to put Brozovic
If a replacement is called seems it’ll be out of Milic or Pivaric, seems Mamic has another player to sell, will be interesting. Seems Niko is hopeful of a recovery so who knows what will happen, my opinion is if it looks bad lets just take the opportunity and get a replacement
@ Mishko, Pranja at his best is a good player but as i always maintain playing in a purely attacking role, he added to our depth but with the mids we have i honestly didn’t see him getting minutes there and it seemed like Kovac considered him a real LB option which is frightening to say the least.
@Dalmo, I’m fine with that. But I do think Pranjic is a very player because I’ve seen him at his best, but to say what Lasica said was uncalled for and stupid, and teeters on retardation.
@ Mishko
Hey Mi”sh”ko learn how to spell in Croatian! For starters a big fuck you to you and Pranjic! Pranjic was the reason we didn’t make it to the 2010 World Cup! Attack me all you like but leave my mother out of it. Learn some decorum you imbecile. Jebi ga Mi”sh”ko ali vidim da si siromasan u glavi.
Oh boy, another classic comment…….the pundits were favoring Brazil……
@Mishko thats a bit much there, fact is Pranjic was a problem that Kovac refused to see and the end result if Pranja is out is a blessing for us, better still we can bring in someone else as a replacement.
Winning is a habit, so it’s great that we won both of our friendlies before the Cup.
Kovac : 3 wins, 2 ties, 0 losses so far in his short spell at the helm.
Cant really take away too much from this game. Kovac obviously didnt want to give away much ahead of next week. We got to run around for 90 minutes in the Brazilian heat. Was shocked that Corluka or Vukojevic didnt see any minutes, because i think both will play big parts next thursday. Leaving all the conversations of whether or not he belongs aside, i thought Sammir played solid back to back games. Maybe leaving Dinamo and the HNL altogether is what he needed. Was nice to keep a clean sheet, which hasnt been the case lately other than Iceland. Oh and one more thing…Thank God Stimac is no longer our coach. We’d be hearing all week that Brazil isnt gonna cross the halfway line against us.
And to add to that, your mother should have aborted you when she had the chance.
fuck pranjic out he playes defence n mid fudGe
@Lasica you’re fucking idiot.
Vrsaljko will be fine at left back.
I wonder if Kovac has decided to pair Corluka with Schifo, or Lovren. I think he will be leaning towards Shifo though.
Srna is safe at the Right back spot.
I believe that vs. Brazil Vukojevic will get the start, but i wonder who will be the midfielder next to him. Will Modric be pushed back, or Raketa?
I don’t know what Kovac will end up doing with Kovacic. If it were me, i’d play him on the left or right.
Kovac ended up never playing Olic up top alone. This leads me to believe that he will start on the wing, and Jelavic will start up top.
This is the lineup that i think we will see on June 12th…
—————-Jelavic——————
—–Olic——Modric——-Kovacic-
———Vukojevic-Rakitic———–
—Sime–Schifo-Corluka–Srna—
—————-Pletikosa—————
What do you guys think?
I must commend Franjic for taking out Pranjic. Now thats a real Croatian! He may play for Australia but he bleeds the checkers, the lad saw that Pranjic was fucking up the repka and took matters into his own hands in the true za dom spremni lifestyle. He doesn’t preach it he lives it. On the plus side this means that Pranjic doesn’t have to play with Sammir.
uffffff
Where Pranjic looks like he shits his pants with the ball at his feet in defence, Vrsaljko looks very comfortable he doesnt panic. Vrsaljko obviously way better defensively and does some nice work pushing forward, Pranjic being injured is a blessing it means that Kovac cant play him. I have much higher hopes now
^^
should have proofread and/or drank less while composing
—————————-Jelavic———————————-
Perisic—————-Rakitic————————–Olic
————–Vukojevic————-Modric—————————-
Corluka——–Lovren———Schildenfeld———-Srna—–
————————Pletikosa————————————–
I like this lineup, but unsure about Kovacic in that spot
IMHO that is our best four. Corluka is reliable as an emergency left back.
I actually think this groups style suits us. None of the teams should bunker down.
That Jelavic goal wasn’t that bad.
Did you guys see the magic in our midfield? Modric and Kovacic when they were doing one touch passes. It was beautiful. Have u guys noticed Sammir how he turned around with the ball everytime and never lost it? Have you guys noticed how our defense in communicating and catching Australia in the offside position…EVERYTIME! Kovac laid the puzzle pieces out on the field and now he has a clear vision on how to put them together. Expect a strong, dangerous, unpredictable Croatia against brazil. Full of posession and an organized defense. Expect lots of powerful shots from olic and rebic! I smell victory my friends!
Pletikosa : very decent
Srna : one of our best player today
Lovren : very decent
Vida : a lot of hard work but I’m afraid he lacks some technical skills.
Pranjic : I hope he’ll be back but I think that Vrsaljo is a better LB than him.
Modric and Kovacic: there’s some chemistry between them. Kovacic takes more risks, he could be a star after this tournament.
Brozovic : decent. Could become something, but this tournament will probably be too early.
Eduardo : technical skills but not fast enough. Too less today.
Perisic : invisible
Jelavic : he scored but just not good enough. No confidence.
Sammir : Almost everybody hates him but he played very well. He has a lot of speed, some pace. If something should happen to Rakitic, Modric or Kovacic, he will be in the team, no doubt.
Rebic : too selfish today.
Mandzukic : probably for the best that he’s suspended the first game. If he would play against Brazil, we would probably miss him the last game because of two yellow cards.
Olic : he should be our lone striker against Brazil. He works like a horse and he can score.
Rakitic : he wasn’t easy for him. When he came in, Modric and Kovacic were just subbed out. But he’s still one of our best players.
Don’t count on getting any calls against Brazil.
I will never root for Serbia, however the pundits and referees clearly favored Brazil today.
Hulk raked the back of a calf and Luiz purposely brought someone down with his trailing leg.
Ray Hudson should just come out of the closet and start sucking off Brazillians during the games.
Not bad! Lovren looked good…Vrsaljko looked decent also.
looks like the squad can be predicted againts Brazil :
if Kofuck has intelligent like Me ..
…………………………Pletikosa………………………….
……….Corluka……schildenfeld……Lovren………..
DaSrna………………..Modric…………………Vrsjalko
……………….Rakitic……………..Kovacic……………..
………..Perisic…………………………….Olic…………..
We also had problems in the Norway friendly before the EUROs, especially with the defense.
So I’m not too worried. Until Brazil! 🙂
Our attack is soft. Vrsaljko played good both up front and defensively at LB today.
We still haven’t seen the trio play together in mid during these friendlies. I’m hoping that when all three of them are out there there will be more offense created cause even though these were just friendlies our offense looked weak.
An ugly win and no notable injuries against a team of butchers and seemingly Franjic solved our Pranjic problem, I don’t think he will be shitting the bed at LB this tournament.
Iggy, HRVHATSKA?
The dude typing as “Franjo Tudjman” is not me. Please pick another name.
I agree with CroatHrvat, in that it’s the same type of game that we’ve seen them play in the qualifiers.
terrible goal but who cares
the point is i can harass all my aussie friends lol
YEAYYYYYYYY ZIVEJIELA HRVHATKSKA A A SUCK ON THAT AUSSIES lolol
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
WE WONt
dudes, WE WONNNNNNNN
That goal by Jela lol
looking forward to the reviews of the game from some of our more knowledgeable posters
Good Game. Game Finished now we can wait for the next game on June 12th
Yeah. He just got knocked down to ground again, and jumped right back up.
he’s back on…the good thing is he has a few extra days more then the others to rest up
he’s back on the field guys calm down
Brozovoic almost got injured too loool come on we have to be tougher than that…but what even happened with Mandzo? didn’t seem much in the tackle
he’s fine
At first I thought he was just faking it when the tackle happened like most players do but I guess it was serious…..
please game just end
Are u fuckin kidding me? mandzo being treated for an ankle injury on the sidelines, limping with a noticeable wince.
did anyone see it? is it bad?
NOOO MANZDO INJURED
http://gofirstrow.eu/watch/263986/2/watch-australia-vs-croatia.html there miko
All my links are dead.
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This is good wer’re starting to shoot more even though some aren’t hitting the target we’re still creating chances from them. Olic’s first shot was amazing.
anyway .. we’re winning against some kanga-country 🙂
lol Iggy that’s what happens when you drink too much
FUCKING HELL
GOD I WONDERED WHY U CUNTS WERENT REPLYINF GUFCK
aww shit I WAS PSOLTED IN THE LAST THGREAD
Last sub Eduardo —> Olic
It’s a shame we didn’t get to see Mocinic.
LOL AT THAT TACKLE AND DRIBBLE
Hajduk Juniors – Kup Je Naš !! Bog , Hrvati , USA , L.A. Kings , Hajduk , i HNS !!!
Perisic —> Rebic
1 sub left.
Jelavic’s goal was very similar to the one he scored against Ireland in 2012.
Subs:
Modric —> Rakitic
Kovacic —> Sammir
Jelavic —> Mandzukic
Previously Pranjic —> Vrsaljko
2 subs left.
Jelavic……..doing it Olic-style
Jelavic scores off a 1 on 1 with the keeper. Assist from Modric.
Hint of an offside.
Goal Jelavic. Almost missed lol.
How was this not a yellow card???? This ref is stupid
Mocinic is not part of the bench, according to Flashscore.
Any injury i didn’t hear about? Or just a mistake?
Second half just started right? why does the site say it’s 55 minutes in?
Looks like the vlaga is too much for our premoadona real barca liga 5 ica player hot they make it to the jungle
didn’t watch the first half, is pranjic that bad? jesus, just play corluka and big gordon in the middle and put lovren on the left… honestly like he is worse then play pranjic on that side
Obviously Bubnjic gets the call, no questions asked.
Its the formation we cqannot play 4-2-3-1 unless Vrsaljko olic rebic Mando play salko for lb.
you call up someone capable of playing LB……..so that rules out Pasalic or the half bosandzero
Maybe we shouldn’t call anyone up and play with 3 defenders and the rest in attack. We’ll be scoring 8–9 goals per game no problemo
So who do we call up if Pranjic will be out of the tournament?
Hrvoje Milic?
Igor Bubnjic?
Mario Pasalic?
Maybe even Halilovic.
Let’s all remember this is a throw away game, and an experimental lineup.
Nothing different here to the Mali performance, the Scotland performances, the Wales performances, the Serbia performances, the Macedonia performances…friendlies or not, we are completely unable to get the ball in their half and then do something creative. Once it enters opposition half if either gets passed back to defenders or a chip gets played that our striker/wingers have no chance of getting. Rubbish football.
We should play with 8 players cuz we so gud
Tim Cahill is a sniping little bitch
Too early to call in a replacement for Pranja?
if rebic can do anything in the second half he just might play himself into a spot.
^ ^
Good call!
Lets play him alone, up top.
See what he does.
@franjo…….dont tell me you are a ziva “hater”
Maybe they should add Rebic to Jazz things up a bit.
Kovac is keeping his cards close to his chest!
This referee is dumber than Ziva.
so, earlier i wrote to not take anything away from these friendlies, especially the last ones right before we open up the World Cup. some of you were so giddy after seeing brazil and claiming there are holes to exploit. there might be, but not based on today.
but, going with theory thrown around by the homers, what do you make out of the firat half we just played. using the same logic some of the homers used, Brazil players should be relaxing and rolling a blunt tonight awating our game. right????
this game is uninspiring
Our major weak spot….FUCK!!!!
We are no threat to anyone, absolute no ability to create dangerous chances. Once again our centre backs having most possession and posing as our playmakers.
he always wanted to be a drummer and tour with a band….
Ziva, I do….this is not good!
Dasovic = Legend!
he does…always has…and he’s great guy…
does Nick live a “za dom…..spremni” lifestyle??? if so, maybe that is me.
anyone else wish it was Sammir who got injured and not Prankic????
Nick’s a dinamovac. No way he’s Ziva
if Ziva is Nick then I say hi to my old buddy…but I highly doubt he is…Nick doesn’t bet!
I don’t think it’s an issue of trust. Is he going to displace Srna right now? Don’t stir the pot so much, relax lol
We need Ziva (Nick Dasovic) Istina in there!
so now we have a guy who we dont trust to play on his natural right side to play on the left.
^ ^
I agree.
Throw him into the fire!
I prefer Vrsaljko tbh
damn our lb situation is horrible.
Pranja rolled ankle, looks bad for him
our best option may be Jarni……and i say this only half joking
Bye bye Pranjic
well, looks like we will be on our third option at LB.
well…there goes our left back!
can we still call Strinic?
http://www.rojadirecta.me/goto/mijoxinformati.blogspot.com/p/ch8.html
TO CRO- I guess I meant to say he was definitely good enough regardless…I don’t think there was any question whether Dudu was good enough to make it where in Sammir’s case its a little different.
just my opinion
The aussies think they’re playing rugby. There should have been 5 yellows by now.
TO Cro,
Do you belong to the group of Dinamo supporters who ha the Toronto banner at Dinamo games even during the bojkot?
Pranja with a tailored top to show off his ink 😀 and a flog hairstyle to boot
@ Iggy
Always here for you MATE!
Enjoy the match and lay off the vodka till the second half.
Iggy,
Re-read your post when you are not nipping at the vodka and you will see how you answered my question.
For reference read Eduardo’s moms interview that I posted earlier…
You all seem to like to make excuses how Eduardo chose Croatia, because he fulfills your stupid rules because he arrived to Croatia so young. I lived in Croatia when he arrived and I live in Croatia now and it has always been clear that Brazil was his first choice. He just never thought that he had the chance to represent Brazil and took an opportunity to further his career.
Case in point, when Taylor broke his leg, where did he rehabilitate himself?
CroatHrvat…what kinda nonsense link is that…shit don’t work!
http://firstrowusa.eu/soccer/
bottom of page
Bozza and Skoko on foxtel pre show. Robbie Slater hasn’t aged a day, he looked that old back when he played for Sydney Croatia:D
8:30am here in Melbourne, game starts in an hour i can’t wait to see our boys playing a game in Brasil. Also goodluck to Australia theyr’e going to need it where they’r going, Cile,Spain and Dutch ovens!
Ante, yeah…interesting indeed.
Good HRT2 Stream: http://darquo.site90.net/
Slavonac,
How do you know Mamic had nothing to do with Eduardo making the team? Wouldn’t you agree that he had the most to gain, considering the lifetime agreement he had with Eduardo?! Maybe he was more discreet in those days? Also, Sammir was voted top player in the Croatian league-big deal! Eduardo only became, truly, world class when he went to Arsenal.
Either way, that wasn’t my point. Sport is big business. It doesn’t matter if someone is nice or not, it’s talent and results that count. Take nice to the bank, but Ibrahimovic was considered the biggest dick when he was younger, he won championships practically every year regardless of where he played and I’d take him over almost anybody…
hey bitches…i need a live stream…do it
any one have a link?
Ovako nikad ni blizu gola Isuse.
@cfc
name a country that doesn’t have a non native on the squad. As upset as I was when Sammir joined I still thought the guy held his own on the pitch. I think I was more mad at the whole picture of stimac sammir and the corruption. but fuck it, the quality of our bench is eh. Let him be a sub
CroatHrvat,
Is that the official lineup? Brozovic and Jelavic?! Interesting.
Pletikosa – Srna, Vida, Lovren, Pranjic – Modric, Brozovic – Perisic, Kovacic, Eduardo – Jelavic
Does anyone have a link to the game
Does anyone have a link to the game?
Iggy, what’s the link for the match?
@Cro vs Ant, & Iggy
I’d rather take the bus!
I’ve never had a Serb friend and I wouldn’t want to start now.
Heard recently that when Tony Parker first joined the Spurs, Tim Duncan didn’t say a word to him his whole rookie year.
I’m pretty sure that’s how I’d co-exist with Ivanovic.
thank you slavonac
what time is it in Australia right now…actually, what day is it?
hey whatever happened to matesic.. does he still come on the site?
i havent seen him on here for ages
9am AEST
7pm eastern
Does anyone know the start game against Australia eastern time. I have conflicing info from the web.
@Mishko………so, you claim you visit the site less and less, but you respond to my post. Ok, then. And what exactly did I say that was wrong or not accurate????
Ok, I’ll buy your friendly logic for a second. Lets assume we beat Australia by a comfortable score, but then lose to Brazil. What will your thoughts be at that point. Today’s game has zero influence on next Thursday, unless some injuries take place.
@Croatia vs. Antwerp…….same reason we played Mali.
i think the injuries thing is the biggest request
whatever happens PLZ GOD AUS dont hurt us
vs Australia
I hope we get to see our star mids (Raketa, Modric, Mateo) play together.
Mocinic and Brozovic to get some time.
Olic to start upfront alone.
Pranjic to start at left back.
AND NO INJURIES, PLEASE.
Mishko- he says things that create a response…a lot of the time he’s right…remove your emotions. he didn’t say something to you he wouldn’t to me…and then other times he agrees with things you say, I highly doubt he searches to offend you!
my preference is for no croats to be smashed/have broken legs after a game with aus, which will be a first btw lol
Now Brazil played Serbia to simulate Croatia.
Mexico played BiH to simulate Croatia.
And now Argentina is playing Slovenia to simulate BiH.
Are these accurate simulations? It’s seems the world thinks we all play the same football. Heck, why didn’t Cameroon pick Montengro to simulate Croatia. Your thoughts on this “typecasting.” ???
i didnt know that but that’s a nice touch CvsA
anyways cmon hurry up time I WANNA SEE JEDINAK v MODRIC LOLOL
@ Slavonac, Ziva has been a filthy whore since day one on CSR. I have no patience left for him.
BTW, that result by Brazil, regardless if it’s a friendly works in our favor assuming we can man up in the next 2 hours.
@ Iggy
When Hajduk’s teenager Pasalic got sold to Chelsea. Brane came to the airport to greet him, and took the lad under his wing.
Serbia exposed some Brazilian weaknesses. I do think if they had Dortmund’s Subotic at center back, their defense would have been better.
We got screwed in Euro 2012 against Italy on that phantom foul that lead to a Pirlo free kick, but we played a terrible first half and deserved to be down.
Mishko- relax…I felt we got screwed against Spain while many felt I was grasping…no biggie…take it easy!
@ Ziva you really are pile of shit. My guess is that you have an axe to grind. The more YOU posts the less I visit CSR. You would probably better be served for writing for Israel. My guess is that if I ever met you, I’d probably punch you in your vagina because you’re such a cunt.
its young i know but maybe his speed has decreased a bit..
nah he’s okay
he’s not a wanky serb
so he’s like in the 0.0001% popuation of serbs
like u know when serbs do a census and they say “Are u a wanker?”
normally they all admit “yes” : P
@ Iggy
not that I’m a fan of Brane, but the guy is only 30?
the system is against us???????
Ahh, glad to see the World Cup is days away. Because when the WC or Euro hit or about to hit we always get the homers coming our with such classic comments as “the system is against us”.
So, was the system against us those times we have defeated Germany (twice) or Italy or England (twice) in competitive matches? Just checking.
hell, the win over italy at the 2002 WC was a result of the “system” being in our favor. May I suggest you go watch that game and see how the “system” screwed over Italy.
Man, its one thing to be a fan. We all are. But, its quite another when you are a blind homer. I think I will miss that most during the early stages of this year’s World Cup, being unable to respond to the homer comments.
LOL maybe he feared Simunic because he didn’t want his leg broken. and the morale of this game don’t bet on Brazil for the world cup…or you’ll be one poor man/woman
Ivanovic fears Simunic!
When push comes to shove, Serbs are pussies!
@Croat, the English commentator blows Messi’s nutz anytime he sees him.
I still remember when we got screwed by Spain, and that German bastard making up rules that did exist.
Our boys are really going to have to fight their way to success because the system is against us.
We are going to get calls against us, in each and every game.
i dont mind ivanovic.. he’s an okay dude.. BUT he’s a million years old
but i do respect him for breaking things up in belgrade and pushing his own players away from big joe
Ivanovic no less. For all the big names the Serbs have in the back, they come up with some boneheaded plays. Remember Kolarov in he game in Zagreb.
This commentator would love to suck one of the Brazzzzzel ballsacks the way he is praising them. and it’s ok Iggy happens all the time Croat Chupe no difference
hahaha…what an absolute shit goal…defence was ball watching instead of clearing the ball in the air! how could he get turned around like that?
5-1 Germany vs Armenia
Podolski 1 goal, 3 assists
its true these games all are worth dick but i want cro to beat aus on a personal note so i still hope that happens
i know it doesnt mean shit but i still want us to win
These are friendlies they mean shit my friends all is shit croatia had a bad build up euro 2008 and got to 1 whistle from semi finals. euro 2012 bad build up played well,
Germany 1 – 1 Armenia
@Croat, it’s just what the globalists are pushing. This whole multicultural garbage.
oh i meant to say Croat : i remember that vid.. hgeh
sirry got u and chup0e mixed up
bit of vodka here
both 5 letter names beginning with C
see my existential dilemma dud e
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Super powers? please the only reason Brazil is thought of being good this World Cup is because they’re hosting it…you could say they are being over hyped. They’re are many better teams that qualified for the World Cup better than Brazil right now
At half time I have to say, Serbia is playing the same as they played us, and are doing us a favor because they’re showing that Brazil is very beatable. This game so far should show our boys how to beat Brazil. They are not some monolithic team with super powers.
Our defense is going to have to be on it’s game, and later today against Australia we’re going to have to prove it.
i remember it too chupe.. heh.. im too old : /
sigh
This also was 16 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkFMzDRung
Brazil Being booed is funny to me does anyone think that pitch looks terrible?
Fans booing the Brazilian players as they walk off.
I remember that game i was a young boy great summer 1998.
Ha, Brazil being boo’d off the field at the half.
haha
aww yeah chupe.. channel 7.. great commentary there lol
but yeah cool link
obviously that was a mistmatch, before we went on to come 3rd and aus.. well.. yeah.. couldnt beat iran
16 years ago today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z80929puDAo
sorry if its been posted previously, but its pretty amazing what this guy can do with a ball. I know it has no relation to what happens on a field, but pretty crazy anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZzJxWbWXtY
@Mishko
Good point.
Still hate his guts though!
Prototypical Serb in my eyes.
This is a friendly Brazil will Bring A game in 6 days. I hope Croatia do to.
Look at that dive by Neymar!
Serbia has shit attackers…once they get close to the box there is nothing…easy for Brazil to shut down!
I’d say defensively Serbia has a small edge on us as a whole. I believe Kolarov is playing LB. Brazil seem to be attacking the Serbian RB a little more, or at least they were.
fuckn hell the english commentator i swear is wanking his cock every time markovic touches the ball
Yes friendly or not, serbia has exposed brazil with a couple times with penetrating balls down that left flank.
We will need to be very careful with clearances out of the back, we cannot give the ball away as we are stepping out of the back like Serbia has a few times, Brazil could definitely punish those mistakes.
How are the Serbs at LB as opposed to us in this game?
@Poglavnik, when we played them and Simunic got the RED card, Ivanovic could have been a cunt but he did the opposite.
It just feels so good down me panties
hey guys, guys.
remember march 23 2013 Maksimir 2-0
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Well Suarez did get a piece of Ivanovic with his mouth…..I heard he doesn’t really like Serb Flesh after that
Ziva: not only that but serbia would have a huge interest cos they want to show us up and they have no world cup to look forward to
so u have one team that cares heaps and one team that doesnt
yeah, it’s not a good indincation for sure
Brazil may have no interest but Serbia has definitely exposed them a few times!
@Mishko
Can’t stand Ivanovic!
Such a fuckin bully.
Lost any bit of respect I had for him when Chelsea drew Arsenal 0-0 this year.
Even when him and Srna were doing the coin flips in the qualifiers you could see Srna trying to be friendly and Ivanovic just acting like the cunt that he is.
Watch him for Chelsea. Whenever a foul is being disputed he’s the first guy in the ref’s face.
Would love to see someone take him out with hard foul one day.
Easily my most hated Serbian player.
This might be a friendly but still doesn’t give Brazil an excuse for their messy passing and getting caught on the ball
if that cedo would have dropped the ball back 2 seconds earlier…1-0 Serbia…Brazil looks good but they do have their weaknesses…we will have to be disciplined and patient!
And this is why friendlies are a bad way to judge a team. Brazil has no interest in his game with Serbia.
Any links to the game?
Brazil attack that left size pretty aggressively.
…hahaha…
Svaka reprezentacija tj. trener reprezentacije ima drugačiji stav prema seksu tijekom natjecanja. Nijemci i Meksikanci će apstinirati, a Bosancima je dozvoljena samo masturbacija, piše CNN.
I said thank you 🙁
for all u cunts who ask for a link EVERY SINGLE MATCH
can u PLEASE just bookmark firstrow.. i only ever send the same link every threat and u bag of cunts keep forgetting it or something.. weirdos !
Brazil playing some extremely high pressure for that first 12-15 mins. Back line will need to be extremely focused to break that pressure and connect with midfield otherwise Brazil will punish us.
Croat:
http://gofirstrow.eu/watch/263989/2/watch-brazil-vs-serbia.html
I have to say Ivanovic is phenomenal and Neymar is one ugly muther fucker.
any links to the Serbia /brazil game?
Something tells me the goal we concede from brazil will be on a srna flop that goes uncalled and they just waltz down that side put in a cross and score. Lol just intuition, I hope im wrong. We arent getting any calls in that atmosphere BTW. anything close aint going our way. Im not much about the refs but thats just a fact.
man this stream i have for this srb brz game is really good quality and clear.. i hope the aus cro one is as good as this
15 minutes in Brazil definitely have holes to exploit. I know it’s a friendly, but they are beatable.
@Iggy
Either way, they’re 2 black dudes, born in Brazil, and will always consider themselves Brazilian.
Simple as that.
I’m just sick of people trying to convince each other that there is such a big difference between the two.
THEY’RE BOTH BRAZILIANS PEOPLE!!!
Srna thinks Neymar is a flopper.
aww SWEET i didnt know denmark was in serbia’s group for the euro 2016 qualifiers.. awesome
my mum was a dane so that makes it fun for me.. go denmark, smash dem cunts ~
Friendlies mean KURAC!
i did think about saying jedinak might make it but idk.. our midfield is good
i think he’s very impressive for aus but idk if he actually would make cro team.. maybe, maybe not.. hard to know.. he’s meant to play against us today so let’s see how he goes.. we heard cahill saying he can take care of modric so let’s see what happens..
if modric skips by jedinak and sets up a goal cahill is gonna look dumb
Iggy i disagree its actually simple to explain, what makes the checkers so special is that it is a symbol of shared traditions,customs,language,history and yes even blood ties that we as Croats share. BTW i think Jedinak would make our squad, very solid player and a great leader, captain for both palace and Australia.
i hate it when commentators equate croatia with serbia
like, fuck off
ahahahaahaha LOOK AT NEYMAR TRY TO GROW A BEARD ROFLLLL
Brazil is absolutely beatable.
FYI, Brazil v Serbia right now. It would be good to see how they deal with them.
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i mean does this look natural to u :
http://www.novilist.hr/var/novilist/storage/images/sport/nogomet/hnl/sammir-najbolji-igrac-u-izboru-kapetana-prve-hnl/2194221-1-cro-HR/Sammir-najbolji-igrac-u-izboru-kapetana-Prve-HNL_ca_large.jpg
if u showed me this i would’ve thought it was some boavista jersey or something, not the NT .. god knows others have copied our jersey before
my preference is def for cro blood.. just my opinion
dont mean to sound like a jehova’s witness carrying on about the blood – lol !
didnt sammir move there at 18 or 19 and eduardo at 14 or 15 ?
didnt dudu goto dinamo’s youth thing and sammir didnt ?
do u guys remember in the ’98 world cup (and beyond) japan had a brazilian player.. i can’t remember his name off the top of my head.. it might’ve been lopez but dont quote me on that..
i think we all thought it was a bit dodgy watching that world cup in ’98.. but hey, it was one dude.. maybe its a similar case with dudu where look.. as croats we’re prepared to accept 1 special case but no more..
My dad is old.. like 75 or so.. anyway he comes to me the other day when i saw him and – sorry, i should say he watches the cro news here on SBS in aus every day – he goes i was watching the news and they showed the national team and u wouldnt believe it, there was a black guy ! Like – BLACK !
lol.. now, he is old and old-fashioned but u know.. i think if u are cringing looking at it, it’s prolly not good
fuck serbia fuck brazil
Looks like the refs are implementing the free kick (spray paint).
And the players are already cheating over the line, without even being given a warning.
What’s the point then.
Neymar’s a bit of a bitch.
hahaha…what a flop…2 seconds in and already a player from Brazil flopping!
NEYMAR DOWN!
Can’t decide if I which I want more…
Injured Serbians, or injured Brazilians.
@Iggy
Still a double standard.
It’s not like Sammir hasn’t lived in Croatia for years now.
I’m so proud of some of you guys. You are writing the word traitor instead of ‘trader”.
In a perfect world Sammir and Da Silva would not be on the roster. But, as a wise man once said…..It is what it is.
no way gustavo plays over ramires in their actual line up
Iggy- I had no idea you could write without using foul language…awesome job!
Brazil vs Serbia about to start. Looks like Brazil is playing their best 11 in my opinion.
—————-Fred————-
–Neymar—Oscar—Hulk–
——Paulinho-Gustavo—–
-Marcelo–Luiz-Silva–Alves
—————Cesar————
Eduardo should come to Rijeka. Solid club, get some action in Europe, probably take home another Hrvatski Kup (Cico – KUP JE NAS!) and potentially challenge Dinamo for real this time for the league title. Play a year or two and than cruise off into the sunset.
Imagine Kramaric and Dudu? ufffffff
I think that would be a lock for a another Group Stage spot for Rijeka.
ok… lemme slip off my Rijeka homer shades now hahah
“@T.O. Cro
Spot on!
Everyone loves Dudu cuz “he’s a nice guy” and he’s produced a lot.
If Sammir scored 30 goals for the repka no one would say shit.”
Disagree, Dudu lived in cro from a much younger age than sammir, is less of a tosser and was also the exception at the time. One foreigner is okay.. more than one, not so much.
The issue is this:
let me sum it up this way – Ned Zelic (past captain of Australia) once said he has croatian blood in his veins and he always wanted to play for Cro. Now, that is how we all feel. It’s very hard to explain to a foreigner what makes the checkers so special, i think, but you know when it’s in your blood.
As i’ve said on this site before, if i was the world’s best player or something an di could choose cro or aus, there’s no contest. It’s cro every day of the millennium. Honestly i can’t help it, when aus plays cro today i want cro to win 20-0.. that’s where i feel my allegiance is.. it’s hard to say why or how but it is what it is – it’s in the blood.. I was raised going to protests here in aus when cro was not even independent. People with our blood care about these things.
How can a fly-in from brazil possibly have the same regard for the nation-state of croatia without having any blood ties at all whatsoever ? I find it hard to imagine.. to me, that’s the issue..
we all know how patriotic our ppl are and that’s important .. or as you guys would say.. ” WE NEED TO PLAY WITH HEART! ”
lol
T.O CRO- “who’s to say Mamic didn’t force him on the team too”
I think its a case of one coach sees things one way and the other sees it differently, either way, Dudu was world class until the day the prick broke his leg! in 2004, ’06 and ’07 he was the best player in Croatia, not sure how anyone could say Mamic got him on the team…he scored tons of goals and had many assists.
what has Sammir done that would make him such an attraction? get himself into the media via photos of him leaving the police station in the early morning? I think Sammir is better than some on this team, but I don’t think its by much!
I wonder where Eduardo will end up this summer. He’s a free agent.
Eduardo isn’t good enough to start for Shakhtar. He shouldn’t be good enough to start for us. Especially not against an opponent like Brazil.
I don’t mind him playing for us off the bench as the špica, but absolutely not as a starter and playing out of position.
Brazilians are sore losers.
And they will do whatever it takes to win. Even calling Sammir and Eduardo traitors, scrubs, puta and what have you.
They will tell them they aren’t good enough for Brazil. So let’s keep ’em outta this.
@Slavonac,
Sure Dudu probably does have a better personality than Sammir, but if he never produced and was shit nobody would care about that detail. Imagine how pissed off you would be on the team if he sucked!?!?
Remember Dudu was playing for Dinamo when he joined our U-21’s, so who’s to say Mamic didn’t force him on the team too. Maybe that’s why Cico didn’t take him to the World Cup? But, tbh, IMHO, he wasn’t ready to play on that type of stage at that point in his career. I saw him play live in the Brazil friendly in Split and he shit the bed…
Bilic was an ok coach. Lost his composure at 2008 and it cost us and we failed misreably to make the last world cup. Best thing he is gone and now with some new blood and new direction.
opposing players will not call them traitors, this is not Diego Costa
http://www.index.hr/sp2014/clanak/eduardova-majka-otkrila-za-koga-ce-navijati-na-utakmici-brazila-i-hrvatske/751725.aspx
@ Prle
Lol. True. Bilić did fuck that up. But Bilić did well at Euro 2008 and Euro 2012.
He had stupid loyalty to certain players, which was his downfall. I pray that Kovač doesn’t have this same weakness, but with the way he seems to favor Pranjić, it feels like he might.
If we had real ethnic NT’s Croatia would be top in Europe. Take all the foreigners from France, Germany, and England.
vs Australia
—————–Olic——————–
—Rebic—–Modric——Kovacic-
———-Rakitic-Mocinic————
-Pranjic–Lovren-Shifo–Corluka-
—————Subasic—————–
6 Subs: Mandzukic, Vrsaljko, Perisic, Vukojevic, Eduardo, Brozovic
Srna could play at RB, and give Corluka the day off.
Anyone have a link?
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I wouldn’t trust Eduardo and Sammir on the pitch vs. Brazil. They may become unsettled by opposing players who will call them traitors. It’s a bit too much.
On the bright side, Sammir could make a descent mascot rallying support from the local population.
@T.O. Cro
Spot on!
Everyone loves Dudu cuz “he’s a nice guy” and he’s produced a lot.
If Sammir scored 30 goals for the repka no one would say shit.
blood alcohol level.. opps.. started early.. heh
hey guys what dou get when u mix vodka with more vodka?
something approaching iggy’s bloody alcohol level : P
oh yeah i forgot about serbia and brazil
heh its pretty easy to forget about serbia since they arent in the wc.. that game is before ours.. might have a look .. mixed feelings.. normally i would want brazil to win 20-0 but .. not a few days before playing us.. lol
i dont think the game will be slow today.. the aussie media has been saying this will be a full strength team for the aussies and a proper run out so dont expect them to take it easy
Now.. 4am.. time for my brekky of vodka and .. well, more vodka (^__^)
Bilic was great! He showed us why Pranjic shouldn’t be at left back!
Ivica- I also miss Bilic, he was quite open about his philosophy, he often went to learn from coaches with a lot of experience and as much as I felt he could get stubborn, he eventually evolved…tried new things and opened his eyes!
I hope Kovac is similar in that way!
croatia will lose todai serbia win
T.O CRO- I think its a personality difference and player quality difference as to why people may accept Eduardo over Sammir.
Eduardo was amazing before his injury and he has contributed a lot to this team….Sammir was never a real superstar player that most of us thought…”wow, I wish that guy could play for us”! He was brought by Mamic…he was a shithead in ZG and nobody really cares for him…thats the difference I see!
If Kovač starts Eduardo, he’s making the same idiot mistake as he did when he started Eduardo for that first playoff game against Iceland.
It’s games like this where we are going to miss Bilić. I love Kovač’s focus on fitness and discipline (which is always a Cro weakness), but I am in the dark about his tactics and player selection. Hopefully he has has a trick up his sleeve and shows us something next week.
Wow that’s a really cute new banner photo you guys have.
CFC,
Same applies to Dudu. Did you not read the article where his mom said that she will be cheering for Eduardo and Brazil? She goes on to finish the article stating that Eduardo’s heart beats for Brazil… So, that’s pretty much from the horses mouth. People make me laugh when they state they are ok with Eduardo, but not for Sammir… Same shit! It’s just that Eduardo has produced way more for the repka, which makes it ok…
What’s the point of having these tournaments when foreigners play for a team?
@Adame
But it is the essence of the question. He is not Croatian and thus should not be on the NT. Why even have an NT then?
No room for Sammir if Kovacic, Rakitic and Modric are all on the pitch.
Lets not be surprised to see a slow game tonight. The players are still suffering from jet lag.
Vrsaljko and Lovren can’t be worse defensively than Pranjic. I would give either one a start against Brazil. I don’t trust Vida there either.
Sammir je Damir! AJMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
cfc
saying hes not croatian is irrelevant. Neither is dudu. It would be more correct to say that the guy has not done anything to win a start over our other midfielders such as vuko
should Sammir play?
is this a moral question or a tactical sporting question?
morally, he shouldn’t be on this team for tons of reasons…tactically, Kovac invited him and may have to use him.
CFC,
I agree with you and have been against Sammir on the team since day one but many here are not. Question remains to the rest of the group.
I hope they play with some heart. To many times they didn’t have any. You gotta have heart.
Sammir is not Croatian and thus should not be on the NT.
Which one of you believes Sammir SHOULD play against Brazil and why?
olic eduardo to start vs brazil yessssssssss no sammir pleaseeee
I hope Australia test our LB…maybe this will encourage Kovac to make a change!
Dunno I watched Olic save Pranja’s ass at bayern many times because the LB was chasing goals, I think Vrsaljko Olic would work just fine or Vrsaljko Pranjic. Btw all his being out of position and not covering his area only netted him one goal and none in the checkers, I dont wanna have to count how many he gave up, too painful
If Brazil are smart, they will press our left flank hard early. It’s no secret we’re thin there and any combination of Olic/Vrsaljko/Pranjic/Vida need to busting their fucking asses and play a smart, card free game. I’m just scared about Vida. Dude is flat out reckless at times and we needs to play his best game for the NT if he’s out there.
Again, for Brazil, I think this is where Vukojevic can help and cheat on the left at times to help these guys out.
Bottom line is everyone has to come with their A game vs. Brazil if we even want to think of stealing points from them.
I saw a “possibility” for todays starting lineup…a possibility for the Brazil game. I’ve said many times that I love Dudu, just not as a starter….apparently he’s starting!
real game
Im with Ziva on both points about. I just cant help but think that a combo of vida/pranjic or vrsalko/pranjic has to be the answer for the left side. srna/perisic on the right is just fine. Anything else on the left side is way too thin defensively imo. olic or eduardo on that wing just does not sound good to me.
LB is a huge concern. No matter what happens today against Australia, LB will be the big concern going into the Brazil game.
My other major concern is our finishing/scoring….we had only 12 goals in qualifying and some of those were a result of terrible goalkeeping.
Ziva-with 6 days left before we play Brazil, you have any question marks? I’m particularly concerned for the left back position and think we may have a bigger challenge than we actually think!
Thise Aussies will pay for calling us Wogs!
This happens all the time going into a Euro or a WC. Remember, the club teams need to bring in players for the new season.
Everything indicates that Niko Kovac is not allowing the agents/managers inside the camp in Brazil.
I’m not concerned with any of this. This is normal at this time of year.
Croat- that was a totally different situation…Pep Guardiola never gave Zlatan a chance, he wanted him out…
Armada-I think Ivan is thinking about his career and future…I’m pretty sure he feels its an honor to play at Barca and won’t make any big demands!
^ That’s what they said with Zlatan Ibrahimhovic look what happened to him
@ Slavonac
Hmmm interesting. Sounds like it could get a dicey where Ivan and his side might want to cash in now and Barca may want to hedge their bets and get him now in the event that he has a great tournament and then even more competitors join the fray?
Armada-its not up to Ivan…surprisingly, teams are as aggressive as ever in the transfer market at this time, I’m kinda surprised. there are reports that Mourinho wanted to wait for Fabregas at the end of the WC…he’s already apparently gone!
Great news for Ivan. He definitely deserves it. If this happens – as others have mentioned, we might have our middle of the pitch consisting of players from:
Barca
RM
Inter
Granted, that means zero when it comes to play on the field. But not that many teams can boast of quality like that.
One thing I don’t get with this potential Rakitic deal is why he couldn’t of knocked this out before or after the WC. Ivan is on the high of all highs now; captained the Europska Liga winning team, named to La Liga team of the year, has seen his stock rise dramatically.
I don’t want a potential deal to go on the rocks, fuck up his psyche and then screw with his play on the pitch.
I get him and his agents understanding where they might want to cash in on his high stock now, in the event he doesn’t do well in Brazil…. but from a fans POV, I just hope this Barca deal is an open and shut case and he can focus 110% on the NT.
its official. Rakitic is with Barca till 2019
“Eduardo to sing both national anthems”
I’m expecting a game with plenty of subs. The result is meaningless in this one.
FFS Iggy,the game kicks off at 9am.Look at the livescore site that I told you about last week,it will tell you that.Maybe its just that you wouldnt find it comfortable not living in a state of confusion? 😉
yeah it’s 9am AEST from what i can see for all the aussies out there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NXwYxYyKUQ
btw i got a 8.55am link AEST i can see on firstrow.. last time i checked it was 8am.. fifa doesnt even have a time for the game.. what’s the go? im assuming its either 8am or 9am AEST so i’ll be up for both of those
Here’s a story doing the rounds in the aussie papers today:
http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8856056
apparently srna is franjic’s rival ?? who knew..
Anyways i am having an early night tonight and will be up early and on vodka for breakfast for the game! wish it was on tele and i didnt have to stream !
They’re all not much good. Not one would make our national team.
Aussies got
Galekovic
Franjic
Spiranovic
Jedinak
Bozanic
Bresciano
Vidosic
Iggy time 😀
Rakitic to barca preety much done?