Oh boy. This was not good.
Even if that match ended in a scoreless draw, which wouldn’t have been the worst result, Croatia should have hung their heads after the game. But a 90th minute Iceland goal from a corner kick will send Croatia to their first defeat in World Cup 2018 qualifying and completely open up Group I for everyone involved.
After an uneventful first half, the average Croatian fan would think that their Vatreni would come out with some fire power in the second half to get a goal or two in the back of the net before summer break. False.
The entire match looked like Croatia was happy walking away with a draw as they started the summer break 90 minutes too soon.
Zero urgency. Sloppy passing. And no chemistry.
And Iceland capitalized in the closing minutes for the 1-0 win. Although Croatia are still atop the group on goal differential, it’s the play that frightens me. Every single qualifying campaign we see one game where the team doesn’t show up. And this was that game.
Čačić played Mandžukić on the wing and it didn’t result to anything. Kovačić was quiet in the midfield. Lovren and Vida were not on the same page in the back.
Horrible play. Minimal energy. Awful result. I really feel for those fans that made the trip from mainland Europe and North America for this game.
At the end of the 90 minutes, Croatia only had one shot on goal with 56% ball possession.
But at the end of the day, they are still in the driver’s seat with home games against Finland and Kosovo, having to travel to Ukraine and Turkey in the final four matches after summer. It’s only one game my Croatian people. So just breathe.
The next game is three months away. But as far as this game goes…
Awful.
Just plain awful.
Hahaha! 3rd grader Truth Troll calls playing FIFA on his PlayStation “running simulations”. How precious.
Does an adult spend all his time trolling on websites, repeating the same unfunny crap over and over, calling our players and people lame derogatory names?
Fuck off with your homosexual bearded incompetent chetnik comments. Yes, I’m talking to you, the truth. Truth is, people are piss tired by your comments, but your half-turkish trolling just keeps on bombarding this site. Go home to your momma and suck some titty and cry a little, homo. You need to prepare your gusle for the next big match. Draw at home against Wales. Wow. Impressive. Now fuck off, moron.
All you can ask is that we play in line with our talent level, which we did. I’m satisfied that the boys gave 100% and didn’t choke in this one!!!!
Choking is when you don’t play to your talent level!!!!!
It would have been nice to play above our talent level and beat Iceland, but that wasn’t to be!!!!!!
Iceland has some world class players as well, maybe even more than we do!!!!!
Therefore I am not shocked by this lost!!!!!!!
Tgad- Benching Perisic is not the answer.
In order to win against a good team like Iceland (average individual players but definitely a good TEAM), our team cannot afford weak links. It’s not Cacic’s fault. For the first time, we actually saw him getting quite impatient and expressing dissatisfaction with the sloppy, lazy play of his players.
Pivaric has been a weak link in every game since coming back from injury. He is just not on the level.
Jedvaj played around too much with the ball, instead of providing direct attacking options. He stayed in line for offensive support, but the timing was off, as if he were going through the motions. He lost possession a few times and was often behind in his backtracking.
Badelj seems to not have provided much, considering how poorly we maintained possession. It was up to Modric and Kovacic to bail us out of some attacking-optionless jams and retain possession by dribbling. All of that aimless dribbling wears out the players…
Perisic kept stopping his runs, making very little direct motion toward goal and creating practically no chances for teammates. Note that we didn’t start attacking the goal until Brozovic came on.
Brozovic made a promising start to his time on the field, but after a few minutes, his body language turned lazy, and his impact diminished. He didn’t help us retain possession, nor did he defend particularly well. In my opinion, this performance earned him a place on the bench.
Nikola Kalinic didn’t have much of a role. He was pretty well marked and received poor service from the wings (Pivaric, Perisic, Jedvaj…)
Now… The players who kept us in the game are Mandzukic, Vida, Lovren (yes, he did play well), Lovre Kalinic, Kovacic, and Modric. These were the players who played respectably, but A TEAM OF SIX cannot beat a team of 11…
Would like to see: Subasic; Vrsaljko, Lovren, Mitrovic, Vida; Rog, Kovacic, Modric; Rakitic, Mandzukic, Kramaric.
AB….. no Iceland should be a must win for us, they do not even measure up to Ukraine and Turkey quality wise. they are on an emotional high from a fluke run and run90 minutes , other than that there is minimal technical ability on that team outside of sigurdsson, so yes I do expect us to win this game.
Uhm yeah, that should be “back on the team”. Sorry about that unforced foul. My bad.
Believe me, German fans are absolute bonkers about their team winning every game, and if the German national squad had put up such a lacklustre performance as our team did yesterday, then the press and fans would be attacking them from every position.
I get your point about being positive, and I’ve got no doubt that Croatia will hold pole position and claim a direct spot to Russia 2018, but why the fuck do our team need to make one freaking bad game every time they qualify? There’s no reason to go all the way to Iceland to play ping-pong half-ass tika taka nonsense football and obviously play for a draw at best. There were so many unforced fouls by Cro players, I couldn’t believe my eyes. And hell yes, Pivaric OUT and Strinic IN. What the fuck is that clown Pivaric doing on our team? My man Ivan should be back on the time, it’s about time. Fuck it.
Lots of analysis, lots of passion however not much sense.
Do we really expect Cro to win every game?
Iceland are respectable opponents and playing in front of their adoring fans.
I don’t even think Germany are as critical of their national team when they don’t win, and that’s a country with a rich football history of winning.
Given the season is over, it wasn’t a surprise.
Still on top, always should try to be positive around negativity.
Za Dom Spremni!
I don’t think the ref is a problem, he made calls what he did not do was card which I am ok with.
I wish Kosovo wasn’t next so that if we did lose there would be still some time to fire
Well, I watched the game, my comments:
1)Modric worked hard all night, so much for theory that he would be unmotivated after CL final. Problem: he was played forward instead of in the deep midfield where he plays for Madrid. Our defense is too poor offensively to be left alone.
2) Back end is clumsy with the ball. A consistent long term problem. They kick the ball to themselves (on the edge of panic) all the time and it amounts to nothing. We need to develop back end players who are adept offensively. Otherwise our midfield is killed each time. This is main problem of this team and past teams.
3) Lovren might be worth playing if paired with fast partners. He looked clumsy and slow. I’d be scared to play him in a big game. He deserved but didn’t get yellow for pushing to the ground a player who was about to smoke past him.
4) Pivaric and Vida both did not impress. Nor Badelj for that matter.
5) If we don’t cross, we seem to have no way to generate offense. We crossed very little in this game. And we need to cross because our expected midfield dominance is always undone by our clumsy back end. This problem forces Modric or others to usually retreat way back and slowly start the team moving forward. It leads to dull and plodding play.
6) Kovacic in my view played well. He hustled and showed skill. But again, teams know that they need to pressure our defense, cut the flow to the midfield, then crowd the midfield receiver to neutralize us. Kovacic was surrounded every time he touched the ball, same with Modric.
7) Iceland were very physical and the ref decided he would not call anything.
8) I was bored watching the game, those who missed it did not miss much.
Goz (the Greatez Godzilla) ….
I hope to see our guys in WC Rusia 2018,
but not to see Cacic right there.
Like I said, I didn’t watch the game, but I can see that Brozovic came on for Kalinic in the 63rd min.
I assume that means that Brozovic played on the right, Perisic went and played on the left and Mandzukic played lone striker for 25mins but couldn’t score a goal. Santini comes on in 88th min (I assume to try get the goal the rest of the team couldn’t get in 88mins), Iceland score in the 90th min. Cacic has 1 change left, we need a goal we couldn’t get in normal time in injury time, so my question is what change would you guys have made?
Our leading goalscorer is in form Mandzukic with 4gls, 3 of them against Kosovo, that’s not ideal.
“So either he partners with Kalinic upfront or Cacic has to decide who will be lone striker (Mandzukic or Kalinic).”
I think Mandzukic or Kalinic lone striker, goalscoring form should decide which one, but if we were to play 2 upfront, for me it would be Kalinic with someone else, possibly Kramaric? In my opinion I would only ever play Mandzukic as a lone striker, he can also play left side if Perisic is out or injured but that’s it in my opinion.
@Soul Champ- when I wrote Pasalic on for Badelj, it was just me forgetting about ROg when I wrote that. I would have loved to see Rog start for Badelj.
We all like to rip on Pivaric (maybe cause he looks like your dumb cousin) but is it crazy to say he had a better game than Jedvaj? Just a thought
@Laknat and all Cacic haters- I like Cacic, but today was almost like a caricature his SUB issues.
Regardless of who should be on the field before the goal, when you go down 1-0 you beed to bring on fresh legs for the last 5 minutes! Bring a forward on for your wingbacks or your Holding MF. Weird not to use it.
@Anon. We gonna be ok. Put your mind at ease. Sve je dobro! Jos smo zive!
Our players today were lacking what Apollo Creed in “Rocky III” calls the “Eye of the Tiger.” They were just so toothless, it’s as if they were already on vacation.
@ Anon
Perisic is better at playing on the left than Mandzukic. Mandzukic is a very good player, but his strengths lie in the 16 yard box–not out on the wing.
So either he partners with Kalinic upfront or Cacic has to decide who will be lone striker (Mandzukic or Kalinic).
I hope this game serves as a major wake up call for Cacic. He’s gonna have to get his tactics right going forward. And he has to figure out a way to motivate these guys.
We have a much easier schedule going forward than Ukraine and Turkey. In that in 2 of our 4 games we play Finland and Kosovo. So we should Finish in 1st or 2nd place….so the question is do we have enough juice to keep Iceland from overtaking us???
Anonymous
Brkic Idemo JV Iggy
Poglavnik Slavonac
Cro Person 85 Zee (c) Soul Champ
Rafael
Subs: Maminjo, BZ, Anonymous, Anonymous.
Coach: LAknat
This team would’ve beat Iceland!
You correct stipe. Well said. We gonna be ok!
We never make it easy on ourselves. Everyone pull your skirts up and grow a pair. Everything will be alright. We will qualify
@Idemo
I don’t agree with putting Perisic on the right to accommodate Mandzukic.
@Svima
I don’t expect any answers to this question, but here goes, who is better playing on the left, Mandzukic or Perisic?
@Ante Ustasa
Corluka did his achillies, out till October.
^ 0 he started there due to performances all season at that positions. Like someone said just because it worked at juve doesn’t mean it will for us
A question I’d like to ask Cacic is, “after Mandzukic’s goal in the CL final, how many guaranteed starts does that give him for NT before he has to contribute something?”
@ BZ
8) EXACTLY!
Every game starts out with a bone crushing challenge on Luka and gets a weak warning. He is our captain and world-class!
That’s why we need Rog in there to return the favor.
Is there anyone in the midfield set up that lays the wood like Robo-Rog?
@ Slavonac
It seemed Perišić on the right was attempting to play like a left footed player?
@ Svima
I say start looking at some young and talented LB’s?
Pivaric competes but man is he over his head.
BZ has a point as Vrsaljko was serviceable at LB until Kovač subbed him off and Mexico went buck wild on us.
I thought Kovačić was good today. He may need to just shoot instead of deferring a weak pass to Perišić.
Forgive my incessant reference but Rog behind Mateo and Luka is the move in midfield.
Jebi ga … still position to win out.
brozo should have came on for mandza
@bz then who is your holding mid on our squad? Radosevic?
Typical thing I see from these players. They were more interested in heading to some vacation resort instead of playing. No need to blame the coach we have a bunch of players who showed they really do not care and this is what you get. Embarrassing to say the least.
It will be tough now in Turkey and Ukraine. Hopefully they wake up and start to play.
@ Anon….is Corluka out for a while? What type of injury does he have?
@Ante Ustasa
He was injured.
BZ and those that were talking about subs.
I think everyone has a point about who could have been subbed in and when, I wasn’t trying to argue that. I was trying to say that the goal we conceived was based on our own guy not marking his man. Also, we lost this game when we really did nothing to win it. That’s the point that pisses me off! When we have a lineup of those guys, we should be able to get a result.
I didn’t think it was smart to start Perisic on the right but even with that, he looked terrible and so did Mandzukic.
Against Spain Badelj played with Rog beside him, this time Badelj had Modric beside him, that’s a big difference. Modric cannot be a no brainer starter for us in my humble opinion!
Against Spain we conceded a goal as well, but we scored 2. This time we didn’t score any goals, did we lack creativity, what was the problem?
Why didn’t Corluka play today…..what did I miss?
Didn’t watch the game, wasn’t on in my neck of the woods, but I see that Cacic accommodated Mandzukic by playing Perisic out on the right, I don’t like the look of that.
I wouldn’t look too much into this game though, it was the B team after all. If you guys remember when the A team beat Spain, we had Vrsaljko, Corluka, Rog, Rakitic and Pjaca in the team, besides Rog they were all missing for this game, that’s a lot of quality out of the team. We had Vida, Modric and Mandzukic for this game and the result suggests that they can’t do it without Corluka, Rakitic and Pjaca, and I for one am not surprised!
Ya idemo. Just digesting everything. We were due for a dud. We gonna be ok. We gonna make Russia. Didn’t see the game like i said earlier. Every team has a dud once in a while. Whatcha gonna do. But in my heart we ok. Hard to bring a team together who plays wherever in 5 days and go fellas. Just look at italy for example. Their whole defense plays at juve then national side. I know bonucci didn’t play today didn’t need him. But our guys are all over the the place. That’s just how it is. We gotta work with it.
Late to the party, but just watched on delay on Fox Deportes.
Horrible performance. Some of you guys already mentioned some of the things I was thinking:
1)Mr. Black, agreed, Mandzukic clears nearly all corners, Sadtini comes in; and all of a sudden everyone pointing fingers (Lovren yelling at Santini etc etc)
2)In the lead up to the game Santini, IMO the worst player on the field vs Mexico, was getting alot of media time. I was scared Cacic would actually use him; and he inexplicably did. Surprised nobody else questions the Santini sub. Cop obviously better choice.
3)Slavonac, you asked who should Cacic have subbed? If Mandzo needed to come off, then Cop is the right sub given our roster. Cop isn’t great but has proven he is better than Santini. That said, I think Mandzo should have stayed on even though he was playing like shit (like our entire team)
Subs should have been:
Before the goal…Pasalic->Badelj
then after the goal…Pivaric->Cop, then play 3-5-2
4)I agree with those that think Kovacic wasn’t bad. Imo, other than Perisic/Midric, he may have been our best player today.
5)Soul Champ- you know I miss Vrsaljko too. You said Jedvaj was pedestrian, I have yet to see him prove he is a Croatian caliber wingback. His link up play is weak. I get killed for saying it, but Srna at RB and Vrsaljko at LB is still our best lineup. Wish people didn’t rip Srna into retirement.
6) Corluka>>>>Lovren. Vida had a few bad passes too, but still think he is better than Lovren.
7)Chemistry? None, I agree. I know we can make noise in 2018, but we need some meaningful friendlies to develop some chemistry.
8)Before the next game, Luka needs to go up to the ref and say, “Hi, I’m Luka Modric. I’m kinda a big deal.”
Refs not handing out yellows on those that smash him. We need some help in that department.
9)Badelj cannot be a no-brainer starter for us.
It was a PHYSICAL game , especially down the stretch.
Rog is a beast.
Čop is quality.
Santini is physical.
Pašalić competes in serie A.
@ Slavonac
There was enough on the bench to physicallly compete down the stretch.
Iceland did the same number to Finland.
They have a Viking stamina that needs to be matched.
Čačić has to learn how to make winning adjustments against quality opposition.
Complicated
Anon great comment, I honestly can’t name a bright spot on the pitch for us and some of these guys want to blame the guy who has probably the least on pitch time all time year
New back 4.
Some players tired
Some players no time on the pitch
Kinda saw this coming
4 points from those 2 big away matches guarantee it for us
Not worried who wasn’t marking on the corner; more astonishing not a single checkered shirt jumped.
Got to cro few days ago couldn’t even tell we were playing…. I don’t
Now it’s 13 13 11 11 on the table
Čači picks the formation and the players. He is complete govno tactically. Cant stand Badlj and Kova on the team. Thought Santini played fantastic!!! I would refuse to be a sub for this coach
Agreed Poglavnik!!
Fran Tudor would have done a better job
When you’re on the road and you look flat and there are say 10-15 minutes left you need to think about just locking it down and not chasing it. No shame in that. We didn’t need the 3 pts but more importantly we had to not lose.
They should have brought the team that came to L.A. More heart ,Lame .
Great new addition to our list of shit games…
-vs turkey we concede in 120th
-vs georgia we concede in the 90th
-vs spain we concede in the 88th
-vs portugal we concede in the 117th
-vs iceland we concede in the 90th
When we play for the tie, we get burned
Poglavnik, in hindsight yes but in real time, we were in no real danger of losing this game at any time. The only thing they had hope for was a set play…so I don’t know what those players would have done differently.
I would have tried out Rog, but who do you replace for him?
Anonymous…some people make comments about the game and their comments have zero relevance to what hapoened in the game. The Kovacic comment is one of them….he had little options today!
I like Kalinic sub and the timing of it.
I also woudve gone with Rog for Mandzukic, and Pasalic for Kova.
Play out the draw and be satisfied.
Amazing what people see , I mean I agree they all played like shit, but no way did I think Kovacic was that bad like you guys make it seem.He was actually making a few very good runs with the ball. It seemed like Iceland had 2 guys on our one with the ball ,all game long.they played like they were fighting for their lives. if you guys think this was Cacics fault you really need to pay more attention. How many unforced errors could there be!.unreal
with this formation -> after 70′
…….Perisic……….Mandzukic………..Pasalic……..
……………..Modric…………….Brozovic………………
…….Pivaric………….Badelj…………….Jedvaj………
……………….Vida……………….Lovren………………..
…………………..…..L Kalinic…………………………….
– Perisic 80% left side effective from 55% on right side
– Kalinic only 20% unless Mandzu out instead maybe 50%
– Pasalic better right there and give 70% than Brozovic 40%
(Brozovic on the middle give 65% effectivity)
– Kovacic liability with 35% he out made Modric 80% from
60% of effectivity
September, home to kosovo.
I think you make no sense Brkic!
Did Croatia lose this game based on subs or the lack thereof? Or were they just flat all around? This issue has followed every coach…it’s a matter of the players showing up not a matter of putting in a sub that hasn’t played regular minutes at their club!
BTW, did you even look at who the subs were?
Please go ahead and provide your winning scenario for this game…I’ll wait to see your opinion.
Mate, the 3 Croatian clubs occupy the bottom 3 places. Already relegated dinamo and geelong croatia!!!
They will make it to Russia they always do. Like we’ve never seen this before.
Savez can’t afford a better coach!!! All the money they have paid out in fines over the last 3 yrs could have paid for one!!
jv, get your afl pain
im a lions man, so you can imagine the years i’ve suffered, lol
we finally had a good weekend this one
anyway, when is the next HRV game? im so so upset about this one in particular
not sure if i mentioned but my wife was formerly living in iceland and married to an icelandic, so i hate losing to these cunts, fucking pisses on my piss to a boil
Iceland were better prepared, more motivated, played harder, had better tactics and used substitutions more effectively… How does all of this not reflect on Cacic? Getting the young/B-team players to perform well makes him more suited to coach the under-23 team. We need to get a real professional manager.
strinic can sometimes play like shit…
…but every game pivaric is (shit)^3
Joj meni joj!!! Could be a hat trick of losses today!!!
Iggy, Knights playing tonight. Locked in relegation battle and tgen Collingwood in the middle!!!
Disgusting…i wanted to through my ps4 controller into the flatscreen…what a show of poor quality….maybe cacic then could be of good use and could fix my tv…..cause his coaching stinks….what benum!!
Ya, why not Rog in there….
Laknat,
Pasalic in the team? I’ve seen a few AC Milan games this season with Pasalic. The guy is not ready for the national team at all. Perhaps in two or three years.
@Peter North
We’ll see.
We’ve had 4 wins, 6-0 vs Kosovo, 2-0 vs Iceland,
1-0 vs Finland, and 1-0 vs Ukraine.
Some of those weren’t too convincing.
2 remaining home games against Finland and Kosovo.
2 remaining road games against Turkey and Ukraine.
We could easily lose those road games.
Grats Einar, your boys took care of business… hoping ours learn from this and can get it together…
Maminjo, it was Perisic that let him go!
im watching the xbox e3 conf, i hope this is much better than the shit cro put out tonight ffs
if we have this formation after 70′
…….Perisic……….Mandzukic………..Pasalic……..
……………..Modric…………….Brozovic………………
…….Pivaric………….Badelj…………….Jedvaj………
……………….Vida……………….Lovren………………..
………………………..L Kalinic…………………………….
sure we shut down Iceland mentality by attacking them
So many here talk about Kalinic…today he displayed why i can’t stand him most of the time.
This game was lost with out lack of outside attack! Neither Perisic or Mandzukic did much until they made changes, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have done better, they played uninspired…it was an embarrassment if you ask me! Put in a hard 90 minutes and go home…don’t wait until your coach decides to change things up before you decide to be active.
Pivaric is as bad as anything I’ve ever seen, he sucks at both sides of the field.
I’m not sure why anyone blamed Kovacic, he didn’t have any width to the field…neither did Modric, they were pushed to carry or make impossible passes through the middle or send it wide only to get it back.
Jedvaj was a complete pussy today, he was all attitude and zero substance! The guy made me vomit!
Don’t blame Cacic, he may have made a mistake playing Perisic on the right side but if you ask me, a guy at his level and someone that’s wanted by a team like Man U should be able to adapt, not play as if he’s upset he didn’t get his way!
Not too late to replace Cacic and get a real manager in there… I don’t know if we have the money to attract a manager who is at the level of our players, but we should look. Pretty soon and it will be too late to get the most out of this team.
Perhaps a weird comment:
The 1-0. I’m almost hundred percent sure that Mandzukic would have worked that corner away with a header. Just watch the other Iceland corners in the game.
Proud of my team. Never estimate Iceland..We are vikings never forget…..
Who left the Icelandic scorer unmarked?
Don’t tell me it was Lovren
@CP85
yeah i though that too
they had an open header not 30 seconds before the goal, thankfully L.Kalinic pulled off an amazing save, and then for some reason directly after we just let them have another go and they scored.. pretty poor defending, espcially at that point in the game
im seriously worried about our chances of qualy now
someone above said “look at the remaining games and we’re fine”.. err, i look at the remaining games and think we’re fucked.. we’re only equal 1st and we have yet to play away to turkey and ukraine.. that looks fucked to me.. idk .. especially the way ukraine played in zagreb
Don’t go into hyperbole guys. I tried to tell you the team is not anything that great, but you wouldn’t listen. Let’s see everywhere i was correct
1) modric is great but can’t carry a team by himself: check
2) these overhyped youth are not the players you think: check
Mateo crotch-does-itch
Tin jedva igra (for a reason)
Lovren
Marcelo bozo vic
D-oh my-god can you believe he’s playing vida
Combo their presence with the absence of the me-first “injury” crew, and you get this
3) win-tie-loss odds 30/40/30: check
Seems really good handicapping considering it was 0-0 most of the game
Bottom line:. Croatia is just an ok team. Good enough to sneak through in qualifying. Not nearly good enough to ever make it easy and dominate these similar quality sides
Very nice
jv
what are the other melbourne things?
Unreal how they score a sitter literally right after our goalie bails us out with the earlier header I think maybe even by the same player. How do you not say to yourself, ok let’s tighten up that earlier play was close.
Also, most of these guys play with more heart for their clubs. Another issue I feel we have and it’s been this way for a while is that most of our guys do the grunt work for their clubs with better players finishing. Aside from Perisic, Kalinic, Kramaric. We lack a player that can change the game from nothing or take ownership.
Modric, Kovacic, Badelj, Rakitic (ok he didn’t play) Brozovic, Mandza – all service better players. Perisic seems to be the only guy that will run at you and attack. Can’t wait for Pjaca and Kramaric to heal.
@ BZ
Fran Tudor could have given us 20 minutes of hard running!
@Poglavnik
The boys are still on course. Look at the remaining matchups that everyone has, points will be shared.
One lost game and it’s panic time..haha.
Did anyone really foresee Croatia not losing at least one of the 10 qualifiers?
These guys were thinking about their vacation time at the end of a lengthy club season. Let’s see what they look like in the September round of qualifiers. The trip to Turkey will be interesting.
Man Čačić simply does not believe in second half substitutions!
Battle of attrition went to Iceland at home.
Not sure why Rog can play for Napoli and beast against Spain last summer but cannot get in the game for Badelj ?
Mandžukić was exhausted, he should have came out earlier too.
Not sure why the need for fresh legs away to Iceland is not obvious?
Šteta
The boys competed for 80+ minutes.
At some point the coach has to support with second half adjustments.
Now we are in it.
Anyone think Vrsaljko wasn’t missed ?
Jedvaj = pedestrian
Pivaric = ?????
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when I see first time Cacic made a substitution, ok you got the nail as I though he maybe read my comment before.. tried to get rid some useless players and the most useless was Kalinic.
then I try to believe in him to put guts by changing another player within 70min, but nothing ever comes. He totally don’t have a clue who should be subbed,
my list before:
1) Kalinic <– ok you got this guy for being subbed
2) Kovacic for Pasalic to make him goes for right wing
3) could it be for Mandzukic if he wasted a chance
“Lethargic” was a great way to describe this game.
Our team lacked synchronization, especially from the players in the midfield (except for Modric, the best player on the pitch by far). Cacic did not manage the changes well. Nikola Kalinic should not have been subbed off, what a shame.
When it comes to getting results in physical battles we disappear.
Lovren was fine. Did a decent job today.
Kovacic was horrible. The dude looks a guy who watched his team mates play in the champions league final. I am sure he is a great practice player for real.
As Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys II once said;
Shit just got real!
1 down, 2 to go this mad Monday. Surely I can’t lose all three here in Melbourne??? Not a great start to the day!!!!
Good thing I don’t watch these assholes anymore
Time and time again. Only play when we feel like it!!! Play for draws and that’s what you get. We play with 2 or 3 players short every game and more often than not it’s up front. Mandzo needs to retire or cacic needs to retire him!!!
Iceland players play for second division teams in England, Germany. Some of them play in Sweden and still we lose.
And if the player don’t work hard, you need a lot of talent. Our back sucked big time today. Jedvaj is not half the player Vrsalkjo is. Pivaric, let’s not talk about him.
I think Lovren did okay. Badelj and Kovacic messed up the midfiled. Nikola Kalinic didn’t touch 5 balls.
Sad for the Croatian fans who went to Iceland.
Absolutely a disgusting display!! The man marking on the goal was pathetic…we played with a zero sense of urgency.
Oh shit. Just getting score. Were we bad or they good? Were we looking for summer vacation? Man this ruined a beautiful day. Damn it.
For those of you who missed this game- you are lucky. Wow. Such shit. Cacic, great use of your subs you stubborn idiot.
The players lost this game, not the coach. Who had that man marked…nobody! Kalinic with a sitter and he misses, Jedvaj looked like he was pouting all fucking game…Pivaric is terribl but that’s another topic!
Look at the body language of our guys vs their guys! They came to play, we came to play seva…fucking losers!
@Peter North
You were saying?..
Fuckin lazy!!!!
At the end of the day, almost EVERYONE living here in Croatia don’t give a shit. Tomorrow is just another day, more corrupt politicians, shit wages, but hey we’ve got the Adriatic.
i feel sick; im gonna puke, bbn ..
terrible game
The midfield was on vacation the whole game.
Damn
this is big, big trouble for us in the group, this loss and now away to turkey and ukraine, we’re in deep, deep shit
lol the original title of this article was “Croatia Inching to Russia” and i thought err hang on, we’re equal at best
now we’re way, way worse than equal, we’re in deep shit compared to all the other teams
LMAO, horrible
sigh, looks like being a bad matchday for us
turkey win, ukraine win, and we dont win, this group is totally open, remember we have to travel to both turkey and ukraine.. i think this is trouble, guys : (
who are the 2 lucky players who will be subbed on in the 89th min????
Hey truth you’re losing to Wales right now 1-0. Take your 4 C’s and go home bre! We don’t need your divisive psyop tactic/comments here.
Don’t you have a pro sharia law march this weekend somewhere with Antifa?
Players like Kova and Bad-Lj only clutter the mid and fuck Modrič up
It’s time for Rog to replace Kovacic.
LAKnat no good don’t work
Difference-making substitution by Cacic. The guy is learning how to coach. 🙂
sweet he moved perisic left
here we go boys, goal incoming now 😀
…and Kalinic misses a sure goal…what an easy change he missed
Badel or whatever his name is, as usual looks like shit. Crap passes, crap decisions etc etc
http://www.stream2watch.eu/soccer
alternative channel for those who want to stream smoothly
I kinda agree Iggy, they should switch sides…at the very least, maybe Perisic will get into the game.
Worst Croatian so far in this game: Kovacic. Some people were complaining about Rakitic. Today you see how important he has been for us.
Still hoping Kovacic will play differently second half. He has the skills.
only good news i have is cuntserbs are losing 1-0 at home at half time to wales
i kinda feel like peri and mandzu should swap spots since the only time ive seen peri he’s been far forward on the right and the only time ive seen mandzu he’s been all at sea out on the left
ytf arent those 2 in swapped spots? ffs put peri where he’s good and mandzu up front – have to change that surely this half
also agree pivaric has no place being on a national HRV team, just no place at all there, he’s utter garbage
turkey are winning 2-1 so that’s also bad to go with the earlier 2-1 win for ukraine.. we could use a win, but it’s important we dont lose
Thanks guys. If you can keep the updates coming. Still with family.
Iggy thanks for the link.
Does anyone know why Rakitic´s not playing?
Modric is playing way forward, but our back end is, as always, too flat footed to get anything started, so we are not really getting anywhere. Lovren looks really slow. Pivaric sucks. If the wings want to do anything, they better back up a lot.
Let’s not be Homos today
We should be playing 3-3-4, bot our coach is useless so it wont happen….so gay
Yeah i scratched my head with Peri over on the right.. he’s been taken out of the game
also.. im SCARED.. someone hold me !!!
1-3-2-4-1 is such a gay defensive formation that went out of style 5 yrs ago, it makes our players look like shite.
Perisic is ineffective on the right and Mandzo is also ineffective.
Modric needs to learn how to shoot, man he’s terrible at shooting!
yeah 30 mins in, 0-0 is fair, not much happening, HRV prolly better half-chances and iceland hasnt had anything really
i agree tho mandza out wide doesnt seem to be working so what’s good for juve isnt good for us it looks like
25 in don’t like mandza wide for us ….ivan left put brozo wide …..poor all around though
first 5 mins were kinda shit for us, but we’re starting to gain control of the game it looks like, feeling a bit more comfortable.. plz god let us not to loseth this match
Once again, I don’t see why Pivaric is in the lineup… Vida is a better left back. Mitrovic can play center back…
here’s an alternative stream
it is slightly lower quality, but runs more smoothly for me, same commentary:
http://firstrowi.com/soccer/iceland-vs-croatia-frs162667?l=1022557166
wow Vida is no dam good.
the one i posted doesnt require sign up or membership, it works
Guys! does anyone have a streaming link that doesn´t require a sign up or membership. I was hoping the youtube stream would work, but apparently not. I am in Sweden and there are no channels here sending the game.
Thanks !
Fellas i can’t watch it. It’s my mom’s birthday. Some things are more important. Can somebody post some updates or a recap when it’s done. Thanks guys!
yeah the ads are annoying and u need to close 1-2 and maybe a popup, also idk about your stream but mine drops out for 1-2 seconds every minute or so which is annoying
but it’s the best i found so far, happy for others to post other streams too
i’ll keep an eye out for anything better too and post it here if i find one
steam works, if you can navigate through the ads. thanks
refresh? im watching on that link, you have to close 1-2 popups (ad-block is fine and im using it) but it does work
That site Iggy is stuck on the starting lineup of Iceland? Thoughts?
brb fellas smashing some vikings
stream:
http://firstrowi.com/soccer/iceland-vs-croatia-frs162633?l=1022557166
Unfortunately I don’t get Fox Soccer Plus. Anyone have a link to a good stream??!
Finland 1 – 2 Ukraine 🙁
streams…
unfortunately ukraine winning 1-0 in finland with less than 20 to go
Remember when some posters thought it was the end of the world after our first qualifier when we tied Turkey? Haha. That was some truly funny shit.
The boys are firmly on course to go to Russia. Depending on other group results today, even a draw on the road would be fine.
Eat a D truth troll. Take your lies back to your 3rd grade class
Look there is no bigger hrvat than me. I would probably be at today’s Iceland game again if not for some family obligations. But part of being the biggest hrvat is telling the smaller hrvati (really hrvatima in this instance because of the dative case that goes with the word to tell), the truth. It’s not easy but someone has to carry the kriz. I wish more of our national players were willing to take up the kriz as well rather than suddenly coming down with “injuries” right before summer
Truth is a Serb posting on a Croatian site just looking to start shit I was told. Just a heads up everyone. Ignore the comments from Cedo Cedomir aka The truth.
Get lost truth troll. We know what it is and no language lessons needed here. Screw off chump!
Ante zizic is not going to play for the national team this summer because it is not a good time as he needs to focus on getting ready for the nba. This guy must be learning to bleed for the colours from certain members of the soccer team.
I wonder if the branitelji during the oluja were able to say, ” hmmm you know what, this summer doesn’t really work for me. I’m a little busy. But next summer i should be good to go”
For the diaspora hrvati a branitelj is a defender. Add the i to make it plural
Cheers, I’ll give it a go
@Macak – im in Aus and i always stream it online, ppl will post streams here when it is closer to match time or use batmanstream as posted above – another is firstrow
Google batmanstream
@Soul Champ- Love it, With great injuries comes great focus.
2 things I am sure of in sports. 1)Beware the injured Golfer. 2)Don’t mess with Croatia’s “less than A team”, or you will find yourself drinking slivovitz on the corner of Rivington & Norfolk.
Any links for the game? Is it broadcast in Aus?
In the US, it is live on Fox Soccer Plus and replayed at 5 pm on Fox Deportes.
Are you sure it’s on fox soccer plus?? I don’t think so.
Disregard prior post. I just discovered that the game is being televised live on Fox Soccer Plus.
Enjoy the game folks!!!
It doesn’t seem that ESPN3.com will be showing it. Anyone who if it will be on anywhere else?….not including sites with viruses?
Also, hopefully Ukraine fails to win in Finland and Turkey fails to beat Kosovo, be great if both those things happen too.
When people say the “B team” beat Spain, I find it amusing that the “B team” had 1 match at the Euros for 1 win, the A team had 3 matches for 1W 1D 1L!
Anyone care to admit that the B team’s win against Spain was a fluke?
In my opinion the “B team” is the A team, and it was the B team that lost to Portugal.
Milan offering 30 mil for Kalinic???
I remember going to that Croatia Iceland game three years ago. It was freezing cold and incredibly dull. The highlight was when Iceland got a red card in the second half. But Croatia showed no ability to capitalize. It was a major buzz kill at the time, but the party scene in Iceland quickly made up for it.
Tomorrow i say chance of win, tie loss is 30/40/30.
Perisic is back. Good news. We should prevail. Good luck to us all for a victory and we can enjoy the summer if you in the northern hemisphere. For you fellas in the southern hemisphere enjoy your winter. Let’s do this! U Boj!
U Boj!
I have been bigging up Mateo for years on this site.
Tomorrow he needs to come correct and slalom through that Viking defense.
He needs to hold down a starting spot for the repka.
U boj …
keep in mind during the November iceland match Modric was subbed in the second half, kramaric only played the last 5 mins, and kalinic didnt even play. Also besides the flick pass to brozovic in the 15th min rakitic didnt even play that well during that game.
The only concern i have are the wingbacks.
BZ . you get educated well by my comment!
yes, we should have that mentality. fuck you guys if you really satisfied with a cowardliness performance.
After beating Spain with a B team and Mexico with a D team I expect nothing less than a win with this banged up bunch.
2-0 Vatreni.
@ BZ
Agreed.
Play to win and if we draw we are still in pole position.
Then Iceland can fight it out with Ukraine and Turkey.
We just need to keep above the fray.
Actually think all the omits will bring a focus to proceedings.
Even without our full squad, a draw would suck for a plethora of reasons.
I despise playing conservative with a lead. Sure it works against inferior competition, but not against championship quality competition.
Champions do not play to not lose, you have to play to win the game. We need to practice that mentality in Qualifiers & friendlies.
Just rewatched WC98 Croatia Highlites on Youtube.
The HNS also release videos.
Google Vatreni and you will find videos of interviews, practices etc.
A draw isn’t too bad but hopefully we can win again. I took the day off work so i can get up at 4 am Monday and get onto the vodskies and watch the game 😀