Queue the meltdown on all Croatian message boards across the worldwide web in 3…2…1…
It was clear to anyone who watched Croatia’s 3-0 loss to Austria in Nations League Friday night that the entire team was checked out for summer break. Or were they looking past Austria to Monday when the Vatreni will face France at Poljud? Either way, it was ugly in Osijek for any supporter of Croatia.
Pros: Croatia’s three best players in their respective positions: Modrić, Perišić, Gvardiol were not available. (Modrić came in late in the 2nd half but it was more fanfare to the Osijek crowd than anything else).
These guys were looking forward to their cigarettes and sunglasses on the Jadransko this summer. It was apparent. Look at France. They lost 2-1 to Denmark on the night at home. That shouldn’t happen. Belgium lost 4-1 to the Dutch at home. These players just don’t care after a super long club season. But some should. Please look below to Cons.
Cons: Some players like Pašalić, Ćaleta-Car, and Kramarić needed big games in these low pressure situations going into the World Cup. These are fringe players that have not cemented themselves in the starting XI. It looked as if this was Pašalić’s first game ever on the football pitch. He could have easily bagged a goal or two in the first half. Those opportunities are some that he normally scores for Atalanta in Serie A. This game was especially bad for DCC and the rest of the Croatian defense. They looked like absolute Swiss cheese out there. DCC looked like a ghost letting the Austrian attack dance around him.
At the end of the day, no one will remember this match in November when the World Cup kicks off. These guys are already on vacation or saving themselves for France at Poljud on Monday. Scrap this game from your heads. For whatever reason, the Vatreni never care to show up for the first game of their Nations League campaigns.
2018: Lose 6-0 to Spain
2020: Lose 4-1 to Portugal
2022: Lose 3-0 to Austria
Could someone explain this trend to me?
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The club season is officially over and our boys will begin a 4-game Nations League marathon that will span 10 days in the next week. The first match takes place Friday against Austria in Osijek at Gradski Vrt. Although Nations League is a glorified friendly tournament, it’s ideal to stay in the top league; where Croatia has remained since the tournament’s inception. With France and Denmark also in the group, Austria is predicted to finish bottom of the table. So booking all three points on Friday on home soil would be a nice way to start campaign. The Vatreni have not lost a game since Spain in extra time at EURO 2020.
But these games aren’t about results. These games will be more so about preparing the fringe players for the World Cup, which kicks off in five months time.
Here’s what you need to know:
Ivan Perišić is out all four games with a calf injury he picked up the last game of the season with Inter Milan. No problem though. Perišić just signed a 2-year contract with Tottenham and is locked into Croatia’s starting XI alongside Modrić and Brozović in the midfield. We don’t need to see him in Nations League matches in June.
Joško Gvardiol has also been ruled out. He ended the season with a light knock and it may not be worth it to test the injury during Nations League matches. He may be available for the two matches on the back end against Denmark and France on the 10th and 13th, but should be considered doubtful.
Two strikers, Petar Musa and Marko Livaja have been ruled out for Austria due to COVID. They should both be available later in the week once they test negative. This really hurts Musa who has had a wonderful season in Portugal and is hitting on all cylinders going into his first senior Croatia call up. There are two departments Dalić needs to figure out in the next five months: goalie and striker.
My plan (if I were coach) would be to put as much pressure on Kramarić as possible. If Budimir, Livaja, Musa could bag some goals in these games, that may take Krama to another level mentality-wise coming back from the summer break. For the Austria game, I’m looking for Budimir to have a big game as he finished the season hot in La Liga with Osasuna.
Outside of the normal starting XI, I really do hope Luka Sučić gets ample time with the senior side this week as he will also be on U21 duty after a masterclass first full season at Red Bull Salzburg. We don’t need to see Modrić, Brozović, or Kovačić play in the midfield. But I do want to see what Sučić, Majer, and Oršić can do against a mediocre Austria side in a semi-competitive match. Again, Nations League is a glorified friendly tournament and the boys will all have be thinking about hitting the Jadransko as fast as possible and not getting results against Austria and Denmark. I guarantee it. Maybe I’m wrong with France coming to Poljud, but then again, it’s Nations League and not the World Cup.
Look what Belgium/Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne had to say about the Nations League right before the summer break. Do you agree or disagree with him?
I’m not putting all the blame on Dalić …but Austria definitely out coached us today. As many have pointed out, our guys were on vacation mode already. But, we also out-played them for most of the first half, until they capitalized on our shakey defence to go up a goal before halftime. The Austrians changed up their formation for the second half, and we were completely lost. This is where a smart manager should recognize what’s going wrong, and make the proper changes. Maybe Dalićs head wasn’t in the game (I don’t blame him, because of his recent loss) or maybe he just isn’t good enough. I’m not sure.
The irony is that Rebić probably has the freshest legs out of everyone. Between injuries and limited playing time down the scudetto stretch run, he would of been ready.
I get the whole June burn out excuse.
But there are guys who are fighting for places.
If you think we don’t need Rebić than you are not being straight about our attacking talent pool.
That caliber player needs another shot.
Perišić is our only big time power player in the attacking third.
Knock .. knock
Who’s there?
NOT Ante Rebić.
Dalic has to step up his game.
Ralph Ragnicked us.
Time for the routinely regular coaching garage fire- we fire all the coaches and the players get the wake up call and then we start playing- let’s get a bloody good foreign coach that is a tyrant
Ppl blaming different players lol, its not the players, its Dalic! dalic has been the cancer for the past 4 years! its a simple concept dalic cant grasp; one striker, one attacking mid, two wingers, two center mids, and a back four. simple. Since the world cup, 4-4-2 has been the way to go. dalic tries to force a 4-3-3 and starts 5 midfielders lol. kramaric lone striker lol, also starting the game with only one winger LOL. Dalic trying to start as many center mids as possible every game. We have the midfielders for 4-3-3, but we don’t have the attacking players for 4-3-3. If we had prime mandzukic uptop, perisic and rebic on the wings, then yes we could play 3 center mids (modric, brozo, majer/kova) at the same time. Our midfield is stacked, the coach needs to make some tough decisions and sit some players. feelings will be hurt, but its for the good of the team as a whole.
Ok, I agree that positioning might be better. Who do you start at rw, striker, am, and cm then?
with the ppl who were available; orsic LW, brekalo RW, budimir ST, kramaric CAM, brozo and modric CM. At half time sub out krama and budimir for majer and pasalic.
No comment about this game just terrible i dont know who ever played what outcome could have been but just for fun why didnt you reward erlic with a start instead bench mode pongracic?
Why was orisc on bench. Why force pasalic when you could played mayer in cm or am. Why play broz of he looks not interested. Why start krama when budimir had a better season?
Our goalkeepers are a mess.
One thing pisses me off is letting players go to u21s i dont care if we ein an u21 trophy it means shit look at serbia youth teams almost always place in tournaments wheres thst got them A team wise.
Sucic should be on A team and so should Simic Beljo. What do you have to lose.
Our defense is a mess without gvardiol and i hate to say it lovren haha.
I hope its just a set back but what a way to close out gradski vrt with 3 0 loss
What is with you and so many people on this site not writing in comprehensible English?
Read between the lines, people have busy lives and do not have an hour to sit here and proofread everything??
Do you have kids???
Caleta-Car and Pongracic couldn’t defend against my 260 pound Teta.
Croatia should send one of their club teams to this ill-conceived tournament until one day it is hopefully abolished.
Hajduk Split would have done much better today.
Not even worth talking about this game. It was just terrible all around. Pongracic should not be anywhere near the lineup after that. He’s been sitting on the bench pretty much all year and yet he is going to start for us? DCC was just as bad as he’s too slow to cover for Pongracic always being out of position. Why sub off Sosa for Barisic when you are losing? Sosa was not good defensively, but neither was Barisic and at least Sosa was providing some link up down that side. I just don’t understand how you can just let attackers get shots off that easy. At least foul them. Literally no passion what so ever. Say what you want about Lovren and Vida (I know we’ve all said a lot about them), but they are not losing 3-0 at home against Austria.
Sosa was hurt. Willing to bet he’s done for the rest of the games in this cycle.
And to add to that…they just interviewed Lovro and asked about his play today. Knowing he played well he said he wouldn’t comment on his play when they lose like this. They all need to do better.
Kid has the right mentality and is a future core player for us.
This tournament is very unfair to the fans of countries that don’t take it seriously.
Terrible.
Ivusic (I was so hopeful for him) blew his chance. Too bad.
Majer, gonna be great. Needs to start.
Brekalo. Stinks.
Pasalic (was never a fan) was awful, substitute role only.
Sosa (even with that giveaway) should always be on the pitch.
Pongracic, why did he start? Terrible.
Juranovic, capable moving forward, horrendous defender.
Vlasic, should be “retired” from the team. Come on with shameful first touches, showed an embarrassing attitude when complaining about Budimir.
I agree Becar. Majer was lively and seemed like the only player that showed something for us. Everyone else was disinterested and poor. I give Modric a pass as he’s 36 and played a tonne this year…..
Our U21 shit the bed and give up 2 late goals and now this senior team debacle…it’s rakija time.
There weren’t very many players who should continue to be on the team to be quite frank. Brekalo has to go, Pongrancic terrible, Juranovic for all the hype I don’t see it. Caleta-car also full of problems. Without Gvardiol and Sosa who would we play. Sosa a couple of errors but I would still hold onto the guy. Middle of the pitch Kovacic was horrible today not sure what his issue was. Brozovic, the minute things go wrong the guy is lala land, this happens every time. You have to buckle done and figure something out. His consistency is the problem. Noone was really that great, not at all.
With who we have in net, still our biggest issue I don’t see anyone of the options as starters to be honest we have no goalie.
There won’t be much of a World Cup tournament at this rate.
The announcer said it best, Croatia for some reason always plays like garbage at the Nation’s League the question is why? There is still a trophy involved, and it’s legitimate tourney it shouldn’t be looked at as of its nothing could be an actual shot for Croatia to pull something off.
I didn’t think brekalo played that bad. krama and Pasalic on the other hand…
Looks like instead of being in Beast Mode, our boys are in Plaža Mode!
I’m watching after the game has finished and seeing DCC yucking it up with one of the Austrian players. Regardless of it being a somewhat meaningless game, losing 3-0 at
home shouldn’t have you with a smile period.
I really feel for Dalic…loses his father and comes back for this sramota display.
Not a single player showed much positive.
France and Denmark are going to run circles around this D.
Some players were fine. Budimir did what he always does. It isn’t his fault that the midfield kept losing possession and that the wingers took too many touches and didn’t make many accurate crosses. Majer and Barisić were also fine. But a team can’t win when the majority of the players play badly, especially when the defenders are that lazy and the midfield passing that uncreative and imprecise.
Well that was disappointing.
Maybe Rebic was right.
Dalic out..shuffle the coaching and staff around. Denmark just beat France. That worries me.
Normally I would cut him slack, I will still do it for this game because of the issue regarding his dad and I think it’s fair. I have no clue why Sosa was substituted, wrong decision for me. Budimir should have started and we have been talking about him and Kramaric as a pairing. But to be honest, Kramaric really did nothing in this game, he is not a starter for me. Orsic came on and I really didn’t see much with him either.
To be honest there are a lot of problems here that go beyond the coach. The players were scattered, and all over the field, the passing was terrible and off-point. I don’t know how many times the ball was given away, and our placement was atrocious. Noone knew what their teammate was doing, it was just horrible to watch even in the first…there was no silky smooth movement nothing positive in this game.
I would rotate the players first.
To be honest l, I normally wouldn’t say this but Vida needs to start, next to Sosa, Gvardiol and Lovren. Those are our only defenders right now. As for goalie…flip a coin.
Not 1 shot on target in the second half!!! Be fucked if I’m gonna get up at 4.30 in the Monday morning here in Australia to watch this crap!!!
You should worry much more about the fact that Australia has become a tyrannical country: hate speech laws, covid LOCK DOWNS, honest citizens not allowed armed self defense against criminals, etc. Gee I wonder if this is related to Diversity?
Oh fuck off ya stupid right-wing nutjob.
Belgium getting clobbered 4-0. Wow.
Our best goalscorer is still “Own Goal”. Not happening today.
No wonder Suker used to schedule friendlies against San Marino in June.
Sramota. Awful defending. Ivusic has been shaky and slow reaction on the 3rd goal.
Great counter strategy by Austria, catching us forward and burying their chances.
Let’s face it, our youth are nowhere close to the mental and physical challenges to be playing at the national level. Missing Modric, Perisic, Vrsaljko, and amongst others can show the eagerness and toughness they still possess. I still can’t fathom having Olic, Corluka and Mandzo on the bench. Just why? They stepped up at national level but giving them a staff job is ridiculous. I genuinely believe the players have no concern for nations league and who could blame them. Only two wins at nations league. Just let these useless friendlies continue but don’t lose at this margin. Get a few draws or at least a win. Better to play like shit now then come fall time.
Mandzo retired due to injury. Corluka also retired, as well as Rakitic.
Look Croatia cannot depend only on a few players, they need other players to step up, where was Sucic why was he not on the bench or on the field. Where were all these call ups. Some were sick or off Due to COVID so that screwed us too.
Why do we not have an offensive player, we are lacking a Suker…
Perisic not being clearly hurt us offensively without him we cannot score…
Glorified friendly or not, don’t give a shit
When you’re at home and playing for the NT then the effort needs to be there. This is an embarrassing result and the exact reason we’re not respected by the top European teams
Caleta-Car-Wreck
Hoping nobody stole the Croatian players towels – they will be right back on the beach in about an hour.
Embarrassing – tournament still being taken seriously by only a few nations.
Time to go back and take care of my Baba.
This is sad. Our goaltending is awful. That third goal was soft. We won’t even be close to competing with France or Denmark at this rate. Austria is no walk on team but in fairness, they did look better than us at the euros. Ivusic is a replicate of Pletikosa with that slow reactive diving.
Losses for both Cilic and an embarrassing loss for the Vatrenia so yeah a terrible day all round for us.
Why are we bringing on Luka?
Agreed. Reminds me of Euro 96 when we were 3-0 down and THEN the coach decided to bring on the best players, i mean why bother at that point, you just risk injury and the game is already gone.
Whole back lines been terrible but I’d much rather start sime at rb
France is gonna beat us 6-0 at this rate
Your being too kind.
Why put Luka in a 3-0 blowout in the 60th minute?
Terrible performance. Pograncic looks “next-level” horrible. The crowd in Osijek doesn’t seem overly supportive (from the start of the game).
This is absolute rubbish!!! If this is what it’s like without Modric and Perisic hid help us. No effort at all!!! 3 nil at home to this????
Well, looks like another last-placed finish in Nations League for us, sigh.
Poor finishing. Poor defending.
Our D has been really bad. Passing had been atrocious from our back line. Gvardiol all of a sudden is a really important player for us.
On that note 2-0 Austria. Embarrassing.
Typical Croatia . Without Modric no one ever steps up.
We really are mediocrity in motion
No disrespect to austrija but this game looks exactly like some players came on vaction. What game to.play in slavonija humidity 90%. No exuses just saying. Ivusic could have done better i feel maybe serem haha.
All in all lose
Sloppy goal to give up cc didnt cover neither did pongracic. I dont know what to say this tik tak crap at back pisses me off play football. Majer is not a rw.
Cetnik scores …ughhhh
Caleta Car with a poor job closing down on the goalscorer.
Looks a little heavy
He should do a couple more laps around the field before WC…
Sigh… Cilic losing, Vatreni losing, not a good day atm
30 minutes in, Brozovic has actually been the most creative midfielder with Luka out.
Not surprised. They are not playing well. 1-0 Austria, this why you don’t call a team mediocre or treat it like an automatic win. Sosa has made some errors, Caleta Car has made some errors, offensively that needed to be a goal from Pasalic. This is not a good start. They look tired and uninterested. Brekalo and Majer are making mistakes. I dunno.
This has to be one of the worst games I have seen them play. The defence is atrocious. The offence is not much better, who said silky smooth??
Playing well this far. Isuse…Pasalic should have a couple already.
Croatia 🇭🇷 looking sooo silky
Love it
So so technical 👏
The more talent on the field the better
Lfg Dalic
The links have never changed, just bookmark this site:
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Since they lost U21
Does that mean we get to see
Roko, Sucic, Stanisic early
And let’s stop with the habit of loaning A list players back to U21.
Once Senior capped, let’s try integrate them into Senior squad for WC
can someone pls post a link i can watch free online in canada thanks
Biscan can go
Not a fan
Plus doesn’t give good vibes ever…
Always seems too negative vibes
Let’s get someone in who brings out the best attacking qualities outta our skills youth
Lets be honest Norway deserved to win, they were the better team on the day.
Our defence was shocking unable to hold on in stoppage time. Our goalkeeper Kotarski had a great game and is not to blame for any of the goals.
Our defenders were poor. Stanisic had to be replaced at halftime as he was not able to contain Norways winger who kept on going past him with ease. Josip Sutalo also kept on making mistakes.
Looks like play offs, unless Finland can beat Norway at home.
Under 21s choked man what a game
They fucked it at home in the last round of matches. Should not of even come down to today. Solid choke job. Biscan is a shitshow too. How he is a coach is beyond me.
They walk into the tournament if they don’t concede 2x in injury time….cant wait to see these lowlights…
I watched the game Norway were way better. Kotarski saved croatia and the post saved us. Sutalo terrible game. Imo only sucic and simic are class for A jump
Livaković – Juranović, Vida, Ćaleta-Car, Sosa (Barišić) – Brozović, Kovačić, Pašalić – Majer, Brekalo – Kramarić
Does anyone know what Hrvatska tv kanal will have a replay today and what time?
Nova TV
Dalic is not coaching today. His father passed away.
I guess it will be Mandzo and Corluka both coaching. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Modric will not be starting today.
Not sure what to expect from this match and I have no idea who Dalic will start. I agree with the whole “glorified friendly” talk but whether it’s a friendly or not, I want to win. But I also want to try things out that we would actually try in a World Cup scenario.
I think Dalic should go with Budimir up top and Krama playing behind him in an advanced midfield / second striker role. Put Kova and Majer in the middle, Orsic and Brekalo at the wings. Sosa at leftback, Erlic and DCC at centerback and Jura at the right flank. Not super confident in Erlic and DCC paired together since they’re both quite slow but this is Austria, not France. In nets I’d go with Labrovic. Let the kid play, why not? Worst that can happen is he’s just as bad as the current goalkeeping situation we have. Best case, he turns out to be a stud for us.
Austria will most likely go with their 6’7 striker, but Sosa knows him well and that’s why we need Sosa starting.
All in all, despite basically playing our B team, I still expect a win. Most of these guys are going to be hungry to try and proves themselves worthy of a spot in the starting XI.
Final prediction: 2-1 for us.
DAZN has the game in Canada
TV talk: This is a great site that shares what channel(s) games are on in various countries — https://www.livesoccertv.com/schedules/
Since Dalic likes to play hometown players
Ivusic juranovic vida skoric barisic jakic kova majer brekalo krama orisic today?
For KDB it is meaningless. He is a top 5 player on the planet.
For Ante Budimir it is meaningful. He can establish himself as our true #9 heading into Qatar.
I wish it could of been meaningful for Ante Rebić against France in Poljud. No one brings his power and pace and the more depth the better.
If Kovačić is fully healthy I would like to see him have a big week to let us know he is ready to be a leader and take ownership of his talent in the attacking third.
Any fringe player not focused on a World Cup spot should be cut.
June 14th they all can be in Dalmacija enjoying ljepa naša jadranski more!!
Till then the UNL is like a mini group stage against three tiers of national teams.
I like to see who can step up with the absence of Perišić? Perišić presence can never be underestimated.
Oršić, Brekalo, Vlašić, Majer ????
Croatia – Austria will be televised in the States on Fox Soccer Plus – not commonly available.
You can view it for free on app that you can download to your phone or Roku box called ViX.
It’s a Spanish TV channel app that is televising all the Nations League matches.
Forgot to add that once the app loads, click on “deportes” located on bottom of your cell phone screen – on the left side column if using Roku box.
With so many key players absent with injuries and Covid, I’m not optimistic about the upcoming 4 matches in 10 days. I’m hoping that we can beat Austria in Osijek and get something from the match against France in Split. Away matches against Denmark and France will be tough. Whatever people think about the NL, these matches are important for ranking points and confidence ahead of the WC.
On the Russia issue I agree with Eric and would ban all Russian teams and individual athletes.
Good points, but in this case I support banning all Russian athletes and Russian products, etc. Hopefully all of these sanctions will eventually get the Russian people to demand their leaders to stop this pointless and brutal war on their neighbor. Most Russians seem to support and love Putin, just like most Serbs loved and blindly supported Milošević.
Anyone see Serbia lose to Norway? Serbs dominated the match and deserved a draw. Swiss appeared out of form after a loss to Czech. Ukraine to win Sunday for me. It’d be a extraordinary story for them to capture another away win. Despite all they’ve endured, they have displayed a lot of resilience and strength. I’m supporting Ukraine but anti Zelinski and amongst other things. Russia shouldn’t be banned from competing. I’m sure I’m not the only one who holds that view.
I’m curious…why do you think Russia shouldn’t be banned? I’m surprised that =U= would be on the Russians side. Don’t ever forget, they are Serbia’s big brother, and will never be a friend to Croatia.
You can be anti Russia but not anti Russian.
I think it’s stupid that Wimbledon is banning Russian players from playing, but I could care less for Russia.
If we’re going to sanction every citizen or athlete based on what the government of their country of origin is doing…
Then we should probably be banning half the teams in this World Cup.
Just put all the Russians in Cilic’s quarter of the draw and they will be eliminated soon enough anyways 😉
So punish players that aren’t acting as government officials? There’s plenty that speak out against it or don’t have a obligation because they make no difference. I’m not pro or anti Russia. I just think it’s unfair to ban sports figures and national teams. It’s ironic that Israel that devastated Palestine for years and still able to compete in qualifying uefa tournaments. They aren’t even European and are war criminals just like the United States. Just because Russia are allies with Serbia that doesn’t deter me to speak out against Russian athletes being oppressed by a corrupt government and war. The innocent Ukrainian people are losing they’re land. However, all the politicians like Biden, Zelenskyy and other corrupt donors.
Those politicians are gaining profit from the Ukrainian people suffering.
Thats not true in the 90s domovinski war russia gave croatia weapons when entire world put embargo on us so this russia are serb friends is just a serbian myth.
Sorry Miki, I have never heard of Russia helping Croatia in the 90’s or ever. Our diaspora smuggled weapons from all over, but i never heard anything about russia. Its not a myth that russia are serb friends. Serbs are risking eventual EU membership because of their support for their comrads.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-gives-military-helicopters-to-croatia-as-russia-sends-arms-to-serbia
Now broz is questionable
Does anyone know where this game can be watched in the the USA? Don’t see it on ESPN+ and FoxSports is not televising it, unless on their app
Hi Zadar,
You can click on this link https://www.livesoccertv.com/countries/croatia/
and be able to see information about soccer games and who is broadcasting them in various countries. Just click on any respective game for detailed information. In addition, you can also view soccer game information from various leagues as well. Enjoy!
V austria fox soccer plus monday vs france fs1
Fox soccer plus Should have it
I see where KDB is coming from but how else are nations supposed to be prepared when the World Cup is five months. Without any practice, the team becomes stale, stiff and loses chemistry. They are friendlies that are enhanced by UEFA to make more money but required to have youth with development. I saw 1-0 win vs Austria and then 1-1 draw vs France.
U a a crused moroko did anyone watch the game in usa. Wonder was it a b moroko or A team?
Sucic and sutalo join team v denmark france games.
Gvardiol will be available for latter 2 so will musa livaja from my source.
The plan is to beat austrija and get result monaday vs france.
Try win home games draw away im guessing is plan no disrespect to austria but id put a mixed team no a c team but mix team.
Against france at poljud start stronest 11
V denmark and france in paris shock with youth imo.
Majer is a starter for me. Sucic should be on A team no more under 21s i feel this borrowing players is stupid if you are elite you should be on A team the under 21s are for players who need time to build and maybe turn into players when mid 20s.
Vs austrija since its in osijek and dalic plays to home crowd. Ivusic Juranovic Vida CC Barisic Kovacic Broz Modric Majer Kramaric Orsic.
Gvardiol will not be available i meant to say which sucks. Maybe give erilic a chance i hope he calls vuskovic ahead of skoric but playing to home crowd skoric will play tommorow.
Sucic is with the U21’s right now. I’m not sure what the plan is, maybe he joins the team for the last two nations games
We need to stop using words like mediocre about a team, I don’t think that’s appropriate personally. I also don’t think Austria is mediocre.
To top things off Dalic won’t be present for the first game, he is Livno because his dad passed. I just read an article on it. I wish the guy the best because that’s not easy to deal with.
But four to five people missing including the coach is not a good thing for us in that game either even though it’s Austria, they are not a team to overlook. They have some decent players.
what i want to see versus austria:
………………………….Budimir…………………………………..
…………………………………..Kramaric………………………..
Orsic……………………………………………………….Brekalo
……………………Brozo………………Modric………………….
Sosa…………………………………………………….Juranovic
………………………..DCC………..Pongracic…………………
…………………………………………………………………………..
……………………………….Ivusic…………………………………
subs; majer for krama begining of the second half, pasalic for budimir after about 55mins, vrsaljko for jj, sucic for modric after about 70mins.
what i do not want to see; brozo modric and kova all playing CM at the same time, central players like majer, krama and vlasic playing winger, kramaric playing lone striker uptop, livakovic starting gk, vida barisic and ivanusec getting significant minutes.
Orsic and brekalo are our only wingers over these next 4 games so we will probably see vlasic and ivanusec getting mins out wide.