Things we learned vs. Macedonia:
-Majer is booming with confidence and needs to start at Euro (ideally at the #10 in front of Modrić)
-Kova still looks pedestrian in the Croatian midfield
-Budimir needs to be the starting #9 in Germany
-Croatia’s future is bright with Baturina, Sučić, Marco Pašalić
Anywhere we can find a replay of the game? Be much appreciated.
DAZN
Why did Modric not play?
No apparent injuries and a comfortable win with standout performance from Majer. We’ll know a lot more on Saturday when we meet Portugal in Lisbon. Defensively a bit scratchy in the first half, being caught out again on a couple of occasions with long balls over the top. We have had this defensive problem with long balls over the top for some time and it looks like it is still there.
Hard to tell about Perisic, he looked Ok but lacks the pace and aggression prior to his knee injury. Perisic to me looks pedestrian and not Kovacic who did a lot of running in the first half. Sucic looked good when he came on as did Budimir with his aggressive running.
You’re comparing a player who’s been out for most of the season to a player who hasn’t been out for even a portion of the season to say “he’s been injured”.
Our Jarrod Bowen i.e. Marco Pasalic finally got his first goal (world-class finish)
And folks finally waking up on here – just remember who called it first – when he breaks out at the Euros
Majer 1st goal – goalie was completely frozen (he assumed Majer was going to pass it, not shoot) – against Donnarumma or Simon/Raya that would be saved 9 times out of 10
What was Perisic thinking with that slide tackle just outside the box in the 43 minute ? Completely unnecessary risk in friendly – maybe he wanted to show – that his knee is “100%” but change the angle just slightly on another day (or how opponent reacted to being tackle) and that could have been another blown ACL – crazy stuff by him
Thought Kova was good in the first half – w/out Modric he had more freedom and he seemed to step-up to leading the midfield including one of his trade-mark slalom runs – he knew there was nowhere to hide today
Ok. Relax there 9 out of 10, haha.
Keeper had to cover both sides of the net and relied on his defensive wall… But Majer placed it perfectly over the wall, which the keeper didn’t see until it was too late to react.
absolute a bad omen
Vida was there and will continue to be
–> A central defender for the tournament
losing to Italy and Spain ~ but then luckily for Dalic
sitting 3rd place in the group is enough to advance
Only saw a little of the game but a solid result.
How did we look overall? How did Perisic look? From what I saw (last 10-15) Sucic looked good and Pjaca had a nice cross for the goal that Pasalic banged in.
Nice to our younger players step up. It’s important for these kids to carry the torch and provide other options for a euro run.
Barring injuries, we actually have some decent talent backing up most of starters.
Almost everybody looked good.
But let’s wait for the Portugal friendly to see how we do against a contender.
Any word if Perisic did damage to his knee? Hope not a setback.
It’s too late for today, but Nova TV showed the game. If you use a VPN to spoof your location, you can watch it for free.
Not sure why people are still messing around with random links.
So many options to stream via iptv or using a VPN to get geoblocked streams.
because 99% of VPNs have your internet speed at dial-up and are totally unusable, perhaps?
Regarding steaming (in the US), Fubo shows all Hrvatska games, albeit with a subscription. I just pause the subscription in months when the repka aren’t playing
Majer, baturina, sucic. They all give us hope that our midfield will not massively drop off with luka retiring
And course hoping kova can go one level more being under pep
Tell my friends. My biggest question is how did Perisic look??
He looked OK, but he’s definitely lost a step. He’s still “got it” but when the intensity level increases with better competition, I’m not so sure. I think he should contribute off the bench for the best impact. Again, it’s hard to evaluate, because the game wasn’t a big challenge, and he did fine. The last few minutes before he got subbed off, it looked like everyone was trying to pass to him, just to give him an opportunity.
Any video highlights, i couldnt find any but maybe it’s too soon. Anyway they can be a tricky opponent so 3-0 sounds like a good performance?
Macedonia are a decent team now.
Elmas is a good player and he was there today.
Croatia played well and got contributions from a lot of players.
Majer, Baturina, Sučić, Pjaca, Perišić, Livaković… all looked very good.
Juranović looked poor, but I expect Stanišić is our RB starter now so it doesn’t matter.
Only way to shoe horn Majer in effectively is with a broz/kova defensive platoon (which is probably better anyway) kova starting and giving 100% followed by brozovic for 30 min giving what he can.
Have modric play in his traditional role and let Majer handle a bit more attacking role in the midfield (old rakitic position)
I know dalic wants his modric/kova/broz trusted midfield but I’m not sure they work together great at this stages of their careers.
Majer is also great coming in at about 65min, hes slow so he does better against tired legs (and makedonijan butchers)
I also hope that Dalic and Luka allow Majer to take the majority or all of the set pieces.
I’ve noticed for a few years his delivery on corners and free kicks, direct/indirect have always been deadly but due to seniority, never given the reigns.
No matter how much we all love Luka, he needs to allow Majer to step up. If he’s willing to ride the pine for Real, I’m sure he would have no issues with passing the torch.
This 100%. I want Majer taking set pieces.
Good game. Result of 3-0 was pretty well expected. Good to see a number of guys get in there. I really wish vida would retire and let some younger guys get in there. Let’s see how we do Saturday. Bog i hrvati
That shouldn’t be up to Vida to decide that, a certain someone should decide to stop calling him up *cough*cough* Dalic like he should’ve done about 3-4 years ago.
Sucic looked really good as well playing deep playmaker. Commentator on Nova kept praising him as well.
I got no beef with the kits. There will be highs, there will be lows. They look decent when they have the numbers/names included. Nice win. Jebi ga!
Who cares what the kits look like lets make a run in rhe euros and the kits will become legendary
Lovro Majer je igracina.
He played as dm/cm second half and was phenomenal.
Top training match no injuries and positive energy mirise mi na lito 2018e
Marco my word. The Legend begins. Where were you when it started….. will be the question everyone will ask.
Marco Pasalic has a fighter mentality… Every time he has been subbed on he has come so close to scoring, today finally put one in the back of the net. He is dangerous
Dinamo players connecting nicely for the 2nd goal: Baturina to Petkovic to Majer goal. Livakovic is looking really good too!
No links here I tried work. There was that good Russian one a few months back. Don’t remember what it was
https://top.soccerstreams100.io/event/fifa-friendly/north-macedonia-vs-croatia-live-soccer-stats/693935
https://streambtw.com/iframe/ch2.php
Livaković looking great in this game.
Comfortable running out of his comfort zone and clearing a couple of 50/50 balls before the Macedonian forwards could get to them.
If anyone needs a stream for the game, i found this one and high quality
https://streambtw.com/iframe/ch2.php
that’s actually a great stream, thanks minivatreni
I’m getting an error message on both my phone and computer about “No secure connection can be established”.
Glad it’s working for everyone else.
Im watching on a PC. Looks very good.
Jerseys look terrible unfortunately. Was hoping I would like them better on TV, with players names on the back. But I don’t. Just ugly
I disagree, jerseys look better on the pitch.
I would reccomend trying again? It was down for a bit during half time and now back up again. Sorry if it’s not working for you, shame.
I hope the person who provided links 2 hours ago meant well, because all of the ones provided have viruses or take you to suspicious sites.
https://streambtw.com/iframe/ch2.php
If you have ROKU the game is free on there.
I hope I don’t give the wrong information but it seems the game is being streamed in Canada on the DAZN.
I hope I’m also right because I just payed for another month.
Any corrections on this matter would be appreciated, I would not want to give bad information.
Hrvatska (4-2-3-1): Livaković – Juranović, Vida, Erlić, Sosa – Kovačić, Majer – Kramarić, Baturina, Perišić – Petković.
anything other than win today is failure. If we struggle to score or lose to this team its a clear sign that we are going home early . The game against Spain is a must win. I would like to avoid drama that surrounds us each tournament where we loose or draw and have to win the last game . if you cannot beat this team what makes anyone think we can beat Albania . They will be no push over . I am hoping for the best . I strongly believe that this Euro could be the last chance this team has to win any gold. We do have talent and are little better than people think. However the talented squad we have does not show up to win. Holding a team for 120 minutes and taking our chance on PK has gotten old . I don’t mean to be negative . I am just disappointed that we have sqaundered many opportunities and just when we think we are progressing we relapse.
You cannot judge our team based on a friendly game where half of our key players won’t even play! You must judge based on results of games that matter. Everyone is a great coach from their couch at home
That’s right we are all coaches and have something to say about everything.
Give credit to Zlatko Dalic as our golden generation didn’t do anything until he came. Mr. Dalic has given us many treasured memories. Viva Zlatko!
Zlatko za poglavnik!
Asking in advance. If anyone has a good stream please please post it here. God bless
https://soccerlive.app/soccer-stream/croatia-north-macedonia/1409290
Hvala ????????????
https://streambtw.com/iframe/ch2.php
Former U21 international Marin Sverko (6ft 2in, D.O.B. Feb 4, 1998) will play in Serie A next season after his team Venezia clinched promotion via the play-offs. Born and raised in Germany, Marin is a left-footed center back who previously played for teams in the German lower leagues before moving to Groningen in 2021. He went on loan at Venezia in January last year before joining them permanently in the summer.
3 am on a freezing night here in aussie-land so i wont be getting up for this one. One of you guys can post a report after about it : )
Don’t get up, stay up.
Volim piti, volim piti ….
As reported Modric Brozovic and Mario Pasalic will not be available for this game against the Mac’s..
Would like to see Dalic utilizing a 4-5-1 with this current crop of players available.. would like to see how Gvardiol as LB functions with a Perisic/Ivanusec/Pjaca attack.. how Sosa may complement a left side with Pjaca or Ivanusec when and if called upon.. Baturina and Sucic(the future mid) will get a lot of playing time here..
—————————-Petkovic—————————
———Perisic—————————-Kramaric——
——————————Majer——————————
———————Sucic—-—Kovacic——————
—Gvardiol———————————Juranovic—
———————–Erlic——Sutalo———————
——————————Budimir—————————
—Pjaca——————————————-Pasalic
——————Ivanusec—-Baturina——————
——————————-Sucic——————————
—-Sosa——Pongracic——Vida——Stanisic
Jeli zna Optus Sport ???????? kada hvala ❤️????
Jeli zna Optus Sport ???????? kada
Gvardiol posted on the Gram a few pics from training – in two of the pics – he is duelling w/ what appears to be a perfectly-healthy Vlasic