In Luka Ivanušec’s last match in a Dinamo Zagreb shirt, the Modri came back from a 1-0 deficit against Czech champions, Sparta Prague, to rattle off three unanswered goals in a 3-1 1st leg victory. Goals from Špikić, Perić and the man of the hour, Ivanušec, will give Dinamo a comfortable lead going into the 2nd leg next week. They are now 90 minutes away from the Europa League group stage.
Croatian international, Luka Ivanušec, was taken off in the 87th minute in tears to a standing ovation from the Maksimir faithful. He is moving to Dutch champions, Feyenoord, in the next week and will play Champions League football this season.
Rijeka lost 2-1 to Lille on French soil in the 1st leg of their Conference League playoff round affair but it was not without drama. Rijeka caught Lille on a counter-attack in the 24th minute with 22 year-old Marco Pašalić chipping the keeper for the game’s first goal. Lille would pull one back to enter halftime ties up at 1-1. The match looked to be ending in a draw, which would have been a fantastic result for an HNL side vs. Ligue 1, however Lille scored a winner one minute from injury time to send Rijeka fans into heartbreak.
Only down one goal. Rijeka has all to still play for next week in Croatia.
Krama with a last minute penalty to secure the win for hoffenheim
I honestly take him over luka over anybody for the repka right now to take a do or die penalty
Frigan with his first goal today!
Maybe dalic knows what he’s doing
The guy prays more then your baba for a good smokve season
Maybe he gets divine interventions…
JJ with two assists against Darmstadt
Went to look up the stats bartol franjic and another Croat matej maglica played on the losing side
Darmstadt absolutely crushed Berlin on the possession and passes and stats
Berlin had a red card in the 21 minute as well
Ended up at 4-1 for Berlin
JJ with a super promising start to the season
Can he take his game to another level this season???
I’m in Germany for a couple of days and it just feels like it’s a good place for our boys to develop
Hopefully franjic and maglica make some magica In Germany together as well
Robert muric scored for konyaspor..time to call up muric as RW
Carlo was actually livid after the PK was stopped. Don’t often see that from him. I wondered why. (Also wondered why Luka wasn’t taking it. Commentators were oblivious on the topic. “Karim is not here…” etc.)
https://www.managingmadrid.com/2023/8/26/23846009/ancelotti-press-conference-real-madrid-celta-vigo-modric-rodrygo-penalty
apparently Luka is supposed to take them and the team isn’t supposed to decide for themselves…
Shame we gave up that goal at the death but we took it to Lille and feel good about the 2nd tie at Rujevica. Pasalic playing his way into the repka convo, we can use a winger like him.
Should have tied it up there at the end.
Hopefully they play just as good in Rijeka.
I actually think that Rijeka losing their coach might act as an extra motivating factor. It would be great if they could channel those feelings and come out on top.