Croatia manager, Zlatko Dalić, has named the strongest possible squad for the Vatreni for their two upcoming friendlies in Doha, Qatar against Slovenia (March 26th) and Bulgaria (March 29th).
With this technically being a mini-tournament leading up to the 2022 World Cup – being hosted in Qatar – we can only assume Dalić and the HNS are being contracted to bring the Croatian A-squad. There is absolutely zero reason Modrić, Perišić, Brozović, Kramarić, Kovačić should be playing ample minutes during international friendlies in March while they are in the final stretch of their club seasons.
It looks as if Dalić will experiment in Qatar during these two matches; possibly with a 3-5-2 formation. Regardless of playing three or four in the back, we need to figure out which player will lead Croatia in attack in 2022. Kramarić has been a shell of himself in checkers. We could possibly put Pašalić as a False 9. It won’t be Budimir or Livaja. Roko Šimić still too young.
Dalić: “We will try to play with a 3 at the back in both friendlies. Several players play it at club level. I want to see Perišić as he plays it for Inter, Gvardiol as the LCB. Sometimes we don’t even have a #9, so we will try our best to be ready for June. (Nations League matches)”
I’ve wanted to see Croatia try 3-5-2 for a long time. Perišić is a boss as left wing back. And now with Gvardiol we can have a solid left CB. Pašalić plays a similar formation with Atalanta and often plays as a forward lately. Try him and Kramarić up front.
https://www.goalstube.online/2022/03/real-madrid-psg.html?m=m4
Lovely work from Luka. It’s absolutely incredible how many times he amazes. He really shouldn’t still be this good. Hvalu Bogu da je….
Also you know Ronaldo somewhere is breaking some over priced art piece in his house;)
Are there bigger chokers than PSG??
Luka with a near golasso!!
Litrerally just started watching the Madrid game and boom 3-1
Looks like if they can do this they can take another champions league
Fuck me Luka’s good, classic tackle on Messi and a couple of minutes later goes on a run, makes a perfect pass to create the second goal, total class.
Modric is playing with a bunch of plugs other than kroos and benzema.
So I thought it happened before but officially fifa has kicked Russia out
Apparently putin says no one will be playing
Stanisic is offiically condemned in bayern..waste his season in bayern…even sarr is subbed in too for the tired legs of the defenders..
Bring in robert muric for RW position..he can make things happened just like luiz diaz.
Punishment for choosing Croatia over Germany.
…and now, we won’t even call him up anymore.
Ya no bueno. I hope this is not seen like that by other potential diaspora
Stanisic is still really young, and Bouna Sarr is in top form right now. He was amazing in the African Cup. Just because Stanisic and Vidovic aren’t playing doesn’t mean that their careers are done. Some team is going to benefit by signing these guys like Stanisic and Bradaric who are on the bench this year but have the quality to start
Broz with a calf strain today
Was pulled off
Doesn’t seem serious but still not good to see
Inter is so much better with him in the line up
You can see perisic calling for the ball a lot and seemed to me avoided somewhat
He will be pivotal if we role the 3-5-3
Overall good call up, no obvious players left out imo. Although I do rank Erlic over Skoric and Musa over Budimir/Colak. Jedvaj and Uremovic might be better than Skoric as well. I guess Moro is better than Basic at this time. Nevistic > Kalinic?? Interesting that Dalic left out his Dinamo boys Petkovic and more importantly Ivanusec.
Questionable call on that red
Well maybe Perisic has some magic to tie it
Perisic with a really nice key interception that led to inter goal
2-1 Liverpool on aggravate
But now inter just got a red….
Call me crazy but I really think pasalic and livaja can make room In front of the goal and poach in garbage and pasalic has a good header for those crosses
And no I’m not just some hajduk die hard
I still feel better with our forwards then our keepers currently
———————Budimir ———————
——————————Kramaric—————
—-Perisic————Pasalic———Kovacic
—————Brozovic———Modric————
Gvardiol———-Caleta-Car——Juranovic
———————Grbic(or Ivusic)—————
Or
——————Budimir———————
———————————Kramaric———
Sosa—————Modric———Perisic
————Brozovic———Kovacic———
Gvardiol——Caleta-Car——Juranovic
——————Grbic(or Ivusic)————-
No talk about the Champion’s League?
A Croatian has hoisted the trophy for many years in a row…will the streak continue???
Inter is down by 2 to Liverpool
RB Salzburg is even with Bayern
Real is down by 1 to PSG
Atletico even with ManU
Chelsea is up by 2 to Lille
In Mateo we trust
The list looks good, and I’m happy that Dalić is ready to try 3 at the back. I think a lot of our players are already accustom to this formation. It gives us a chance to really utilize the talents of Perišić. We need to use every game to build chemistry and develop a solid foundation. If the games are going well, then make few changes to test different players, but the core players should remain consistent (unless they need a rest, injuries, etc)
4 years and still no true 9. 3 5 2 with not 2 strikers it would basically be a 3 7 0 formation. Who do the wing backs center it to? Pasalic krama livaja? Then lwb goes to perisic which means sosa on bench. Right back brekalo then?
Like to see musa get call up not because he is the savior but deserves a call good play in portugal.
Also Lovren Vida should not be on team imo. I dont see them bring much towards end of 2022.
Sucic stanisic are on u21s beacuse its big qualifiers for them.
Vlasic has been a flop so far in wes ham shame. Grbic droped for poor play.
This is basically the squad for 2022 imo maybe sucic sneaks in for some one.
3 5 2 formation so Gk. Back 3 lovren CC Gvardiol 3 cms Modric Kovacic Brozovic wing backs Juranovic Perisic 2 up to i guess Pasalic Kramaric.
When does League of Nations start?
Do you guys see dalic going with a lighter team for those games or really put full effort into them?
June 4 games those are basically world cup prep games so he might mix it up give role players a chance then september 2 games
Somewhere in Italy rebic is triple checking the list for his name
Maybe we pull out the win first match then try some more experiments for the second one
We did ask for 3-5-3 for a while so there’s that
We can see it played out
Got my World Cup tickets today !! Anyone else ??
From the forward list, who would we take off for Musa? It would have to be budimir or livaja (if fielding our strongest team) ?
I’m not a Dalic fan, but he can’t seem to get a break. You question why he brought the “strongest possible squad” but if he didn’t, you’d question that as well and complain about losing ranking points. For the record, I did read an interview yesterday where he explicitly mentioned the need to secure points to guarantee a pot 2 place.
I do think that he should have brought Musa, but as per usual, he’ll be playing with the U21’s. At least Maminjo will be happy with that decision 🤣. Erlic also should have been called up. At the very least, he should be on the standby list.
My bad, Musa is not on the U21’s.
Musa is too old for the U21s now and absolutely should’ve been called up. I am hoping for a Majer-esc call up at the last minute due to an injury drop out even though he isn’t on the stand by list
Whaa?
I support calling up Musa.
Lol, my comment made more sense when I thought Musa was playing for the U21’s. Everyone knows how you feel about that🤣
…………………………Pasalic………..Livaja……………………….
Perisic………………………………………………………….Brekalo
………………………..Brozo…………..Modric………………………
Sosa…………………Gvardiol……….Caleta………..Juranovic
…………………………………….Ivusic…………………………………
Could be pretty nice
I do want to see pasalic on the field and want to see what majer can do
He adds this whole potential new dynamic
All in all we are missing yes perhaps a legit starting striker
But I think we can score by committee
With luka and majer really adding their offensive abilities and potential scoring now to our mid field more regularly
actually not bad i like it