There’s a loooooong way to go, BUT, after four matches and half the “League Phase” campaign already completed, Dinamo currently sit in 16th place; level on points with Manchester City, Juventus and Arsenal. More surprisingly, the Croatian champs have more points than Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and AC Milan at the midpoint of the Champions League “group phase”. How would have said that two months ago?
Dinamo will likely need 4 more points to lock up a top-24 finish and knockout round berth in 2025. They still have to play Dortmund, Arsenal, AC Milan and Celtic. The good news for Dinamo: 3/4 of their remaining CL fixtures will be played in Zagreb. They will only have to play Arsenal in London on Matchday 7. It won’t be an easy road but how cool is this new CL format? No one has locked anything up yet and there’s plenty of more games to be played as winter approaches. Dinamo still have Dortmund, Celtic and AC Milan at Maksmir.
Way more exciting than the old group stage format! 100%.
Petković is staying home for the Nations League games to recover from an injury, so now Cro media is reporting that Sandro Kulenović may get the call-up. Also, Šutalo sat out Ajax’s last game due to a “minor problem”. He better be OK for the upcoming Cro games because Dalić has no other options available.
Don’t worry.
I’m sure Dalic had the foresight to call up more than just three CBs.
Great to hear pjaca played well
What’s he got to do to get some mins as one of the only viable wingers we have right now?
Dalic will say only if he does it against Arsenal or something…
P sucic is what we need
Croatian heart and effort with above average talent
This is better then any primadona super star who half asses it
These kinds of guys keep getting us deep into tourneys
Sigur is a little bitch, he should have waited
If I ever see him In the streets of Burnaby I’ll make sure to shame him and his family for playing for Canada
Only reason he chose Canada cause they auto qualify for World Cup
Whatever, good luck to him
We are stacked silly in midfield
Stanisic will be back soon and secure up that right side
Give pjaca 45 mins dalic
Leave Moro in italy
Misic is more of the fighter style we need to back up king luka and prince kova
He won’t disappoint
Yeah Dannyj, give it to that little B (Niko Sigur) if you ever see him!
Gentlemen, are you not above this? How many key players do we have who switched allegiance to Croatia? Just now we have Susic, Kovacic, and Stanisic. He’s young, was born and raised in Canada, and for whatever reason, decided to switch back from Croatia. We have a fleet of young midfield talent, who, if they reach their potential, might make Sigur for Croatia irrelevant. Good luck to him.
Is that Safet Susic’s son?
My mistake. Was referring to Luke Sucic.
It’s a shame Brugges and Shaktar won. Feyenoord and Stuttgart lost.
These are the teams we are battling against for those last few spots in the standings.
Some of these teams (like Stuttgart and Celtic) have weirdly easy schedules, so we need to secure that win against Celtic but also hope for lost points for these other teams.