DINAMO (4-1-4-1): Livaković – Moharrami, Šutalo, Theophile, Franjić – Mišić – Menalo, Ivanušec, Ademi, Oršić – Petković
Dinamo Zagreb could have locked up a Europa League knockout stage berth with a win over Genk Thursday night at Maksimir. Instead, they will now have to wait until the last match of group stage in December against West Ham. A draw against an already qualified West Ham in London will see Dinamo through OR a Rapid Wien win/draw versus Genk.
Dinamo controlled the 1st Half and opened up the scoring when Theophile-Catherine sent a perfect long ball from his own half to a scorching Luka Menalo down the field. Menalo would split the defense on the break-away, take one touch off his torso, and poke the ball through for a 1-0 Dinamo lead. However, Dinamo would concede in 1st half injury time when Genk’s Ike Ugbo hot a perfect shot under the crossbar to beat Livaković following a corner. Genk were the better side in the 2nd half but the match would end 1-1.
Good to see Perisic, Modric and Kovacic having great years.
Krama is in a bit of a scoring drought, and Broz has been scoring creative own-goals lately (lol) but they’re both playing well.
We’ll need these vets to do well at the World Cup.
Got some up-and-comers in Sosa, Majer, Stanisic, Pasalic, and Gvardiol all having great years too. These guys are 100 percent ready.
Some guys seem to be turning things around too, like Brekalo, Duje, Pongracic, Vrsaljko, and hopefully Vlasic in the New Year.
Glad to see some of the washups (like Vida) nailed to the bench despite being a captain. Hopefully, Lovren and Barisic find their place there too. Decent backups, with the key word being backup.
We’re likely going to have a good selection of players at every position, and it will be about picking the right ones.
We have the depth and whoever is not in form will quickly be dropped.
Even during the tournament, I expect a COVID scam case to happen to a key player or two (like it did to us with Perisic at the Euros) but we’ll have the depth to counter FIFA’s COVID strategy.
The in-game VAR strategy will be difficult to counter though, so we’ll have to continue to play aggressive and score an extra goal every game (like in these recent qualifiers) to advance.
I agree…the key to our success is to
“continue to play aggressive” even when we are up a goal or two. Whenever we sit back and try to defend a one goal lead, we loose our edge, and it often backfires. Whoever doesn’t give 100% effort until the final whistle needs to be benched.
Expected dinamo to win. Now it is gonna be a problem against west ham
Watching the playoff draw. Thank God we are not involved today because I would’ve puked and shit my pants by now. By the way, Italy and Portugal were just drawn into the same bracket, so that guarantees that one of them is not going.
Livakovic was good made 3 nice saves
Damn.. probably gonna need a result at West Ham now.
This year Perisic makes the difference because he has pace and quality. The cross for the second goal was very good. He is doing wonderful things.”
I am thankful for Ivan Perišić and his beast mode on the LW!!
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