Dinamo Zagreb defeat West Ham United 1-0 behind an INCREDIBLE Mislav Oršić wundergol! The man has been an absolute London-killer in 2021; scoring a hat trick against Tottenham Hotspur in March to bounce the North London club out of Europa League.
Dinamo can now play Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla (to name a few top clubs) in the Europa League playoff round next year before the Round of 16 kicks off. The draw takes place Monday, December 13th.
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Dinamo Zagreb will look to keep their Europa League dream alive on Thursday evening, as they battle group leaders West Ham at London Stadium. As long as Genk fail to beat Rapid Wien by more than seven goals, Dinamo Zagreb can clinch a Europa League playoff spot with a draw in their final group stage match of the tournament.
What exactly is a Europa League playoff spot? Due to the creation of the European Conference League, the Europa League format has drastically changed. Only the first placed team in each group gains automatic qualification into the round of 16, leaving each second placed side to compete in a playoff against a third placed Champions League club. For example, if Dinamo finishes in second place in their group on Thursday, they could possibly face Barcelona (third place in Champions League Group E) for a spot in the Europa League round of 16. If Dinamo finish in third place in their group, they will drop into the European Conference League.
Bruno Petković did not travel with the squad to London, as he is dealing with an apparent cold. Either Marko Tolić or Komnen Andrić will fill his spot up top on Thursday.
In a pre-match interview, West Ham’s Nikola Vlašić said, “We can knock Dinamo out [of the Europa League], and that’s a big wish for everybody at Hajduk, and me”. A 4-3 victory for Dinamo would be ideal, as long as Vlašić scores the three for West Ham!
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I think Orsics goal took a deflection
The same people talking smack on Vlasic probably said that modric was a bust in his first season at Real….
Yeah, because Luka and Vlasic are comparable players…lol
Luka already was a star at dinamo and spurs and our NT before he went to the biggest club in the world. Vlasic was in some hack ruskie league and then now a benchwarmer on a historically crap team west ham…
Modric never wished bad on hajduk even when he was part of the dominating dinamo teams destroying hajduk.
He let his game do the talking…little vlasic not so much.
you guys are getting soft. oooo wahhh hes talking smack,…. waaaaaah.
Comparable players? no. similar situation? yes.
Levy didnt let modric leave until very late so modric couldnt get preseason in with madrid. The Russians didnt let Vlasic leave til late so he couldnt get a preseason in.. Some players can adapt quickly. Modric and Vlasic apparently cant.
Im holding judgement until next season when the guy can get a decent preseason in. You obviously dont know how important that is and therefore nemas pojma.
lol, I won’t take footie lessons from you dude…stick to baseball or whatever it is you watch…
Its obvious you are butthurt and making excuses for the flop that is vlasic. Luka won the B’allon Dor and our NT’s everything and won 4 CL…vlasic has to pick splinters out of his a.ss watching no names at west ham run around while he is glued to the bench. Preseason excuses mean nothing. He isn’t in a big club with quality like Luka was/is at….west ham…ffs, are a joke club.
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Orsic gets his chances and he some how puts them away- have to see him moving up the list for HNS now – that could be his calling card-
I like Orsic, and his goal was amazing….but I’ve watched him miss tons of shots too. He’s always looking for the spectacular top corner goal, and either he pulls off a wundergol, or he sends it out of the stadium.
He’s a good player for sure, but we have Perisić! You watch Inter, and you realize that what Perisić does on the left wing is on another level. Orsić will be an offensive substitution for as long as Perisić joins the repka, and even so, he has Pjaca and Brekalo competing for the same position and making strong cases for themselves…
Based on Vlasic performance over the last 6 months I can’t believe Dalic started him against Russia. Based on current form never mind start he shouldn’t even be called to the 25 man squad. There are other players coming up the ranks that are better and in better form. The guy sucks been saying hey sucks and will continue to suck. He’s a average player who belongs in Ukraine/ Russia
Fully agreed. Not to mention his idiotic comments about Dinamo which includes 4 current NT members….is proving to be a team cancer as well. We can’t risk team unity for aholes like him and the other meathead livaja-a career journeyman.
totally agree Vlad!
The differences are that Livaja plays CF and plays in matches for his club so is in form and is also having a great season with Hajduk. Vlasić only plays when his team doesn’t need a result, and his natural position is already saturated with top players in top form
Is that the greatest Croatian goal ever?
It’s up there with the best
Give me Dudu with his sliced volley for Arsenal. “How dare you be that good!” Said the commentator
Stanic’s volley for Chelsea.
Prosinecki at Pompey had a couple of jawdroppers too
Has the little low IQ moron Vlasic said anything about last night yet? What an idiot, glad we handed him his a.ss last night and he will be back glued to west ham’s bench now.
That goal from Orsic is out of this world. He seems to enjoy scoring bangers against Engerish competition? Nice.
The centre-back options Croatia has for the future are unreal (Sutalo, Gvardiol, Caleta-Car, Vuskovic etc.)
I want to know financially how much more they expect to make just making this playoff round?
Any of those teams are gonna be hard to take out but nonetheless great experience for the likes of the repka guys
Tho we truly can’t say they are inexperienced even Ivanusec is no longer a rookie rookie
Would be nice for hajduk to become some what relevant in Europe
Vlasic talked too much smack
I hope he will congratulate them publicly and step up properly now
It’s not good we got the vlasic and livajas talking shit about Dinamo for the repka
They have to play as brothers if we want to make noise next year
Sutalo carried your defence tonight and against Hajduk Split, surely he can get an A team call-up for friendlies or something.
Vlasic sure is quiet now, the little dummy…
Plavi Plavi!
I wonder if Živa saw that Oršić goal? Way out the box!!
He looked dynamic every time he touched the ball.
Ivanusec looked quick as well.
Dinamo going to get a major club for a two legged playoff.
The boys will be inspired.
Lol. Vlasic is a little pussy. After the game no Dinamo player wanted anything with him. He looked like he was gonna cry.
He was irrelevant!
Back to riding left bench for west ham….
What a low IQ moron he is…
lmao, vlasic looks like hes on his way to join the halilovic, coric, balic, bradaric group where they look good against other kids, but when they play with the big boys they get bossed around
I really hope Vlasic doesn’t end up like those guys but definitely looks like he’s forcing it and not confident on what to do when he gets the ball. I think that comes with having chemistry with your teammates. Statistically, he had a decent game today. Might need a loan move in January to Germany or something to get a fresh start. Then next summer can have a proper training camp with West Ham.
The difference is Vlasic is a proven performer. He CARRIED us through those qualifiers with his goals, he was arguably the best performer for the Repka so he has shown what he can do for the national team, the others have not. He just needs to rediscover his form.
Dalic and Moyes have just got to not play him as a winger but instead, in the middle of the park.
“Carried” us? lmao….are you high and/or his agent or actually him posting under this alias?
He was crap and a bit player for the NT…
What goals did he score for us in these qualifiers that were important? He scored a garbage time goal when he came on as sub vs the Slovenes…and what, he scored maybe one vs Malta when we scored what 7? lol
If he keeps up this crap play for west ham, he might just be watching us play at Qatar.
I think he was referring to Euro2020 qualifiers, where Vlasic’s goals were huge for us.
Scored in a 4-0 win away in Slovakia….scored in a 3-1 vs the Slovaks also. Wales away goal was good.
But to say he “carried” us is a huge stretch. We have world class guys like Modric, Broz, Perisic, Kova…no one is saying Vlasic is anywhere near that important to the team. Pasalic is 3 times the player he is even….
He scored the game-winning goals or go-ahead goals in a critical qualifying stretch, where he did very well to step in and replace a very flaky Ivan Rakitic (who suddenly retired on us right before this stretch without any notice).
Vlasic has been out of form since his injury right before the Euros, which was compounded by his negotiating tactic with CSKA (by sitting out until they agreed to transfer him). But before that injury in May, he was awesome for both us and for CSKA.
We can bash Vlasic for his current form, but let’s not all pretend like he wasn’t a great young piece for us prior to 7-8 months ago.
It’s more likely that this is a form issue, and not some sort of “he’s a bust” issue”, since he was performing great for our U21s, CSKA Moscow, and our National Team for several years before this 2021 year.
Game played in London, Petkovic stayed home, Ademi played with an injury and some how, we got the win!
West Ham United value is $389.6 mill
GNK Dinamo Zagreb value is $120.7 mill
Vlasic didn’t look very good today and if you ask me, several Dinamo players outperformed him!
I’m satisfied with the 1st half, 2nd half we went far too defensive!
It was a friendly for West Ham. Not the best sample size. They have bigger fish to fry in England this weekend.
Yes I understand that but they’re still a massive team compared to Dinamo. Just look at how nice the grass was in the game and it was a major downpour. They have money and they have bench strength…Dinamo isn’t nearly as resourceful as them so with that said, I think it’s a good achievement.
Vlasic was a disappointment today and like almost every other time I watch him. I keep being forced to accept he’s a great player but I watch someone that’s irrelevant 90% of the time!
Playing again youngsters and all
Solid win nonetheless
Will make a sexy matchup in the playoff
Is it a two game deal?
Barcelona potentially coming to Zagreb would be great of course
Does the loser still play in that new league?
They are making money over in Zagreb that’s for sure
I think it is obvious. The way forward for Croatian teams, both club and national, is to fire the coach before a big game.
Interesting choice to take Orsic off, hopefully it doesn’t backfire
Dinamo is finally starting to look good again…hopefully they can keep it up. They have a good budget, access to lots of young talent, but they need a good manager to put it all together.
Dinamo is smashing WH atm, nice.
Orsic and Ivanusec are best players on field nevermind just for dinamo – both could play for just as big if not bigger clubs then west ham in the future no doubt. We all know they have the talent and have been consistent! Hope they keep it up ! Ivanusec what a shot just now !
Ya ivanusec with a couple good looks and not doing terrible at all on them
Why is orsic still in Dinamo?
Surely his quality is better overall
Is it a money thing?
Do they want too much for him?
Seems his attitude should Be good after struggling through Korea and all that
He’s past his best before date in terms of maxing out his transfer sale value.
Teams probably don’t want to buy HNL players unless there is significant upside in the long term. Orsic was a very late bloomer and is turning 29 soon.
Teams will probably only offer 5-10 million for him (probably on the lesser end because of his age). It’s not worth it for Dinamo. They probably make more than that from Orsic constantly taking them further into the CL/Europa rounds by himself (just like today).
Ya I figured something like that
They don’t know Croatians are late bloomers tho
He should still have 3 good years left but such is life
I hope he can make an impact for the repka still
But he has scored some huge goals in Europa games
He has something like 8 goals and 4 assists I think in last 12 Europa games
I saw it in passing so could me skewed
Playing with some purpose today!
What a strike !!! didn’t orsic also bag hat trick against spurs ? English slayer
golazo orsic
What a strike!!!!! That will for sure be a top-5 Croatian goal of the year. Mark my words 😉
thats definitely a hard one to beat. very well taken. classic orsic finish. Similar to tottenham last year.
Pfft. Livaja can do better than that.
Looks like Dalic will be coach until next Euros in Germany. It will be interesting to say the least. He’ll be the second longest reigning coach surpassing Bilic. Don’t think he’ll surpass Blazevic but I wouldn’t be surprised with all the politics involved in our coaching staff. The fact we have four former players on the sidelines speaks for itself.
I think Genk will blow Rapid Vienna out of the water (like 3:0 or more).
Dinamo needs to somehow squeeze out a point.
Never mind. Our boy Robert Ljubičić from Rapid is going to stop Genk on his own. 🙂
Maminjo you are far better at prognosticating the shoreline AFTER the game has been played.
If you drop Thedophile-Catherine and drop Misic, u at least got some hope.
Thedophile is good for 1 massive screw up per game. I’m surprised he’s still at Dinamo, the guy is constantly making the silliest mistakes.
They gave him a big contract, and they decided to just bite the bullet and see it through rather than cut their losses.
They did the same thing with that Chilean Brazilian guy (Junior Fernandes) a few years back. I think they gave him six year contract, but he wasn’t some impact player or anything. Seemed like he was on the team forever, as I guess they couldn’t someone to take that contract.
Mind boggling having a second rate foreign import
Surely there is a decent young defender we can be grooming for out future
Yea, I don’t like Misic either. Gets way too much game time. Seems so unskilled for some reason. Surprised that he’s a midfielder.