After an exciting two days of Champions League football, the Europa League is back in action on Thursday! A Croatian is guaranteed to lift the trophy at the end of the tournament, as Gvardiol, Barišić, Vlašić, and Jakić all remain in the competition with their respective sides.
Borna Barišić and Rangers will look to defend their home turf and rebound from 1-0 deficit against Joško Gvardiol and RB Leipzig on Thursday night. In the first bout between the two clubs, Gvardiol recorded a “Man of the Match” performance with an impressive 8.1 FotMob match rating. Both Croatians are projected to be start for their side.
Coming off a crucial 2-1 away victory in the first match, Kristijan Jakić and Frankfurt will look to book their ticket to the Europa League finals against Nikola Vlašić and West Ham. Although it is unlikely that Vlašić will see the pitch, Jakić is predicted to start in midfield for Frankfurt.
Gvardiol had poor ratings yesterday sadly
But I like I said I personally saw him the last 10-15 mins when they were trying to press and he was handling the ball alot
Pressing heavily forward and hauling ass and catching guys on the counter
You could see how tired he was
He plays with heart
That heart with talent will have its ups and downs like anyone
But it will keep rising
It’s ridiculuos, the lack of knowledge about our Vatreni even among sports journalists. They were “surprised” that Croatia were in the finals last World Cup, even though we trashed Argentina and had the best midfield of all the teams. I love it when Croatia is a dark horse. It makes the victories even sweeter. Just let them jerk off to France, England or whatever team is their wet dream.
We do it to ourselves too.
I can’t stand listening to Croats (or Croatian media) act surprised when we do well.
The last World Cup, we outpossessed and outshot every team we played.
Usually, that means that you’re the better team lol.
It shouldn’t be surprising with the midfield we have, and we haven’t dropped off in that regard (we actually got deeper).
Like many teams, we have our weaknesses. Our goalkeeping is bad, and needs to be addressed. Striker position could be better, but we haven’t really testing too many of our options here yet.
Other top teams have their weaknesses too, and they don’t beat themselves up as much about it.
I agree let them think what they want
We know who we are
Most important is when our guys play with that under dog have a point to prove then we know with the talent we have what can be achieved
Good for rangers passionate fans good tradition. Frankfurt fans are great as well should be great atmosphere in finals.
Sosa should be our starting lb but barisic is good back up spot starter for me gvardiol real deal.
Croatia have potential at the world cup i keep saying depends on dalic what he does imo we need a formation a goalkeeper find gvardiol a cb partner and a striker. Cc is a streaky player to me but at this stage is best option with gvardiol as cb partner lb sosa barisic right back juranovic vrsaljko.
Midfield still good there probly top 10 at world cup pundits wont say thag but we croats know we have a good midfield
Keeper is a toss up grbic lost his spot at lille needs to see summer options livi maybe when gets married becomes better lol. Ivusic is my pick for keeper
Strikers ill be alittle disappointed if musa doesnt get called for nations league cant lose only gain from that budimir is red hot krama is here aswell.
Roko Simic is too young for some but why not have him on roster again have nothing to lose.
So keepers livakovic grbic kalinic ivusic nevistic laborovic and maybe kotarski having great year for gorica
Defense sosa gvardiol cc pongracic ill put vida lovren just as lockroom guys spot starters vrsaljko juranovic stansic sutalo from dinamo even franjic vuskovic erlic.
Midfielders modric kova broz majer jakic sucic pasalic to me vlasic is border terrbile season for west ham.
Attack budimir krama musa livaja perisic livaja brekalo maybe simic if he starts season for rb salsburg.
Midfield top 10 miki? You joking? Our midfield is #1 in the world without doubt.
It is but im saying pundits in the west dont agree
It is but im saying pundits in the west dont agree
Pundits would agree that we have a top-10 midfield.
…But they would erroneously put that all due to Modric (and disrespectfully make no mention of Brozovic). They won’t make any mention of Broz, Kova, Majer, Sucic, etc.
But we are far better than top-10.
We are arguably the best in the World Cup in midfield.
Which is why having a suddenly decent backline makes things very interesting. Our mids can focus on being midfielders, and not just defenders.
forget about Vlasic …
with/without him | Frankfurt still can win the match
There is an angel Djibril there to bless this team.-
Exciting finish in the rangers Leipzig
I only saw the last ten minutes so I can’t say how gvardiol played and if goals were his fault but he was all over the place at the end
Had so many touches
Kid has a serious future
Again, he may have been at fault for all three goals, I have no idea
@laknat
listen brother. I know your intentions are good. I think majority of people on this site like you, including me, and you make the site fun with your unique use of grammar and strong belief in certain players (like the god of halilovic). But honestly, you cannot convert people to Islam. It just doesn’t work like that. Just be a good example yourself and let people choose their own path. Please stop. Big hug
I never knew LAknat was muslim.
But I guess being a huge Halilovic fan…it all makes sense now, lol.
I assume he’s from LA. I guess Knat is a word for something in arabic or something islamic.
I think Kvartuc is a Dajjal supporter +
so you have to be careful about what he is promoting
like -> Christmas | the Pagan festival |
and -> Idol Worship | O
Well this is a bit depressing
https://www.germanijak.hr/nogomet/vijesti/raste-pritisak-na-vlasica-espn-objavio-popis-najgorih-transfera-premier-lige/98750?fbclid=IwAR1VPO1y4nmUD7ITK7eX9lbR5VyoPLIVN3qOqA13r6K9miKYRhkbemiZ_XY
Gvardiol and Modric going to lift European hardware this season. Young and old. You heard it here first. Gotta love it how everyone non-Croatian in the world is calling our team OLD.
Look at all the young guns coming up. Plus Modric/Perisic are still crushing it.
Amen Ante
Gvardiol is a stud. Man of the matches In quality Europa matches at 20 or whatever he is
Sucic is next, break out the wallets for the mladi