CROATIA DEFEAT SPAIN – TOP GROUP D

Why do you bicker amongst yourselves, like little spoilt brats? Fuck it, be happy we brought on some young guns who could play ball. I don’t care if someone here thinks that Rog is a nobody and Jedvaj missed a couple of defensive points. Fuck it, everyone started out as a nobody, even Modric and Rakitic. Everyone started with no international experience. If we’re not gonna let those youngsters play, then who the fuck should play for Croatia? Any takers here on the board?

Now Portugal, I would have liked to avoid those cocksuckers, they really know how to play football. Three draws in the group is not reflective on how good they are. If they play as a team tomorrow, and not only as ten players trying to feed the ball to Penaldo, then they will be a much tougher team to meet than those blasé old sows from Spain who are overrated and way past their prime. Anyways, agree with the above poster who said Croatia to win 3-1 against Portugal. Actually, I bet a lot of money on that result.

Ajmo, Hrvatska! Uvijek vjerni. Za dom spremni (i za kurcu).

@U boj
“You’re are just like hooligans,” from now on I’ll be using that line when someone pisses me off, I love it!

Thanks kid.

not a comment from ziva, when Croatia does well which further leads me to believe he is a bitter serb ultra, who will think of any bullshit in his head and make a comment on it. we can shoot from far and score, score from close, from the sides from anywhere we are Croatia all the way we go. As for all you who knocked the team at anytime, and lost faith when the tough got going, go fuck yourselves, your not cro’s. Croatia all the way now and forever

@U boj

“Sure it all looks good and now they are on the easy side of the draw but guess what. They deserve it. They won. They beat Spain and took first place.”
They beat Spain, yes they did, also they did take first place, they got that because they beat Spain! That’s an astute observation for you, well done, I’m happy for ya!

“Interesting I get the feeling so many of you wish we lost so you could say I told you so. Give credit to the team, coaching staff and savez. They all deserve it.”
They deserve it because they beat Spain! You should post more comments, I think you’re the best.

No one wants us to lose you little twerp!

Rog & Pjača did not outplay Spain. They gave the ball away way to many times.

I’m still trying to figure out who Rog is, and why he even played?

Regardless I think we have an advantage over Portugal and will win 3-1. I would play Pjača over Brozo, physically stronger player and could be a wild card.

Yes, how could I forget, the infidel Turks are out!
For a second there I thought the infidels were going to steal a place into the 2nd round, I’m telling ya they love stealing those bastards.

Ivo,

regarding Kalinic vs Mandzukic…I think everyone has their own theory but mine would be Mario plays because he bring in the physical element that Kalinic doesn’t offer. Mandzukic is very very tough and gritty, he backtracks often, he draws at least one or two players every time he crosses into the last third of the field. we need goals…but his presence alone creates opportunities for others. I also think his time is coming…he sees others are scoring, he’s not dumb…he’ll make sure he gets on the end of crosses.

@Slavonac from Canada

Excellent post. Like you I was shocked how good Rog played. He was not intimated and constantly interrupting the flow of the Spaniards.

As for Kalinic, I was always against him but he was in good form. . Does Cacic go back to Mario or stick with Kalinic?

I have always appreciated Jedvaj and imagine what the kid must be thinking today. Amazing all around for this team.

Hopefully on Saturday Ronaldo does not show up. He is capable to doing some damage.

To a man, I think everyone who didn’t want to play Portugal knows we can beat them. We just don’t like the matchup, and potential for star treatment.

Regarding yesterday’s performance. 70-30 possession, and looking suspect in the air (Ramos misses chances that Ronaldo buries) shows we did not play all that well. Other than our poignant counter with Perisic heroics (including a deflection on his goal), we were dominated. I am happy for the win but yesterday wasn’t beautiful play.

One. Game. At. A. Time.

Good stuff slavonac. Danny j. Ante B….and others. It’s a good match up. Can’t wait

Guys we just beat spain with our B team. One minute saying we’re going to win the whole thing, next minute cursing because we have to play against pentugal. Smh. That is not the attitude of champions. If you want to win the tournament you have to be the best, you have to beat the rest. Don’t be such losers. AGAIN. Lol. To be honest Portugal haven’t been at their best yet, which is a slight concern of course, but then again neither have we. We can play much better than we have till now. We control games, when modric plays, and Portugal will be no different. It’s a question of taking our chances when we get them. Make sure with the final ball and with the finish. Concentrate at the back. Don’t give the ball away cheaply in midfield. If the players can do these things, we will win. Cristiano is a brilliant player of course but he is a striker and strikers can be marked tightly and managed. Much harder for Portugal to keep luka from dictating the game. On Saturday we will find out … I know where my money is

Imagine if we had gotten Iceland and approached it with a “lako cemo” attitude. I like this match up, it’s never easy and we should pull through if we play as a team.

history is in the past and we have to focus on our own strengths, not on Portugal’s. this is where tactic and strategy come into play and I do think we have the solution, we just cannot underestimate our opponents.

I hate reading comments about predictions and stats…that fuckhead Michael Owen predicted we wouldn’t get out of our group, I still hate the fucker for saying none of our players could replace a single England player.

there’s a few days left before our next game and during this time our boys need to keep their legs loose and keep their focus on one game, never look ahead! I’m very satisfied with what I’ve seen so far, even with the tie against the Czech’s we always maintained control but had a bad mental lapse.

regarding Rog, Pjaca and Jedvaj. all played an excellent game. I was happy for Pjaca and Jedvaj, they did a great job considering they had to play against one of the best sides in the world. Rog surprised and impressed me a lot. I knew little about him but what I saw yesterday really perked my interest. he was a vicious beast against Iniesta and Fabregas…the kid gave them -100% respect and treated them like they were the balavci and not him! brave and tough…I was proud of him and can’t say enough about how inspiring he was. imagine being Rakitic, Srna, Corluka, Perisic….all of these veterans watching the little kid with a swagger, take hard tackles against some amazing players. Rog was on them like flies on shit….he never once backed off and I guarantee you his work rate and hard-nosed effort inspired his team-mates. I didn’t think he had the best game offensively but I think he did his job and did it well!

I have been anti Kalinic but I did say if he’s in form, he’s alright. Kalinic did very well yesterday. he played with a lot of energy, he pressed defenders, he moved into open spaces and he worked tirelessly…and…zavrsio je svoj posao!!! nice goal for him and I couldn’t be happier.

the team looks happy and as if they are all working for each other. please stop bringing up Halilovic, he’d never have been satisfied with a bench role and so far, I’m really happy with what I’ve seen from Pjaca back-tracking and pushing forward…he’s effective and I just don’t think Halilovic would have done as much defensively…which could cause more strain on the defense.

If the Greeks were able to do it so can we. 3-2 Croatia. Ronaldo two goals in losing effort.

Croatian media meltdown and the sky is falling attitude in 3….2….

Many great points that I agree with:
1-Ronaldo & portugal gonna get calls in their favor. Superstars sell, ask Cleveland.
2-we are best when we are the best athletes on the field. Portugal has some athletic speed. we are better team imo, but not a good matchup for us.

Guarantee you ours will be chanting Messi

Well, we usually do pretty well against teams we are not “supposed” to beat, and disappoint against teams we are supposed to beat. If we can match that energy we had yesterday, sprinkled with some Modric and company, I think we can take Portugal.

We got one of the toughest groups based on rankings (OK Turkey and the Czechs weren’t great). And now of all the third place teams we get, it’s Portugal. There are Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Turkey and we get Portugal. That really sucks. My concern will be the officiating. You know UEFA will want Ronaldo going as far as possible.

mile when has Ronaldo won the game by himself for real this season????

you guys need to get off ronaldos dick damn

everyone is shitty there pants that we are playing Portugal you guys need to chill….don’t get me wrong im not saying its an easy win but damn have you guys been watching the way weve been playing….chill the fuck out…ive we play the way were able of playing and no dumb fans fuck it up for us we have a great shot of winning

@dannyj- You got your wish! We got Portugal & Ronaldo!

@idemo- Portugal’s D was not that bad. Sure 3 goals, but they let in two off deflections today.

The big winner is Belgium, assuming they take care of Sweden. Belgium plays Hungary and then the winner of Wales/Turkey (unless one of Ireland or Sweden win today).

don’t expect a win against portugal.

Get your popcorn ready ladies. It’s going to be nuclear against them.

portugal is a bad match up… croatia does great against european opponents but has a worse and worse record as you go to the outskirts of europe. and portugal is right on the edge

too much speed up front by portugal which will cause lots of problems for our slow defense

So nothing in Italy group can change this?

What a joke. Iceland gets a last second goal and now Croatia plays Portugal while England gets Iceland. Son of a bitch.

Iceland pip it wow

I think we’re better than all of the potential teams we could play, but would rather not play Portugal or Belgium. Maybe I’m too hung up on the big names, but just feel a moment of brilliance against the run of play is more likely to come from The likes of Ronaldo, Lukaka etc.

On the penalty against us it was a very soft call. We should probably protest Vrsaljko’s yellow card assuming it was for the contact and not dissent…

As far as Subasic coming off his line… If you look at all the pens taken in the Euros, I bet 80%+ have the keeper off the line at contact. If they were all called, we could probably have retaken most of our pens in ’08 against Turkey and many champions in history would be in question… Sour grapes for sure.

Also, the way the bracket is shaping up is lucky, but some would say it was set up perfectly for Spain (conspiracy theories would run wild today if they had won), but we earned the spot in what was possibly the toughest group of the Euros.

Idemo-Belgium can’t leap Italy cause of head to head tiebreaker.

Idemo… ne.
If belgium wins and we lose. We are paired in points but we won the match against them which is the first criterium to establish who is first.
We are set up : Italy – Spain next monday .
I would have rather finished second and match up with the winner of group F and have an easier path, but that’s footie.
Spain is the only team that has ever really shown us up together with Brasil in 1970, let’s see if we can punch back this time!

As for Croatia, as I anticipated in one previous post: if you win the group you can cruise to semis.
Bookies odds have dropped dramatically (4th favoure joing with Belgjium at 8/1)
Not to jinx it, but you have a good chance to have a great run this time around and I hope you do.

I like the way you have been playing, and the attitude .
Plus as I got to watch your serie A players in a more attentive way I sympathize with you.
It would be nice if we could meet in final, but I guess this time it won’t be the case, but you never know!

Good luck to you.

What fuckery is that? Does goal difference not come in front of head to head

Belgium can’t leap Italy.
They can match Italy’s point total of 6 points IF Italy loses to Ireland…but the next tiebreaker is head to head, so Belgium can’t top Italy.

3-3 notice how fast Ronaldo grabbed ball out of net. He dies not want to play Croatia.

Man wide open fun game, Hungary hits post to almost go up 4-3.

Fuck me Hungary hit the post!!

Wow this is crazy game

I just love soccer players with neck tattoos
What douches

Ronaldo such a baby for serious
He missing modric!!

Oh man Portugal don’t deserve it

2-2

I wasn’t for including some of these minnow teams in the tournament, but in all honesty, some of these teams (Ie Iceland and Hungary) have really stepped it up and played. It definitely makes things fun.

I’m also very positive right now cause I’m still on a high from our win yesterday. Awesome to be on top of the world for these next 4 days.

If Portugal ties, Croatia plays Portugal.
If Portugal wins and Iceland wins, Croatia play Hungary.
If Portugal wins and Iceland ties, Croatia plays Iceland.
If Portugal wins and Austria wins, Croatia plays Austria.

Now if Portugal loses, we need to wait until the Group E matches are done later today because third in Portugal’s group would be eliminated.

now I need to find video of all the shotty calls from euro 12 against Spain
Cause seems like Spain so hard done by

Shit Portugal ties it
Not that I don’t think we can beat them
Just rather not play the pork and cheese

What happens if Portugal ties Hungary for us

Can’t see hungary weathering this storm. But it sure makes things interesting….

Portugal looking hungry for a goal.

truth about cro win coming out to the press

http://www.ottawasun.com/2016/06/21/referee-makes-major-gaffe-in-croatia-win-over-spain

I have been one of Cacic’s staunchest supporters on this site, but I nearly Lost it when it looked like he would not stagger his last two subs. For a minute it looked like he was bringing on Cop & Kramaric at the same time.
In the end, he got it right. Still don’t follow his sub logic, but whatever, we won.

@Turkey
come turkey, why quiet now, loser

Why Croatia could win UEFA EURO 2016

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/news/newsid=2382476.html

Guys in the lead up to the tournament, the same guy posted other fake disaster reports. Remember: Perisic out for tournament in training at Inter & something about another player. The posts are lame.

Most of us, including myself have praised Perisic for years now.
That said, Perisic could have easily seen a Yellow for that crap. If he just got into his face and went chest to chest it would have been perfect. Not sure why he took off his shirt either, not smart going forward, but I suppose we cannot complain.

To the guy who asked about Yellows: they expire at end of the Quarterfinals. So 2 more games of less risky defending 🙁

Googling “perisic retroactive” returns zero results. Mate is full of crap.

It wouldn’t make sense. If Perisic got a yellow card for grabbing Morata’s face, he obviously wouldn’t have taken his shirt off in celebration knowing that he would then miss the next game. I call bullshit on this. But if it is true, it shows blatantly that UEFA is scared of Croatia taking this tournament, and is putting roadblocks in their way.

@Mate I wonder how many times UEFA has done that, given an retroactive yellow card?

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I was worried as soon as he pulled his jersey off in the goal celebration…shit.

I don’t mind him grabbing Morata, that guy was pussy royale for his ongoing antics and then trying to be tough guy to Jedvaj….loved Perisic stepping up and defending his younger teamate….this is why I love this collection of players as they play for each other!

Someone else will need to step up….if anything was proven yesterday, this group has depth!

FYI, you can watch the yesterdays game on ESPN.

LMAO I love that gif.

“Halilovic should’ve been in this team, easy to come out now when it all looks good, and they’re on the easy side of the draw.”

No Halilovic should not have been on the team, same as Lovren. Sure it all looks good and now they are on the easy side of the draw but guess what. They deserve it. They won. They beat Spain and took first place.

Interesting I get the feeling so many of you wish we lost so you could say I told you so. Give credit to the team, coaching staff and savez. They all deserve it.

when do the yellow cards get erased?

@Anonymous
It does look like I’ve been a bit harsh on the infidel Srna, oh well, he had a good game, he reminded me of a camel jockey, galloping up and down that right side, good on him, hopefully he keeps it up!

Halilovic should’ve been in this team, easy to come out now when it all looks good, and they’re on the easy side of the draw.

Iggy, someone stole your idea

https://mobile.twitter.com/CroSports_/status/745362904531238912

@Danny
That Modrić penalty was against Austria not Poland. In 08

Ante,make sure you tell your Italian friend that every Italian victory was bought and paid for,crooks.

Loved that we werent over celebrating like we had won the tourney. That was NOT our final! Vrsaljko’s biggest play was that last kick of the game. That clearance 2 yards off the line that couldve been tapped in by Ramos was a game saver. Also wonder who Corluka was choked at. U could see he was bothered by something after the final whistle.

Anonymous is that you ziva?? its ok buddy you can come out and play lol

hope mama istina packed some extra underwear for you cause i guess your trip to france will be extended!!

ya i have to trust the more experienced guys on badelj… you don’t hear alot from him but i guess thats a good thing

isn’t mario and kalinic too much of the same? ya for sure i can see them absolutely terrorizing the defense of who they play and both guys are capable of banging in junk which is what we will need as on our side of the table i bet more of the teams who we could face will park the bus at some point

I ran into Ziva yesterday at the game and couldn’t have been a nicer guy.

it’s a bit of a pity he got one for taking his shirt off and showing his six pack really isnt it? But you can’t blame the guy in the emotional high of the moment, that’s for sure

^ ^
Funny!
I said to a room full of people right after Perisic’s goal that I haven’t told many people in my life that I love them but fuck do I love Ivan Perisic!

we for sure getting in other teams minds now… cause they are like fuck they did this without modric… having to double man modric makes all sorts of space

total man crush on perisic… its been growing since world cup. not only his skill but he plays with heart and if ziva was here i would say yes i can see the heart on my little tv

I agree this one was better.
The Italy one felt more like a one off.
This one was with kids and feels like the begining of something special. Those players will never forget this and will be able to draw upon it for the rest of their careers.

As far as the two decisions in the box. Either call them both or neither. All you want is some consistency. Our no call only bothered the shit out of me after theirs was given. Never expected to get ours in the first place.
But did U see that wily bastard Ramos barking at Pjaca as if he wasnt touch? It’s like he knows that if u just jog away u look way more guilty.

What a game!
Kind of reminds me of the ’02 result against Italy.
Down a goal and coming off of a demoralizing game.

The game with the Modric PK was against Austria in ’08.

I don’t believe the Spain goal was offside. Srna on the far side is playing him on.

thats not the best footage but basically one spain cunt pushed the cro defender into the other spain cunt and it was a penalty, not a foul on the defender, lol

or just skip to 2:44,sorry

Been a long time since my last post but I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet regarding our round of 16 opponent.

We have a significant chance at drawing Portugal if they play out a draw against Hungary. 0-0 makes it a near certainty. Better for us if Portugal lose or win, or at the very least score goals to increase their GD.

Before the obvious is stated that we shouldn’t fear them because we’re the better side – I agree – but I’d rather Austria, Iceland or Hungary. Also a very slim chance of drawing Rep of Ireland or Slovakia if group E results go crazy, but unlikely.

All will be revealed shortly.

Enjoy the ride, trust me, its more fun.

even in that france game france’s 2nd goal was a bullshit handball allowed to stand from trezeguet cos it was france so even then we got a cock up the ballsack

I can recall Rapajic scoring a penalty against france in, was it 2004 euros?

err 08;)

Anybody remember when Croatia was given a penalty in a major tournament? Was it Davor Suker’s finger on pulse penalty against Romania in the quarterfinals of WC98?

Damn, we have had 3 called now against us in the last 6 matches – two in this tournament and Brazil.

Croatia and Moldova have the best B teams in Europe 🙂

ops sorry didn’t see ya crnkovic

The Refs did us no favors in this game.

1) The first Spanish goal was offside-conventionally the tv commentators ignore that fact and cover for these refs.

2) No call on the Croatia PK.

3) Gives a PK to Spain minutes later for a phantom foul. I was amazed he didn’t get Ramos to retake the kick.

Small countries never get a break from the refs-always protect the big countries.

Having said that this was without a doubt a historic win-with the B Team no less.

Mamic must be licking his chops as the transfer value of these guys skyrocketed.

hahaah.. nice..im not on the list

*pats self on back*

kinda wanna bash up iceland again cos my current fiancee’s ex-husband is from there and he was a real cuntrash so it’d be nice to knock them out again tbh with u

Mamic must be as happy as anyone. No anti Mamic demonstrations and what a showcase for some of that Dinamo talent. Unreal result all things considered! My $20 bet on us to win it all (21/1 odds) is looking aaaaaalright!

Yeah. Motherfuckers

Fans stop pretending to be Nostradamus, like you knew the b team was going to work out. You know if they failed today you would be calling for the firing of Cacic

I can’t fucking wait to make that list. We can even vote on some of this shit.

Once this tournament is over, I plan on spending my time going back and making a compilation of the negative and flat out wrong predictions from everyone who has posted on this site

It will be a “worst of Croatian Sports” post. Time to call out all you self-haters and lack of knowledge soccer fans. Maybe you’ll be on it.

maybe my homer glasses on super tight… give me perisic. let wales have bale;)

and i agree with others… said it earlier in the day. i think kalinic has to start… its not like he came from out of no where and has had a good game.. he has been performing well for us

at the very least he has to come in at half time if mario ain’t cutting it… sure mario puts that pressure but kalinic is not far off that mark but do you guys think mario puts in that soft touch

fucking kalinic just tapped that shit in like nema problema

we just need someone who can finish right now… doesn’t have to be a superstar make his own goals… the crosses are coming in

pretty much probably we get slovakia or iceland or similar, they will park the bus and its gonna take some crossing and a lucky bounce and someone to pounce on the garbage

ya man whoever said about corluka… guy comes to play decki, always working… very smart… there was that one tackle he chased down the spanish player in the corner and was just brilliant. would like to see him move to a bigger team but whatever keep doing what he’s doing and if we have him in world cup then great

halilovic and lovren… are butt hurt right now so bad. worse then any serb:)

all holiga was saying is that we were playing like busts and not necessarily busts lololol

stole this from xtra time… badelj getting praised for his work… i watched the game with another old bitter cro… u know the kind shitting on everythign… chewed badelj up… but he seems to be more and more comfortable now.
you know kovac is drinking himself to a coma at home saying i should have started badelj over samir:)

5 things we loved about watching Croatia in their 2-1 win over Spain | FourFourTwo

5 things we loved about watching Croatia in their 2-1 win over Spain

Despite falling behind early, the brilliant Vatreni fought back and saw off the holders in dramatic fashion. FFT’s Joe Brewin runs the rule over Euro 2016’s great entertainers…
Well, that was unexpected – but oh, what fun.
This result wasn’t supposed to happen: a talented but flawed Croatia side, featuring five changes to their starting XI (y’hear, England?), seeing off a seemingly settled Spain who’d dismantled Turkey in their last game. That, after Tuesday night’s opponents had chucked away a two-goal lead against the Czech Republic.
It definitely wasn’t supposed to happen when Alvaro Morata scored after seven minutes. Or when Spain got a penalty midway through the second half, after Nikola Kalinic had equalised on the stroke of half-time. But Sergio Ramos missed it, paving the way for Ivan Perisic to finish past an out-of-sorts David de Gea with three minutes left.
Croatia progress as group winners, leaving the Spanish reeling with a last-16 clash against Italy. Here’s what we liked about Ante Cacic’s side…
1. They fought back resolutely
Conceding early to Spain is normally disastrous – really, they’re the worst opposition possible to allow such a goal against. But, oddly, Vicente del Bosque’s side lacked the control they really wanted thereafter and Croatia made the holders pay dearly. Sure, Spain had the possession and indeed chances too, but it’s hard to recall too many occasions when Croatia keeper Danijel Subasic was really tested.
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Croatia’s big weapon was their counter (just look at how few passes they actually made in the opposition half, above), and in the end that’s how Perisic won the game for them. They didn’t really bother trying to play through their best man Ivan Rakitic – even in the absence of Luka Modric through injury – and, incredibly, by half-time no player had made fewer passes than the Barcelona man (he made 3 in the second half). But it didn’t matter – their alternative gameplan worked.
2. Darijo Srna, leader
Just last week, the 133-capped Croatia legend flew home to be with his family after the death of his father. He returned to play in his team’s draw with the Czech Republic, then made Croatian history against Spain with a record 17th major tournament appearance for the Vatreni. But he was also terrific against la Roja, leading by example at the back and offering support in attack too.
Srna, who also broke Shakhtar Donetsk’s all-time appearance record in April, won 6 of his 7 attempted tackles – the most of any player – and chucked in 4 crosses in attack, 2 of which found a blue shirt. Aged 34, he’s still got it.

3. That counter-attack
Belgium are probably the deadliest side at Euro 2016 in this respect, but Croatia have clearly got the players to do damage here too. Their winner began in defence with a fine block from Srna, was crafted by some neat hold-up play from the impressive Kalinic, and finished off with a blitzing run and finish from their wideman Perisic.
On the other flank, Dinamo Zagreb’s 21-year-old Marko Pjaca was also terrific: he completed 7 of his 8 attempted take-ons, mostly from deep positions, thus offering Croatia another excellent outlet down the right. The below dribbles were basically his and Perisic’s work, and meant Spain full-backs Juanfran and Jordi Alba were given a rough ride. What better way to nullify the latter pair’s attacking threat? It was good enough for Leicester last season…

4. Tireless Perisic gets reward
The Inter wideman was already earning plaudits before his 87th-minute winner, having laid on Kalinic’s equaliser just before half-time and generally proved a menace with his insatiable work-rate down the left.
Perisic has rarely earned the credit he deserves as a footballer, but should he continue with performances like this there’s a strong chance he’ll be up there for end-of-tournament individual honours. Juanfran was beaten all ends up before the 27-year-old’s assist for Kalinic, who he also supported ably throughout – check out his average position on the Player Influence Stats Zone grab below. With a display like this, he’s a lone striker’s dream.
image: http://images.cdn.fourfourtwo.com/si…?itok=1t7IW8mk

5. Badelj the brute
The Fiorentina man was brutally effective for Croatia: he recovered possession 12 times, five more than any other player, won all four of his tackles (only Srna completed more), completed the joint-most interceptions and made the most blocks (3) of anyone else on the pitch. Need more be said?
Unsurprisingly, the 27-year-old is a player in demand: despite having two years left on his Viola contract it doesn’t look like he’ll be staying put, and a club with Champions League football looks likely to win his signature this summer. Badelj’s agent has been angling for a move – and Tottenham have been heavily linked.

Where would Halilovic the winger play? Perisic or Pjaca’s spot? Rog and Coric are central comparing them to a winger isn’t fair.
And if not Rog or Coric what are the other central midfielders would be on this team? A Jajalo? Balic? Catkas? Antolic? An injured Pasalic? Granted Alen can play the #10 but no way can he play deeper CM Rog can.

Halilovic over Cop whose the supposed winger is you get no argument from me. But that should be who Halilovic should be compared too.

Also I think it’s fairly obvious Cacic sat everyone with a card (minus Badelj). Also after that if it’s up to Kova or Rog in a more defensive game I’d prefer Rog he’s just better defensively then Kova (see Czech game). Also people need to stop acting as if Rog is some talentless player. I mean today should be evidence of that and when he gets moved to a relatively big club at a nice price you’ll see many teams find him to be very valuable.

LOL, we won and some dumbie wants halilovic in the squad, what is next bring in Lovren.
Listen be happy and you should thank Suker and Mamic for putting this team together. Amazing we win and the jugos on this site who cant stand it.

BTW they are saying today’s game is the match of the tournament so far. BANG.

ps. remember Spain was one of the teams picked to go all the way and Croatia was picked to be a bust by Holiga LOL

It’s a joke right that Marko Rog was in the starting line up only because Mamic is trying to sell him to a European club and that’s why he was in the squad same goes for Ante Coric. They are good players but come on man everyone knows that Alen Halilovic should have been playing in that game versus Spain. Coric and Rog are not better players than him he’s on another planet another world compared to them. Congrats to the Croatia team who won against Spain 2:1. But these selections are wrong for our team. Spain is at the end of their cycle in World Cup 2014 they went out in the group stage and here they will not win this Euro 2016 there time is over.

@bobby v
nothing but hooligans, our supporters will stop these jugos

At no greater moment is the threat from the hooligans to make sure Croatia fails than our next couple of games.

They know we will be the favorites for those two games and the chance to reach the finals is good.

There will be rumors and threats – let’s hope the Croatian and French officials do their job.

Yeah, Croatia is the 18th ranked team in Europe. Hilarious. But’s it’s FIFA. Everything they touch is a joke. The real ranking is the UEFA coefficient, which is going to get even better, especially if they keep moving forward in the tournament.

My favorite is Northern Ireland ranked ahead of Croatia. OK, so they qualify for their first tournament in 1,000 years in a group with such titans as Greece, Romania and Hungary. They were outshot by Poland and Germany by a combined 34 to 2. Yes, that is not a typo. 34 to 2. Obviously, they are better than Croatia right?

Agreed on Corluka and that color commentator Alejandro has been awful the whole tournament.

if you want a good laugh, check out the FIFA rankings now and see who is in front of us.

Not only were they gifted a penalty, we should’ve been given one for sure , and those fucking moron commentators , picka mu materina divlja

Kalinic needs to start over Manny i agree, make Manny a super sub at 60min.Pjaca is as tiredless as perisic these 2 are coaches dream players , willingness to defend to create offense is through the roof.This team is something special….LETS GO ALL WAY!!

Ivan Perisic reminds me of Paulo Rossi when Italy won the world cup in 82. This is our tournament

@Mile, I can certainly see Portugal losing. Who would have thought they would only draw versus Iceland and Austria.

It’s not a certainty they would draw any of those teams within that group. They could still play Slovakia as well. We’ll just have to see how it all shakes out.

I love mandzukic but we gotta start kalinic he played better this game than mandzukic has all tournament

As usual, my homer goggles say we have played the best soccer of the tournament, barring the 10 minutes after the douchebag on parade

I Enjoy the differences of opinion here guys. Especially when we are splitting hairs. Super happy for our guys and country, but not as happy as the owner of Inter Milan cha ching!

Will an impartial and objective referee ever referee any one of the future matches? It’s become so obvious that it’s ridiculous.

@ Svima

For years many thought we were wearing HOMER goggles with our faith in our beloved Vatreni. Truth is we our a talented bad ass country on and off the pitch. It took hooligan flares to focus us on the task at hand.

Spain is physically weak and cannot recover once their peder play gets bum rushed by a Perišić type player.

Srna is playing with something beyond the physical.

Vrsaljko is NOT a left back but still played solid.

Kalinic starts going forward.

Badelj is a BEAST!

No need for him to be Franz Beckenbauer with Modric stirring the drink.

Modric will be fresh for our play off run through the B division.

Enjoy the next 4 days of feeling good to be Hrvati.

That was unreal. Perisic is a beast. I think that song by kmfdm godlike is about him. Haha. Spain as the game wore on i thought showed their age a bit. Perisic just to quick for them. Srna too. Maybe you hockey fans in canada heard don cherry before that canada can field 2 teams and they meet in the finals. Frig i think we might field 2 and both successful. Haha. Awesome day! Idemo dalje!!

You guys that shit on Badelj are lost. He’s doing just fine in his role. He’s a DM, what do you expect out of him? Modric like flair? He plays the game he is suited to play and does a solid enough job.

Oh wait I think he’s Italian lol

“Spain must really suck”

Wrong. It shows how good Croatia is.

I thought the defense was good today, besides scoring a goal I can’t remember Spain having many clear cut chances (besides the penalty, was there any?), and that’s with Jedvaj looking “really bad” and Vrsaljko looking “uncomfortable.”

Spain really must suck!

Who else got super pumped when Duje Ćop entered the game?

😉

Mateo Kovačić is playing like a bust 😉

Buy seriously, I’m starting to wonder about him. I can’t seem to remember the last time he had an impact for us. He’s still young but he is 22 and should at least start to give us something even in this limited time off the bench.

I wouldn’t care if we don’t see him anymore for the rest of the tournament.

That’s just one tough thing to do take a wide player and put him on the opposite side, might as well turn his world upside down

This might be unpopular and although I love this guy I did feel he was far too uncomfortable on the left side…and it showed! Vrsaljko looked oddly unsure of himself, he even offered his opponent the opportunity to turn to his inside, his stronger foot rather than play him to the outside. I want him to play but not at all cost, he belongs on the right but as things sit right now, Srna is also doing a good job!

@mr.black
Because most of these people, in all honestly not to sound like a total jerk, are casual fans and don’t really analyze the structure of football, while there’s nothing wrong with that it does lead to a lot of bozo statements

Badelj has been doing a job. A job with no glam no stats.
Not some amazing destroyer/tactical/work horse……but a man that gets a job done.

I don’t get why people dislike Badelj. He was one of our best players today. If you don’t believe me, just check the international press but I guess people always want something to bitch about.

Jedvaj was bad man really bad, school boy mistake on the goal

@Iggy

That’s a great problem to have. Hopefully now Cacic will have some confidence in our bench.

We’re 8-1 now on Paddy Power. Tied with Belgium for 4th most likely to win it all. France, Germany and Spain are 1, 2 and 3 at 4-1, 9-2 and 5-1 respectively.

Our only weakness is Badelj.

Strinić and Mandžo are arguably our next weakest starters, but rhry csn easily be replaced by Vrsaljko and Kalinić.

Other than DM this team looks unstoppable at all positions.

They have to play Kalinic Saturday. Does anyone really think Croatia would have won today with Mandzukic? Kalinic’s goal was a great touch, and he waited for Perisic perfectly on the winning goal. Even his shot in the first half from 20 yards was hit very solid. Mandzukic doesn’t do that – ever. Kalinic is a much better fit with this team. And if he is ineffective after 60-65, put Mandzukic on for him.

Thank god that the step too slow super tanker that is Brozovic did not play. He’s slow and he has the turning circle of a tanker. Put in Kalinic for the next match instead of him, he brings pace, can control the ball and is a way better shot. Brozovic is just an anchor that weighs the team down. He’s a highly overrated player that simply does not produce.

Don’t have to say anything more about Ivan P after this match.

Where are the Mamic and Suker hating c***suckers?

damn it i knew i should of threw down a couople hundred on us before the tourney… must have some jew blood lol

ya i didn’t see rog doing that much but nice to see the young guys get in and get that huge experience

sure some of our key players are getting older but looks like the young bucks might be ready to step up soon

seriously though we all had our srna doubts but damn some of those crosses are insane. really happy for him

This has to be one of the biggest victories in our history. Gotta rank up there maybe behind Germany from WC ’98 and one or two others. Not a knockout game, so maybe not quite on that level.

Spain was favorite to win before today’s game and we were without our best player. Based on how many big name counties are on the other side of the bracket we’re probably going to jump into one of the top positions for betting favorite.

Not sure what people saw in Rog’s performance, but whatever.. Pjaca played ok, and I did see more out of him today than any other game at the national level.

Jedvaj settled down well after a nervous start.

Badelj still has got to go, sorry bud.

Strinic is our LB. Pretty smart for Cacic to use Vrsaljko as the sub in 1st two games b/c of he can play RB or LB. He can step in for either Strinic or Srna if they get a second yellow.

@ BZ – I remember posters disagreeing with me on having Rakitic, Modric, Kovacic, and Cop playing in Spain would give us an advantage on information of Spain’s players.

They said, “so, what, they would know about us too”

Yeah?

do you guys think cacic would play kalinic with mandzo? sure they are similar type of striker but the pressure those two could put up front would cause all sorts of havoc

even the spanish cum guzzling english commentators were commenting on the work rate and pressure of kalinic

actually the same commentators were talking about how jedvaj looked composed.. hopefully in two years its corluka(if he still in form) and jedvaj.

sorry for the language..i blame it on iggy’s influence

without Perisic’s last goal.

There’s some beer in the house!

I mean, they will have to play Germany of course.

there will be a buying frenzy on cro players even more so this summer

the matchups are still confusing as fuck… its worse then trying to follow the game of thrones for fuck sake:)

just poached this from teh web

Match 1: Runner-up Group A v Runner-up Group C
Match 2: Winner Group D v 3rd Group B / E / F
Match 3: Winner Group B v 3rd Group A / C / D
Match 4: Winner Group F v Runner-up Group E
Match 5: Winner Group C v 3rd Group A / B / F
Match 6: Winner Group E v Runner-up Group D
Match 7: Winner Group A v 3rd Group C / D / E
Match 8: Runner-up Group B v Runner-up Group F

Matches 1, 4, 6 and 8 are simple, since they involve only group winners or runners-up. Matches 2, 3, 5 and 7 are then filled up in turn by third-place qualifiers.

If Portugal ties, they have no wins only 3 draws, I think that would put them straight out of the competition. Don’t think we end up playing them. I did a recap somewhere above about outcomes.

Guys, if you’re trying to figure out who we play, I think it comes down to group F. If Portugal tie Hungary tomorrow, Croatia will play Portugal no matter what. Here are the scenarios, if Portugal wins:

Portugal beats Hungary, Austria beats Iceland – Croatia plays Austria

Portugal wins, Iceland ties Austria – Croatia plays Iceland

Portugal wins, Iceland beats Austria – Croatia plays Hungary

Saturday 3 PM (est)

If we win, we play the winner of Poland / Switzeraland next Thursday

so what day is our game on??

According to the Belgian press Spain-Hrvatska was the best game of this tournament so far. They didn’t like it, they adored it!

@ Mr. Black – You would think Holiga would be saying that it shouldn’t have been a penalty to start with.

Just like Trump is exposing all the racists in the USA, Croatia’s performance is exposing all the Yugos – haha, love it.

Like I said before, don’t underestimate the atmosphere Cacic has created around this team.

Is he a brilliant soccer mind? Hell, no.

…but that’s not his job. He picked the right players, lineup, and kept the troublemakers at home.

For those of you who say he hasn’t been tested yet – are you kidding me? He flew back with Srna, and then kept this team together after the hooligans tried to sabotage us.

You can’t get any more tested than that.

That was stellar NT! I always believed they had this in them. Lets bring on the rest of tournament.

My mistake, I believe you’re right when it comes to coaching in these tournaments.

@ Lazio – You missed my point – Of course he’s not a better coach than than those two.

…but in a short tournament it doesn’t matter – it is all up to the players anyway

I watched the game at the Belgian television. According to the Belgian journalists Croatia is outsider to win this tournament. They couldn’t stop talking about Pjaca. But also some as Rog won a lot of respect.

Great to avoid the Italians in the next round. We’ll probably have to play Albania or Slovakia in the second round. If we beat them, we’ll meet the winner of Poland-Switzerland. If we beat them, we’re already in the semi-finals where we could meet the Belgians.

Teams which we can only meet in the final: France, England, Spain, Italy and Germany.

Great to see the support of our fans!!! Time to get hammered.

Let’s fucking goooooo!!!!!!

Holiga might commit suicide after this.

What a great bracket we have now. Disaster for Spain.

We are so good, plz uefa do not loosen up on the security for the next game.

@ Ivo – haha, yeah, add Holiga to the fucking list I just mentioned above- bravo Ivo!

@bobby v
Well said brother. Nowhere are all those losers now

Bravo Cacic, Mamic I Suker.

Za koku!

Ide Ivane zabi jos 5 za zlatnu loptu!

@ernest
Special F off to you. I open this thread and read your crap.

Bravo Hrvatska.

Good chance we now end up playing Slovakia in the round of 16. Other possibilities are Sweden, Ireland to a lesser extent Belgium from Group E. Austria, Iceland from Group F.

If Portugal wins versus Hungary they will finish 2nd at worst. If they draw, they could finish 3rd on 3 points but they would have no wins, thus they could be eliminated altogether.

wow, our B team beat Spain.

IVAN PERISIC!!! JEBEM LI MILU TETKU U TEBE U CELO!!
TOOOOO MAJSTORE!

What did I say a few days ago they were going to fuck us, they gave that POS penalty, and we score. Fuck me. No more handballs in the box please. 1 minute left.

I am starting to believe they can go far in this tourney if there are no stupid distractions.

Peresic is a stud.

AMAZING!

Good question @Dannyj. I am proud of the team, win or lose, they played very well today, especially considering the opponent.

That early goal on us was a blessing in disguise

Will “85th minute” Cacic make any subs, FFS.

Our fans are the loudest, I just hope they beat the living fuck out of anyone that lights a flare. Thank GOD the young guys have calmed the fuck down.

.

Karma that they didn’t score the pen

Use a sub already…

@elcroato i agree, i read that to say the goal we scored.

Can’t wait to see what Cacic does for subs.Rakitic tired, and we need to press again at some point.

Pjaca looks game ready. Rog not so much… Aside from some lack of organization we’re matching up with them very well.

BZ, I’d lay some blame on Jedvaj for the first goal. He went for Da Silva instead of covering his area — of course it was just one mistake in a chain of events. Happens!

Agree. Kovacic could use a run in the second half. He needs some playing time to work on confidence.

Ya put kovacic in for rog
Leave the rest

Peter north I totally agree
There is no team we can’t beat at this tourney
And that’s not homer glasses talking
Come on Man U replace rog with modric
Game over

The Starting Line up makes sense, considering 2 injuries (Mandzukic and Modric) and wanting to save 3 players on a yellow (Vida, Brozovic, and Strinic). My only gripe is Rog, I think Kova shoulda started in place on him.

1st half Rog wasn’t that good, got a yellow, I say take him off, and put in Kovacic.

We’ve been pretty damn good, I’m impressed, and I don’t impress easy!

It’s real tricky man Kalinic has looked good
He ain’t the best but I suspect he’d be up there in goals if he got the feeds mandzukic got first two games
That was such a composed touch

The real big boys will be going for perisic soon
Guys got skills

Anyone have a live stream link?

Marko Rog is being embarrassed out there.

my god how was that not a goal??

Ex Croatian military fans headed to game to deal with Hooligans

I heard somewhere Croatia has deployed approximately 500 police officers to France for the game today and will be at the stadium checking Cro fans as they enter. They will also have photos of the alleged shit disturbers and will stop them from getting into the stadium.

Anyone at the game to confirm this?

Sure, but he should have played Kovacic as a replacement for Modric.

Spain should win comfortably.

So why not rest the guys with yellow cards?!?!?

He was already sold lol

Why no Kovacic?

Yes sir. I can’t see Rog alongside Badelj at all as is being reported. Has to be 4-4-2 with Kalinic and Rog in attack and Badelj-Rakitic behind them.

It would be great to come in 3rd, but the Czechs w/o Rosicky have good chance if losing to Turkey.

@Adame 4/6 3rd place teams go through….currently 2 3rd place teams have 3 points each. We already have 4 points. Even if we drop this game (no matter the scoreline) and Czech beats Turkey we will be in 3rd place with a higher point total than Northern Ireland and Albania. Thus guaranteeing passage to the knockout rounds.

NEED HELP.

Bugging out at work right now because im seeing that croatia is going through to the next round. How is that the case?

Subasic vs Spain
would be like this ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNdZJCrpIf4

Maybe they aren’t resting their best players but are keeping them safe for security reasons. 😉

Rakatic in shirt and Tie

Spain with almost the same line-up as in their last games.

Ernest,

I don’t think it’s a stupid line-up. Even with our best team, it would be extremely difficult to win today. So better save your best players for the next game(s). We’re going to the next round anyway.

the point is
how good 2 Kalinic are !!>
so why Shiitt Subasic still there /

I get that they’re going through but this is really diluting the starting lineup. What is Spain’s starting XI?