Hajduk pulled a “Hajduk” Thursday night at Poljud allowing Zira to equalize in 93rd minute injury time. However, Benrahou scored a fantastic free kick from 20 yards in extra time to send Hajduk through to the Conference League 3rd qualifying round: 3-2 on aggregate. Hajduk never makes things easy this early in the season. Ante Rebić was in attendance at Poljud. The 31 year-old may be joining Hajduk in August.
Next opponent: Albanian side Dinamo City in the 3rd Conference League qualifying round.
In other news around Europe, Varaždin could not protect their 1st leg victory in Croatia against Santa Clara as they lost 2-0 in Portugal Thursday night, ending their European qualifying season in the Conference League.
After Rijeka’s 3-1 extra time loss to Bulgarian champions Ludogorec Wednesday night, they have been kicked out of Champions League qualifying and will continue their European qualifying in the Europa League 3rd round. Rijeka will face Irish champions Shelbourne across two legs. Winner is guaranteed Europe while the loser will go down to the final qualifying phase of Conference League.
Dinamo Zagreb have already qualified for the Europa League group stage based on coefficient rankings. They will automatically play in the Europa League group phase and will have no need to play in qualifying matches.
Two smart consecutive posts by Bartolec – keep up the good work B 👍 Anonymous looks forward to reading more of your posts
This is uncomfortable
But I think we should discuss
Does anyone know if police are investigating the s*xual assault (aka “train”) on Jagusic initiated by the Serb leading up to the Rijeka goal ?
The Serb bent over and backed his derrière into poor Jagusic’s private parts and to make it worse Jagusic derrière backed into the keepers private parts (aka a “train” was run on Jagusic)
If you look at the replay Jagusic is shocked what just happened to him
Can’t blaim his reaction – it was disturbing to us who watched it
Also, given timing one day ahead of 30 year anniversary wonder if they’ll also investigate the potential hate crime element to this
This is what happens when they let Serbs in the HNL to play – only have ourselves to blaim for this mess
Thompson does it again.
Another pumping concert that is up in the top-10 all-time in attendance records.
…and earlier this month the media was talking about how Kanye managed to draw 70,000 in China, haha.
70k in a country with over a billion people is a joke compared to what Thompson pulled (twice in one month).
Thompson drew 504,000 in Zagreb then follows it up with a 150,000 concert in Sinj…in a country with 3.8 million.
Incredible.
No nation on Earth comes close to our patriotism and love for our country.
Family, Faith, Fraternity, and Country…… Croatians are so Passé, uvijek!
There seems to be a concerted effort by larger nations (possibly working in tandem) to hinder Croatia’s chances at the World Cup
Brazil – poaches Ancelotti w highest salary ever before Modric can renew at Madrid (Modric thankful recovers w Milan but could have forced his retirement)
Portugal – get Benfica to buy Ivanovic so he can sit on the bench (we lose best striker prospect)
England – get Tottenham to buy Luka and lend him to 2nd division club per rumours (we lose our generational CB talent/prospect)
Turkey – get Fene to bench him – less than a month to sell him – the only club mentioned has De Gea as #1 (we lose our #1 keeper)
I’m starting to worry about Livakovic. He must find a new team this summer and there isn’t much time left…
We could have a keeper playing in Serie A this season. 27-year-old former dinamovac Adrian Semper seems to be the first choice keeper at promoted side Pisa whose coach is Alberto Gilardino. It’s going to be all about survival for Pisa… here’s hoping Semper will do well and maybe help his team to avoid the drop.
Another world-class finish from ❤️ Marco ❤️ last night
Dalic should start thinking about calling Marco and Lisica for “RW”
Marco more of an inside forward
Lisica a pure touchline winger
Depending on opponent decides who you use
Of Valincic is a shoe-in
The hunger and desire to get down the flank in 85’ after already putting in a shift was incredible
We haven’t seen that from a RW since Srna (and JJ vs Brazil)
Personally like Fabian Krivak more than Lisica. If not for his injuries he would be in a top league already.
1000% Kalik penalty in 70′
Not debatable
1000% a penalty – every day – all day long
DZ referee help keeps extending to hinder Hajduk
Looked Iike a Hajduk ref when he called a penalty for Behrahou after he triple jumped near the box.
Ivusic
Bhahahahahahahahahahahahaa
Once again, MASSIVE MISTAKE – that’s TWO UNFORGIVABLE MISTAKES in TWO games
Specifically, you could see Istra had 4 players all centrally ready to press / pounce – so terrible decision to hand it off nonchalantly to the defender (he should have punted the ball long and out of danger) – than once the give away occurred, his positioning / anticipation was just silly once again (doesn’t help he has molasses reflexes)
The worst keeper we’ve ever called up to the NT
He will be the back-up keeper for Hajduk soon
Never doubt Anonymous eye test
The mistake wasn’t Ivušić, it was the defender. I think it was Šarlija (having trouble with the streaming). That was a rehearsed play with the possibility to escape by having the defender, who had all the space and time in the word, play either a short pass or a long ball. Not sure why he chose the short pass, but it certainly was not the keeper’s fault. There’s a lot of reason to doubt the Anonymous eye test when you can’t even see that. Hajduk’s defense is an absolute mess, but you can’t blame that on their new keeper. Šarlija was bad last year too and cost Hajduk european play with an own goal, if I remember correctly. You’ve made a lot of very questionable claims about nogomet recently that I decided to let slide, but this one is over the top unreasonable. You would do well to go outside and clear your head. Maybe you aren’t able to physically play football, but if you can, it would be good for you
Ivusic was not to blame for the Istra goal, Hajduk defender had ample time to decide what to do with the ball unfortunately he made the wrong decision by playing a short pass towards his teammate who was surrounded by Istra players resulting in a goal.
Absolutely. He messed up a routine play with a mental collapse under pressure. He had three options (long ball, short pass, or back to the keeper who could then play the long ball) and took the only one that was not viable because of Istra’s strong marking. Blaming that on the keeper is absurd.
Hajduk had a poor keeper last year and allowed too many goals in spite of having a decent defense led by Uremović. Lučić was a weak link in Hajduk’s strongest team in a long time, and it cost them. It will take more than one match at his new club to say whether Ivušić is better or worse than some of the other keeper options for Croatia. In the checkers, he has shown himself to be reliable when called upon, and he earned the call-up when he was playing very well at Osijek during what was a competitive HNL season with a lot of good strikers in form that season. Making bold declarations based on what league someone played in for a season, the transfer market, and one stupid goal conceded at the beginning of Conference League qualifying is not reasonable.
With that being said, it will be interesting to see what happens with the third keeper spot, with Pandur, Zelenika, and Grbić all in form at the moment. Kotarski is a lock starting for perhaps the top team in the Danish league and headed toward Champions League football following a steady run of excellent seasons. Livaković may be without a club, but that’s not because of his quality. Egribayat got the chance when Livi was injured and played really well. With Livaković being a more expensive contract and demanding a starting role, it makes sense that he would be looking for a new club. The transfer market is tougher for keepers because only one usually plays all the matches.
This is a great post. I never considered how the market for keepers would be different than other players.
Rebić has to sit out the next two games because he was verbally abusing one of the referees in his final Serie A match. Even with him, they clearly need another attacking midfielder. They’ll have to wait until the next transfer window for a decent player. Otherwise, this team is headed for another 3rd place finish.
Ivušić gave up the same type of goal vs Livaja 4 years ago when he was Osijek’s keeper. I can’t remember another time when Croatian soccer had no depth at the goalkeeper position.
Basically, Hajduk signed two guys they REALLY needed because NO ONE else wanted them.
Vuskovic with nice 12 minute vs. Newcastle earlier today
He had a few touches – but nothing remarkable (positive or negative)
It was actually 7 min of game play (Maddison just returned 4 months out knee injury and re-injured the same knee after 5 minutes – his season is likely over)
Son is off to LA (MLS)
Joao Palhinha 1-year loan as a #6/destroyer/OOP monster
No other new transfers (except a few players have already left on loan already)
Next game Thursday Bayern 12:30 EDT
To be exact he had TWO touches because of the injury to Maddison.
Few days ago, in Hong Kong against Arsenal he did not play at all and was on the bench. It is clear that he will be loaned out, but at this stage we do not know to which club?
Anonymous, might be taking a break from posting after hearing Son is leaving Spurs. Everything will be alright! We are here for you 🙂
Vuskovic not starting vs. Newcastle 07:00 EDT 😢😢😢
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This game is just a big distraction anyways – Son is going to LA to join ex-teamate Lloris (apparently LA has the biggest South Korean diaspora in the US) – and today is his last game and in front of a Seoul crowd
Last game vs. Arsenal, Romero and Micky played very well – and than Danso and f-ing Davies (instead of Vuskovic) came on – annoying
God willing he gets some minutes in the 2nd half
Stojković with an awesome goal for Dinamo yesterday.
Valincic looked like Cafu for Dinamo. What a performance!
Agree he looked very impressive at right back. I know it’s only HNL but looks like he has some speed and did a lot of attacking on that side. He set up Stojkovic for the second goal and I guess we’ll see how he performs in the EL matches for Dinamo.
Interesting that Stojkovic and Kulenovic were on the bench and came on for Vidovic and Beljo and they both scored after coming on.
Stojkovic to me is better than Vidovic especially when it comes to speed and shooting on goal and in my opinion should be starting every match.
It seems like Kovačević started all of Boban’s foreign league acquisitions… but it was our HNL players who were the heroes of the match.
Vinlof, Villar, Beljo all started… But then it was Kulenović and Stojković who scored, with guys like Valinčić, Mudražija, Goda that provided good support.
I was very surprised to see Mudražija and Stojković on the bench. Two of the best players in the HNL last season.
If Kulenović outscores Beljo this season, Boban will have egg on his face.
Also, highlights of Ante Crnac’s goal and assist vs. NEC Breda today
His goal he danced around Mahmutovic (Luxembourg international w/ 37 caps) and rifled it into the corner (perfect shot)
For the assist – he was very unselfish – 99% of players would have headed it to goal to try to score – but Crnac was aware of Sergeants positioning – and nicely headed it across to him to put it in
Since NEC Breda is Eredivisie and Crnac got two goal contributions – that means Crnac is a Eredivisie/1st division calibre forward
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Highlights of Pandur’s shut-out vs. Getafe
Several brave and very nice saves – in particular look at 45′ how strong he was in his box and took the hit from TWO Getafe players and punched the ball away
Since Getafe is La Liga and Pandur got a shut-out – that means Pandur is a La Liga/1st division calibre keeper
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The kid in the pic with the dirt above his lip and on his chin looks 11 years old WTF!
I think livakovic has been fine. A lot of good reflex saves. Stood on his head in wc 22.
Sure we all know he lacks box presence and his play out of the back is so so despite deciding to go ronaldihno with the ball twice against the czechs
Fiorentina has David De Gea as #1
Igor, playing 2nd division, on Dalic’s 35-man squad for Euro 2024
Man City just paid GBP 31m for a Championship keeper to be #1 this year
Afraid our keeper line-up for World Cup 2026 needs to be: Letica, Pandur, Mandic
Whoever performs best this season gets #1 on the Croatia NT
O Dinamoooo, mi volimoooo i za njega zivimo!
Has the Davor Suker football schools/camps produced any pros in the last 20 years ?
Can anyone name one pro that went to his school ?
Or is it just to earn him €
No other keepers ?
Maybe do some work before commenting
22 yo Mandic went from Vukovar to Portugal 1st division – the highest country coefficient keeper we have
Pandur kept Hull up last season with some POTM performances – has a couple shut outs in preseason so far – all dispute Hull having 6 keepers on the books
Letica had a shut out last week and Lausanne got through to next conference league round
There are others
Meanwhile
Liva doesn’t have a club – not good enough for Fene – nobody wants to buy Croatia #1 NT keeper w 66 caps – let that sink in
Kotarski – moving backwards worse league Greece to Denmark
Ivusic – nobody wanted to buy him from Mickey Mouse Cyprus league – nobody – that tells you everything you need to know – he wasn’t even good enough for Cyprus – so he runs back to HNL and his mistake almost got Hajduk kicked out of Europe
I read that Fiorentina are interested in Liva…not a bad move if it happens.
Hull is in the EFL, not the Premier League. Dalic never picks people unless they are playing a top tier league.
Now that may not be a good thing but it’s always been that way with him. Whether or not you view Hull as having a higher standard than HNL teams, which you may be right with this one argument, potentially he should get a chance at some point but that all depends. Having a couple of shutouts doesn’t really cut it tho, it’s consistency that matters. How often is Mandić playing versus sitting out? That’s a question worth asking.
A move to Denmark vs being at Greece does not seem that different to me, the coefficient for both countries isn’t that far off.
Lausanne is 3rd Swiss League, not even second. So I am not sure what these arguments even are at this stage. Dalic never goes for these sorts of players bud.
Maybe at some point these players will break through, I am not one for writing any player off. I wish the best for the youth players, but I just do not see it yet from the arguments provided.
Sorry Pandur not Mandić, with regards to Hull.
To: Dalic
CC: Nose-pickers
Did you see the goal Ivusic let in today ?
Terrible positioning / anticipation
The shot was a soft chip from the by-line and Ivusic and his molasses reflexes attempted a half-ass swat at the ball and completely missed it
Unacceptable
Please STOP CALLING HIM UP, it’s embarrassing
Who is the alternative?? It’s fine that you wanna say don’t call him up but who should Dalic call up instead?
That is the problem I have with these opinions, there is noone to go to at the moment without taking a big risk. These are the only options I think Dalic has right now. There is no clear contender for that position for us.
That is also the issue I have with everyone giving Livakovic a hard time and saying how much they dislike him. He is the only goalie right now for Croatia. Sure he isn’t perfect but he has pulled through for us on so many occasions.
Poor goalkeeping from Ivusic, I think he was anticipating a cross and left a gap on the near post and got caught. The guy meant to cross it, but in the end, he scored a flukey goal.
Ivusic should NOT be discarded by Dalic. Livakovic and Kotarski are the other two that will be called up.