The scheduled Dinamo-Hajduk match up has been rescheduled to August 10, due to Dinamo’s Champions League match that was played on Tuesday against Dinamo Tbilisi. The Modri made the best of the extra two day’s rest and defeated the Georgian side at Maksimir 2-0. The return leg will be played on August 2.
In the meantime, NK Lokomotiva and RNK Split entertained fans with the Mali Derbi on Sunday at Kranjčevićeva, The Lokosi’s home for the season. The hard-fought match ended in the season’s first scoreless draw.
Few chances to score presented itself throughout the match for both teams. The second half grew even more dreadful after a heavy downpour made conditions difficult for the teams. Spliting the points hurt neither side and now Lokomotiv will focus on their upcoming Europa League match against Ukraine’s Vorsklu while RNK Split will prepare to face Hajduk next week.
NK Osijek is living up to its expectations so far and secured three points in their first home game of the season against NK Inter Zaprešić.
Aljoša Vojnović scored his first goal of the season in the 49th minute to break the scoreless deadlock. Vojnović made a sliding kick to send the ball into the roof of the net.
Newcomer Gabrijel Boban scored his debut goal for Osijek in the 68th minute to give the game its final score of 2-0. Boban received a pinpoint pass from teammate Antonio Perošević and easily beat the keeper for the game’s second goal.
Osijek remain tied with the top of the table with six points after the first two weeks.
Victory came easily for Rijeka over the weekend when they beat Istra 4-1 at Rujevica for their second win of the season.
Two goals from Mario Gravanović and Roman Bezjak were more than enough for Rijeka to coast to victory against the struggling Istria side.
Goran Roce got on back for his team in the 65th minute, but that was all the offence they could muster up. The Puljani have not seen victory since September 27 of last year.
Rijeka announced yesterday afternoon that former Dinamo and Hajduk Split player, Franko Andrijašević has joined the club, adding to the depth of Rijeka. This will help Rijeka once they start their Europa League campaign on Thursday against Istanbul’s Basaksehir.
NK Slaven Belupo kept Cibalia searching for its first big-league win over the weekend with a 3-2 victory in Koprivnica.
Slaven struck first with a third-minute goal from Miro Ivanovski, but Cibalia gained the lead with goals from Frane Vitaić and Tiago Rodrigues Farias before the end of the first half.
Cibalia’s lead was turned into a draw by another goal from Ivanovski in the 73rd minute, but the draw was broken with a game winner from Gordan Barić, who won it for Slaven in the 87th minute.
Slaven is tied with the top of the table on points.
Dinamo and Hajduk Split took the weekend off and will resume league play next weekend while making up their derby match on Wednesday, August 10.
Dinamo spent Tuesday evening in a Champions League match against Dinamo Tbilisi. The Modri won 2-0 at Maksimir Stadium, thanks to goals from Ante Čorić and El Abri Hillel Soudani.
Do people even know that Croatia has a league… My god no shit all the players want to leave this country and play elsewhere. I heard they still use cabbage as soccer balls?
No!
We must know immediately if he is a bust (or just playing like a bust)
🙂
2early on on benko, born in 98 let him work/live
well lets hope he is the real deal and he continues to choose us for international play! another attacking midfielder… i was really worried when modric and rakitic retire but looks like there are kids just chomping at the bit and who potentially will be as good or even better
lets hope
Is a new Croatian star born? Benko is his name and he played for Bayern Munich today in their friendly against Inter Milan. Bayern won 0-4. Not every star was on the pitch but some key player actually played.
Info about the friendly :
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/match/internazionale-vs-bayern-m%C3%BCnchen/2221868?ICID=HP_FM_4
Info about Benko :
http://bundesligafanatic.com/one-for-the-future-bayern-munichs-fabian-benko/
Austrian teams did poor today.
This two team CL qualification for the HNL might actually happen.
I didn’t see the game but Hajduk surprised today. 0-3 against Ukrainian side Olexandriya. Cosic, Erceg and Ohandza scored.
Rijeka did well in Turkey. 0-0 against Turkish side Basaksehir.
Lokomotiva still not eliminated after their 0-0 against Ukrainian side Vorskla. They will have to score in Ukraine to make it to the next round.
And if Dinamo hold onto their first leg advantage it’ll be their 10th straight time making the group stages (of CL/EL), which is pretty crazy considering how many close calls they’ve had
Croatia’s UEFA Club coefficient:
2009/2010: 27th
2010/2011: 22nd
2011/12: 21st
2012/13: 22nd
2013/14: 20th
2014/15: 17th
2015/16: 17th
2016/2017 (so far): 15th
Not bad. It seems likely we’ll end the year in 15th which would mean 2 CL teams in two years (and would mean the HNL Champions would have virtually no chance of CL play since they would have to face much tougher teams in) qualifying)
Kolikooo volim ja tvojeee pobjede na na nanana HZV
@Elvis
thanks for posting
great artilce, screw those commies and tito lovers
DannyJ yeah coric with the chip pass assist and a goal. Just needs to learn to stay in the game rhythm, at the moment he tends to slow the game down and make some poor decisions. Also his pressing game, his work rate and his positional play are poor for a player of his ability. Also he needs to improve his strength and his acceleration, and his shooting of course. But yeah in the final third he sees things ridiculously quick, and has the finesse to execute. He could explode this year and get sold next summer for big money. He’s better than modric was at his age, he’s better than zidane was at his age…we’ll see. I really like his style, I hope he makes it big. We have been blessed with so many cultured midfielders, but I don’t think any of them are true fantasistas as the Italians call them. Guys who have that extra flair, vision and crucially killer instinct. Even prosinecki for all his amazing skill, was a number 8, like rakitic, modric, boban, asanovic, brozovic, kovacic, pasalic….we produce the best number 8 player in the world. Coric is different, a classic attacking playmaker. Together with the likes of pjaca, perisic, halilovic and brekalo, with their pace and dribbling skills, we have the makings of a completely different team. One that sparkles and explodes with attacking energy and flair. I know that many on this site will be unconvinced, believing that things don’t change and these players will either be busts, mental midgets or simply overrated. Bunch of yugos. 😉
Glasnovic for President
@Mr. Black – Pasalic’s loan ended recently. He should be back on the Chelsea roster.
Nice job by the boys in black. No surrender!
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/rightist-try-to-stop-croatian-wwii-anti-fascist-anniversary-07-27-2016
i have to say dinamo regularly gets raped like a minor league baseball team of star players and always competitive
kudos to them
was that coric with that cheeky little chip pass? very nice
i thought pasalic had that good season in spain couple years back? he showed promise no? didn’t he get injured?
Genius is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration (according to Einstein) so we shall see what coric does with his talent, then maybe we can call him a genius….
…..genius?
Yeah good players. Raw still, hopefully this season will mature them. Coric gave away too much ball but he still made the difference when it counted. Rog is a beast 🙂
I saw the Dinamo Zagreb-Tbilisi game. Just when I thought that Rog and Coric are slightly overrated, they make the difference. Coric is a genius and Rog has three lungs.
What’s the deal with Mario Pasalic?
Chelsea loaned him out to Monaco but he’s not at Monaco anymore. Will he play some minutes at Chelsea, will he be loaned out again or will his career just fade out?