Results for May 3-5, 2013
HNK RIJEKA 0 – 0 GNK DINAMO ZAGREB
Both clubs had ample opportunity to claim victory, but an off sides goal called back for Rijeka, and several near-comical misses for Dinamo left the score sheet blank and the teams split the points.
Dinamo may have won the league, but a ferocious battle for second and third place is brewing between several teams. Rijeka needed every point they could get in order to break into the European spots on the table, but fell just short this week.
Kantrida was filled near to capacity with the Bad Blue Boys, but Rijeka’s Armada created an atmosphere unmatched by any team in the league.
Rijeka will travel to their neighboring city, Pula, to take on Istra in hopes of advancing in the league, and joining in on European play next season.
Rijeka – Mance – Marić, Knežević, Datković (od 84. Mierzejewski), Škarabot – Kreilach, Brezovec – Mujanović (od 72. Čulina), Alispahić (od 72. Močinić), Jugović – Benko
Dinamo – Kelava – Jedvaj, Addy, Šimunić, Pivarić – Leko, Brozović, Sammir (od 86. Pamić), Husejinović, Rukavina (od 68. Ibanez) – Krstanović (od 77. Beqiraj) Attendance: 8,500
RNK SPLIT 2 – 1 HNK HAJDUK SPLIT
The Split Derby ended in favor of the home team this weekend, as RNK Split defeated their crosstown neighbors, Hajduk Split.
The loss for Hajduk has nearly put a top three finish out of reach. The club’s losses have been mounting in the latter half of the season, and their chance to play in Europe is in jeopardy.
Split went up in the first half from a goal in the 30th minute by Ante Erceg. Erceg would go to double his tallies only three minutes later with another goal.
Hajduk tried to rally back from their two-goal deficit, and started it off with a goal in the 36th minute by Jean Evrard Kouassi, but their goal scoring would end there, and Split added another win at home.
Igor Tudor made his debut as coach for Hajduk and was disappointed with the loss. He blames his players lack of physical fitness, and states that they will work on that in the weeks leading to the cup final against Lokomotiva.
Split have not experienced a home-loss since October when Hajduk defeated them, which was only their second loss at home since November of 2011 against Dinamo Zagreb.
Split’s victory also marks their very first win over Hajduk.
Split will now have to travel to Zagreb to face the current league champions and fight for their top-three finish.
SPLIT: Vuković-kapetan, Glavina, Glumac, Baraban (88. Vojnović), Erceg, Rebić (81.Hrgović), Radotić, Pehar, Radeljić, Paracki, Belle (71. Bagarić)
HAJDUK: Blažević, Milić, Milović, Vršajević (76. Oremuš), Andrijašević, Caktaš (65. Mujan), Maloča-kapetan, Vuković (65. Jozinović), Lima, Sven Sušić, Kouassi
NK LOKOMOTIVA 1 – 0 NK OSIJEK
Lokomotiva have all but solidified their spot in second place, and are preparing themselves for their first ever participation in European competition.
Domagoj Antolić put in the game-winner at Maksimir to get all three points. They now sit four points clear of third place.
Osijek continues their downward spiral that started in the second half of the season, and there is no end in site, except for the season’s end. Can Osijek hang on for the last three games? They face Inter Zaprešić next week, who are battling relegation threats of their own.
The Lokosi will travel to Poljud and face the struggling Hajduk Split, who are gearing up to face Lokomotiva in the cup finals, which could very possible be Hajduk’s last chance of seeing Europe next season.
Lokomotiva: Picak; Boras, Puljić, Mesarić, Bručić; Maleš; Peko (od 58. Pjaca), Trebotić (od 64. Chago), Antolić, Šitum; Kramarić (od 90. Musa).
Osijek: Malenica; Pavić, Pušić, Jakovljević (od 71. M. Mišić), Perošević, Lešković, Zulim (od 57. Mandić), Kvržić (od 77. Lukić), Smoje, Krstanović, Leko. Attendance: 300
NK INTER ZAPREŠIĆ 2 – 0 NK ZAGREB
Zargreb has nearly sealed their fate, and will more than likely be playing in the druga liga next season, but there is still some hope that they may retain their status as members of the nation’s top-flight league.
Frano Mlinar and Ante Budimir were the bane of Zagreb’s existence, both scoring goals in the game that have put Zagreb dangerously close to relegation.
Zagreb has a test awaiting for them next week against fellow-near-relegatees, Cibalia. Both teams will be fighting for their lives next weekend. It will come down to the wire for Zagreb, and thy will do everything they can to stay alive.
Inter is facing troubles of their own, but their outlook is not as grim as their opponent’s.
They are two points away from safety, but have a limited amount of games left, and travel to Osijek next week in search of safety.
INTER-ZAPREŠIĆ: Delač, Čeliković (46. Šarić), Bagarić, Kramarić, Budimir (90. Filipović), Mlinar, Herceg, Plazanić,Oršić-kapetan, Milardović (80. Vujcic), Pokrivač
ZAGREB: Livaković, Kovačić, Medić, Šovšić, Nadarević, Bevab, Abdurahimi, Štiglec (78. Jurendić), Ćurjurić (73. Mitrović), Štrok (64. Handžić), Graf Attendance: 1,500
NK SLAVEN BELUPO 1 – 0 NK ISTRA 1961
Slaven returned to sixth place on the table after a victory over Istra in Koprivnica on Saturday.
Dario Ćanađija scored the eventual game winner in the 80th minute. This was Slaven’s first victory of 2013, as the have not won a game since December 1.
Istra have achieved points in the last nine out of 10 matches, but have been unable to defeat Slaven since 2011.
SLAVEN BELUPO: Rodić, Kokalović-kapetan, Grgić, Čanađija, Brlek (39. Šaban), Glavica (85. Bubnjić), Delić, Purić (50. Geng), Gregurina, Rak, Maras
ISTRA 1961: Ježina, Milić, Sušić (83. Horvat), Budicin-kapetan, Obšivač, Križman, Roce, Chung (83. Prelčec), Hadžić (84. Bačelić-Grgić), Aganović, Blagojević Attendance: 1,000
HNK CIBALIA 2 – 3 NK ZADAR
Zadar took a crucial three points on the road against Cibalia, thanks to goals from Josip Ivančić, Igor Banović and Domagoj Muić.
Zadar has climbed to safety, at least for now, and can breath easy for the next week.
Cibalia on the other hand, but battle for every point they can to avoid the figurative death of Croatian football.
CIBALIA: Matković, Mišić (60. Terzić), Matoš (74. Zubak), Bartolović (40. Puljić), Župarić-kapetan, Mitrović, Miloš, Filipović,Vitaić, Rugašević, Mazalović
ZADAR: Gluić, Bilaver (66. Perica), Ivančić, Buljat-kapetan, Jerbić, Banović, Prahić, Ljubović, Mršić, Heister(45. Vasilj) , Muić (80. Tokić)
I usually would ream the Tito lovers on this site but I have to take a different approach here. I have to assume the Tito jugos here are just joking to get a reaction. If its not a joke, I can only shake my head and thank God I wasn’t brought up that way. I can’t respect a ‘person’ who sent hundreds of thousand of Croatians to their deaths and around the world.
@Adame
The muslims are a huge problem in Europe. Don’t be so sure.
@armada87
They want to choose Italy because they think it will make them better. Who wants to be a Croat when you can be a mighty Italian. These Italians regarded us as backward hicks and stupid Slavs. This was a common view in Western Europe concerning Slavs or Slavic speakers. Now not all of them are like this I understand but the facists over there need to have their noses busted. However, I am surprised that they havent bought up our shores yet. I guess the economic crisis has had an affect. When your family memembers say they are Italian just laugh and laugh and laugh.
@Mustafa you’re an idiot. That mosque will stay in Rijeka because croats are civilized people and wont burn it down like most countries would. But Croatia will never me an islamic state. Sorry to break the news to you moron.
@ Elvis
To go off on that Italians being a problem tangent…
Welcome to Istra! While some Istriani welcomed the Talijani with open arms since they wanted zero to do with Tito, the Partisani, Yugoslavia, Croatia, etc. which I somewhat get at the time since Istra got passed around like a prosititute for centuries and a lot of people had no trust in whatever regime, whether Yugo, Croat, Italian, etc.
But the way Italian authorities Italianized a good chunk of the population is mind boggling. I don’t blame Istrian slavs and Partisani for the Foibe massacre. When you have a foreign people telling you not to speak your language and Italianize you, hell I’d want to throw some fuck in a sinkhole too.
I have some family members who don’t consider themselves Croat, even though they’re 100% full blooded Croat, with ties to Istra and the Kvarner. The Italians did a number on Istra. Everyone thinks we went running into Italy’s arms and while some did, plenty fought back as well…
Then you have the asshole Italians who still claim Dalmatia and Istria to this day… lol really wished we could of beat them in the WC. I rank them with Serbia, England, etc. as one of my most hated NT’s.
http://www.uefa.com/under17/news/newsid=1949109.html#halilovic+quick+impress
nice interview with Halilovic. Reading it makes me think he will chooose Hrvatska
@Black Zodiac
The Italians were a big problem during that time. They said many offensive things about not just Serbs and Slovenes but Croats as well. Some Croats were beaten and killed. I will always piss towards Italy but I will always respect the Germans. Without Helmut Kohl we would not exist. As far as being a puppet slave what are we now? The EU and USA tell us what to do all the time. Hitler respected loyalty and if he had won I feel safe in saying that we would be in a better position today.
@Black Zodiac
It was well known that if the Germans had won the war the Croats would have been made into sex slaves.
You do realize if Tito and his party did not exist the league of nations would have appointed the Chetnik party as the successors of the Yugoslav region.
I applaud this man for protecting Croats from Chetniks, Italians who would have divided up our country and Germans who saw us as the slightly acceptable puppet slave.
Yugoslavia protected all the Balkans after the war from being over run by foreign powers. The downfall was the civil war 11 years after Tito’s death.
He was a hero of his time, just like Ante Gotovina was a hero during our civil war. Two individuals I highly respect
@ Elvis
No Gift Card website. I was just joking around. 🙂
@ Mustafa
Sisak 1593 will commence again if you try and Islamize Croatia! Don’t try and do what your ancestors failed to do. Because you will fail, and the Croatians will rise. Just ask the Serbs.
@Croatia vs. Antwerp
Do you have that website or is it Mishko?
Wonder what those racist Northern Italians think about the creeping mosque?
What I find amazing is that this thing was built by a foreign nation. Can Christians pray at the Sofia yet?
You Croats are very wise to build Mosque. Islam will take over world and all shall bow to Allah. Soon when you enter EU we will immigrate to your country. Each women will have at least 6 Jihad babies. You will pay our welfare benefits like they do in Belgium. We will resist to learn your tongue and totally reject your customs. We will finish what the great Ottomans could not. Allah Akbar!!!!!
We all know Rijeka’s mayor can some change in his pocket for this one.
Breaking News! Qatar is offering a 10,000 Kuna Gift Card for anyone that converts to Islam and joins the Rijeka mosque. Act Fast! Limited time offer only. While Cards last!
Back to HNL. Should be interesting to see how good Dinamo do this summer. Sammir and Vrsajko are rumored to be sold, so I’m curious whether they will make a 3-peat and qualify for CL. They will probably get some reforcements from Lokomotiva.
Wondering where Hajduk will end up. Will Tudor revive the clubs’ fortunes next season?
anonymous1, cool post, MARIO, EDUARDO, ZLATAN, DEJAN and the rest, good to see enough people care as i have allready seen on this site, RIP
SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED THAT WE WILL BECOME AN ISLAMIC COUNTRY COULD SOME OF YOU HIPSTER DOPES TELL ME WHERE I CAN RECEIVE PROPER INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO BE A VASSAL IN MY OWN COUNTRY?
http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2013-05-06/33276/Rijeka_got_the_most_beautiful_Islamic_Centre_in_Europe
VIDEO: Čovjek s ‘najvećim srcem na svijetu’ ujedinio Ibru i Modrića
http://tinyurl.com/ce3j4ay