Isuse! Dinamo Zagreb defeat Chelsea 1-0 at Maksimir on the opening night of Champions League!
Mislav Oršić is officially the “English Killer” with another fantastic goal following a 60-yard run down field with a cheeky touch to finish. Oršić now has a hat trick against Tottenham to knock them out of Europa League two years ago. A wunder-strike against West Ham last year. And now the winner against 2021 Champions League winners, Chelsea, to add to his résumé. If I were an English club, I would sign him immediately. The guy always shows up!
Dinamo withheld the Chelsea attack for 90 minutes and their 61% ball possession. Chelsea had a goal called off due to a tight offside call but the right call. Ristovski had a missile shot bang off the post that could have buried the game at 2-0.
The Champions League returns to Zagreb Tuesday night when Chelsea come to town! 12:45PM (ET) kickoff.
This is now the fourth straight year a Premiership club has come to Zagreb. Three years ago, Manchester City visited in the Champions League group stage. Two years ago, Dinamo beat Tottenham 3-0 in extra time and ousted them from the Europa League Round of 16. Last year, West Ham beat Dinamo 2-0 in the Europa League group stage. Dinamo won 1-0 in London. Now it’s Chelsea’s turn.
Mateo Kovačić will return to his old stomping ground finally back to full health after starting the season injured. Chelsea are coming off a hard fought 2-1 victory over West Ham at the weekend but are not in good form to start the Premiership season with only 10 points from their first six matches. So who knows if Dinamo can pull off some more Maksimir magic Tuesday night.
Dinamo are cruising in the HNL and qualified for the Champions League group stage. There’s not much more you can ask from them this early in the season.
Nobody her mentioning LJUBICIC.. I think he played amazing as left wing back.. Has he played for Cro youth NT? I think he deserves a call up as an option for the left or other wing back positions where we are really thin for especially on the right
He’s more of a hard worker than a skilled player.
He would be out of his depth on the National Team.
Plus we’re very stacked at LB with Sosa abd Gvardiol also being able to play there.
Ljubičić is actually not even supposed to be playing there, as he’s a central midfielder.
[…] Chelsea spent over a quarter billion dollars on new players this summer transfer window. Dinamo Zagreb spent 7 million. Yet, the London Killer – Mislav Oršić – scored the game’s lone goal in a heroic Dinamo victory to open their Champions League campaign. Full story and highlights HERE. […]
Barisic:
“By a mile Rangers’ best player, he worked harder than anyone to stop Ajax, and had more defensive contributions than anyone else by a mile (8). Even managed a couple of crosses. Say what you like about this season, but Barisic is the only one in any kind of form. 6”
It’s reassuring to know that while he’s no super talent, he’s more than capable of filling in as an injury replacement. He had a similar blurb written about him after this past weekends drubbing to Celtic.
He scored a a beauty, but then VAR ruled it out for an an offside near centre and well before the goal.
Here is the shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLzVNvpSHCQ
That’s too bad. It was very well struck.
https://www.goalstube.online/2022/09/tottenham-marseille.html?m=1
Perisic with a right footed cross for the assist on the opening goal. You can practically hear the commentator druel, lol.
So Oršić doesn’t want to leave Dinamo at all? Idk man, he’s already 29 years old.
Burnley was going to pick him up last year … but dinamo put a high price tag on him
Because of his current age, and the fact that he hadn’t received much exposure on the National Team (as a very late bloomer) his value will always be understated.
From Dinamo’s point of view, his value in a transfer is not worth the value he brings to Dinamo on the squad.
He would probably get Dinamo 8 million Euro in a transfer, but if he wasn’t on the team, they likely don’t make Champions League and get that 16 million Euro prize money for qualifying (or even the 3 million they got from this Chelsea win). He’s that impactful for Dinamo.
From Orsic’s point of view, unless it’s a mid-table EPL team, he won’t make much more money than what he currently makes.
Right now, he makes 1 million Euro net (after taxes) at Dinamo.
When he almost transferred to Burnley last year, his salary would have doubled to 2 million.
But in England, half of that gets taxed away (plus the costs of living in the UK would eat away at it).
Not sure what other Western clubs would offer him, but it would have to be alot more than 2 million Euro for him to leave.
He’s probably very comfortable in Zagreb and unless it’s a significant after-tax salary increase, he should just stay and continue to enjoy Europa and Champions League football.
Plus, he remains a legend in Zagreb (and now in London too, lol).
I see. Thank you
Forget about Grbic Oblak has recovered he might get copa del rey games and maybe if athletico qualify a meaningless cl game
Why hasn’t Oršić been picked up by a descent club by now? I kno he played in the slanty league for a bit. Is he complacent or something? It’s long over due.
Because he choose to stay because dinamo play europe ever year and finacially hes happy.
Fun Fact…
There are 4 Croatian coaches in Champions League.
– The Great Čačinjo (Dinamo)
– Igor Tudor (Marseilles)
– Igor Jovičević (Shakhtar)
– Edin Terzić (Dortmund)
Eintracht Frankfurt’s Oliver Glasner is likely a Burgenland Croat too, but I’ll let him off the hook this time.
I will say a couple things here. I have to in this case eat my words here. That play between Petkovic and Orsic I have to say was very impressive. They played exceptionally well in this game. I didn’t see it last season, but maybe they have turned it around here. We will have to see how the rest of the tourney goes for Dinamo but they have pulled off quite the upset against Chelsea so that is a great result for them.
That pass by Petkovic was enough to convince me that he deserves a call up so he had made a fan in me here. Both him and Orsic proved to play well together and were a constant threat. So I have to say I am impressed with them both.
Lucky that there was an offside call there, if that was timed better it could have been a goal and a problem for Dinamo, more than likely it would have been a goal.
Livakovic continues to be an eye soar every time he plays, I just don’t see it with him, and I am not sure why they say he is good.
For the person who said that we have been saying to choose Colak over Petkovic and Orsic. They both had shitty seasons last season, and Orsic didn’t do well in the Nations, he also didn’t do very well in the Euro either to be fair. I am not sure how you could miss this in your argument.
I never said not to choose Orsic I thought he still deserved the call up, and I made this point well before. But Petkovic wasn’t even on the scoreboard at all last season. Maybe this was due to injury but I guess we will have to see this season how he fairs, so far he has played some impressive matches. But this all has to be looked at as consistency in the end. That is where I worry with these guys is the constant up and down. I know not every game goes well, and this one was challenging for Dinamo at times.
What impressed me more about Petkovic in this game was the defensive play that he played in some moments. His composure on the ball at points was also very good, so I have to say he continues like this I wouldn’t mind seeing him in the lineup.
Also has to be said that I hope Sutalo starts for Croatia in centre he is too good not to play him. But we will see what Dalic does.
This game was really won by Dinamo’s defence they constantly shut out Chelsea.
Tuchel has been sacked!
Bit of an overreaction no?
no
Wow
Oršić goal gets Tuchel the sack!!
Tuchel is wound to right.
On je smotan.
Tuchel needs a job
We need a coach for a month….;)
We can always hire Edin Terzić from Dortmund
It wasn’t just his goal Chelsea was not able to do much against Dinamo’s defence. The backline was exceptional.
We should also mention that Dinamo beat Chelsea 4 – 2 in the group stage of UEFA Youth CL. HT was 3 – 1. I watched the second half and Dinamo was under the pump but managed to hold on. Chelsea missed a penalty and a few other chances in the second half. From what I saw, Chelsea players looked older, taller and stronger physically, however Dinamo players were better technically.
Sack the Chelsea youth team coach!!!
Also fuck Messi and Ronaldo
Luka is king
And all you guys were criticizing Dalić for taking Petković over Čolak.
😉
Really shouldn’t be about Petkovic over Colak. The million Kuna question is why was Livaja chosen over Čolak ??? We already have Kramaric and Vlasic who are similar to Livaja.
Čolak a classic #9, we need that.
Petkovic is a technical Big Man, which is invaluable to the squad.
Livaja was chosen based on his performances from last season. If we would base things in this HNL season, I doubt he’d be chosen.
Whatever the case, I doubt Livaja or Colak will help us much in the World Cup anyway.
Livaja’s dad dying pretty much guarantees him a World Cup spot.
Dalić is a relationship guy. No way he cuts a guy in mourning, no matter how poorly he performs on the season.
@maminjo. You should be ashamed of yourself. I just recently lost a parent. That is not fucking funny you fuck!!! Fuck the season at that point. Smartem up stupid
Not meant to be funny.
It’s sad how Livaja’s dad died, but if Livaja continues to have a mediocre season then he probably shouldn’t be on the World Cup squad.
Dalić is a nice guy who puts relationships first, so I think Livaja makes the cut no matter what.
Hey Z, I’m sorry to hear that. My condolences.
I don’t think Maminjo meant any harm by his comment, but that doesn’t matter.
I hope you and your family are doing well, stay strong.
I don’t think that his dad is the reason he was chosen. You shouldn’t say that dude. How would you feel if it was your dad??
Never said that it was the reason why he’s currently picked.
We all know he was chosen because he was already on the team.
But he hasn’t had a good start to the season, and we suddenly have players in similar roles who are having good starts to the season (Vlašić, Čolak, Petković, Musa, Ljubičić) and most of these guys haven’t been in the mix for the National Team. They’ll be vying for a spot.
We are going to be in a position where we have a lot of competition for those forward spots.
Sad what happened to Livaja, but I think it puts Dalić in a tough position if he has to cut him from the team. He likely won’t do it.
Agreed
Livaja is riding last year and to appease hajduk fans
Hey we all want petko to be the man but His work ethic let’s face it is normally sub par
Wow
Congratulations to Dinamo
Fantastic result
Lets keep it up for the rest of the group stage phase
Gol Luka!
I think we can all agree who deserves the lion’s share of the credit for this victory, the amazing master tactician, Ante Cacic! The bro with the mo!
Actually, yes. It may seem incredible, but Cacic approached the match with a winning plan and a winning lineup. Then he made winning substitutions.
No one in London will be buying Orisic a pint of beer anytime soon, dude has scored against 3 London Clubs (West Ham, Chelsea, and Tottenham). He took 75 million Forfana to the cleaners.
Big victory for Dinamo!
Mislav “the London bomber” Oršić
I take back what I wrote earlier about Petković. If he keeps playing like that, then he completely deserves his place on the repka. The guy schooled Chelsea’s defenders. Amazing! And Sutalo definitely has to start for the Repka alongside Gvardiol.
He’s always been good once he has the ball at his feet.
The problem with him was always him actually getting to the ball.
The key word is keep. That’s the issue with him. When the game isn’t going well he is non-present. In their moments you have to be running back and playing a little defence like he did in this game. He has to continue doing that.
been saying Orsic is our guy for a long time – for HNS- you have to give kudos to Petkovic for a great assist- the TV repairman looked like he was going to pass out when Orsic scored- I’m sure a little Shlivo calmed Cacic down- let’s go LIKA.
He was just pissed because he put 1000 kuna on Chelsea with GermaniaSport
Say what you want about dinamo hdz zagreb gives them money Bandic did bla bla mamic criminal. They play europske football year in year out and produce national team player. They are currently best Balkan Club and For my hajduk fans it must hurt but only way to get results is invest in yourh good foregein players and not let tatini sinovi play priko veze.
Everybody in Zagreb loves the Bandić fountains too (despite hating hard on him for building those).
WTH Thats unbelievable, beating Chelsea, LOL something nice to wake up to this morning
Very impressive that Dinamo has beaten Premiership West Ham, Tottenham and and now made made another Ham of Chelsea in the last few years. Also beat a high flying Atalanta from Serie A.
Orsic with a hat trick against Atalanta and Tottenham; who does that? WOW! Scores also against Chelsea and West Ham. Big Game Player can confidently be said.
Great performance from Dinamo. Super effort from every player on the pitch, including Livakovic in goal. Despite all their possession Chelsea did not create to many chances. Credit to Cacic today as well for getting the tactics right and team selections.
Glad Šutalo played the full game. English commentators were praising him alot (even after he made a bad giveaway).
He’s still great and the more he plays (and the more praise he gets) the better our chances are of him starting for us at the World Cup.
Unfortunately, Livaković is pure garbage, and had zero presence in the box today.
Hopefully this Chelsea victory doesn’t mean him cementing the starting position for the National Team.
You can’t let your hatred blind you. Livakovic did very well today so you gotta acknowledge that.
We are going to be frustrated with whoever starts for us. I really don’t see anyone being a good solution.
Let our hatred blind us lol! Livakovic did well?? What the hell did he have to do?? The defence did everything for him practically in this game… The one opportunity that was offside for Chelsea he had an opportunity to knock away and didn’t and was lucky that it was called offside. So essentially the one time he was tested it would have been a goal if not for the offside. This game was close to being a tie there.
Even the pundit made this point that Livakovic wasn’t really of use in this match. We need to see him when he is really tested. Look I am not saying don’t choose him, I just think that it is way overstated to say he did well, his team did virtually everything for him in this match. He didn’t do well or poorly because he had nothing to do in this game this would be a fair way to state it. I would say Sutalo and Ljubicic did the work for him really if you pay closer attention.
I agree that we don’t really have another option really between Livakovic and Lovre Kalinic but neither are very good and you could even see glimpses of that in this match. You cannot go by the shutout because he didn’t really have to work for it. A shutout where a goalie does not have much to do is an empty stat, it’s more a shutout for the defence I would say.
The only thing I will give the guy in this match, is that he created some opportunities with his goal kicks which I think may be getting better. But that is all I could see, his positioning at times was still a bit off for me.
To reiterate if you look at the player ratings on different sights Sutalo got the highest rating 8/10. That guy is invaluable to the team really.
Yeah Leicester fans are clamoring for the signing of Sutalo.
I thought sutalo was injured
I know bosko is but Josip as well didn’t he have a knock?
Glad he was good tho
No room for the lovren vida train anymore
Amazing win. All these dummies on here saying they should play in Europa league.
Big pay day today. Wow.
Yeah Dinamo made 2.8 million euros for this win!
wow, Dinamo prove that they’re true professionals and play a very good game. I am expecting them to get beaten pretty badly in London but this game made me happy!
DISCIPLINE wins games!
Sucic hurt? Not in the lineup
Great win.
Livaković still sucks though.
Nice goal Oršić!!! He’s got some wheels!!!
Bog i Hrvati
Yeah, Oršić only outran Fofana, the 90 million Euro signing. Love it!
Anyone with link?
DINAMO (5-3-2): Livaković – Moharrami, Ristovski, J. Šutalo, Perić, Ljubičić – Mišić, Baturina, Ademi – Petković, Oršić
CHELSEA (3-4-3): Arrizabalaga – Chalobah, Fofana, Koulibaly – Azpilicueta, Kovačić, Jorginho, Chilwell – Ziyech, Havertz, Broja
Glad to see Šutalo in the lineup.
He’s still fresh off an injury, so hopefully he does well.
We need him to get back into form, so we can continue testing the Šutalo/Gvardiol pairing for our World Cup preparations.
Nations League is in two weeks, so we need him ready for those games.
Cilic in a 5-set epic with #3 Alcaraz atm, if he could get through u never know since Nadal lost earlier from the same quarter.
I’ve been checking the scores
Would be amazing to see him win again
What I want to know is how are they playing at 2 AM???