Slaven Bilić has announced his starting lineup against Poland for today’s match. Remember that Croatia has already won Group B making this game a friendly; if anyhting for them. However, Poland will be playing for their tournament lives. Should they win big and have a German slip-up, they could move onto the knockout round to play Portugal.
Bilić has been quoted in numerous Croatian papers saying, “We are not stupid and are not going to risk anything.” With that, here is the lineup vs. Poland.
Goalkeeper: Stipe Pletikosa
Defenders: Dario Šimić (C), Hrvoje Vejić, Dario Knežević, Danijel Pranjić
Midfielders: Nikola Pokrivač, Ognjen Vukojević, Ivan Rakitić, Jerko Leko
Strikers: Ivan Klasnić and Mladen Petrić
So the only ‘usual’ starters will be Pletikosa,Pranjić, Rakitić and Petrić.
We will finally get a good look at Klasnić and see exactly what he has to offer as I’m sure he will be playing for a spot in the lineup for the rest of the tournament.
So there you go. What do you think?
i get reports from numerous sites and then piece them together…i apologize for not getting the goalie situation correct…i guess bilic decided to go with runje instead of pletikosa last minute…
I heard that Corluka is starting instead of Vejic, and that Kallinic may play instead of Petric.
Anyone else hear this??