FULL-TIME! The last 10 or so minutes were played in shambolic conditions but Hajduk kept their lead and win the first Eternal Derby of the season!
71′: Now Hajduk with a great chance, Bamba once again involved as he delivers a cross across the box to the far post. Šotiček is unable to stay on his feet due to the slippery pitch and a great chance goes begging.
70′: Game was shortly stopped due to BBB getting their flares out. Stojković just had an attempt go wide od the mark from outside the box.
60′: BAMBA!!! HAJDUK LEAD 2-1!!! Šego lays it off after some wonderful cheat control and Bamba hits it first time past Kotarski!
56′: Bamba once again in open space on the right, this time he tries to go alone instead of finding a pass. Blocked by Dinamo’s defence.
46′: Second half has begun!
Half-time! No real chances after the two goals, the game has slowed down as the rain has started pouring down. Very equal half, and the result shows that.
24′: GOAL HAJDUK! It’s all tied up just moments after Dinamo’s opener! Scott McKenna has turned a Hajduk cross into his own net and it’s 1-1.
21′: GOAL DINAMO! Dion Drena Beljo gives the ‘Modri’ the lead at Poljud!
14′: First yellow card of the game goes to Dion Drena Beljo.
6′: First chance falls to Hajduk, as Bamba drove down the right and beat Vinlof, laid it off for Šego whose shot went over the bar.
1′: Kick-off at Poljud! The first derby between Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb has kicked off!
Lovre Nikolac reporting live from Split. In the 9th round of the SuperSport HNL, Hajduk Split hosts Dinamo Zagreb in the biggest Croatian derby. Dinamo leads the league, tied on points with ‘Bili’, but the Zagreb side has a game in hand. In the last round, Hajduk lost 3-0 to Rijeka, whilst Dinamo survived and got a 2-1 victory over Lokomotiva.
Starting line-ups:
Hajduk Split (4-2-3-1): Silić – Acapandie, Marešić, Raci, Hrgović – Fayad, Del Moral – Bamba, Dalisson, Šotiček – Šego
Dinamo Zagreb (4-3-3): Kotarski – Tabinas, Dominguez, McKenna, Perez Vinlöf – Kačavenda, Kravcov, Zajc – Lisica, Beljo, Lisica
Another kid to keep an eye on Antonio Ilic from Zrinjski. 7 goals in 9 games and wants to play only for Croatia turned down Bosnia under 21 invitation. Stimac recommended him on a recent podcast as he said he has 36 km which is faster I believe than any current player we have. Maybe only Petar Sucic clocked faster.
Brekalo another two assists
Jaga 7+5 minutes
Replaced Ounahi
Some fans saying change should have happened at HT
PAO lost 0-1
Their fans crying ref screwed them their should have been 5 red cards (instead of the 1 given) to Olympiacos lol
Next up
Thursday 12:45pm Borac Banja Luka next up
gvardi with some cheek in the box 4 man city’s 3rd
Bati still virus? Came off the bench for 12 today
Lazio – both starting CBs off – Sutalo 30 and no goals against – well done
Moro still benching – like Pong yesterday
Real Sociedad 3-0 after 60′ – Sucic on the pitch but no goal or assist – Vlad is he at least running???
Budimir starting 12:30pm ET not that anyone cares
Musa had an offside tap-in yesterday – no defending – terrible level
Pompey lost 0-1 to Southampton – SEGECIC BENCH – Southampton red card 44′ – Segecic enters 2nd half vs. 10 men and DONUTS 2 shots off target only 16 touches – cold cold, freezing cold
Verinac 69′ in 3-4 loss – no contribution to goals – why why why?
USG 1-1 tie after 85 – can Biondic save them? – terrible if lose 2 points fall from 1st to 4th in table – ouch ouch ouch
Fruk spiralling down – only bench – can’t he handle Slaven’s 38 yo CB Bozic?
Marko Soldo 22yo 8.4 Sofascore best player today 1-1 tie – not bad
Kvaratskhelia little 16 yo brother Tornike playing for Dinamo Tbilisi right now
Jaga 2pm ET
Zvonarek 3:30pm ET
Update on Serbia Super Liga matches today ? F the Serbs
Baturina was definitely out of it during the international window.
He was absolutely cooking it during his Champions League debut (and all the Serie A games leading up to it), then gets hot with this virus and it took him down. He’ll be back at full form within a couple weeks.
100%
He has zero energy nor power vs England from minute 1 (Pero wasn’t much better) – neither should have started – they obviously weren’t right
Bati will be back once it clears his system and he gets his strength/fitness back
Gvardiol and Kova bench
Maresca saving Josko from facing Munoz again
Jakirovic 2-2 Everton
9th in the table on 9 points – every single point matters
He’s doing so so well
It will be crazy if he keeps them up (long way to go)
Terrible news for HSV’s (and Mario’s) chances of staying up
Rambo was outstanding last year in the 6 – mopped up so so much in front of the back 5 and was able to both carry and pass the ball forward – honestly I thought he was good enough to get called up for Germany NT (or at least on standby)
Out for a year now probably
Hamburger SV
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Translated from German
Bitter News and Sad Certainty. 😔
Nicolai Remberg suffered a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during yesterday’s match at TSG Hoffenheim. The initial suspicion was confirmed by an MRI conducted that same evening at the Athleticum at Volkspark. Rambo will need surgery and will be out for several months.
We wish you a good and above all complete recovery, Rambo – if anyone can manage to come back even stronger, it’s you! 💙🤍🖤
To the announcement ➡️ https://hsv.link/RembergVerletzung
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I’m REALLY interested in Mario Vušković’s season.
I’m curious to see if he’s better than Šutalo or not.
I can’t think of another case where a player was banned for four full years, yet was still training like he was on a professional team and is still under the age of 25.
He comes from a strong football family who are dedicated to their craft. I would not be surprised if this guy came back and impressed, but at the same time, I want to be realistic with expectations (as he’s literally not been playing football for almost a half decade).
What I’d look forward to with Mario is if he is a starter in good form and gets a NT call-up, he would likely have natural chemistry between him and his brother as CB’s.
Over the last few years we haven’t had great chemistry finding a consistent partnership at CB since Lovren/Vida.
I agree with zuzic, end of day he is playing professional soccer and doing well. It’s still amongst men young men. He is someone who definitely is on radar for 2028.
17 yo Ben Doak playing in 2nd English League crap made his debut for Scotland in 2024 – Scotland said yeah we’ll let you play against Gvardiol TWICE the best LB in the World at the time – and Doak completely embarrassed him in the 2nd game at Hampden Park over and over again and was MOTM
Not a great comp to Skafar Zuzic in terms of type/profile of winger – but the point is Scotland let Doak go from 2nd English League crap LBs to the best LB in the World – no hesitation
We can’t have hesitation for Skafar Zuzic either just because he plays in HNL
Brekalo is slow, no mystery guy has no speed for a winger.
Speaking of brekalo, his national team story may not be done
He’s tearing it up in the 2. Bundesliga so far this season
Kvara
2018 (18 1/3 yo) Georgian league
18 matches
3 goals
3 assists
1375’
Skafar Zuzic
2026-2027 (17 1/6 yo)
9 matches
2 goals
3 assists
519’
HNL 25th rank globally vs Georgia 71st
It’s not even close – Skafar Zuzic is miles ahead and 10x better than Kvara at the same age (actually a year 1/6 year younger as Kvara started to play men’s league at 18 1/3 yo)
He was actually born in Postojna so HNS best call and cap him in November before it’s too late….
Żužić looks good, but let’s give the kid some time.
Dukan Ahmeti is another interesting one.
The guy has 3 goals and 4 assists this season in 9 games played (half of them were off the bench).
Glad to see Istra stepping up with their youth program. This could be massive got the National Team.
Zuzic is a great prospect, however, so was Josip Brekalo who in my opinion was a better player than Skafar Zuzic at the same age in their careers.
Brekalo was incredibly quick and a great dribbler at youth level and was scoring goals. Unfortunately, his career never reached any great heights at club level like most people were predicting for him. Still, I think he played 35 times for the national team?
We’ll see what Skafar Zuzic does at the U17 World Cup in late November.
Brekalo was slow for the National Team.
Incredibly skilled technically, but no explosive first step and was just not fast enough in the open field.
@Mart
You’re right – he does remind stylistically as Brekalo – but Brekalo’s HNL stats from the 2015/2016 season (when he was 17-18 yo) – in 9 matches and 555′ – he had ZERO goals and ZERO assists – so while you may remember that the stats tells us Skafar-Zuzic is a much better player than Brekalo was at the same age in the same league!
At 18 (after the 555′ HNL minutes with Dinamo in 2015/2016 (and playing for Croatia U19 at the Euros)) – Mamic sold Brekalo for 10M to Wolfsburg – was it too early? – and is perhaps a cautionary tale for Skafar-Zuzic – let him spend the full season Istra – and when the time is right take the next step
But just because Brekalo didn’t become World Class – it doesn’t mean that Skafar Zuzic won’t – he’s already better than Kvara in the Georgian league (at the same age – well actually more than an year older) and Brekalo in the HNL – so objectively, he’s the best winger the World has ever seen at 17 y/o not named Yamal
I do think on Skafar Zuzic – we have to forget about his age – and just judge his ability solely on his performances on the field in the HNL – it’s too easy to say “he’s only 17!” – of all the positions on the pitch wingers are often the youngest to break-through to the professional game, stand out and peak – most of them break-through at 16-17 yo (Kvara was actually LATE) – and if they don’t show show signs of being World Class by 20 yo they most likely won’t ever become (see Yamal, Kvaratskhelia, Vini Jr, Arjen Robben, Nico Williams, Michael Olise, Saka, Anthony Gordon, Raphina etc etc etc) – there are of course exceptions to this rules – but 99% of wingers you know before 20 yo if they will be World Class – so there is no reason to hold Skafar Zuzic back bc of his age
I hope Zuzic will stay at Istra for the entire season, but I wonder what’s the best path forward for such a precociously talented footballer. If he continues to dazzle, I can see Dinamo going after him soon but will the pressure be too much? I also worry about him going abroad too soon.
Yeah, kudos to Istra for what they’ve done. Besides the talented quartet of Zuzic, Ahmeti, Kumar and Sepic, even Isaac Tomich and Kolic are somewhat interesting in my book… guess it’s about time the Istrani finally did something for the National Team😜
U guys really bigging up Soticek – based on what ? Did he even touch the ball today ?
Based on highlights he flopped in the 59′ trying to draw a penalty (no dice) and then missed a sitter in the 70-something
Other than that NOTHING – ZERO IMPACT ON THE GAME
Meanwhile, Skafar Zuzic could have scored FIVE GOALS TODAY
Skafar Zuzic already better than Kvaratskhelia and u guys talking about a Swiss league reject – come on guys – he impacts the game all around – either with the ball – without the ball (runs) – or just being out there (defence cheating to his side, which opens up space for others centrally and right-flank)
P.S. what a f-ing goal by Ahmeti – he went through 7 players OMFG
You need to watch the game not just the highlights. Tabinas and Dominguez had fits trying to defend Soticek in the first half. Proper winger with speed and good one on one ability to dribble players.
joj. this man did not watch but wants to comment about the game. he created lot of trouble for dinamo. he did miss a goal but ball skipped on him because of rain. still need to make it. you people need to watch games
Yes!!! Idemo naprijed. Dalmatia.
Hajduk with the deserved win today. Bilic was there as well. He certainly saw how Dinamo could not handle Soticek today no reason not to call him for the next games for the national team.
He even did his best Kovačić impression and missed a pretty bad sitter in front of the net that could’ve made it 3-1.
He belongs on the senior team.
Happy that Hajduk beat Dinamo, but the last 30 minutes of this match was a farce. The pitch was waterlogged and the ball did not bounce, nor could it roll and the match should have been stopped.
The ref did stop the match deep in stoppage time but after consultation with both benches it continued.
I thought that Hajduk was lucky not to have Raci sent off midway through the second half for an awful sliding tackle on Kacavenda.
Hajduk also needs a new stadium the drainage at Poljud is non-existent. The roof on both grandstands has heaps of holes that have not been repaired since last year’s storm that hit Split.
The elements are the elements play it as it lies. That stadium has had its day and with the athletic track it was never a proper football stadium. Tear it down and build a new one there or build a new one elsewhere. You could piss away a ton of money on renovations and never have a good stadium. Stadiums from that era are getting knocked down everywhere because they just don’t fulfil the requirements of a modern day stadium.
Doesn’t help that they didn’t maintain Poljud at all, but they had other priorities (ie. fighting an independence war).
The stadium is only 47 years old. There are several NFL and MLB stadiums older than that.
It is what it is now, and they need to just build a new one (ideally in the same site) but this is the most expensive option.
With city and supporter owned clubs, building a new stadium is tricky because it’s hundreds of millions of public dollars.
They essentially need the federal government to provide the money.
There’s very few old stadiums in the MLB or NFL from that era because they sucked and were not worth maintaining. The MLB stadiums that have remained are Fenway and Wrigley because they are really old from 1912 and 1914 respectively, they have been renovated extensively over their life. The other two are Dodger field and Angel’s stadium in LA both from the 60’s which have been renovated and maintained. The only stadium that still exists from the 70’s is Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City and they have finally announced a partnership to build a new stadium with Hallmark cards earlier this year.
In the NFL you have Soldier Field from 1924 which has been maintained and heavily renovated and Lambeau Field in Green Bay from 1957 which has been maintained and renovated. The only two stadiums that exist from the 70’s are Arrowhead in Kansas City from which the Chiefs plan to leave by 2031 and Caesars Superdome in New Orleans which has been maintained and heavily renovated.
Pretty much most stadiums built in the 70’s are either gone or on the way out. I’m by no means an expert but for the most part it seems those stadiums are lacking in adaptable modern functionality and construction (usually concrete cancer or subpar steel) that most places are tearing them down instead of continuing with them.
i follow NFL and little baseball. there are almost no stadia in nfl or baseball older than Poljud. if there is then those stadia has big renovations.
the problem here is any project like that will lead to stolen money. it always happens
Leo Perisic
14 yo bday
Only 12 candles cake 🤦♂️
Thank God he can run and kick a ball, lucky lucky
Pero 90 and goal 3-2 win Frigan 6 – Pero 2nd most midfield minutes rank -u guys morons, seriously
Hamburg 3-2 Krama 27 minute cameo – since Mario started training w them that’s 6 points from 6 – Krama bench Hoffenheim relegation
Kumar 18 defensive contributions today – HNL CB record?
Skafar Zuzic
Another World Class goal
Better than Kvaratskhelia already
Brighton 2-0 win
Despite being down to 10 men for 35 minutes
That’s three wins in a row with CLEAN SHEETS (first time since 2018)
Therefore
Vuskovic ain’t the issue with NT leaking 14 goals in 4 goals
Feel so so bad Vuskovic has to play on a crappy Croatia NT team that don’t know how to prevent goals – poor Vuskovic – do better Bilic and co
Honestly Vuskovic should decline the November call up
Just focus on his club career this year
That’s what’s gonna get him to Barca (not playing for Croatia and being made to look bad)
He anyways needs load management playing too many minutes
Maybe for Euro qualifers he can help out a bit – but again if Brighton are pushing for the league title – he should just play for them and forget Croatia this season – no upside for him
Anonymous rein it in bro. Thats treason.
Are we going to mention how Dinamo fans suspended the match today? Always complaints against Torcida fans, I like to see if people mention this.
Was it because the ref let a straight red card go? I didn’t watch the game but I saw hi lights and Raci went in a tackle with both feet, studs up and injured Kacavenda. Everyone saw it was an immediate red card except for the ref.
I believe it may have been. But these things happen in every soccer game, someone fouls someone who should have gotten a card somewhere.
Granted it was a pretty bad tackle, either way fans from anywhere tend to shit disturb. I just thought it was interesting that this time it was Dinamo fans causing shit and a disturbance. Noone seems to be bothered by it, I feel like of it was Torcida throwing flares everyone would comment.
another man who did not watch game and wants to talk about game.
Yeah of course, when a Hajduk supporter speaks they have no clue.
Bad officiating happens in every match.
Bambaaaaaaaaaaaa
Mlacic started vs Burnley
0-3 after 25 minutes
Ouch ouch ouch
0-4 final
4.7 Sofascore worst player
Retire
Mlacic started vs Burnley
Vuskovic looks a thousand times more confident playing for Brighton
Even before kick off thousand times better body language
Probably be he knows he’s surrounded by quality players all around him that can run etc
He just threw a runt to the ground
Only issue ?
Some English yob gave him a new trim that makes him look like an English yob but his hair will grow back