Photo: DPA
‘Super’ Mario Mandžukić got the start for Bayern Munich Tuesday night in their Champions League Round of 16 clash with Premiership club Arsenal. Bayern took absolute control of the game in the first half, scoring two goals inside the first 22 minutes to give the German giants a 2-0 lead into halftime. Mandžukić nearly made it 3-0 before the break but his wide open header from 10 yards out whisked right past the right post.
With Bayern’s lead cut to 2-1 in the second half and Mario Gomez warming up to come in for the Croatian striker, Mandžukić got a piece of Phillip Lahm’s pass inside the six-yard box in the 77th minute to put the ball up in the air with tons of spin. With Arsenal goalie Wojciech Szczesny out of position to grab the ball, it spun into the net for to make it 3-1 Bayern.
It was Mandžukić’s first Champions League goal in his career.
The match would finish that way. Mandžukić only saw the ball a few times on the match but his fluke deflection goal and almost-header got the job done. The two clubs meet again in Germany in three week’s time.
Mandžukić spinner vs. Arsenal
Please Dr. Colin , not U too . Be nice . U are too good to side with that Arrogant team .
The dinamo-hajduk trash talk has begun. No hope for your jadan hajduk. Not even prayer will save you. Don’t waste your time.
Anonymous your hrvatski is SOLID.
Signed,
Ja am from Dubraaaaahvnik.
4 goals only sorry, my bad!
This was it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECVrdFqG5M
Miladin Prso was a good player when healthy.
I am having a vigil tomorrow night for Hajduk. I urge all of my fellow Hajduk fans to take a few minutes tomorrow night and pray for our jadan Hajduk. Pray for help, pray for strength on the field against Dinamo and most of all, pray that the players can get paid on time.
Yeah it’s good Barca lost.
Remember that Champs’ League game some years ago when Prso scored 5 goals for Monaco in one match and they beat Deportivo 8-3 or something ? And it was on his birthday ? LOL
Ide u kuraz vice te i tvoj dinamo
MUKU MUCE DA NAS SPRIJECE SPRIJECITI NAS NITKO NECE DINAMO!
STO GA VISE LOME, TO GA VOLIM JACE!
haaaa…..calling Barca a one-trick pony. I wish all teams would learn to emulate that one-trick pony.
Bayern winning the CL with Mandzukic leading the line would be awesome.
I love the positive peer pressure Mandzukic has to deliver at Bayern. If he goes cold he will be benched in a German minute. Tick tock.
Modric is a magician. Nothing like seeing life through my Jadran Dalmatinac glasses! I recommend a pair to all my Croatian brothers,
Ancelotti will find use for Modric. He had a similar game back in the day with AC Milan.
Jelavic is a beast that always deserves 20 minutes to mix it up with our pravoslav opponents on the 22nd of March.
Haven’t seen a dribbling forward since Dado Prso who was skating against Brazil in 2006, when the announcer didn’t know if brazil changed there kit to red and white checkers!
Like Prso, Madzukic is getting better in his late 20’s.
Unleash the Bayern Beast!
Thanks D
Cico/Sime delusional just like Hajduk.
Not even ten minutes and he responds.
Barcelona lost LOL. They can’t beat Bayern anyway. Milan shut down the 1-trick pony. This time the CL title will go to Bayern. Third time is a charm.
Loza too
I nikom nije ljepse neg je nam, jebat cemo Hajduk svaki dan
19Miro55 , Jarac , Dukic, Nije B. , Cico/Sime , Ante K. , Denis , & Iggy , great people .
Cico/Sime is the BEST . Hajduk Forever !
@Ante B Stop living in the past , Pizda
@Ante B
I give it 10 minutes and Cico/Sime will be responding.
Tito partija, hajdukova armija!
Jebemo vam majkuuuu
Jebemo vam majkuuuuu
Jebemo vam majkuuuuuu
komunisticku, smrdljivu tovarsku
@Ziva:
The official HNS website says that an online store will open soon.
Re: Jelavic
Tim Howard launches long balls to him with his back to goal. He wins his fair share and holds play up well enough. When his teammates find him in the box, he does pretty well. I wouldn’t say he gets quality service on a regular basis.
Their other striker Anichibe has benefitted from Jelavic’s short distance layoffs on multiple occasions.
He isn’t the best striker for 1 v 1, but neither are most of our strikers. As much as people like to trash Olic, in his prime he would run at defenders.
Kalinic had to deal with similar tactics at Blackburn although the team was less talented as a whole.
ajmo svi skupa
Jebes Hajduk i Tito.
Comedy Central is the best place for American news!
ajmo svi skupa,
Jebes zagreb, Jebes dinamo, jebes dinamo…
Boja, bila boja je boja, bila boja je najbolja na svitu i niko mi ne more rec da nije tako!
Kvargu cupeeeeeeee, idemo sutra ceka se za karte 22.3.13
Ajmo bjeli ale Ajmo bjeli ale!
The whole Msnbc vs Fox news is a charade, it allows you to safely play within their sandbox while you delusionally think you are somehow being courageous by taking a side. LOL!
Plavi plavi za vas smo zivot dali
AC MILAN ALE ALE TIKE TAKA ODJEBI!
MatesicMethod “Less FOX news and more MSNBC!”
It’s the same shit: Fox news is just the controlled opposition of Liberals. Truth is, Fox news is even more politically correct that MSNBC, but MSNBC are a bunch of delusional moronic psychopaths. Our whole society is pathological, you are required to speak obvious bullshit to retain your respectability. The Soviet Union had elections too ya know; you had two sides to choose from, the same shit. That went down, and this is going down, no thanks to moral cowards like you tho.
Is called ebay plenty of official gear and match worn and gear from training or do what i do go to games and have a guard(pandur) on duty sneak you on the field get everything!
People looking for official national team gear (jackets, warm ups, patches, etc)……..forget it. Very hard to get as the savez does not sell anything beyond socks, jerseys and shorts. The have no online website.
@nije
any recommendations for Dinamo gear, I guess one can go the Dinamo website but have you seen something better or even in North America
I have not watched much of Evertyon recently. So, I ask this. What type of service have Jelavic been getting?
In some aspects, he is very much like Mandza and needs his teammates to provide him with quality service. If he is not getting that service he is useless on the field. Unlike Mandza who is much better off the ball and a much better passer, Jelavic is a disaster with his first touch handling a ball (if its not a shot) and passing ability. If you are a teammate of Jelavic you know not to expect a return ball after giving it to him.
It’s Just Not Happening For Jelavic
http://is.gd/lacmV6
anonymous, i have to see about the patch but you can get hajduk gear on this website.
http://cro-fan-shop.com/
@ Nije Bitno , do U know where i can buy a HNS patch , like the one on the jerseys ? Also where is the best place to get Hajduk gear , t-shirts , uni’s, souviners , etc. ? Thanks . Your the Man .
Boys, make sure you order jerseys without a name on the back of it. You wouldn’t want to be confused with a jock sniffer.
@ arnada, you prob already know about this site but this is what i found real quick
http://www.kvarner-sport.hr/
@ armada, not that i know of but i’ll ask my family in cro if they know of any place…
@ nije
you have any sites that carry HNL kits (not just Dinamo & Hajduk)
anybody that wants CRO gear checkout this website
http://www.crosportvez.hr/
What Pee-wee Herman says at the end of this clip is what Mario said to his teammates after he scored yesterday.
http://is.gd/bH3vAc
Don’t matter how levy handled luka, the little fela believed he could do the job, the fact he has the fight and belief in him self is enough for me!
naive realism…….funny line.
All I can base my opinion on is what I can see. Modric has not done well or received quality minutes against top-tier teams.
Do I expect him to play against the serbs??? Yes, but the odds do decrease a bit when he is not getting quality minutes against top clubs.
Back to Levy for a second……he handled the Modric situation perfectly in his favor and in Tottenham’s favor. This is a business and he handled Modric as a business asset.
Luka is playing for the biggest club in the world, hasn’t played his part yet, except for moments, would you put you life savings or your job on him performing at old trafford, i would but i’m fucked, i pray he does well but so far he has only shown a small part of his pottential, he has said this and he to hopes he can do better.
@ Ziva
My friend I fear you are suffering from a “naive realism.”
Dražen Petrovic would play well in the limited role he had for the Portland Trailblazers. Modric played well in the 15 mins he was given by Madrid.
We have seen Modric play his game against Spain, Chelsea, Man U etc…
Madrid is about ME, MY AND I.
Now I am now nogomet expert but I do know team sport and last time I checked you do not win sranje with this ethos.
Maybe in the beginning of the campaign due to Levy squeezing Modric’s kurac, he was not sharp. NOW he looks ready to rock.
PS he needs to start against Barca as well.
PSS no more comparing him to Ozil. Not the same position.
Less FOX news and more MSNBC!
My man.
I hope he will somrsault before the ball gets there in the sebia match!
Other than Chuck Norris, Mandzo is the only one who can shoot and end up in the goal before the ball gets there.
rofl serious ? in the top 10 goals ? fuck my balls.. i guess if u trip over the ball and it ping pongs in it would be nbr 1 ?
Mandzukic goal made Sportscenter Top 10 at #7 Tuesday night. I don’t know about that. I thought the Kroos goal was better.
At least they got hid name (kinda) right…
Mandzukic is a showman, he got sick of people saying all he could do was tap it in from a few yards out so he thought he’d shoe us he can bicycle kick aswell as lob the keeper from 2 yards out!
You spelled 3rd wrong. 😀
Mandzukic scored the greatest goal ever! Screw Ibra’s bicycle and RVP’s majestic volleys, that arc looked like a three ball from Reggie Miller! Extraordinary.
Eh you have to be good to be lucky.
ha no. Good luck in the race for 5th…
Thanks a lot Mandzukic, you ruined my Tuesday.
The Gunners shall rise in three weeks!
strange goal by mandzukic, but however you get the job done is fine. he managed to hold the ball up. make a pass. and get movement to put himself in the right position in the box for luck to happen. no complaints from me
Yeah Ziva, you’re a “doofust”.
@Ziva-yeah right,and in your own words,You weally are a nice guy to have a dwinky with,waa ,waaa,waa!
Negative, I am the biggest hajduk fan. You must have missed me winning the veliki hajdukovac contest in Vodice.
Don’t discount what I write just because you don’t like it. You may not like it – many don’t – but its true.
@Anon-no,you are wrong.Nobody loves Hajduk like Ziva.Dont blame him,he was abused as a child.This is what young Ziva manifested into.
There he go’s again , Ziva the biggest dinamo fan . Leave Hajduk alone you Doofust.
@Poglavnik…….they won’t thank you, all the dalmos are sleeping right now.
@Matesic Method…..agreed about Bayern. I hope we get a Bayern – Barca final.
But, what homer glasses are you wearing to write “Modric is playing his game now.” If this is his game by what we have seen in the last month, then we (repka) in trouble or at the very least should a bit concerned.
All you guys attacking/mocking Hajduk, take it easy. Hajduk knows how to develop one thing……former players who had marginal careers so they can come back as agents/managers and rape Hajduk on financial transactions with current players.
If MM did come up through Hajduk’s academy he most definitely wouldn’t have ended up at a club like Bayern.
All the Dalmo’s can thank Dinamo for his great development!
poor Cico/Sime needs to get a life.
@Abused Cowboy, I think Hajduk also rejected Modric, go figure.
Wow! Super Mario has been kind enough to grace CSR with his presence!
It’s ok Mario we forgive you for playing for Dinamo ! (^__^)
@Anonymous
It would be good if you have some registration/authorization here. Looks anyone can post with anyone’s name. This is my 4th post if I remember correctly (2 today and one before).
Mandzukic is one of the many great Croatian players rejected by Hajduk. I believe, when Mando’s dad tried to get him into Hajduk’s team, hey said they had Kalinic. I think Mandzo is still underrated. He has good work ethic and no-nonsense approach to the game that really fits Bayern style. He improved a lot in Bundesliga.
If Messi scored goal like Mandzo did today,it would be a work of genius, but for great Mandzo it was pure luck. Right ?
If i recall correctly, when he played for Dinamo all the Dinamo fans said he was a hack and would never be any good….
I wish I did play for the Greatest Team in Croatia , Hajduk ! Please don’t hate on me for playing on that Arrogant Team dinamo . Thank You . Love Mandzo
Wait Mandzukic played for Dinamo? Are you sure?
@Abused Cowboy-Ok,sorry,never followed the show.When I saw it,it just made me think of poor Ziva.The name does sound interesting!
@Abused Cowboy-Very true,youir name concerns me though,are you Ziva signing on under another name??
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No.
I do not know anyone posting here.
Nickname comes from Sopranos.
@Abused Cowboy-Very true,youir name concerns me though,are you Ziva signing on under another name??
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No.
I do not know anyone who is posting here.
ps.
Nickname comes from one Sopranos episode.
@Abused Cowboy-Very true,youir name concerns me though,are you Ziva signing on under another name??
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No. I do not know anyone posting here.
ps.
Nickname comes from one Sopranos episode (when Tony gets concerned about some minority groups, he also mentions Abused Cowboys)
@Matesic-Right on again brother.
@Abused Cowboy-Very true,youir name concerns me though,are you Ziva signing on under another name??
@Dinamo supporters-Always fun to have you come out of the woodwork,but just dont get Cico going too much,ok.
Bravo Mario!!!
Hvala bogu.
The CL is the best training for the repka. The second leg will be a nice tune up going into the Serbia match.
I would not bet against Bayern no matter who they draw. They get better and better as the season progresses. After Barca, who else has the combination of talent and teamwork?
Mandzukic’s movement in the box is special.
Modric is playing his game now. Madrid can do what they want. But if does not start at Old Trafford then they will be out of the CL.
Madrid je kurvat i moze pusi mi kurac!
Mandzukic’s goal was the first ever goal where the goalscorer crosses the line before the ball?
Mandzukic played for NK Zagreb then Dinamo Zagreb…he was Eduardo’s replacement at Dinamo
Dinamo Dinamo Dinamo. BBB
@Ante B-You can always try Google for that.
Just checking.
@Ante B-Yeah,but back then he was plain old “Normal Mario”
Did Manzo play for Arrogant Dinamo or , The Most Loved team in Croatia , Hajduk . Doy ? He wished he played for that Beautiful team in Split .
Dinamo
Did Mandzo play for Hajduk or Dinamo?
Mandzukic needs to take lessons on headers from Rakitic……Im sorry, I had to get that in there
I am sure Ivica Olic loves the goal,it was a great one indeed.First some people would say “he can only head the ball”well,last week he showed that he can bike kick ,this week he showed that he can loop the ball in too,so well done to him.
Now some will say”he is part of the Bayern system”well,if thats true,I still say good on him for being that.
It was hard to imagine things would go so well with his move to Bayern,I also expected him to ride the bench,but he is scoring goals and people call him “Super Mario” its a fickle world for these guys,It was always a risk for Modric to move to Real,and things are not great,so he is a bit of a boob at the moment for some.We will see if he can turn it around or go to another top club that would love to have him and things should fall into place better.
Ivica Olic thinks that was a great goal.
hahah he meant to score like that, oh well a goal is a goal
A goal is a goal!!! Bravo Mario!!
Odd goal.. oh well at least Bayern will get thru so we get to see Mandza play in the later stages