Petar Sučić scored an 89’ winner for Inter to punch their ticket to the Coppa Italia final Tuesday night in Milan! Sučić also assisted on Calhanoglu’s equalizing header in the 86′ after barely coming off the bench in the 69′. Inter beat Como 3-2 in a match where Martin Baturina opened the scoring for Como in the 1st half.
Sučić received an incredible 9.0 SofaScore rating for his G+A in the 2nd half. Baturina received a 7.3 rating. This is the second time in two weeks Inter have come back from a 2-goal deficit to defeat Como.
Never mind having a young stud like P sucic.
With the talent and the heart that’s oozing out of him
You see that Niko sigur you bum. Go play with whatever African non stars they have
Canada will crash out in the World Cup. The deluded coach and fan base think they stand a chance. Switzerland will beat them 2-0. But first, Bosnia will humble them in the opening match with a bang and I will embrace every second of it. Then they an beat a weak untalented Qatar. That’s the only way.
Serbian soccer report must dream about the days they had all the defenders
Now they cry when they see prince luka and gvardi
Blast the Thompson decki forget yugo non stars team
Juranovic with a nice assist. First time off the bench for months. Class is permanent. Form and injuries are temporary.
Did he sleep with the new FEMALE coach to earn his play time ?
Can imagine JJ is a quite the Cheeky Chappie
Yes the BiH winger, with Sesko as striker , and Oblak in goal, might work in a politically correct sanitized Post Brozovic Simunic era. But would we have guys diving on the cameraman in pure joy and unity celebrations.
I think I would rather we just dominate like we been doing, through our own efforts, thank you very much.
So this is where it gets fun and tricky.
Both Oblak and Sesko are part Serbian.
So, if we start busting out the Thompson beats in the locker room…maybe these two get silent and awkward. Maybe the HNS tells the stadiums to stop playing Thompson songs (and other songs that are too patriotic). Maybe the HNS tells Modric and the gang to play something else in the locker room.
Also, is Oblak even that much more impactful than Livakovic for the National Team (who usually steps up at the World Cup)? Sesko is young and generally scores more for club than country. Would he make a significant enough difference and die on the field for the Croatian flag?
Both of these guys are more than good enough to start, but is their impact going to be that significant that it’s worth suppressing your team’s patriotic spirit?
This is where the watering down takes effect. You add Esmir and Kerim….then you add Oblak and Sesko…then maybe you add a few more for the bench…and now you’ve essentially neutralized your team’s identity.
The dreaded Zajc hole.
m(Cro)(2) > (BiH+ SLO+SRB+CRO + KSV+ Money+ Prestige)
Yes the equation is about right. Maybe I can win the 2nd Nobel prize, from komiza, after Martinis.
Sto posto!
I dont ever want a foreign coach either.
I find it charming (for lack of a better word) that Croatia has Croatian coaches.
I actually think it should be a rule.
The way I look at this squad is a significant improvement on the backend. Compared to what we dealt with in Russia and Qatar. Strinic, Vida, Lovren, Pivaric. A older and more experienced Gvardiol. The rest besides Josko were all low quality defenders to what we have now. Three wonder kids at the back, all fairly young too. Our midfield is what concerns we the most. Modric leading us at 40 will only slow the middle down. Listen, he’s still a top of the line player but doesn’t have the legs and lungs to compete at this level. He went from Real Madrid and numerous champions leagues cups to a mediocre Serie A. The same applies to Pasalic, Sucic, Baturina Vlasic. All above average midfield but it’s not good enough to take us deep. Rakitic, Modric, Kovacic in 2018 were on a whole different level and couldn’t be touched. Is Kovacic even playing anymore? Strikers is a C plus at best. Start the youth with Matanovic and Ivanovic. The chemistry from 2018 can’t be repeated with a force with Mandzo, prime Perisic and Kramaric. I said it before and I’ll say it again, our goals will have to come from free kicks and corners. We have so much height to work with to body people.
Thanks, Maminjo:
You always give such great commentary and historical background to all things Croatian. So I take it you would not agree with Z and Anon, regarding if we had BiH wingers we would be a shoe in for gold medal this year. It does make sense though on the surface.
To je to, we can’t understand all the glorious, beautiful mysteries of the Croatian people. We just have to sit back and admire our feats we have accomplished alone.
I do think we give to other Balkan nations hope that it is possible.
With that said, Germany, England, France and Spain should be named New Balkan. The most popular name in London, Paris, and Barcelona is now Mohammad.
To answer your initial question…
If Esmir and Kerim were added to this team (but the team was still called Croatia) and they bought into the Croatian pride and family atmosphere (and had no issues with very “Croatian things” like Dalic busting out a rosary or Modric busting out the Thompson beats in the locker room) then I’m sure it would be fine and the team would not lose a beat.
The problem with Yugo is that it’s an artificial identity that tried to suppress Croatian identity.
If there was a Yugo team today, more than half of the Croats from the team would be cut and replaced with middling Serbs, and a few token Slovenes, Montenegrins, Macedonians and Kosovar Albanians.
There would be no rosary for Dalic on the sidelines. There would be no checkered flags allowed anywhere. Thompson would be banned from the locker room (and Modric would have to apologize and attest for ever listening to Thompson)…and the songs sung would be some worthless Yugo pop song that has zero heart or meaning to the players.
The difference would be like playing for your family versus playing for your work mates. Playing for Yugo would just be a job. They would go through the motions and would underachieve (as Yugo did in the past).
Aside from the Luka Sucic overhype (lol), Maminjo knows his/her shit.
Hey, I also overhyped Gvardiol and Petar Sucic very early too. 😉
It surprises me that throughout all those 60 years of the past existence of the Yugoslavia Union, after WWI, they never won a single WC medal.
Croatia breaks away and wins 3 in 30 years. It breaks all basic scientific logical assumptions. It is right up there with Santa Claus flying reindeer. It just isn’t supposed to happen.
It breaks the mathematical theorem that an entity can’t be more than the sum of its own parts.
Thermodynamics tells us the Energy In = Energy Out.
It must be another equation, maybe: m(Cro)(2) > (BH+ SLO+SBR+CRO + Money+ Prestige).
You are all using the wrong equation, if historical experience tells us anything.
Contrary to whatever you may read online, Yugoslavia was always disjointed and there was never a sense of unity or National pride.
The official slogan “brotherhood and unity” is an obvious example of this.
You’re essentially conditioning and training the citizens of Yugo to ‘feel’ brotherhood and unity when there isn’t any there.
Sure, there are those who claimed to be Yugo…but those were mostly mixed-marriage people, Bosniaks (who are muslim converts), and some Serbs (who just really saw Yugo as a Greater Serbia).
Some older people may also talk positively about Yugo (referred to as Yugonostalgia), but that’s just a mis-association of them being young and life being better as a result of being young again (and nothing to do with Yugoslavia itself).
Anyway…my point is, it’s really difficult to “round up the troops” and play with any sense of pride when you build a football team using a minimum quota from each of the Yugoslav republics, then expect a disjointed group of people to feel a sense of unity and fight together on the field.
You’re essentially fueled by talent alone, and will likely underachieve on results.
A perfect recent example of this is Belgium. This is a similar country to Yugoslavia.
When Belgium had their golden generation breakout of talent during the 2014 to 2022 period (where they were ranked #1 in the World for the better part of a decade)…they severely underachieved.
One bronze medal, despite being seeded and gifted with the easiest paths to the Finals of every tournament. They even had a losing record against top teams.
Not surprised at all that Yugo (with all its talent from Croatia) couldn’t achieve what Croatia on its own could achieve.
Argh.
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Contrary to whatever you may read online, Yugoslavia was always disjointed and there was never a sense of unity or National pride.
The official slogan “brotherhood and unity” is an obvious example of this.
You’re essentially conditioning and training the citizens of Yugo to ‘feel’ brotherhood and unity when there isn’t any there.
Sure, there are those who claimed to be Yugo…but those were mostly mixed-marriage people, Bosniaks (who are religious converts), and some Serbs (who just really saw Yugo as a Greater Serbia).
Some older people may also talk positively about Yugo (referred to as Yugonostalgia), but that’s just a mis-association of them being young and life being better as a result of being young again (and nothing to do with Yugoslavia itself).
Anyway…my point is, it’s really difficult to “round up the troops” and play with any sense of pride when you build a football team using a minimum quota from each of the Yugoslav republics, then expect a disjointed group of people to feel a sense of unity and fight together on the field.
You’re essentially fueled by talent alone, and will likely underachieve on results.
A perfect recent example of this is Belgium. This is a similar country to Yugoslavia.
When Belgium had their golden generation breakout of talent during the 2014 to 2022 period (where they were ranked #1 in the World for the better part of a decade)…they severely underachieved.
One bronze medal, despite being seeded and gifted with the easiest paths to the Finals of every tournament. They even had a losing record against top teams.
Not surprised at all that Yugo (with all its talent from Croatia) couldn’t achieve what Croatia on its own could achieve.
If you slotted Drogba and Etoo we’d be world cup favorites for damn sure
If you slotted two Bosnian wingers Esmir (what a performance today) and Karem into Croatia XI you would have the WC favourite team
Is there a new vatreni becarac out for this summer’s World Cup yet?
We’re going to show up for the WC 2026, Croatia always rev it up for the biggest event. I wish the English game was second but what the hell, jebi ga, we’re going to see what we have and maybe what they have. We need most of the guys to play their game but we will need a few break through players that we didn’t see coming or thought they would be good but not that good- I’d say Vuskovic and Petar Sucic are the breakthrough and then we go for it beyond the round robin round- I don’t see speed for HNS 2026 so that could be our Achilles – I predict the fastest speed game in the history of the WC in 2026- it unfortunately won’t be us and possession and counter will not be enough. I hope for the best but hope we can do something unexpected with our style of play.
Marco Pasalic injured now too.
Supposed to be out a few weeks.
I think we are in a unique position in the history of the vatreni. A deep squad full of players of comparable level. We reached the 2018 World Cup with strinic playing left back and Pivaric backing him up. Some of our better players have declined a bit, but we have quite a few young players who are ready to play. This time around we can handle 2/3 even 4 first choice players missing without much drop off in quality. Perfect timing for the expanded World Cup format. Let’s hope they all recover and have some form for the World Cup
In 2018, we had more STAR power with Modric, Rakitic, Mandzukic and Perisic. Those four were all in great form, and still in their prime.
Everyone else was a role player (and we had some good ones in Broz, Krama, Rebic and Vrsaljko).
Right now, I don’t think we the star power at the top (that we had in 2018), other than Gvardiol and a diminished Modric (who is still a star)…but we do have young stars like Petar Sucic, Baturina and Vuskovic (who could break out in this tournament).
We still have some guys who will be playing the elite role player roles like Krama, Kova, Perisic, etc…and we have quite a bit of depth too.
I think the ex-factor will be whether or not those youngsters mentioned actually break out at this tournament the same way Gvardiol did in 2022.
Ok so I had my analytics team work out a system for checking which squad is stronger, 2018 or now. Basically every player has a rating 1-10. With 1 being an out of form and unfit rubbish player (pick your worst), 10 being top form world class player, 5 being average borna sosa or Ivan strinic, 11 reserved for peak maradona or zidane or pele level.
Starting line ups:
2018
subasic 5.5, vrssljko 6, lovren 7, Vida 6, strinic, 5; brozovic 7, modric 9, rakitic 8; rebic 6, mandzo 7.5, perisic 7.5
= 74.5/110
2026
Livakovic 6.5; Stanišić 6.5, sutalo 6, vuskovic 6.5, gvardiol 8; modric 8, sucic, 7, perisic 7, kramaric 6.5, Budimir 6, Baturina 6.
=74/110
Starting line ups 2018 very slightly better. Almost same. But squad depth much better now.
1998:
Ladic 6; stimac 7.5, bilic 7, simic 6.5: stanic 6, boban 8.5, asanovic 7; prosinecki 7.5, jarni 7.5, suker 8.5, vlaovic 6
=78/110
Where’s the 2022 rating?
Well put, those 4 and Kovacic were winning Champions leauges, what was it 10 years or something in a row? It takes a certain mindset to become a calibre of player to end up on a team winning champions league. I think we can have some breakout stars this tournament. If we stay disciplined vs the faster teams in the group stage especially. I would be dissapointed if we didn’t at least finish second in the group.
One thing tho Maminjo, even though we don’t have the same Star Power (i.e. Champions League winners) like we did in 2018. We have a growing defensive line like we never had before in Stanišić, Gvardiol, and Luka Vuskovic.
Those three may be huge for us moving forward. It is helpful remember that Italy won so many world cups based on their strong defensive line. Sure they had other players, but the defensive line was their identity. So much so that so many articles in Italy are harkening back to that as the way they can get back on track.
I think this needs to Croatia’s team identity moving forward.
If we can have even a little firepower moving forward in Matanović, Musa or Beljo than we may have a strong chance to take a title in the near future.
Couple this with really good midfield prospects as well as others, that you have mentioned, and I think the opportunity for growth is definitely there for the national squad.
Anon:
Comments command doesn’t work for many times don’t know why, always kick me out. So I will begin another string in response.
Some of my personal favorites are questionable now, but really, the Sucic cousins, Baturina are shining like stars of late as you have expounded on, so we are still in the running to do well with those three running on all cylinders. People have to recover and stay healthy for 7 more weeks somehow.
Definitely, No pickup water soccer games with the buddies/family in split, until after the WC. No need to test our guardian Angels if possible.
Definitely we don’t need any retribution “accidents”, Da Silva type tragedies ever again. Hope Belgium is not looking for retribution on Livakovic stand out performance against Romelu Lakaku for his broken heart and possible hand through Plexiglas in 2022, on the June friendly.
If Pep didn’t even trust Kova to come on vs. Burnley y’day (despite making only 2 subs i.e. he had 3 more available) then Pep probably won’t give him any minutes rest of season (as they go for the treble)
The game against burnley was decisive as to if man city surpassed arsenal in the table, and they only won by one goal so he was not gonna take any risk even if it’s not really a risk to make kova play. Were they earlier in the season he’s be given more play time right now
Sorry Kromiza
But forgot to mention Marco also out
He left Orlando and is in Europe
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💣 Per sources, Marco Pašalić is currently in Europe receiving treatment for his injury and is expected back in a couple of weeks. Wishing him a speedy recovery
#OrlandoCity really needs him.
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So gvardi and musa out???
Wtf
No. The Manchester Evening News just posted that Gvardiol won’t feature again this season for Man City.
They only cover news for Man City, so they’re not going to comment on Croatian international duty.
He’s still likely going to be there for us at the World Cup (although it’s going to be a matter of which game he comes in for us, and whether he is in form or not).
In terms of Musa, they saw him limping last night so they subbed him off. There is no other news update other than that. Could be an injury or could be nothing. We’ll find out soon enough.
Top of the morning to you too. Ouch! So Gvardiol is essentially out based on Manchester injury assessment, and possibly Musa is gone now.
I am tapped out and it is only 7:00 AM.
Do not write in the evening which you can’t erase in the morning.
Not good from my perspective, I thought we had a chance with those specific two as our king makers. I did not think this was a throwaway year.
Not so sure about our chances without those two.
Musa had to be subbed off because of a potential injury
Dropping like flies
That’s what happens when you play these 18 y/o too much in one season
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Estevão has almost a fully ruptured hamstring. Chelsea wants him to have surgery, which would completely rule him out for the World Cup.
The player and CBF wants to take a conservative recovery approach in Brasil, which would be his only hope of making the World Cup.
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Ana Maria Markovic broke here nose in training (whatever)
But since she moved to the MLS (Brooklyn) she was DROPPED from the NT
She’s not in MLS.
Greek reports picked up by 24sata saying Rafa out of PAO end of season (4 more games to go)
So basically Jaga wasted half a season on nothing and not going to the WC – and now a new manager comes in – who knows how he thinks about Jaga (see Franjo Benfica as e.g.) – and at the end of the day it’s still the f-ing Greek league lol
This is what happens when you have a nobody agent who just cares about his commission and if he had a Mlacic-type Croatian dad this would have never happened (as he wouldn’t have let Jaga go in the first place until understanding in DETAIL the plan to actually integrate/play Jaga and if Rafa went back on his word he would have punched him in the face)
Having said that – at least Jaga has secured a nice pay check for 5 years
Watch Jaga’s agent make another commission when Jaga transfers again in the summer – two commission in 6 months – well done to a nobody agent
Anonymous biggest pet peeve with Greek league ?
Every game is on a different channel – there are like 6 or 7 Greek channels – some home games here – some away games there – cup games here – away cup games there – Europa here – Europa there
It’s all random and confusing – nothing organized
Can Jaga please go to a league where all the games are on one place
Lamine Yamal faking a hamstring injury – while taking and scoring a penalty – so he too can rest up for the WC – nobody wants to risk getting really injured in the last month and missing it – loan management
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@ATinU
Finally some sanity from the Manchester paper – they say Josko not returning till pre-season (which is what Anonymous said back in January when he broke the leg to begin with)
It’s a tricky one – Man City can keep Josko from playing in the WC if they want – saying he’s not ready and we can’t risk it
https://***.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-injury-news-rodri-33821210
Josko Gvardiol is another Manchester City player who faces a battle against the clock to feature once more before another Premier League campaign draws to a close.
The Croatian was withdrawn with a fractured leg during the home clash with Chelsea on January 4. He has since had an operation, and the expectation would have been to see him return to training before the season ends, but the probability is that he will be fully recovered for pre-season.
Potential return date: Pre-season 2026.
Thanks for the insight, Anon.
We all hope, somehow, that he will be ready for World Cup 2026 . . . but if he is not recovered, then yes, best that he doesn’t risk further injury, as he has at least two more World Cups ahead of him. . .
Luka Gavran with a game tieing 3-3 goal for Toronto FC against the Philly Cheesesteaks up here in the Great White North. Worth a mention. He’s been playing all right as the starting keeper so far this season.
Who the fuck cares
.get lost
Luka Gavran is a Canadian Croatian, the dude can post about him if he wants, relax bud.
Well said Mate1. For all the non-Croatian crap that gets posted on here….
https://www.tsn.ca/video/2026/04/23/must-see-tfc-goalkeeper-gavran-scores-last-second-equalizer-with-brilliant-header/
That’s for you Zapad
This seems to be a bit better solidified team, than the one that qualified, with only one tie, and no losses over the last two years. We seem to have some missing pieces worked out.
Belgium and Slovenia friendlies should be interesting to let us know if this is true in a month and a half, and will be a good indicator to any progression. These are decent opponents.
For the first time I was happy with Majer’s offensive effort during the last friendlies. Don’t want him executing end of game PKs though. Have no faith.
Told you Pero played through a broken hand (cast) in March (what we didn’t know is he has a plate in his hand)
Anonymous (and Maminjo) were the only ones to notice it – nothing gets past Anonymous – every last detail is picked up – Anonymous Eye Tests are the best the World has ever seen
Imagine the difference in mentality b/w him and glass-Fruk (he took like a month off bc of one broken finger lol and now sitting out bc of some back spasms lol)
At 22 – Pero’s mentality > Modric at 22 – who knows what his ceiling is – nobody knows – but the guy is going right to the top
Pero is a gift straight from Medjugorje to all Croatians
Anonymous knew all this after 13 min cameo vs. Portugal bc Anonymous is the GOAT 😉
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It was his night, Petar Sucic’s night, who in his first year at Inter paid a bit the price of adaptation and the weight of a jersey different from the others. Had Como signed him, we’d be here saying: “Why do they always find them?” Because talent also needs to be waited for, and in the provinces it’s simpler.
That’s not all; if he hasn’t shone so far, it’s also because he hid a pretty bothersome injury. Sucic broke his hand in Cremona, with Baschirotto collapsing on top of him. He had surgery, got a plate put in, and played through the pain, in silence, without moving an arm. An injury kept hidden to prevent opponents from targeting the weak spot.
Silence, talent, sacrifice, and patience.
I’m convinced that next year Inter will enjoy a great Sucic.
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Thanks Anonymous. What does your eye test tell us about Vuskovic’s knee?
. . .and Gvardiol’s leg?
No clue about Josko
But Anonymous PRAYS he doesn’t rush back
We need him for 2030 WC – great chance to win it (subject to a couple other players coming through)
Anonymous HATES that every day there is news he is doing great, ahead of schedule, he will be back in 3475829 seconds from now, etc – that’s TOO much pressure on him – and he’s stubborn and wants to get back for the WC to help Croatia – so Anonymous fears he rushes and has a set-back
Let the boy heal properly – Man City don’t need him right now anyways (no clue if he even gets back into the team as they are going for the treble – and Guehi and Khusa doing good now – and Croatia wants Guehi playing every game as increases chance of injury and not playing June 17th ;-)))
SN and other Croatian papers e.g. 24sata are saying it’s nothing serious a couple days ago – no new reporting
No news = good news
No clue why Bild came out with that news and the HSV sporting director telling us vaguely why Luka has internal bleeding (that could mean anything from simple bruise to bone bruise, etc)
Anonymous will stick with Croatian papers reporting on this – they are such drama queens are would be the first to report if something was serious with Luka’s knee to get the clicks
Still think it’s all good – just resting pre-WC (and there needs to be a reason given) and second order effect tanking HSV now (to help Mario – I don’t care what anyone says – it’s a matter of fact that it’s easier for Mario (or ANY player) to get in a 2nd division team rather than 1st division team – especially since he’s not back till November (so they will need a full suite of CBs going into the season))
Sucic has been playing with a broken hand since the first of February, with an arm very much more than limited in its movements. He didn’t stop after the surgery because he was needed too, he said nothing to avoid being targeted on the field in the tackles. Now he’s back and so is the near “one-two” in true Inter-Fiorentina style with which he sent Jacobo Ramon to the bar before unloading onto Calhanoglu and going to grab the assist right in the middle of the box ⚫️🔵🇭🇷
How was eye test on Baturina bashing?
Asking for a friend ….
Lol!
Crickets…
Well it would be one of those good problems to have if sucic, modric, and baturina are all firing and kovacic is fully fit.
The big question mark is that at this stage modric needs at least one work horse next to him. Sucic can be that
But does baturina not fill that work horse role as well as kovacic and that is the big question. Along with what form of kovacic are we getting
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You’re welcome
Exactly right.
Definitely good problems to have.
Kova looked solid in his few minutes he had with City. We have the two friendlies to get him some quality playing time. He is a great veteran warrior of the World Cup. He will be ready.
Under the new format, if we went all the way to the finals (a lot to ask for I know, but just hypothetically) we would have 8 games in about 33 days.
But because of the extra 30 minutes we tend to play, let’s say we will play closer to the equivalent of 9 full (and incredibly intense) games in 33 days.
That is a gruelling 33 days.
To win it, a team will have to have depth, and key players will need to be rested. Modric is a great warrior, but at 40 he cannot lead the team by playing 9 full games in 33 days. The depth becomes critically important.
Those three young horses, Baturina, Sucic, and Vuskovic can log a lot of minutes. That could be huge for us.
Some of the older players like Krama coming into a game later might be good as Krama can score key goals at a critical time and if a game goes to kicks, he would be a good choice to kick for us.
Adding a little more to the depth chart, Luka Sucic (and DCC) won the Copa Del Rey in an intense 120 minute game that went to kicks. Sucic played the whole game and scored as the 3rd kicker for Sociedad. A championship win can be a serious confidence builder, a momentum builder for those two. Two years ago we were talking about Luca Sučić as “The Future.” Now we hardly mention him at all, which shows you just how good the young talent is on the team right now . . . but his disappointing season is coming around at the right time, and we could also see a much better Luka Sucic than his earlier season form.
That Dalic has a more depth to work with is, indeed, a very good problem to have.
Sucic came on in the 59th minute. not 69th. sloppy reporting.. missed an assist too..
We’re all such a*sholes
None of us mentioned Smolcic came on for Bati in 80′
So he was on for the 2nd and 3rd Inter goals
2nd goal – he did his job
3rd goal – he did okay – not really his fault – but his reaction when Pero scores is priceless – not even sure how to describe it – he bent over to a 90 degree angle – twice – it’s funny – watch it
I thought Smolcic played really well when he was subbed on.
He was a force on the field for Como . . .
Kovacic has a mental block in forward areas for sure. Brozo was a good attacking midfielder scored quite a few very high quality goals for inter. His move to 6 position led to him losing his attacking prowess.
Did anyone else notice Nico Paz lack of defensive work-rate on all three goals ?
Watch the three goals again and just look at Paz
The guy is gassed from a long season – he was just strolling around and not cutting off/shutting down Pero – all three times – Cesc should have taken him off
Maybe he watched too much of Baturina at Dinamo footage ? 😉
Once again, 100/10 troll by Pero by copying Baturina’s celebration
Sucic and baturina can be really two game changers this summer
Agreed both have way more offensive benefits at this point then kova or broz ever brought for us
Future is bright, decki
Hopefully a huge breakout for both of them (along with Vušković).
Hoping Dalić gives them all starting roles.
I keep watching it, that is the most productive dominate soccer I have seen since Germany demolished Brazil, but that was a whole team, this was one guy in 30 minutes. Jiminy Cricket.
Fantastic.
I don’t remember the legends Kovacic, or Brozovic being as clinical, on the front part of the field as these two, at their age, or for that fact, ever.
The actually aim the ball at the goal with lethal intent and professional calmness.
Kovačić doesn’t have goal scoring prowess.
Is a very big weakness of his.
He’s good at other things, but he’s definitely below average offensively (in the opponent’s third).
Sučić actually assisted BOTH goals and then scored the winner (you missed the one at 5:40).
It’s a travesty that Calhanoglu was given MOTM.
Sučić comes off the bench for 30 minutes and sets Calhanolgu up perfectly for two goals, then Sučić somehow scores an almost impossible winner himself.
Sučić is already so much better than Kovačić, and at only 22 years of age.
The Turk scored twice and had the assist on the Sučić goal. Hard to vote against that.
The Turk did nothing for 60 minutes and watched his team go down 0-2 while being unable to do anything about it.
Sučić comes on and sets up two perfect assists for the Turk.
Then, Sučić singlehandedly (while falling down) scores an unassisted goal all by himself for the win.
Petar sucic g+2a