Ante Kvartuč, Lovre Nikolac (@croatiafooty), Pete Novaković and Ante Zorić (@thefootballshirtbroker) discuss Slaven Bilić as new Croatia manager, upcoming Nations League matches vs. Spain, England and Czechia, and the Modrić farewell tour.
PODCAST: Slaven Bilić Returns!
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Thanks for the video guys . England is beatable. We put 2 goals in on them . Had we played 4 in the back instead of three in back and had younger guys playing we might off had a chance . Dalic really hurts us the last two major Euros and World Cup. I am sorry . We need to look at how Belgium played Spain and look back at our nations league final match against Spain . We need to change how we play Spain we won’t beat Spain but we can draw them, we must beat the Czech . No excuses . Playing countries like Spain and England will make us stronger
England should’ve lost to Ghana but Ghana were denied a justified PK at the end.
Panama also played a good first half, and kept England at bay.
England also had quite the scare against Congo too, being down 0-1 for a large part of their R32 game.
We need to play more aggressively and we need to be more arrogant (like the Argentines).
We give these top teams too much respect and we always get dominated early. Meanwhile, these bum teams at the World Cup are drawing Spain, Portugal and England while we’re getting dominated right out of the gate.
Bilić “sounds” like he’s preparing well for his new coaching gig, and hopefully he puts his money where his mouth is. He is saying all the right things.
He masterfully got rid of Ćorluka by pretending that Dalić wants to take him to his next coaching gig (meanwhile nobody even knows what gig this is, haha).
Now it looks like he’s going to hire a set-piece coach and possibly an analytics team.
Looking forward to these games in September.
Big win for Hajduk
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Jozo Stanic start vs Franjo bench
Kovacevic bench
Forget bilic in even bigger news Super Mario hezonja is heading back to the big show…I think he might actually do something this time around in the NBA!
Would prefer he stay in Europe as he has been available for our National Team there, and we have been doing very well lately
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Time to find another club Franjo
Jaga / PAO upcoming Conference League qualifiers:
July 23 @ 14:00 ET
July 30 @ 14:30 ET
For those in Greece the games are on Skai Free-to-Air
***.skai.gr/tv/live
A few points- 1] Bilic and his family are true Croatian patriots. His dad was an upriser and they took it out on Slaven. I’ll take a patriot like the Bilic family anyday
2]If we can’t pulverize Chechia , we might as well check out for 4 years. They are garbage and we should pummel them
3] I worked for Nike and love the move to Adidas. Nike is the IBM of sporting goods. No imagination . They haven’t had a new invention since Nike Air about 60 years ago. The kits will look amazing. Have a great day.
Improving our set pieces should be one of Bilic’s first priorities – some of the goals we’ve conceded are simply unacceptable.
On the plus side, we have some potential tall talent coming up: guys like Rados, Levak, Pavic and of course Vuskovic can really give us some aerial supremacy, especially in tandem.
Hopefully Gvardiol will be close to full fitness come the Nations League. In an ideal world he’d partner Vuskovic at the back but we don’t really have any true LB talent, unless we play Stanisic at LB and call up Smolcic at RB. For that reason I still reckon Gvardiol should play LB.
Bradaric is now a Serie B player, so I’m not the most fond of calling him up as our starting LB. Naturally I’d love for him play out of his mind and prove me wrong but I’m not particularly optimistic there
We can still play Perišić at LB as a stop-gap until we figure things out there.
I’d prefer we try Stanišić at LB before pushing Gvardiol there again.
I’d rather we play Perisic up front in his natural position, where he’s most dangerous.
I don’t think that Gvardiol is inherently bad at LB, I just think he’s had some misfortune there in the past. Obviously he wasn’t even at 50% of his natural fitness for this WC but even in the past, his poorer showings there were often resultant of Dalic’s hyper-ambitious tactics.
We’d have him constantly marauding up the pitch leaving us vulnerable atb where we’d get slaughtered in transition. I think with some more modest and conservative insturctions, Bilic could really turn him into a monster down that flank.