Reports out of Croatia (Sportske Novosti) are saying Dalić will go with Perišić, Kramarić, Vlašić in attack versus Morocco on Wednesday in a 4-3-3 formation with Modrić, Brozović, and Kovačić in the middle of the field.
The Vatreni should manage 55-60% ball possession against Morocco with tons of quick plays down the wings. Kramarić isn’t the point-man Croatia needs in the box for crosses in the air, but playing him would mean a more tactical game against the African side. I could easily go with Petković or Livaja against Morocco as well. Perišić is a lock on the left wing and Vlašić is easily interchangeable with Majer getting a start as well.
Nonetheless, no matter who gets the start, Croatia will have enough firepower to bag 2-3 goals against Morocco. They need to be quick down the flanks and not afraid to send some rockets towards goal from 20-25 yards out.
We still can’t underestimate this Morocco side and get beat on any counters. At the end of the day, Croatia are still reigning World Cup finalists and will have a target on their back the entire tournament. If we don’t get caught on any counters and play our game against Morocco – possession and pace down the flanks – it should be an easy day at the office.
I’m a little nervous about tomorrow, these Middle East and African teams playing better than I expected, need to score early and often, a draw is unacceptable.
Yeah I am too. Iran did get clapped by England but did manage to score two goals. They also lost they’re starting goalie before the other goals. The Saudi Arabia win I think might be a miracle and a one time thing. I can’t see them beating Mexico or Poland. Perhaps a draw, but you never know. This World Cup has had a few shocks. Argentina and Denmark. Tunisia drawing Denmark is an absolute upset and shock. A draw would be a disgrace.
I’m a little nervous about tomorrow, these Middle East and African teams playing better than I expected, need to score early and often, a draw is unacceptable. Go Vatreni
there is no way -> you can escape the punishment
if Lovren will play vs Morocco | this gonna be shit!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7XB6iyy14LY
Marocco is gonna smash your boys … guys!!!
Yea right. Will see who is going to smash who !?? Lol !
I understand that Australia is shit but I find it hard to see anyone beating France here, that Mbappe is something else, and still only 23!
Where Croatia (the peoples team) is concerned I’m more confident now than I was at the start of the 2018 WC!
Croatia 4 – 0 Morocco, gotta a feeling Kramaric will have a big one.
Anyway let’s get into the spirit with some good ol’ Croatian music!
https://youtu.be/IS7U7cpvVlk
https://youtu.be/F_eQ1HJ3CgM
Right on ! 👍👍
Lovren is a Cancer if he doesn’t start
Dalic needs to send him home
At least it is better that the Pranjic and Kovac love affair
Haha yeah he tried him just about everywhere. I think as CDM against Mexico in a do or die WC match if my memory serves correct. What a disaster.
Dalic needs to grow a backbone and sit Lovren as Erlic is better and so is Šutalo …
Lovren needs to STFU and suck it up
Ćaleta-Car and Pongračić both start in better leagues…and they were cut.
Dalić obviously overvalues what Lovren brings.
Let’s see if Lovren extends his tournament penalty streak.
I know it kind of depends on our game
But ideally what is Best result for Canada/Belgium?
Draw or belgium win. Depends on how we do we lose tommorow have ro beat canada and belgium
Good luck tommorow hrvatska cannot underestimate the opponent and play our game i see not finishing lovren and Livakovic as reason we will not go far
Just curious if Dalic reached out to Halilhodžić, after Morocco shit canned him 2 months before the World Cup.
Dalic has big time experience in this region.
I actually see him as a seasoned international manager now.
He has come a long way these past 5 years.
He has more confidence in his substitutions to shift the game tactics.
I see our depth as our greatest asset.
Also most of these teams have limited creativity in the middle.
We have Luka legend and a crew in the middle to create the Croatian flow.
T – Minus 14 hours!!
Perišić scissors to the left and score !!
Come bro HVO tried to kill him.
Didn’t he just accidentally shoot himself in the ass?
What did lovren say??
We all knew he would be toxic to the locker room somehow.
I feel like vida should have been taken cause he is probably optimistic and won’t cry about not playing
Lovren better turn into the best defender in the planet yet again;)
France picking it up and looking Dominant
But also Australia nearly tied it up right now.
Iggy- they are keeping much better time of things and are saying they want proper play time and less time wasting
Dalic caved because of Lovrens press conference ??
Šutalo was supposed to start, hence rested vs 🇸🇦
Sad erlic and sutalo should play if he doesnt turn into maldini or stam cannavaro big mistake by dalic
Why does every match have 20mins or so of stoppage time added all of a sudden? LOL
Because they count thrown ins goalkicks goals fouls as time wasted so he adds more time something new they are trying so time wasting gets out of game
I just read an article about this as well as I’ve never seen anything like it. Its a directive by Fifa and they have seen that over the last WC’s that the actual time the ball was moving during a game has been going down to around the 60 minute range. This is to combat that along with the long celebrations and time wasting.
We score more off open play than the typical team so hopefully it will work in our favor.
france losing to austrlia, denmark tying an underwhelming tunisia team
looks like croatia’s best win in it’s recent run of form is saudi arabia
Pretty sure it’s still v France in Paris lol
Lovren is in 11 he better turn into chiellini or bench his as v canada.
Id rather lose with erlic sutalo
Results Say It All
Good luck tonight ,CROATIA.
Don’t underestamate or be affraid of any team.
My 1st World cup without my late father in law, Ivan (football budy) since Euro 96.
What a journey we’ve had together.
Croatians are good, simple, hardworking, family people.
Ivan is looking & supporting CROATIA from up above.
GOOD LUCK, & GOD BLESS CROATIA
Will the winner get to indulge in champagne in the locker room?
in terms of kramaric, i think as always this site is too sensationalist
for croatia, kramaric has 20 goals and 9 assists in 3798 minutes played or 42 games.
he has one goal scoring contribution every 1.4 games… which is not terrible. And I actually feel like he’s probably been unlucky in his national team career.
mandzukic had 33 goals and 11 assists over 6391 minutes /71 games or a contributions every 1.61 games.
To qualify for the world cup in 2018, mandzukic had 5 goals/ 0 assists in 880 minutes or 1 contribution every 2 games. Take away the 3 goals he scored against kosovo when croatia when 6-0, and it becomes one contribution every 5 games.
In the european qualifiers for 2016, mandzukic had 1 goal and 1 assist in 706 minutes/7.9 games or 1 contribution per 3.5 games
as always this site goes through an endless cycle of hating a player in the moment and then praising them after they are gone
I am surprised at how much of a different view of things you get when you put up the stats per minutes played vs per total games (games that they played some minutes in).
Thanks for sharing that
Argentina had a 96%chance of winning. I wonder if anyone bet the house on the Saudis.. big payout I bet.I hear budweiser awarding the millions of dollars worth of pivo to the winner of the wc.Gona need a ship to deliver the brew to cro!!!
Lets go! Modric!!!
I’m surprised the truth didn’t have his computer simulations predicting the Argentine upset playing in the desert 🌵
Love seeing those clowns go down, it’s a pity pit bull isn’t still coaching them.
Makes for a fascinating group going forward!
i had warned about this, but was mocked.
there is a chance that climate could play a big role in this tournament
lets look at results so far.
saudi arabia mass upsets argentina: saudi’s are obviously familiar with the climate
tunisia tying a denmark team many pundits have going deep
when you rank the most climately disadvantaged teams in this tournament it would be:
denmark, croatia, serbia, poland, wales
When you drink your own Kool aid does it taste like camel 🐫 urine truth?
You were mocked because it hasn’t been a factor.
Argentina didn’t lose the game because of the climate. Neither did it impact Tunisia (which has a Mediterranean climate).
The stadiums are air conditioned, and even Kramaric is saying that the climate in Qatar has been nice and the stadiums feel kind of cold.
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/croatia-prepared-cool-conditions-fiery-world-cup-kramaric-2022-11-21/
How about Canada? Germany? Swiss? Korea? Japan? England? USA? Are they all immune LOL?
Croatia shares a similar climate with coastal parts of the US as well as Portugal, and France, so why is Croatia disadvantaged, but US, Portugal. Spain or France are not?
Sure the US has similar climates available to is as Qatar does, but when is the last time the US ran a training camp in the Mojave desert? Never.
I actually agree with 70% of what you usually say but lumping croatia into the bunch here makes no sense when 50% of the field is at an equal climate disadvantage. You are saying they are at a disadvantage just for the sake of saying it.
Fact is, there are very few places outside of this specific latitude that range in temps from 85 in the winter to 130 in the summer.
Love to see Argentina lose as much as the next guy, but i’m sure most people would have bet Argentina wins 999 times out of 1000, even if they are playing on the fucking sun.
Saudis can thank VAR. not one, not two but 3 miniminally offside goals taken awat from Argies in the 1st half. Malo luck for the Saudis. But luck is needed
Man that Saudi game was hard to take my eyes off, gotta be one of the biggest upsets ive ever seen in any WC, amazing stuff. Wonder what the odds were on them winning that before the start.
So true, Iggy. I think it’s good for our guys to see these results- I’m sure guys like Mandzukic will be saying – guys, there is no easy games in the world cup- come out flying . Look at the gong show team called Argentina- it only took 2 shots for Saudis to win- soccer is so unpredictable – you can lose every stat score and still win. It happens in other sports but not as much as soccer.
Saudi was +3,500.
So $100 bet would win you 3,500
The truth plunked down a grand in Vegas on the saudis!
Those commodor 64’s should be paid off any day now!
We can’t take anything for granted with Morocco. Look at Saudi Arabia and Tunisia today. We need our foot on the gas and a lot of urgency from every player. Start out fast and show them our class. Perišić needs to set the pace for the team. No one walks!
It should be an easy day in the office? Lol yea oook. We always make it super easy lol
i’m not sure why there is any uncertainty on this board over who the central back pairing will be
it will be lovren
don’t fool yourself and live in some other world
let me repeat again
dalic will pick lovren
here are the other certainties..
-lovren will at some point cause a penalty kick for the other team
-when he does, even if he picked the ball up with two hands and put it in his shirt, he will look around in total anger and disbelief that he was called for a penalty
That is the truth
That was a Denmark handball. But I guess only Croatia gets called for that Ffs
Our World Cup build through:
tough wcq group
UNL A level
KSA match
Best prep ever
Our boys will be ready
Plus our depth will bring intensity 90+
The referee for our match v Morocco is form Argentina. He was at EURO and refereed our final group match v Scotland that we won 3 – 1. Not sure if this is a good omen or not? considering that Argentine ref was in charge of the WC final against France.
WOW what a shock for Argentina. KSA have a good defence and a good goalkeeper. Italy’s record streak of 36 matches undefeated is still intact with Argentina stopped on 35.
Reading latest news on Cro Media, they are reporting that Lovren will partner Gvardiol and Pasalic will play on the right wing ?
That is a shock. Kramaric is pulling more for Brazil than Argentina anyway.
Regarding that latest news, I’m hoping its just smokescreen. But that would be ridiculous if it does happen for all the reasons we’ve discussed on this page ad nauseam.
https://talksport.com/football/1252989/lionel-messi-booed-saudi-arabia-fans-argentina-world-cup/
Messi was being boed everything he touched the ball..Saudis know he’s a suck..poor sport maybe even classless after what he and argentina displayed against cro last cup.
If we had the Saudi Keeper we’re winning the WC. Argentine cunts.
I was thinking the same thing. Dude is legit and livakovic needs to pay him for lessons in how to challenge for a ball
Well there really isn’t a team I’d much rather lose then Argentina
It was like nearly 15 mins of extra time.
Time wasting will be harder and harder to do make it seems
They acted like cunts when we trashed them last cup and Messi refusing to shake hands. and Rakitic booted in the face to hell with them.
That Croatia 🇭🇷 🇸🇦 Result is looking pretty good rn lol
Yup it’s 3:20 in the morning here It’s 2-1 saudis currently
Croatia fucked the dog half the game against the saudis
Who knows how it will end with Argentina
but there was some implosion here when we only win 1-0
I watched Wales and the states. We are definitely in the top tier of the tourney
Yes we will need to play our max and will need some luck. But we can make some noise!
Mb that result is looking good lol. Someone on here said watch Saudia Arabia beat Argentina. Of course that idiot Maminjo had to respond in the negative and said otherwise. That guy is all talK and knows shit.
Lol
Happy to see Argentina lose, but don’t pretend like there wasn’t a huge amount of luck (either that, or one of the players found Aladdin’s lamp before the game).
Argentina had almost 70% possession, three goals called back, and 15 shots on goal.
Hilarious to see them lose, but the Saudis still played as expected. Getting outpossessed, outshot, but managed to score on the only two shots they had in the game.
Argentina’s only goal was total bullshit too, though. If that’s a penalty Lovren is giving away 5 penalties every match.
To be fair, all those offsides were by a hairline (if that).
Glad that Argentina lost, but they dominated the match and I would be surprised if they didn’t progress.
At the same time, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Saudis pull a Dinamo, and just finish with this one win.
I hate VAR 10x more than
Lovren, Subasic, Dalic _
The reality is hiding the lineup makes no difference, dalic will set up in a 4-3-3
8 of the 11 are already cemented, and whoever they choose at right wing, striker or cb (next to gvardiol) are merely interchangeable cogs and won’t effect formation at all (maybe a little bit in potential build up and ability to press)
The fact that this is in the paper
Means 100% this will not b the formation
Purpose is to get Morocco to prepare formation/tactics vs. this
And not actual line-up
Think: day b4 Qatar vs. Ecuador – the paper – said Qatar paid off for them to lose 1-0 (w/ goal in 2nd half), etc – that was the tell – to bet the other way
Almost every time the Croatian paper leaks the roster it’s correct…
Think
Yawn
https://sportske.jutarnji.hr/sn/nogomet/sp2022/velika-anketa-sn-odaberite-prvih-11-i-formaciju-s-kojom-bi-hrvatska-trebala-krenuti-na-sp-u-15278497
Dalic is also 100% not starting Sutalo and Gvardiol together as CBs, lol
You can’t lead the line / organize box with 20 and 22 y.o., lol
Vida or Lovren will start
Most likely Vida – he is always a warrior no matter what – why do u think Dalic named him Vice-Captain – to warm the bench ?, lol
Use brain
Think
Use brain yet ?
Lovren starting
https://www.vecernji.hr/sport/otkrivamo-sastav-hrvatske-koji-ce-sutra-poceti-dalic-je-pripremio-veliko-iznenadenje-1635717
Delusional thinking a 20 and 22 starting, lololololol
Keep doing ur best to think
1 day u might there
In meantime – listen & learn
Kiss
Looks like Dalic is banking on speed and creativity on the wings… hope he is right.. if Juranovic plays RB I am afraid we are a little small for set pieces or corners as I’ve watched Morocco and they look like a pretty tall team who are aggressive and not afraid to take shots…. If we can hold possession and not give away corners and dangerous set pieces we should be ok but they are no pushover!
Does anyone expect Croatia to make this easy? They will squeak into the knockout round.
Dalic is the only coach we have ever had that actually makes things kinda easy…
“Dalic is the only coach we have ever had that actually makes things kinda easy…”
This is sarcasm right?
Morocco have a two strong right backs. Hakimi and Mazraoui are top tier. My prediction is they move Hakimi to right midfield to enable more production upfront. They will pair him with Ziyech. Although Ziyech hasn’t been active for Chelsea. In terms of forwards, Ezzalzouli is doubtful. En-Nesyri has only started two games for Sevilla. Don’t overlook him, he’s a mobile striker that’s big. Gvardiol should take care of him no sweat. Boufal is a speedy centre forward too. Aboukhlal is decent too. Besides a few decent Sevilla players, French league and a bench warmer Ziyech, no stars to stress or worry about that will make unpredictable plays or give our back four difficulty. I reckon Perisic on left wing, Vlasic on right and Kramaric in the middle. Morocco have never won an opening game. We sew also undefeated against African teams. Ex 4-0 vs Cameroon and 2-0 Vs Nigeria. Maybe 3-0 after Wednesday? I can’t stress how important goaltending is for us in this tournament. Bounou hasn’t pulled through in champions league. Livakovic has performed better in a group. We can win this match but keep in mind Morocco is no walk over. Wednesday couldn’t come sooner. Living in Canada, I’ll be be up bright and early 4 AM for the game. Solid 2-0 win for us.
ZDS
Starting 11: Livakovic, Gvardiol, Sosa, Erlic, Jurnaovic, Modric, Perisic, Majer, Vlasic, Perisic, Kramaric. Subs will be Sucic, Kovacic, Petkovic, Sutalo, Stanisic and Orsic.
I’m seeing a 2am pacific start but heard a couple peeps mention 4 am pacific start??
2am…
whatever you want…
as long as -> Lovren will not play!!
Who’s are they reporting gets the start in the back 4 ???
I hope no Lovren
Not shocked – maybe the “pickle” comes out flying and has a big tourney. Krama just shoot for a corner -any corner instead of right at the goalie. Perisic , don’t have to tell that guy anything – he’s a killer
Dalić will use Vlašić or Pašalić on right wing. Majer is more likely to appear in midfield.
AJMO VATRENI! 🇭🇷
I’m not superstitious, but are we Plavo or Belo? You know history beckons Adriatic modra. Although we were blue when we played turkey, EC 08′, so there are exceptions to the rule, but I’d rather play it save, when it comes to pleasing Bura/Jugo wind gods to help us out. 1/8″ can make the difference.
It’s Bijelo (or Bilo).
We’re apparently wearing Bijelo for all three group games.
We constantly complain about our attack, but we score in every game.
Morocco is actually a team that struggles to score.
Very good point. We complain about our defensive line too but it’s been great as of late.
I forget what it was but our goals against in qualifying had to be one of the better ones in all Europe
They won’t struggle if Lovren or Vida plays at back, I’d go with Erlic to match up against En-neysri. He brings physicality, he’s bigger than En-neysri and is good in the air.
Love it