“You have a mouth on you, but do you have balls?!”
This is what 24Sata published on their cover today replying to Canada manager, John Herdman, who said “Canada will “F” Croatia on Sunday.”
Look, this is some of the best back-and-forth you will see between two nations at a World Cup before the opening whistle blows. But at the end of the day, how much motivation does Croatia need in basically a “must win” match in Luka Modrić’s last World Cup? I would say: not much. Our boys should come out and play their game as the much more complete team compared to Canada.
A draw doesn’t do much for either team so expect this match to be wide open compared to the Morocco opener. If the Vatreni can’t grab four points in two matches from Morocco/Canada, then it wasn’t meant to be and this was not their World Cup. Expect our boys to wake up in full force Sunday. Whether Herdman finds his balls or not.
Proposed Team –
—— DannyJ ——-
Maminjo — Iggy — Perisic
Modric — Brozovic —
Sosa – Gvardiol – Sutalo – Stanisic
Cmon we’re bashing everyone with this team lmao
Fortunately, the wide open games tend to go in Croatia’s favor in one sense or another. This will be a bit like the Scotland match was last year, I predict. Canada is going to TRY to blow us out and instead see why the best football teams still value technical skill and possession over raw speed.
Also, for everyone overreacting to the Morocco draw, just look at the tournament table. Croatia is still on a good footing. Morocco would be the top team in some of those groups, and now we have a chance to pull into first place in the group if Morocco holds their own against Belgium (and they certainly have the quality to do so).
What a horrible week for Hrvatska. World cup of soccer and world cup of tennis, totally embarrassing : (
dont tell me mektic/pavic gonna lose plz god no
Tennis is a LGBT sport!
I don’t like all this stupid talk
Let’s get the job done
Yup.
Don’t like that 24sata is getting exposure.
Bushleague newspaper in Cro whose editor is the one that created Index.hr (which was the news site that constantly went at Marko Perkovic for his “fascist” music).
Pulisic has run / created more in 5 minutes – than Kramaric has in 75 caps
Krama should retire soon from the repka
Let livaja lead some of the young guys coming up
Yea, even if he does well…he’s already 31 now and is visibly on the decline at his club.
Musa should have been called up already. If Ljubicic continues to score in Austria, he needs a callup too. I’m sure one of Vidovic, Roko, Beljo will get a callup in a couple of years from now too. We should be okay to score ourselves at least one decent striker.
Hopefully one of them explodes and becomes elite. You never know, but we’ve never had an elite striker since Suker and we did just fine with our midfield factory making up for it.
BREAKING NEWS: Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy responsible for host country operations of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has announced the mandatory distribution of condoms to all Croatian fans attending Sunday’s match for protection against Canadian fans should any F-ing around take place.
Deep down i believe we can still win the group with 2 wins remember when eno one expects us to win we shine always in recent years especially when we have a quality team idemo vatreni napuni cedu and let him hop on his tractor back to beograd
Of course we can.
If that Vlasic poke went in, then we’d all be singing a different tune and this tournament would feel like all those other ones where we had a narrow win to start, but still ended up progressing from the group (like Euro2008, Euro2016, Euro96, WC98, etc.).
WC2018 was the only time we ever had a comfortable victory in our opening match.