Match Thread: Croatia vs Turkey | European Championship Qualifying

Respect to Modric for playing 90 minutes at 38 years. One of the most likable and honorable players of his generation.

Maybe I'm just looking for things to be negative about, but the atmosphere at Opus seems pretty meh? Even before the goal.

Turkey... we meet again.

Ima boga

Ooof Livakovic, great pass and finish though

They (NK Osijek) won't fill this most of the time!

Man, I love Gvardiol

Another clear foul not called. I guess you can hold Modric with both hands because he's so young and strong so it's fair

No

ok, we need to score or we'll concede.

The issue with Croatia is that we have no killer instinct, no attack... I miss Mandzukic

Livakovic has conceded every time he went from the goal line.

Defensively our team is not existent

Was it Brozo who launched a missile at Samet? Poor guy is rekt.

Modric cannot be fouled by the rules apparently

I'm a bit in awe how significantly better we are playing compared to when Kuntz was around. This is literally the same team but the discipline and cohesion is like night and day.

Bruv fucking WHAT was that

Breaking news, VAR helped Taylor overturn a call 😱😱😱😱

Just give them the goal, idc maybe it fires us up.

Croatia are shit Turkey much better.

Definitely Dalić instructions! He tactical abilities are non existent.

Half the team playing like they don’t want to be there and half is just shit

You just know youre gonna lose possesion when Uğurcan gets the ball

Once baris alper learns how to think while running he’ll be a great player lol

Every player on both sides holds onto the ball for too long and over dribbling etc

We need to score soon while we are still able keep up this pace. Really can't afford to miss those chances.

I'm not really sure if we're playing really well or Hırvats are just finished as a team.

Nah, we have a negative number of players who can actually finish a chance...

Now we are playing hoofball fucking embarrassing

Minor injury.

I agree with that but at the same time we should start giving more chances to younger players. He also lost his starting position in Real which is normal since he is already 38.

So we just need a coaching change every month and we'll be unbearable 🤔😂

no way should that be a penalty

I feel crazy saying this but ... we deserve this.

Deserved

we have a tendency to fall off after 30 min, start bad into the 2nd half and then a decent final 10-15 minutes

Is Brekalo ever onside?

Just let Gvardiol do whatever he wants.

Good call by taylor imo

Musa is a beast for Benfica, and then not for NT - woe is me.

Shocking decision

Croatia giving 8.75x

It's over.

Just saying.

Do we still have gospa with us tho

Impressed by turkey how much they are running but I’m wondering how long will they be able to keep this up

Is Stanisic aware his job is also to defend?

Bertug entering the game.

Did I mention I hate Hakan with every single fiber in my body?

If you get a red card it doesn't really help

Away to Türkiye he was good…

Luka, I love you, but what was that

Croatia getting absolutely torn apart on defense here.

Badly? Haven’t seen any news updates

It's like I'm watching first game again

and he is doing absolutely nothing.

That's not a foul?

Wonder if Barisic is still playing because of his father

Never a penalty

Yeah, var did its job and bailed taylor out of a wrong (understandable but still) decision.

How’s it looking? Missed the first half?

what are these overreactions in the comments bruh have you people never watched Croatia in qualis

We're also a country of 4 million football managers.

Almost forgot this was on! What I miss

Gotta say, we should learn to score. We're lucky the final score was 1-0 given how shit we played. Most croats in this sub are not making excuses for this loss though

Yeah I saw that coming, well deserved goal if not offsides. Turkey are playing like they actually want to be there.

I can see Croatia scoring two in quick succession after all these comments from Croats lol

Fair enough but I've been disappointed too often so I'm generally pessimistic when it comes to thw national team

Majer goal or assist incoming.

Cakir wants the red card doesn't he

the handball rule really needs some serious reform. Nobody can tell what is and isn't a handball anymore

Lethargic

Pathetic display so far from us

Brekalo is everywhere

Unironically emre akbaba for hakan could be a good sub right now, croatia leaving a lot of space behind.

We are playing horribly again. Croatia back to being itself.

yees daliban only atacking threat off nice

The coaching change seems justified even if they dont win today they look much better

You're not wrong but it's also Latvia

That time wasting is so fucking unnecessary do they all want to get banned for the next match

And THAT’S what VAR is for. Quick check, Penalty or play on

lmao wasn't that a red?

I don't know about the rules, but it definitely shouldn't be a pen

Promising start but I will still be very surprised if we end up with a point with this roster here.

We are very sloppy so far

Barisic 😭

Im glad it wasn't a penalty. We need to win or get a draw fair and square.

And we are back to before 2018 Croatia

Awesome looking stadium....

It has been 15 mins yet we are still not looking terrible, what sorcery is this?

Wtf calhanoglu 👀

Of fucking course gtfo

L fucking Mao. But yeah, Turkish counters are from another dimension compared to ours

Who is Goda?

Akturkoglu is straight up trash for the national team. Even as a gala fan

Croatia is abysmal

whistling football fans is our greatest export. very proud 👍

Imagine if Modric scored that, upper right hand corner or something lol

Any young and upcomming strikers / CFs worth their salt in your nation's ranks ? If yes, then one day 4-3-3 is doable.

Annual Crotia-turkey match

Ne znam ni tko je onaj do Jarnija.

please just score another

Lol you sent bad energy

Nema boga

wtf is Livakovic doin here

The rendition of the anthem is... strange.

Come on, he must lead the team prayer before they walk out as well

Lmao Croatia wins the ball back and it's a foul every time, Turkey wins it back the same way and he never calls a foul

Showing him the angle where his arm and chest are in line with camera is hilarious, fuck off

Modric, magician

how did that guy make it out of bayern academy

Croatia stepping up now, let's see how this ends

We are playing so bad I'm actually surprised, and I expected us to play bad

Yeah first match was like this too

NO ERA PENAL, come on

Wtf was that attack 🙈

We're not perfect but still there is a lot of things that are working good today. Think positive my friend

Stanisic is so bad fuck off

Without any türkü though

For real man guy sucks offensively and defensively

That was a classic Turkish goalkeeper timing right there. Livakovic adapted us fast.

WTF is this ping pong stuff from both teams lol

What a shit rendition of our anthem

No Kokcu?

Please get Stanisic off I can’t watch this anymore

We’re totally gassed. Will be difficult 15 minutes.

Baris Yilmaz having quite the two weeks

Turkey's front line missing all the chances, but at least they're creating them.

Kovač put that dawg in Majer.

Yesss Croatia

Barišić and Brekalo have no business being here.

Why is Juranovic not on the field?

My thoughts exactly

Where are the akturoglu fans hes trash. How are you guys so blind and actually defending this bum he always plays like trash for the national team

I know in the past few years we needed so many chances to score that i lost confidence that they will score even with big chances

Not one player playing well.

Our attack is even more dire than usual

At this point it must be something personal, what has modric done to the ref 😂

can't remember the last time we were this wasteful

But honestly, that's a shoulder either way.

No offense for Croats. Just this guy cried whole match about ref, I saw him multiple times. Im saying same when Turks are saying "we lost because of ref". Love to hrvatska :)

Yes thats the correct decision. Nothing he could do and not even the hand

Just sing it like a normal human being instead of doing.. that

watch us concede in overtime 😬

Awful

Fucking braindead keeper

Lmao if we get bailed out by a last minute penalty

Decent start for Turkey

He's been conceding so many easy goals for the past 12 months (Hatay game as the most recent example), if he was the Croatia gk we would be 0-1 up right now

Livaković should be forbidden from running out for the ball.

"Best midfield in the world" playing like ass again

ok we seriously need to take the chances we get

Fuck me

c'mon kerem you are better than that

Pasalic with a shot of a Sunday league bench warmer

Majer suck my dick, fuckin finish that! Gvardiol is a god...

Regardless of how this ends, I actually enjoyed watching a match of our NT. I can't believe it.

Why is Cenk Tosun not starting?

Bozovic why brother

these boys better wake the fuck up at half time

Tbh I don't think Dalic ever in his life gave tactical instructions beyond reading the starting line up

Let's trade. Run is all some of ours can do :)

Not offside but still foul after Ferdi cleared goal line

I can't believe I'm saying this, but bring on Vida. Man's in the goalscoring form of his career.

I've never seen him play for any club, if I had to guess off his NT performance I'd say it was Slaven Belupo

If Türkiye continues like that they'll be lucky to escape with a draw

This Bijelo Dugme kid they subbed in scares me. Mf already almost scored damn.

Thats not a penalty

He is shit. He has been shit for some time now.

Türkiyes defenders are slacking badly on that left side. For the second time nobody is running or attempting to defend a 2 vs 1

OHA

Looks like it was just offside

Because there are still a lot of problems that the team has. I liked the centerbacks and kardioglu a lot today but the rest wasnt really qualifying for praise imo

Bertuğ has talent but he is already a little bit too cocky, hope he grows up because we don't need another "manliest man" after the likes of Arda Turan or Burak Yılmaz really

Where is Kramarić?

Yeah this is on Brekalo. Can't lose ball like that against a team which plays on counter offensive.

How are there so many Croations here? You guys have 4 million population and most of them use Reddit???

Pasalic is the only player to get the ball in space and turn backwards with it

Good use of VAR

insane bottling lol

Good shit, props to Montella and nearly all of the guys. Not easy to win against Croatia, never mind an away game.

Absolute moron lmao, got yellow in 12th min for literally no reason

Shocking start

Can Turkey keep up this pace for the entire match?

And we all knew then and there that we used up valuable karma by having such a flawless performance.

dalic should've known better not to play a fenerbahçe gk against barış alper

What happened to Maksimir?

Is there a lore reason as to why Croatia simply doesn't score ?

Lol why games between these 2 teams always feel extra. Id call it a derby

Ferdi is solid and Bardakci is fine, he's been decent for Gala in the CL and league this season, but S. Akaydin is like our 4th choice CB, Cenk Ozkacar was also really poor the last time he was picked

Gvardiol was probably a bit better than the rest but ye...

Kovacic having a stinker

Didnt expect Turkey to play this well, fair play

Well Ivanusec is a good replacement and he is 24 so...

nice

Nah someone look into Livaković I am sure he has some kind of money on this game

A point would be great for us but I don't like the lineup, especially the defence + gk

Stanisic you fucking moron

Actually I was trying to say that Croatia is the lucky one

Not a penalty

We've played Croatia so many times that I've seen Modric more than most of my relatives in the last 15 years

I love him tho

Does it look like Croatia will score?

Doesn't excuse that we're playing like shit.

Ugurcan might have the worst feet I have seen on a keeper. Dude straight up gives the ball back everytime he attempts a pass.

Idemo vatreniiiii

Wtf is livakovic doing???

Bro thought he is a sweeper keeper

Once the power of obitelj™️ and friendship runs out this is what you get

Majer fuckin pass just selfish fuck, you don't have to keep shooting

Yes we are

His worst

Probably offside but either way Liva's casual stroll and "save attempt" was hilarious lol

Terrible call, if it stands after VAR I will lose it

Injured

We love to score once the other team has scored first 😂

Hes wasting so many chances even against manU and in general

Yeah really annoying

This period is great. No fouls, no free kicks or other interruptions.

That's what I thought, would've been unfair to give that

Better team won

As an Ajax fan, I will be focussing entirely on Sutalo.

Lol Livakovic was nowhere near

I don’t know whats worse, our performance or the Nova studio show

Only thing I want to know if we are so static in attacking possession by design / dalic instruction or because our players just can't be arsed

Thats not a penalty

Bit he wasn’t really good today and honestly he hasn’t been our best player for a while now.

Also Türkiye missed two clear chances

Bro I'm sorry but vrigin Mary doesn't want us to score tonight

Watch the ref blow the whistle at exactly 5 mins

Is that really a penalty???

Liva had watched way too many Muslera games.

How's that not a card??

Honestly apart from that one game against France where he kept mbappe quiet, stanisic hasn’t been really great

No way that is a pen

Cakir got a yellow for time-wasting in 68th minute and just continued to timewaste because he knew nothing would happen lol

Great response that replies to nothing in my comment, possibly because nothing i said in it is wrong. Seems like i was right and hit a nerve to provoke a "cope" response. You won, be happy.

He is shit for us. Always

I have no hope of us scoring, all our main forwards are injured

Is Kerem playing for Croatia or what? What is he doing?

Cakir is far too overconfident for his shitty long passes dude should be afraid everytime he gets ta pass

Why do all Dinamo players have bad ball anticipation? Livakovic and Petkovic both can't dealt with crosses

This whistling is pathetic just like the stupid Laserpointers at the africa cup.

the ghost of Rüstü still haunts Feners goal and maybe it has rubbed off on him

Am I dreaming or is dalic making early decisive subs?

İsmail MOTM

Samet has played 45 minutes total this season

lmfaaaaao

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever get to watch a Croatia game and be satisfied with how we play

If Turkiye doesn't score this match will be a draw.

Bro if Ferdi is injured I'm gonna burn this shitty ass worthless team down.

substituting hakan with orkun should be next

Not a pen, but such a shitty angle for var review that they gave him

Thats not a fucking penalty if that stands just stop football

Injured

Never a pen

Very messy 5 mins from Turkiye

Barišić is so bad lmao Sosa should have played from the beginning

Did DALIC just change the whole attack in the 60th minute? This js a weird game

Turkey absolutely deserves this win. Croatia abysmal.

Thanks for VAR technology. Imagine if that was penalty lmfao

Insane and worrying that he was even sent to look at that. Glad common sense prevailed.

No O'Fence, but why would they build such a small new stadium?

Montella put Dalić in his little pocket today

Don't forget, after all that, just passing it to the opponent.

Thanks, I missed that it was originally called a penalty.

fucking legit respect

it's coming. it's inevitable.

The combination of the Turkish high press and having 5 rotation players playing really has a horrible effect on our productivity so far, even tho the goal came from a clear mistake they've been better in every regard.

Croatia had a good 20 min but seem to have lost steam a bit again

Lose? He didn't lose it, he gave it away for free lol

Our counters are so ass because we have no players that can actually run lmao

Guys like Melnjak or Goda are much better than current Barišić

Substitutions are needed. At least 2

Prime Kerem Aktürkoglu is back!!

Apokerim Bardakci is such a freaking tank, I love him. He's like Servet Cetin with a brain.

How the hell did the referee even consider that a handball in the first place.

VAR saved the day.