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jotenko, what are your thoughts about Croatia-Portugal game?

We struggle against Portugal usually...

Only 3 matches we have had against each other:

19 Jun 1996 Croatia v Portugal 0-3 UEFA European Championship

12 Nov 2005 Portugal v Croatia 2-0 International friendly

10 Jun 2013 Croatia v Portugal 0-1 International friendly

This is f***ing brilliant. In Croatia niw, absolute scenes. Flares everywhere, couple of hundred singing god knows what. Unreal atmosphere and im pretending to be one of them with a red and white checked cap.

 

Its as if theyve won the entire bloody tournament.

Hahah told you that you gonna love it there. Wonder if you watched it in Split

7 groups of 4. Then only 2 best 3rd placed teams. Less likely teams settle for 3rd if it's a 2 in 7 rather than 2 in 3 chance.

 

Would get rid of the Play Offs too.

This is actually a very good idea. Keeps the 4-team group and makes 3rd place hard to achieve if teams want to settle for 3rd. More importantly increases number of teams from 24 to 28 which UEFA would welcome and its more fair than the current system.

I heard it was organised. People even checked in on Facebook with images of flares bringing in secretly into the stadium.

That's just sad :/

It's ridiculous and they embarrassed whole country

Ćorluka waterpolo player

Need to score one more to put the game to bed.

Modrić class again but I've been so impressed with Rakitić. He isn't that good for the national team

Why only one player kicks off at the beginning of the match from center?

Predictions for Czech Rep-Croatia?

I go for 2:1

 

Croatia playing San Marino at home in their final warmup game tonight May as well do an intra-squad friendly. Presume they want to get their confidence up

It's ridiculous game. Don't know what's the purpose of it. 10-0 up atm

Imagine the scenes if we ever resigned him

Molde's match against Dinamo Zagreb was something else. Three penalties (two missed), red card and all kinds of f***ing shenanigans and still they managed to claw back to 3-3 from 0-3 down. For shame they couldn't pull off the full comeback

Lol I watched that game. It was hilarious. Michael Oliver pointing 3 times to the spot for Molde with 2 misses. Plus red card and Molde even deserved to go through...

It would be hilarious if Leicester, Hull and Villa all won as well today except us.

Ben Arfa 'Losing Is Good' Post Hull Match Interview - Sep 21st 2013

on youtube

He needs to come back!! Love the bit where he forgot how the opposition scored the goal hahha at 01:00

I'm from Croatia and everyone is disgusted at what happened in Milan. We seem to have this small group of "fans" whose sole aim is to travel somewhere and make disturbance, so its our FA which is letting this happen (not banning particular fans who have history of doing disturbance) plus lack of security at the stadium when they all should know that our "fans" will try to bring in flares and stuff...

 

Where in Croatia are you from?

Zagreb

Are you still supporting Croatian national team?

Are you supporting Dinamo and Rijeka in Europe?

Are you following news from Croatian league, FA, national team etc. day-by-day or only read few times in year about this?

Yeah

Not quite, I only support Newcastle

Yeah, im following news day-by-day

Fans disturbance is ongoing problem in Croatian football but it amazes me how it hasn't been dealt with already. Its a really deep issue and it does affect all responsible figures at Croatian FA with huge influence of people like Dinamo Zagreb's owner who is one of the biggest "enemies" to Croatian fans.

I'm from Croatia and everyone is disgusted at what happened in Milan. We seem to have this small group of "fans" whose sole aim is to travel somewhere and make disturbance, so its our FA which is letting this happen (not banning particular fans who have history of doing disturbance) plus lack of security at the stadium when they all should know that our "fans" will try to bring in flares and stuff...

;D brilliant Kasper!

Pardew's face hahah

This thread

is this true??

http://www.totalsport.hr/hr/multimedia/foto/item/7712-duge-lopte-su-ok-samo-ih-treba-pogoditi

its in croatian but it shows an image with all long ball passes and it says that Newcastle have had remarkably 194 total long ball passes with ZERO correct at 70th mintue

its some sort of record

Don't remember seeing him score once from a header for us.

Against Stoke in 3:0 win  I think he scored a header for the first goal

Benfica 2-0 Porto. Top of the league.

 

 

http://cdn.record.xl.pt/storage/ng16666B60-F1E3-42B9-BEBF-C62C3B5283B0.jpg?type=super_panoramic

Amazing scenes Bruno! Would've loved to come back to Lisboa once again and watch Benfica... watched Sporting though - also an amazing atmosphere

Arsenal - lack a plan B and only one striker.

Man City - probably the only team playing as they should be (crap early away form excepted).

Chelsea - Mourinho not looking as invincible as he once was.

Liverpool - looking good tbf, but are they a flash in the pan?

Spurs - Sherwood appointment has the potential to be an absolute disaster.

Man United - Any further from the title pace and their season could really implode.

Everton - With all due respect, I don't particularly see them as our rivals.

 

Open as f***.

 

Depends on our fitness and injuries we pick up in 2nd half of season. I think we will finish 7th or 8th. Surely your taking the p*ss about Everton

Everton are really extraordinary this season...and not only they should be highly considered for top 4, but I do believe with their two next home games they could have 40 points after 19 games and potentialy be first on the table on new years which would send a strong message...

They have lost only one game, that alone says a lot about that team.

I'm a bit shocked that Simunic is still playing anyway tbh.

 

Oh well, deserved. c***.

 

I think that punishment is way too harsh... He can't even speak Croatian properly (being born in Australia and spending most of his life outside Croatia) let alone deliberately discriminate people with some strange popular fan's chant.

And even the chant has such ambigious meaning... Anyway, that was one of the stupidest ways of finishing your international career.

 

Wasn't the chant used by the fascist movement in WW2 that played their part in sending many Jews, Serbs and Romans to their deaths? Doesn't sound like the kind of thing that should be still used as a football chant whether by fans or players.

I was actually curious as well cos I heard so many theories so I checked on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za_dom_spremni

they explanied it good I think and there you can see multiple origins of that phrase...

but regardless of that, Šimunić knew that most people don't like that chant but he used it mostly because he believes its not a fascist chant...

Anyway, I was shocked he did say it and I was shocked by the severity of his punishment as well...

I'm a bit shocked that Simunic is still playing anyway tbh.

 

Oh well, deserved. c***.

I think that punishment is way too harsh... He can't even speak Croatian properly (being born in Australia and spending most of his life outside Croatia) let alone deliberately discriminate people with some strange popular fan's chant.

And even the chant has such ambigious meaning... Anyway, that was one of the stupidest ways of finishing your international career.

I don't think our situation is as bad as some people make it. We are 10 games into, with 4 wins (Fulham, Aston Villa, Cardiff City, Chelsea) with 2 draws (West Ham, Liverpool) and 4 lost games (Manchester City, Hull City, Everton, Sunderland). With 14 points in total and languishing in 9th position we are very much still in the game for big stuff but we could be in the game for bad stuff down the table. For me, November is the month which will actually show enourmous picture of our season. Traditionally around this time of the season (November-early December) we have lost so many points in the past and checking actual results I came up with these stats:

Last season (2012/2013)

NOVEMBER:

Liverpool (A) 1-1        DREW

West Ham (H) 0-1      LOST

Swansea (H)  1-2      LOST

Southampton (A) 0-2  LOST

Stoke City(A) 1-2        LOST

EARLY DECEMBER

Wigan (H) 3-0          WON

Fulham (A) 1-2        LOST

Man.City(H) 1-3      LOST

Total: 4/24 points

Season 2011/2012

NOVEMBER

Everton (H) 2-1    WON

Man.City(A) 3-1    LOST

Man.Utd(A) 1-1    DREW

EARLY DECEMBER

Chelsea (H) 0-3  LOST

Norwich (A) 2-4  LOST

Swansea (H) 0-0  DREW

WBA (H)  2-3      LOST

Total: 5/21 points

Season 2010/2011

NOVEMBER

Arsenal (A) 1-0      WON

Blackburn (H) 1-2  LOST

Fulham (H) 0-0      DREW

Bolton (A) 1-5      LOST

Chelsea (H) 1-1    DREW

EARLY DECEMBER

WBA (A)  1-3        LOST

Total: 5/18 points

Looking at these results it shows that we have collected arguably the least points in this period of season than in other periods of the respective seasons. Especially when we have 2 home games in a row (which we will have this season as well in November) we have failed to register a win - drawing 2 and losing 4 against opposition against we were the favourites to win).

Our fixtures for November and early December this season looks like this:

NOVEMBER

Chelsea (H) 2-0  WON

Tottenham (A) 

Norwich (H)    ***** for me

WBA (H)        ***** crucial games

EARLY DECEMBER

Swansea (A)

Man.Utd (A)

Southampton (H)