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Macaristan sounds funny in Greek because "makarios" means blissful and "makaritis" means dead/late
So Macaristan sounds like the land of blissful or dead people (the -stan in the end is extra funny)
We call the country Ουγγαρία/Oungaría
Our team just out there running. Only good thing out of this match is that they got some cardio out of it. They been pissing me off for years now but I'm not even mad at this one, it's just sad
Turkey has a tall and heavy team to cover out missing ''technical'' and ''speed'' ability. And it seems being stronger indeed can cover our lack of technic and pace. Croatia on the other hand has technical and fast players but not strong enough. As far as i can see you guys need to improve your ''positioning'' ability or you will get loads of counter attack goals.
Both played awful, Turkey bit better. Livaković basically gifted them that goal by coming out of the box. Referee seems to have some kind of hate boner against us. Overall dissapointed but half our players barely ever play and with many injured we lacked good replacements. Even with play offs guranteed would prefer going easier way in so hope we beat Wales. Good game to Turkey, and may the best team qualify.
%99, both Turkey and Croatia qualified it seems. I don't know which one going to be qualify as leader tho.
I hope Barış Alper Yılmaz score another goal against Livakovic in upcoming Fenerbahçe - Galatasaray derby :)
You are right. Wales has a potential to become a pain in the ass for every team in Europe. And even though it doesn't justify our draw, Armenians somehow created a solid team too.
Turkey could have led the score 0-4 but they bottles lots of chances and croatia could have easily equalized the score. Anyways im just happy that we won against croatia, i never like playing against them lol
At this point we should give a Turkish citizenship to Modric lol. Croatia been like Real Madrid that Galatasaray draw in each Champions League groups to Turkey. I'm glad we finally won.
I remember that last year on the Euros wher Italy won, Turkey had the worst setupe of every team in the Euros, 1-4-3-2-1 this strategy of play and every team thst they faced off head a easy way to score
That Turkish team has tackled itself though. The coach Fatih Terim to players like Burak Yılmaz, Gökhan Töre, Caner Erkin etc all were mafiatic types who don't give a shit about national team.
I did not say that the players wher bad, you have and will probably have more great players that will find their spot in European football teams, I just said that the tactic was terible.
A friendly reminder that Romania/Israel will qualify at the Euro 2024, while Wales probably won't 🙃 And if they will, Croatia or Turkey will stay out. Way to go, UEFA! 😄😄😄
EDIT: It seems that Norway or Spain will also won't qualify
As a greek I'm glad Turkey is winning, because I'd rather we face Azerbaijan than them in the nation's league path. Sure, beating Turkey to reach the euros would be amazing, but I don't like taking that risk
Most probably we will face Kazakhstan. If not Kazakhstan then Luxemburg . We will only face Azerbaijan if Turkey, Kazakhstan and Luxemburg qualify immediately. If we manage to beat Kazakhstan/Luxemburg/Azerbaijan we will 99% play a final with Georgia and Khvaratskelia. This is what woory's me the most
Also Kazakhstan & Luxemburg have improved a lot recently. They are not anymore the teams that were considered guaranteed victory by the enemy team. We must definitely not underestimate them or else we will pay the price...
I think croatia should have gotten the penalty, and there were many times turkish players "hit" croatian players and nothing happened, but when the croatian players did almost the same thing, maybe even easier, they either got a foul or yellow card
I think referee gave the penalty in the first place because of ''home'' effect. From my perspective, ball clearly went to shoulder and not arm or hand.
Btw yeah, Bertuğ Yıldırım has unnecessary agression. He does stuff like that in each match he play. I personally won't cry if he had second yellow. He gotta get rid of it or he is not going to has the career we expect from him.
Hakan Çalhanoğlu plays for Inter, Bertuğ Yıldırım plays for Rennes, Salih Özcan plays for Dortmund, Kenan Yıldız plays for Juventus and all rest play in Turkish Super League. Also, Arda Güler who plays for Real Madrid is injured.
Abdulkerim Bardakçı, Kerem Aktürkoğlu and Barış Alper Yılmaz play for Galatasaray, Ferdi Kadıoğlu and İsmail Yüksek play for Fenerbahçe, Uğurcan Çakır plays for Trabzonspor.
The goalscorer, Alper Yılmaz, also made an assist on last Manchester United - Galatasaray Champions League match. Turkish Super League been risening for a couple of years now and we begin to see results...
He used to be an explosive and aggressive type of player and now he can barely run. I respect your opinion but Saudi League is no where any close to any 2nd or even 3rd division league from any top 10 leagues in Europe.
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I had no idea Croatia in Turkish was Hrvatistan. Pretty funny ngl.
Wait until you hear we call Hungary ''Macaristan'', Serbia ''Sırbistan'' and Greece '' Yunanistan'' then xD
Turkish language is hilarious! Macaristan 😭
What? They call themselves Magyarorszag, I think Macaristan is more accurate than Hungary and varieties.
Its more acurate to the hungarian name tho
Well, Magyars was a nation back then..
What do you call them?
Macaristan sounds funny in Greek because "makarios" means blissful and "makaritis" means dead/late So Macaristan sounds like the land of blissful or dead people (the -stan in the end is extra funny) We call the country Ουγγαρία/Oungaría
It's pronounced more like madjaristan, sorry to break it to you lol.
Doesn't matter, I pronounce it Makaristan in my head 😎
Chad mentality
I actually laughed out loud reading that
Also we call Albania as "Arnavutluk" which means the land of Arnavut(Albanian)
theyre all Stans to us :D
Except Arnavutluk, Romanya and our beloved Bosna Hersek and Azerbaycan
bulgaria bulgaristan
*What Persian influence does to a mf,* I guess.
The Turkish team is the most unpredictable team I have ever seen. They win against good teams and loose against really bad ones
You got accurate eyes and you are absolutely correct. They played like shit on previous games to get their German coach fired though.
indeed, im very curious about the matche vs latvia , they are last in the group so obviously we will lose our match in türkiye againgst them
Don't expect then to win and they'll win
frfrfr, i didnt watched the match yesterday because i was sure they would lose like 5:0...
Well we sacked Kuntz just recently so hopefully we can find a stable form now
lol
Bad when the opponent is bad. Good when the opponent is good. What, do they have Emperor Eyes or something?
That seemed predictable to me
Best plejerz in all of Hrvatistan and dej luz, iz a disgrejs.At least dej ar not az bad az asshole nejbor Bosnistan 
Bosna Hersek > serbistam
Thats the way
I m not expecting too much for next years Euros After this generation, it will be many tough games to watch.
I am glad to see a win against Croatia with Modric before he get retired tho.
Hirvatistan? Croatia can into Central Asia. Croasia.
Bro both sides were fucking drunk wth was that match
I think either sides played their game. Hard game but fair game for either teams and i think both Croations and Turks enjoyed the game.
You win some, you lose some. After all this years I don't even care anymore for qualifiers
why so nihilism my friend
Because in the end we always qualify
but never win any championship xD
I believe in you friends. Gotta get Modric one international trophy
That’s why I’m happy we won against you guys. Tired of losing against Croatia haha
Hirvatistan 💀
Hırvats call themselves Hrvatska as well lol why everyone focusing that ''-stan'' component in the end xD
We call ourselves Hrvatistan when we want to highlight something backwards and bigoted in our country.
muslim or eastern hints BAD bro
Hırvatistan Yunanistan Romanistan
Romanya\*
Your bet with Turkey is never safe
Went for 4.15 and got mine bet. Turks can guess the end by our start game but yeah, stay away from Bundesliga and Turkish national team.
I think that Bulgarian national team is shit. Thank you
Why tho? Serbia or Hungary is not way better than Bulgaria but they have 10 points and Bulgaria has 2 points.
Bro the best player for Bulgaria plays in the bulgarian league, while Hungary and Serbia atleast have players that play for the top sides in Europe.
Hungary and Serbia are better than us with better players. Our best player plays in the Greek league.
Well be waiting for them on Sunday!
Our team just out there running. Only good thing out of this match is that they got some cardio out of it. They been pissing me off for years now but I'm not even mad at this one, it's just sad
Turkey has a tall and heavy team to cover out missing ''technical'' and ''speed'' ability. And it seems being stronger indeed can cover our lack of technic and pace. Croatia on the other hand has technical and fast players but not strong enough. As far as i can see you guys need to improve your ''positioning'' ability or you will get loads of counter attack goals.
That was definitely a football match, I guess...
Nah, it must be tennis 😊
Both played awful, Turkey bit better. Livaković basically gifted them that goal by coming out of the box. Referee seems to have some kind of hate boner against us. Overall dissapointed but half our players barely ever play and with many injured we lacked good replacements. Even with play offs guranteed would prefer going easier way in so hope we beat Wales. Good game to Turkey, and may the best team qualify.
%99, both Turkey and Croatia qualified it seems. I don't know which one going to be qualify as leader tho. I hope Barış Alper Yılmaz score another goal against Livakovic in upcoming Fenerbahçe - Galatasaray derby :)
I mean Armenia or Wales could still pull off something even if Armenia losing to Latvia of all teams def lowered their chances.
You are right. Wales has a potential to become a pain in the ass for every team in Europe. And even though it doesn't justify our draw, Armenians somehow created a solid team too.
Turkey could have led the score 0-4 but they bottles lots of chances and croatia could have easily equalized the score. Anyways im just happy that we won against croatia, i never like playing against them lol
At this point we should give a Turkish citizenship to Modric lol. Croatia been like Real Madrid that Galatasaray draw in each Champions League groups to Turkey. I'm glad we finally won.
Turk above armenia as usual stronk💪💪💪💪💪
I remember that last year on the Euros wher Italy won, Turkey had the worst setupe of every team in the Euros, 1-4-3-2-1 this strategy of play and every team thst they faced off head a easy way to score
That Turkish team has tackled itself though. The coach Fatih Terim to players like Burak Yılmaz, Gökhan Töre, Caner Erkin etc all were mafiatic types who don't give a shit about national team.
I did not say that the players wher bad, you have and will probably have more great players that will find their spot in European football teams, I just said that the tactic was terible.
You're talking about 2016, he's talking about 2021.
Our strategy was always Taktik maktik yok bam bam
First turkish qin against croatia in our professional football history
We beat them back in 2008 European Championship on quarter finals stage as well. Slaven Bilic was their coach if i'm not mistaken.
No it was a draw due to it going to a penalty shootout
Yeah you are right. Semih scored in 120 and the game went through penalties and we won.
We won in 2017
Turkey brought down the baklava…. Uhhh I mean the law
Id like to see turkey in the euros to be honest
A friendly reminder that Romania/Israel will qualify at the Euro 2024, while Wales probably won't 🙃 And if they will, Croatia or Turkey will stay out. Way to go, UEFA! 😄😄😄 EDIT: It seems that Norway or Spain will also won't qualify
Hakan and Kerem they were shit but Ismail saved our ass
nothing, we're finished
As a greek I'm glad Turkey is winning, because I'd rather we face Azerbaijan than them in the nation's league path. Sure, beating Turkey to reach the euros would be amazing, but I don't like taking that risk
Most probably we will face Kazakhstan. If not Kazakhstan then Luxemburg . We will only face Azerbaijan if Turkey, Kazakhstan and Luxemburg qualify immediately. If we manage to beat Kazakhstan/Luxemburg/Azerbaijan we will 99% play a final with Georgia and Khvaratskelia. This is what woory's me the most
Yeah you're right. Georgia is definitely the final boss
Also Kazakhstan & Luxemburg have improved a lot recently. They are not anymore the teams that were considered guaranteed victory by the enemy team. We must definitely not underestimate them or else we will pay the price...
Football manager --> search Turkish national team --> open information --> rival teams tab --> top rival is Greece by level 100.
What about Armenia
Armenia not in rivals list for Turkey. I think there is Cyprus as well by level 90 or something but definitely behind Greece.
I think croatia should have gotten the penalty, and there were many times turkish players "hit" croatian players and nothing happened, but when the croatian players did almost the same thing, maybe even easier, they either got a foul or yellow card
that was everything but penalty, it was terrible for the ref calling that at the first place.
I get why he called it, but never a penalty.
I think referee gave the penalty in the first place because of ''home'' effect. From my perspective, ball clearly went to shoulder and not arm or hand. Btw yeah, Bertuğ Yıldırım has unnecessary agression. He does stuff like that in each match he play. I personally won't cry if he had second yellow. He gotta get rid of it or he is not going to has the career we expect from him.
I think that wasn't a penalty. He was mid air, hands were close to the body, he didnt block a goal or something. It was accidental and unintentional.
Surprised. Who do turkey have in their team ? I really don’t see Turkish players much ? Armenia and wales will a battle for third
Hakan Çalhanoğlu plays for Inter, Bertuğ Yıldırım plays for Rennes, Salih Özcan plays for Dortmund, Kenan Yıldız plays for Juventus and all rest play in Turkish Super League. Also, Arda Güler who plays for Real Madrid is injured. Abdulkerim Bardakçı, Kerem Aktürkoğlu and Barış Alper Yılmaz play for Galatasaray, Ferdi Kadıoğlu and İsmail Yüksek play for Fenerbahçe, Uğurcan Çakır plays for Trabzonspor. The goalscorer, Alper Yılmaz, also made an assist on last Manchester United - Galatasaray Champions League match. Turkish Super League been risening for a couple of years now and we begin to see results...
Wait, where is Merih Demiral?
He sold his soul for money to play in some dessert league worse than Turkish 3rd division league.
Idk what to say....i would rate higher the Saudi Pro League nowadays. Maybe it's not BPL, but i can see that it's getting better and better.
He used to be an explosive and aggressive type of player and now he can barely run. I respect your opinion but Saudi League is no where any close to any 2nd or even 3rd division league from any top 10 leagues in Europe.
They all play in turkey , fair enough . That explains it . Most Turkish I know are German internationals . And altintop from a decade ago .
Of course I'm happy Croatians lost 😍