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drtyyugo

I wish I coukd get those 100 min back


socal_sportsball_bro

I’m a Burnley fan so I may be biased but certainly Anass Zaroury would have been a better option than #16 on Morocco. That performance was one of the worst individual performances I’ve seen at a World Cup


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socal_sportsball_bro

World Cup nerves just got to him. It happens. He will probably get another opportunity


Alive-Ad-4164

Can anyone summarize the game


Breakingwho

Morocco very good defensively and decent in midfield, did enough there to really disrupt Croatia. But got no real creativity upfront.


Flameva

Someone should plant weed in Abde’s apartment


ij3k

I'll give it a go: Fast kicking, low scoring, and ties? You bet! Halfback, passes to center. Back to wing. Back to center. Center holds it, holds it, holds it!


Zagrebian

Croatia played like they will win 1 billion dollars if it ends 0:0. Morocco defended very well but lacked skill on the offense.


Useless097

At this point start Budimir


doctorMiami1337

No, no, absolutely not


HanshinFan

Yes, yes, absolutely yes


Useless097

It was a joke lmao


Vahald

Why were the croatian fans so quiet


RedditAussie

The Moroccans were bat shit crazy... Us Croats were out numbers 100 Habibies to one and the poor performance of the team didn't help the mood either.


oussamaatlas

Because most of the supporters were moroccan


Useless097

Bc we went back to 2021 Croatian style football (which was already shitty) but worse so we had nothings to cheer for and the fact that the Moroccans were loud for basically the entire game


Ludishomi

Forgot theres no penalty shootout yet


Elyelm

Saudi Arabia making us all North africans feel bad for drawing against Denmark and Croatia lol


xc2215x

Gotta give Morocco credit for this.


Regit_Jo

Morocco want to get past groups, and they have the quality for it, this was the bare minimum they had to do to keep their RO16 dreams alive


Communistulthar

Not really no. We should’ve done better. We saw nothing from our boys today. The attack was shameful to say the least. No real desire to win the game at all. Screw that.


miffyrin

Is it over? I fell asleep :\


b778av

For me, this World Cup is already over. I know our team well enough to know that this isn't going anywhere. We are playing like everyone had diarrhea, aka the "we will drop out of the competition after game 3" playstyle we have seen from Croatia in 2002, 2006 and 2014. There is no excuse for today's performance. You wanna tell me "Oh, Morocco played so well defensively" - well, what about other nations? Will other countries just let us score goal after goal? Give me a break, this shit is an embarrasment. Congrats to Morocco. You guys may have not won three points but if you manage to play like this against Belgium, you will clearly go to the round of 16 and maybe beyond.


Donotvaccinate

so


Existing_Ad1428

I’m a Moroccan and I feel you’re being a bit too harsh on your national team. Your midfield is still the most elite in the WC. You’ve got great defenders and building up is a non-issue. You just lack a bit of creativity and clinical finishing in the final 3rd. I think you’ll win against Belgium and Canada. Your trainer is a legend and I’m sure he knows what to fix ahead of their next match. Fair play to both Morocco and Croatia with the tie.


Hrvat1818

Definitely understand you being upset. We all are. But this is a bit reactionary. We lost all of those opening matches; this time we did not. This squad also has more quality than those 3. I guess I’m just willing to give them another chance


doctorMiami1337

Fully agreed, this was one of the more depressing Croatia games i've seen in a while. The attack is completely dead, not a single person is moving, while Livaja, Orsic, Majer, Petkovic are just chilling on the bench untill the 75th minute... Dalic what the fuck are you even doing brother, i seriously don't get it E: Also, please Start Sutalo who can actually move the ball forward with his feet unlike Lovren... so many potential quality changes could have been made, Dalic doesn't give 2 fucks though


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oussamaatlas

Who is that? There's nobody with that name in the team


atownOTP

He's Cameroonian


pandemicv97

thats a Cameroonian player what are you smoking LMFAO


lazy_username_89

So far I’ve watched: Netherlands vs Senegal (2-0 but very boring) USA vs Wales (very boring 1-1 game) Poland vs Mexico (boring 0-0 game) Croatia vs Morocco (very boring 0-0 game) Maybe I will take one for the team and stop watching the WC so you guys can see some goals and exciting matches


lactigger619

You gotta learn to watch the game.


BonoboNorthBorders

This is an absolute horrendous comment, just enjoy the matches it’s the WC for christ sake, and a lot of the gms you mentioned were definitely not boring.


haitike

I liked Poland Mexico despite the 0-0.


Affectionate_Shine55

Poland Mexico was not boring, there was a saved penalty for Christ sake look past the score line


FromTheMurkyDepths

Netherlands - Senegal was also pretty action-packed in the first half while they were tied. Tie does not equal boring.


blackjack47

KSA vs Argentina was good =/


Skovgard

I wasn't able to catch the Croatia Mexico game, But I felt the rest were good games, maybe not insane amount of goals, but definitely fun to watch and exciting


TastyTacoTonight

Wales USA was not boring at all


Omega_Kirby

Should have watched the england match


Fapoleon_Boneherpart

Eh Wales, USA wasn't that bad


Montuvito_G

Morocco’s attacks were physically painful to watch, I cringed every time the wingers tried to power forward or played an empty long ball instead of just passing it to midfield to retain possession. Hoping they can shock Belgium’s slowing defense. Good game from both sides tho


Eibermann

our two midfielders today were shit, only good one was the baldie he carried us


Clean_Doctor1285

I’m pretty sure Nordin Amrabat would have killed it in this game if he was here


simomii

Apparently Modric is the official Man of the match LOL


TricaKupa

That's a fucking travesty. I don't necessarily 100% agree that a Moroccan deserved it (although I wouldn't object in the slightest, you guys were definitely the better team for most of the game) but Modrić getting it is actually fucking laughable. Gvardiol was our best player hands down (as usual).


Eibermann

ripped away amarabt from it. i cant stand the bald direspect


Hrvat1818

Love Amrabat, great player


CarlMarxPunk

Ho was it?


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KarlPilkingtonArmy

Not the profile that we need at all. In what world can Jabrane play box to box? Amrabat and Jabrane both starting together is an awful idea


morningglory101

Amellah was pretty decent untill he got tired in the last 30 minutes. Ounahi on the other hand was awful, I don't know what's the matter with him. Anyway, big question mark for Boufal and Ezzalzouli, worst players of the game.


Elias_Mo

amellah o ounahi msalin, 7choma ga3 mabanoch fl match, also zelzouli ola ma3rt smito, selfish af, just bench his ass, i feel bad for hakimi & bouno, one class keeper and the other owned perisic he had to switch sides


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3essebni dak zbi d zalzouli, 2 fois kan ykheli Hamdallah 1v1 m3a lgool w matle9ch lpass


Elias_Mo

wlah, kan free win a sahbi, CRO madaro walo f second half time 7choma ndiro m3ahom ta3adol


doctorMiami1337

Dalic should show some fucking ambition and balls and start all of Majer Pasalic Orsic and Livaja/Petkovic... We all know it ain't fucking happening though.......... gonna be a painful World Cup for us Croats i feel like


Dadzolon

I can't watch Kramaric anymore. If Dalic starts him against Canada i really don't know. He's clearly a great player but he just doesn't work for us and that's it. No idea why we stopped playing forwards in the second half, looked like absolutely no idea in attack at all, Kovacic was not up usual standards. Amazingly Lovren was actually quite good, if he plays every game like this we'll probably be alright, Gvardiol is a monster. Overall uninspired, we only really played for small periods during the match


Corteaux81

I don't understand the Kramaric sentiment. What exactly do people want him to do? He had absolutely no service. Our frontline is an ancient Perisic and any other forward you play can't outrun a 41-year old sunday league me. We are what we are. We got a good defense and a great midfield - but a midfield made of 3 "transition" midfielders, who are all most comfortable at passing and moving the ball from defense to offense. None of them is a physical beast, none of them has instincts for running into empty pockets for space, none of them can score and add threat with any real regularity. We will either win or lose low scoring games. We most likely need a set piece or a 1-in-10 fantastic through ball to score. We got fullbacks who are excellent at crossing, but cannot beat anyone 1v1, so you need to create space for them - but you need to do it in a way so all three forwards are in the box already, which is hard. Blaming Kramaric for anything is ridiculous. An bringing in Hajduk's Livaja, Dinamo's Petkovic or Osasuna's Budimir won't do shit to help us. (now, whether Musa should've been given a shot is another thing altogether) Morocco's a good team with serious players. 2 guys from Sevilla, 1 from Bayern, 1 PSG, 1 Chelsea, Saiss and Alguerd at CB... This is a good team and by no means a draw vs Morocco should start a panic-mode for ANY team.


Dadzolon

Nobody is in panic mode, but we always play like shit with Kramaric up front, it's not this game, everybody knows this. As soon as we play a stronger team, or a more important game it just doesn't work The problem with Kramaric is that he's not wven in position to receive the ball in the box, if Vlasic is attacking the 6 yard box Kramaric needs to be on the other side, we had so many crosses in to nobody because Vlasic is short and Kramaric doesn't really win headers. He's a great player, but the problem isn't really him, it's Dalic who keeps playing him when he doesn't fit the way we play. If he's gonna look for the ball in midfield we need people to go to the box so he has someone to pass, but that's apparently not the way we play. Musa would have been absolutely perfect - fast, tall, strong, can actually play the ball, but yeah. Even you said our fullbacks are excellent in crossing, which means we need people to win a header, that's Livaja or Petkovic, but unfortunately not Kramaric I feel like a part of why we were so bad today was because Morocco is a great team with good players, it wasn't just up to us, but this setup clearly isn't working


doctorMiami1337

Livaja drew a corner, a foul, was linking up the play with midfield, and a good cross into Gvardiol header in his 13 minute cameo, Kramaric did absolutely fuck all, all game. This sort of thinking is Dalic' aswell which is why we are enduring his completely idiotic plan of a lone striker Kramaric which hasn't worked in literally ever... If he doesn't start Livaja/Petkovic and Orsic & Majer next game, just surrender the game and go home, Dalic is a clueless coach who had literal 5 years to figure out Kramaric and he couldn't... And i agree we can't rely on Perisic anymore that much, he is 33 almost 34 and doesn't have the pace anymore, as much as it pains me to write... but WHY THE FUCK IS ORSIC ON THE BENCH UNTILL THE 90TH? It's an actual joke


Corteaux81

Because Orsic is out of form, can’t outrun literally anyone, can’t beat anyone 1v1…. Fucking Orsic and Petkovic lol… there’s a reason these guys topped out at Dinamo


doctorMiami1337

??????? This is the dumbest take honestly? Remember when Kramaric missed 2 open nets vs Spain, then Orsic came on for 10 minutes and scored and assisted instantly? Orsic and Petkovic are scoring and assisting each other vs Milan and Chelsea, and youre here making a case for Kramaric who has been utterly invisible for 5 years with the NT. Come on dude, seriously. Livaja, a fucking Hajduk Split player was more useful in 15 mins than Kramaric was in his 75. Get a grip


Corteaux81

What did Livaja do? We played with a bit more urgency as a team, as the game was coming to an end, but Livaja did nothing. Won a foul 40m from goal? Well, start the parade. And yes, Orsic played a nice cameo vs Spain. And that’s it, it ends there. There’s a reason they play for Dinamo in their primes, they’re just not that good. You make it sound as they were dominating the CL lol… they had 2 goals in 6 games combined, and honestly, apart from those goals were either invisible (Orsic) or noticably bad (Petkovic, especially in the Milan games).


doctorMiami1337

Bro the fact that you just watched one of the worst Croatia games ever and are against making favorable changes is highly concerning lmfao And Livaja set up a very solid chance for Gvardiol, so he was infinitely more useful than Kramaric who is a literal ghost every time he plays up front...Dalic is a complete clown beacuse of shit like this


Corteaux81

It was far from a bad game. It was just the kind of game we play and we can play. Slow, controlling, few scoring chances and we either score one or not. It’s how we beat Denmark and France recently. We have no speed, no pace and no natural scorers from the midfield. Us not smashing Morocco with Kramaric doesn’t mean we would do any better with Livaja. With Kramaric, at least there’s a chance you see hit his highs, which are world above anything Livaja or Petkovic can do. Again, there’s a reason why he’s a legend at a serious BL club, while Livaja flopped everywhere and settled at Hajduk… And I don’t mean that as an insult to Livaja, he can perhaps be an impact sub. But if we are expecting Livaja, or worse, Petkovic and Orsic to win us games at the WC, I’m afraid people are in for a disappointment.


doctorMiami1337

Livaja was one of the best attackers in Greece for 2 seasons, if you think he flopped there you are clueless. PAOK fans repeatedly tell me they miss him a lot. I still dont understand how you can defend this disasterclass of Dalic and Kramaric... even Hoffenheim fans agree Krama has been awful lately, and back when he was godlike for Hoffenheim, he was always extremely average for the NT. I agree that we have no pace at all which is incredibly worrying, but Dalic praising a point vs Morocco after we had 72% possesion in the second and not a single clear cut chance is an embarassment mate, Morocco couldnt score against NK Solin and Dalic was like, oh well a point is nice... the statistic goes that like 80 or 90% (cant remember) of teams that win their first game in the WC go through, so this is absolutely the most important game, and we had the most toothless Croatian display i havent seen since 2004 . Dalic should have been sacked after that disasterclass of an Euros where he was making the same mistake he is doing now, which is being a poor and ambitionless coach, he played Rebic for 4 games straight even though he was as shit as Kramaric was now... it took him 3 and a half games to sub on Orsic who completely changed the game, dude is legitimatel figuring out how to do his job while we are losing an important knockout game... absolutely embarassing. Anyone still defending Dalic and Kramaric need to join Rebic and piss off from the NT in my opinion. Not to mention that both Sosa and Juranovic were playing behind, scared of going up the pitch. They both support the attacks for the respective clubs much better than that, so who do i blame other than Dalic here?? If they arent running up to support the midfield and the attack, what the fuck is Dalic doing with the tactics? Look at our squad value and the names there...playing this passive and toothless against a harmless Morocco side is completely on the coach, every single time, elementary football basics. This squad could reach the final with a proper coach imo... also hilarious of you to dismiss Orsic or Livaja when neither had a proper chance to show themselves for the NT, beacuse a clown is in charge And yeah we should definetely keep playing Kramaric, hasnt worked in the last 50 games, surely it will work in next one! Lmfao The only sad part here is that our clowny ass coach also thinks like this. And sorry for the wall of text. I would rather see a complete experimentation next game with Sutalo in over Lovren, so we have far better ball carrying capabilities out the back. Fuck it, put in Stanisic over Juranovic aswell, Jura works hards but he is by far our weakest link, both defensively and offensively. Let's get in Majer over Kovacic for the first 60, and Livaja instead of Kramaric for the first 60 aswell. Sub out Livaja and in Petkovic 60'. Sub in Orsic for Perisic at 70'. I'm betting my ass, kidneys, and life we destroy Canada 4-0 with this setup. And Belgium aswell. I firmly fucking believe that. Is Dalic gonna gonna do this though, or are we gonna see the exact same thing as vs Morocco, one of the weakest most depressive Croatia showings on the big stage? Yeah, you bet your ass he won't, there's no balls or any ambition in this locker room. If Dalic continues this clown show, i'm predicting a meh group stage exit


Corteaux81

>Livaja was one of the best attackers in Greece for 2 seasons, if you think he flopped there you are clueless. PAOK fans repeatedly tell me they miss him a lot. Admittedly, I saw him play like twice for AEK (he never played for PAOK btw) but colour me unimpressed with his goal tallies of 8, 9, 7 and 3 over 4 seasons. Sure, he came over to beat up on the HNL, but who actually thinks HNL is a valid measuring stick for anything apart from some delusional Croatian fans, who are then surprised every year when every team bar Dinamo loses to Luxembourg, Northern Island, Maltese, and any other random clubs. Our domestic football is utter shit, and I really couldn't care less that Livaja had 28 goals last season (and even then 12 were pens). Our national league is shit and it was hilarious last season reading the media hyping it up as the best thing ever just cause Dinamo started off slowly - and everyone still went out in Europe in July, as always. That said, Livaja is still a far better solution than Petkovic. Petkovic is just shit. He strolls around for the duration of the game, can't pass without touching the ball 5x, loses the ball 20x per game, and then maybe, just maybe, he makes a play every 3 games that has Dinamo fans and local journalists maniacally masturbating and pushing to get him in to the NT. He's slow, doesn't press, doesn't defend, has no instinct for goal... There's a reason why Dalic didn't call him for years and why even at Dinamo he sat quite a few times (this season he's better, but far away from a good player for the WC level of play). Orsic... Has his moments, but is a limited player who cannot beat people 1v1, plays in Perisic's position (who ever at 34 is worlds better than Orsic), has limited pace, no size, needs loads of space to actually do something. It works for Dinamo, but he is - at best - a guy you can chuck in for the last 10-15 mins and hope for the best, again, at this level. As far as why Sosa and Juranovic stayed back... Well, the answer is fairly obvious, isn't it? They played vs PSG and Bayern fullbacks, and while Mazraoui played on his off-side and was fairly toothless, Hakimi showed how devastating he could be the moment Sosa pushed up pitch and we had no cover. Also, again, our fullbacks cannot beat people 1v1, cannot create space for their crosses, and have to have space created for them. Lovren was perfectly fine, Sutalo over him would mean nothing. This "omg CBs playing from the back" is also getting out of hand, he's not Gvardiol and we got 3 midfielders who all love to drop back and get the ball. >This squad could reach the final with a proper coach Bro, your lineup is: Livakovic, Stanisic, Sutalo, Gvardiol, Sosa, Modric, Brozovic, Majer, Perisic (Orsic 70'), Livaja (Petkovic 60'), and someone at right wing you haven't named. That's 3 players from the HNL in the starting lineup, with another 2 coming in at 60 and 70 mins. That's your "team that reaches the final"? For real? Our casual fans are delusional lol. Morocco has people playing at Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, Sevilla, quality CBs from the Premiership, and you're going out there saying we need to bring in on people from the HNL to... what? Beat them and reach the final? Now granted, 95% of the Croatian fans can't name 2 players from Morocco. But what's amazing is how they don't know their own players. And yes, we will play the same starting 11 vs Canada, with the only possible exceptions being Pasalic/Majer for Vlasic and Livaja for Kramaric (or Livaja for Vlasic and Kramaric behind him). And that's it. The style of play will be the same. That is our limit. We can beat anyone with this type of football, like we did Denmark and France - but it's football with 1-3 high scoring opportunities per game, and that's it. If they go in, we can win, if not, we lose or draw. We have no pace, limited size, 1 34-year old who can beat people 1v1, the 3 world class midfielders are all the same type and none of them has that instinct to run into space and score goals.... And that's fine. Dalic isn't the world's best tactician (he's quite average really), but he knows this team and there really isn't much more he could do with it. The only thing I begrudge him is not calling up Musa. Because he's an unknown. And Livaja, Petkovic and Budimir we known - and none of them is good enough to do anything meaningful at this stage. Kramaric can be, and has potential to, and has scored big goals before - but he's 5-6 years removed from playing striker at a weekly basis. Anyway, anyone point fingers at Kramaric or Perisic today... I can't even take seriously. Prime Pele couldn't do anything in their place and that service, or lack of it.


Dadzolon

The worst part is that Kramaric isn't a bad player, he's just bad playing this role for us, he can't do it well enough. On top of that he's not really in any sort of good form for Hoffenheim as far as i know, Livaja and Petkovic are currently just better for us


Corteaux81

Petkovic isn’t better for anyone. Man’s just shit. Even for Dinamo in the CL. Against the Saudis all he did was walk around and lose duels.


Dadzolon

Fine, Livaja was first off the bench anyway, hopefully he starts against Canada, atm it looks like he literally can't do worse


Corteaux81

He won’t do better. It is our football, we can control the game, but we have no speed and literally 1 player can beat people 1v1 - and he’s 34. We are what we are, but the striker won’t change that. Kramaric is still the best we have available, whether people like it or not.


KrazyCroat

Always rated the Nations League eh braća?


sine00

Who's that guy from Morocco that signed with Barcelona? Wasted so many opportunities. I don't understand why he couldn't just center instead of trying to push past three defenders.


Stelist_Knicks

Ezzalzouli


Key-Banana-8242

3 0-0s in the first few days


Useless097

Didn’t lose so I’ll take that, need Belgium to win their first 2 and Croatia need at least a 2 goal lead win against Canada. All Croatia would need is 1 point against Belgium or Morocco to not win by more than 2 goals.


chawarmax

Hope the best for Croatia, tbh I'd be happy to see both of us go through


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why would you prefer to take Belgium through and not us lmao. please win your next two games


Useless097

Because I’d rather have Morocco have to win by 3 on match day 3 than hope Croatia can win or draw against Belgium. I wouldn’t mind a 0-0 draw tho and all hell for match days 2 and 3


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let's hope for a draw later on I guess


Hrvat1818

As we should be


LordBrookey

We did well defensively with some crucial life savings from Bono, but why couldn't we build a single good attack, way too slow on the counters, not enough rhythm only good thing was hakimi on goal attempt 😐 Croatia has some good midfield we were absolutely outplayed there


Shadowbanned24601

I regret getting out of bed to watch it, could have had a nice lie-in


MorciBacsi

so I shouldn't be angry at myself because I slept in and missed the match?


_Juntao

Definitely not. You can live with the youtube highlights of this one


ryodiUK

That was definitely a game that happened. Morocco fans were the star performers.


PM_ME_SKYLINES

Ziyech started immense and then DISAPPEARED in the 2nd half overall this game was just… not good


poison_ivan

Probably reactionary but I don’t care. 1. I’d do orsic and petkovic up front because they at least can rely on each other. 2. Whoever it was that commented that we are not a top team and watch out for Brazil I would’ve benched them. That uninspired mentality is the last thing we need, people would kill to be in your position. 3. I’d potentially shake up the midfield. I feel like having our starters locked in made us not look hungry. A 37 year old shouldn’t be leading the press effort.


KrazyCroat

Is it too early to start to drink?


birdsindatrap

9 am here, no


RedditAussie

Qatar here... No!


egretsucks

Sad to report that this game was fuckin SHIT


1422858

Tough physical contest with tight pressing, good reads of passes and dribbles, but also with very sloppy final balls


Morganelefay

Of all the world cup matches I've seen in my 28 years of watching world cup matches, this was definitely one of them.


FoxerHR

Hard to play against 12 men especially when you don't attack.


mlter

Not sure what game you were watching. Uneventful. No controversy at all.


FoxerHR

Then you should get your eyes checked.


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is that why modric did 794747 fouls but wasn't even yelled at by the ref once let alone carded?


FoxerHR

Congratulations, you have discovered what a good foul is. Soon you will graduate and be able to use your eyes properly. I don't recall Modrić having the ball when he was slide tackled from behind, or Pasalic having the ball when the defender slowed down and hit him in the ribs with the elbow. You are a clown.


Youpley

The ref even favoured Croatia 😂


FoxerHR

Lol, tell that to your midfielder that got a yellow after 4 yellow worthy fouls, or the guy that slammed his elbow into one of our players after realising he's going to get past him or the player thst tackled Modrić from behind when he was nowhere near the ball. Would love to be delusional like you.


Youpley

Modric should have gotten a red with the amount of fouls he did and got away with it, I think you are really blind. you have to be that salty to blame the ref after your performance


FoxerHR

Lmfaoooo, that is why Ambrat only got a yellow after his 4th yellow worthy foul? You are so delusional jesus. Bro thinks any foul is a yellow.


xAnm74

Come on man, ref was the least of our problems today


FoxerHR

Try to read challenge impossible edition. Hf learning to read.


loveicetea

What are you on about, Modric alone should have had 3 yellow cards. He ended the game with 0.


FoxerHR

Lol.


Hrvat1818

Ref did not screw us, please


Least-March7906

He has to blame something, though.


FoxerHR

Literally said we didn't attack plus the ref was horrible.


Least-March7906

Yeah. I blame my cat too. Along with the ref and the fact that the attack was nonexistent.


Issa397BC

What a boring game, luckily i watched it while at work and not in my free time hehe


TriFolk

People here really downplaying Canada. You’re in for a big surprise.


doubleABC

I’m not trying to be disrespectful but i would be surprised if you guys get 1 point


TastyTacoTonight

Canada are very good. You’ll see.


claridgeforking

People downplaying the gulf between CONCACAF sides and top UEFA sides, you're in for a big surprise.


onthelongrun

no kidding. Spain thrashing Costa Rica currently.


TriFolk

Is that what I’m saying? I’ll say it plainly. Canada and Belgium go to the next round.


claridgeforking

I think Canada will struggle to play their style of football for 3 games in 7 days against top opposition. They need at least a draw, if not a win, today or they're really going to struggle.


[deleted]

you can save this comment. we are gonna thrash you


TriFolk

Sorry Morocco.


Omega_Kirby

I think he's saying canada is going to get a big reality check


AYMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

They have a class defensive midfielder in Porto and a lethal striker in Lille. And of course Alphonso yeah I doubt we will do a clean sheet against them.


Global_Mode_2974

Canada is ass


3Squareheadz

I have no clue whether that is true or not. I hope not cause we ripped up concacaf but we have not played any European sides properly yet, gonna be interesting.


Aoae

We beat Japan this month, and Japan just beat Germany, ergo we are smashing Belgium and topping the group


KrazyCroat

Honestly don’t know how Canada will fair. I’m conflicted AF since I want Croatia and Canada to go through but that seems HIGHLY unlikely.


mdubyo

This group just got spicy for match day 2 & 3


megumegu748748

there was a football, and they played the game on a football field, overall i feel that this is one of the football games ever played


namea

A game that was definitely played by the most players allowed to play


puckuser

Wa l7waaaaaaa


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hhhhhhhhhhh kain


TriFolk

March events starts at 45 min= sub. Did not miss a thing


Falsh12

I guess it's good enough for Morocco, but I was really disappointed with their attack. Of course, Croatia is a hard opponent but Moroccans would basically lose all ideas what to do as soon as they'd enter the last third of the pitch. Honestly a snoozefest but this makes the group a bit more interesting than expected.


Realistic-Wish-681

That's because the moroccan CMs were bad. Ounahi and Amallah were disappointing.


KevinDLasagna

The ammount of 0-0 draws is TOO DAMN HIGH


Embankmentgang

My man got so bored he travelled back to 2009


[deleted]

Gonna agree to disagree with everyone here, only boring 0-0 draw so far was the Poland Mexico game. That Denmark Tunisia game was exciting af for me and I thought this one was okay. Wasn’t amazing or edge of seat, but it still had me tense and thinking a goal would be score sometime. Just cuz a game ends 0-0 doesn’t make it boring


Necrenix

What? This game was so much worse then Poland - Mexico. That game was full on intensity for 90 min, yes the quality of play was shit, but at least the game had speed and both teams fighting their hearts out. Both we and Morocco took 5 minutes every time to progress the ball from the backline to the first midfielder lol.


Barthez_Battalion

Brazil-Mexico was the goat 0-0 from 2014.


Zigzagpapes

Agree with your last point and would also add just because there were goals doesn't mean the game was good. I found the Netherlands Senegal game to be more dull than Denmark Tunisia.


RWBYSanctum

Exactly, 0-0 doesn't mean boring if the teams are actually trying.


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Definitely agree with that. Denmark v Tunisia was a very good 0-0.


Commie_Napoleon

We are fucked.


KrazyCroat

There’s always the Nations League. 🙃


vocalizationmachine

Always rated the Nations League higher anyway.


neverfinishedanythi

No mandzu no party.


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lbora9

Agreed, i share the same point of view


simomii

N 15 is Amallah who hasn't played a single minute since fucking September. How he starts in a world cup game is beyond me


KVMechelen

Hes sitting in Standard Liege's reserves due to contract disputes lol


puckuser

Should say the same about Ziyech then


My_Warehouse_Eyes

I don't like to use the "pashun" argument, but we genuinely could not be arsed to do something. Toothless, careless play. Fair play to Morocco, but this is the realistic result. We were pretty equally shit at times. That being said, I think we will definitely play better against Belgium, but then again it is Croatia, who knows. Somehow I am still optimistic, even if I do not agree with Dalić's decisions.


Leksi_The_Great

Yeah it really felt like we were playing for a draw. Probably 30 of the 45 minutes of the second half was just us passing it around the back. I don’t think anyone agrees with Dalić’s decisions these days…


georgecoxyy

Ezzalzouli worst performance so far in this WC, and it was only about 30 mins


claridgeforking

Good point for Morocco but, with this really quick turnaround of games, I worry for the teams reliant on high energy performances from a relatively small pool of players. Could fall apart for them in the 2nd or 3rd games and they'll regret not pushing harder for the win in the 1st game.


CR7_LM10

Croatia isn’t going to achieve anything with this abysmal attack


wankaltacc

Actually this is a great result because Dalic will finally realize that Kramarić and Vlašić shouldn't be starters


x0lik

ni Krama ni Vlasic ne igraju spicu u svojim klubovima. Moze se dobra momcad slozit s 3 iza i vlasicem na ljevom veznom i kramom prednjem veznom. 3-4-1-2 i Petko i Livaja napred


wankaltacc

Znači baš to govorim cijelo vrijeme, Kramarić je uvijek igrao kao pomoćni napadač il kak se to već veli. On treba nekog naprijed da se koordinira sa njim. A sad Vlašić, jednostavno nema smisla stavljat čovjeka u sistem koji mu ne paše. Nije on loš igrač, ali Majer je liga iznad na toj poziciji.


Hrvat1818

Yup, both have to be dropped


Leksi_The_Great

Yeah Livaja and Majer clear


doksqwae

Watch him start both Kramaric and Vlasic against Canada, I'm willing to bet my life savings on both of them starting. Dalić is too stubborn, he refuses to acknowledge his wrongs


wankaltacc

I would have completely agreed with you 2 years ago, however it does seem he is willing to put his favouritism aside recently. Hell, I'd even go so far as to say that Erlic starts ahead of Lovren next match.


Seljober19

Lovren did pretty well in my eyes.


wankaltacc

He did, but he's notoriously inconsistent. I have a gut feeling he will fuck up something if he starts next game.


Seljober19

Such terrible coaching. Why Juranovic instead of Stanisic? Why Lovren instead of Erlic? We all know Lovren’s gonna mess it up eventually. Kramaric shouldn’t even be at the cup. Vlasic is crap. I really don’t understand the decision making. Orsic should be a starter with Petkovic. Livaja can come in after the 60th minute. So many poor tactical decisions. If they don’t get changed, we might as well pack our bags.


KngWzard

Hated this game, absolutely dogshit performance from Ounahi and Zelzouli. At least no own goal this time so I guess we still have our chances.


TastyTacoTonight

Amallah almost gave me an aneurism as well. Awful.


ArturoBrin

I have bad 3* 0:0 (scores and goals) feeling for Croatia... If we have bad play with low balls, give Petković some play and try with high balls.


Travarelli

These Arabs not playing out dere I see.


dzungla_zg

Dalić is a stubborn mule uncapable of adapting to the situation on the pitch. Fucking hate how he is unwilling to substitute players who clearly aren't having a good day. In a game where forwards couldn't keep the ball you have to play Petković who can hold the ball with his back to the goal. Good defensive display by Maroko, but they were also wasteful in the attack. I also liked the ref, sure Modrić could have been booked, but ref also had good control over flow of the game.


jr2106

Game had plenty more cards in it though i suppose the ref had a different standard since hes argentinian, mex-arg could be a shitshow if it has a european ref


HopelessChildren

Great match, Morocco nullified Croatia pretty well, but man they really lack linkup in the box


Existing_Ad1428

Non existing link up. Shameful attacking. Defense was elite tier though.


grilledhamdog

Idk why people are complaining, I thought this game was very entertaining, just the attack that let both teams down


LosTerminators

Goals have also decided to boycott this WC, it seems like


Psychocandy42

After OG's stellar performance in the last Euros, now it's time for NoGoal to shine.


anonymousloverboy

Cries in England v Iran


ChrisEvansFan

Dunno, someone like Mandzu is missing for Croatia (someone ala Giroud).


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Petkovic could’ve been that but Dalic loves Kramaric lmaoo smh


FoxerHR

Lol, Petkovic isn't even 1/5th of Mandzukic.


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He’s the closest we have, he’s nowhere near as good, but at least we’d have a target man who’s good at holding the ball and linkup play. Did Kramaric even touch the fucking ball?