Hakimi is an absolute clown, imagine whining to the ref who kept you in the game the entire time. Absolute travesty of a game ruined by incompetence.
GWT: World Cup - Third Place Game - Croatia v. Morocco
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Jussi
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Everyone is well aware. Criticizing your PSG benefactors would have a real knock-on effect for you on this board, so we get it.
Yeah I remembered Germany later lol, sorry...
Also, I'm clearly biased - but someone explain to me why Morocco guys are crowding the ref? And how in the F VAR and the ref missed the penalty on Gvardiol?
Panteras
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Congratulations to both teams, as they both beat the odds to get so far.
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kovacro
Uvijek Vjerni
Bitter sweet, very happy to see us grab 3rd place but sad to know that it’s the last time we get to witness an absolute legend in Modric on the World Cup stage.
Hope he can stay on for one last EURO.
Bravo Luka, hvala na svemu.
Hope he can stay on for one last EURO.
Bravo Luka, hvala na svemu.
Drivesaitl
Finding Hyman
Croatia with the deserving victory. Gotta agree with others the Morocco constant scrumming the official grew tiring and ought to have been dealt with. Since when is that allowed.
The lack of Penalty call or VAR review when Gvardiol was hauled down with the ball right at his feet home free, complete sham. That was a penalty any day of the week. But none called. Official would not even consider going to VAR. Glad that sham didn't make a difference. FIFA saved from more embarassment.
The lack of Penalty call or VAR review when Gvardiol was hauled down with the ball right at his feet home free, complete sham. That was a penalty any day of the week. But none called. Official would not even consider going to VAR. Glad that sham didn't make a difference. FIFA saved from more embarassment.
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kovacro
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Agree, there's a reason why he's still in the HNL in his late 20s and he's not even dominating there. He is still living off a couple of decent games in Euro 2020 qualifying. And with respect to Livakovic, there needs to be a massive upgrade over him, good shot stopper but he refuses to come off his line, Perisic was yelling at him to come off today and over the span of the tournament I legit thought Lovren was going to slap him lol
Duchene2MacKinnon
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Can't reason with Hajduk fans in regards to players playing for Dinamo. I wonder what he thinks of Livaja. And to say Petković isn't dominating HNL is just hilarious beyond belief.
Mr Zappalanche
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kovacro
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Mr Zappalanche
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Not sure, but as kova says it's not been an impressive list. I personally would rate Pletikosa and Subasic higher but then again some will claim Hajduk bias (though Livakovic is better than L. Kalinic)
Pletikosa was solid up until 2014 WC where he was past it I feel. Though in general, Croatian keepers are reluctant to leave their lineHe's an elite shot stopper. Like, top-10 in the world.
He's dreadful at reading the game and coming out at incoming forwards. He's bad at coming out for crosses and he's really not good with the ball at his feet.
There's a reason he plays at Dinamo at 27, and it's not because clubs in Europe don't wanna buy Croatians cause they hate us.
? Because he saved a few pens? What?
His peak, nor his career, nor his career trajectory don't go anywhere near Subasic. And not better than Ladic at this point either.
I love Livi. He's a very good, thought flawed GK. But the Morocco goal today was an example of how bad he is at reading the game when he has to come of his line.
But saying he's "by far the best GK Croatia ever had", next to a living breathing, silver medal WC, UEC semi-final, Ligue 1 Monaco side winning Subasic.... Now that's silly.
Mr Zappalanche
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Not because he saved some penalties but because he constalty showed elite goaltending. Your argument about Livakovic can be said about Subasic. He had a good tournament in 2018 but Livakovic now have even better showing. And being a goalkeep in Dinamo is nothing to scuff about. Dinamo is a factory of elite talent and they really had some european success.
And Ladic really? We all love this guy because of the achivements in 1998 and he had really crucial saves when needed but he really wasnt a good goalie at all.
Livi really isn't all that, I'm not sure why you think he is. He's good, very good maybe - but nowhere near what Subasic was.
Again, there's a reason he's at Dinamo at 27, and the only reason he's even playing is because Grbic lost his starting spot at Lille shortly after the Russia game.
Yeah, fair enough, he's had a number of good/great saves, but he's also had some blunders - not all of which resulted in goals, mind you.
kovacro
Uvijek Vjerni
I’ve always had a soft spot for Ladic because of 98’ and he played fairly well that tournament but he certainly had some calamitous moments during that France 98’ qualifying cycle. Remember this classic..
gary69
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If you count Croatians who played for Yugoslavia, how about Vladimir Beara?
Maybe Pletikosa, although I didn't watch his matches in the Russian league. But he had some decent tournaments too.
cgf
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Pletikosa was a very solid goalkeeper in his day. Somewhere around Hradecky-level.
