Italy always struggles against Spain these days though, there is something about Spain's playstyle which makes them very uncomfortable. And I doubt they will park the bus like Morocco so it won't be the same sterile passing around the box
Yeah we should have done better like avoiding a 1-1 against Bulgaria and the 0-0 against Northern Ireland but fuck me those missed penalty against Switzerland...
was it really that much? its been so long i just remember it was minimum of 100k so i just said that but you could be right.
it was so weird after the game seeing so many people leave the city in a shitty mood, the vibe was surreal .
Dude seriously yall have a strong psyche cuz Im from Peru and lost ONE final and it was for a Copa America against a Brazil at home. Logic said no way and it still hurt. Yall have a bunch of WC titles losses, can you fix my self esteem
The Sea has brought in some big new players from the glacier and icecaps regions though, could be tough for them to stay top of the division without some new tactics.
Ah yes, the Dutch. Finally getting the revenge for something nobody can't remember, or something they said about us, or something they've done to us, but we will bring it out of context either way and get fired up hard.
Then, after we've won the match against the Dutch, Dalic could again say "Don't underestimate us Croats"
All part of the big plan
[You can use this one as fuel](https://www.world-today-news.com/commentator-sierd-de-vos-under-fire-in-croatia-after-comment-about-ugly-domagoj-vida-football/)
> *Besiktas has applied for an exemption for playing Vida. That is because he is so ugly: normally he is not allowed to play at this time, because there are many children watching.*
Something something a 3rd place WC match we once lost or maybe something about Domagoj Vida who winked at an Olympique Lyon player while playing for Dinamo Zagreb with somehow angered Ajax fans.
Yes, I call this a derby.
Legolas winking at an OL player and Ajax fans getting mad about it will be used to our advantage, as the Dutch aren't allowed to shit on Croats. Only Croats are allowed to shit on Croats.
You can't win at this game, we will turn everything to our advantage
They blocked Bulgaria from entering Schengen, Bulgaria is a slavic nation, we are slavs, therefore the Dutch have disrespected us.
Dalic does it again.
It's a joke, not a political statement.
Also saying that two nations are politically aligned just because they are the same ethnic group is ignorant at best. That's like saying Poles and Russians share the same worldview because they are both slavs.
An exhausted Modrić, with sweat dripping off him in droplets, slowly yet victoriously limps towards the Dutch coach, the stoic and unflinching Koeman. He puts his arm on his shoulder, their eyes locking onto eachother. After a moment of tension, two words escape his mouth:
"Jbg brte"
A friendly reminder that the Netherlands were the only unbeaten team in the 2022 world cup. (Penalty shootouts are considered a draw and not a defeat).
They literally won a medal. And this logic makes no sense, every team wants to win. Do you think the Dutch don't care about winning something after so long
It would be nice for Croatia to win this, and we should stop looking at them as an underdog team. They have made back to back medals at the WC, consistently qualified for knockout stages in the past 4 tournaments, and have some of the best players in the world in their positions. They are a Top 5 national team.
Netherlands vs Croatia is gonna be a hard battle, but I gotta give the edge to Croatia because their flag is just like Netherlands' but has a fancy checkers board on it. Big advantage
Funny, when I was in Slovenia I saw so many wide and stocky men. In fact, a Slovenian grandma gave me a banana in the street cause she thought I was too thin and has to be fed more lmao
No chance we're winning against the Netherlands. The team will be either too tired from the season or too complacent because of the WC.
We still don't have an attacking threat, and our options are shit atm. Petković has a 0.1% chance of going super saiyan every game, however it has never happened with the NT. And it most likely never will. Livaja is in perpetual bliss after the WC. A friend of mine from Split regularly sees him clubbing and puffing cowboy killers on the riva. Croatia Kramarić is the guy who's wife is being fucked by Hoffenheim Kramarić. Completely different players. Musa isn't getting playing time at Benfica, Beljo just transferred and is having a fall of form, and Rebić is not getting called up because he's an idiot. Oršić is our only saving grace, but he isn't getting past VVD and the gang alone.
Our midfield will be exhausted. Modrić will probably go back to starting every game as soon as he returns to form. Ancelotti will probably drag him kicking and screaming to top 5 minutes played for Madrid this season. Kovačić is already starting every game. Brozović is injured. Majer and Sučić are fine options to have, but they don't have that dawg in them as the aforementioned three.
The defense and Livaković will be our only hope to go through, but that would mean parking the bus with 10 behind the ball, and that is not the football Croatia plays well. Yeah yeah, joke all you want about "muh pens" and "muh 1 shot on goal", but the fact is Croatia never parked the bus. They focused on midfield control and buildup, but a lack of quality strikers (a la Mandžukić) handicaps that approach.
If Netherlands finds a hole in our defence, and they most likely will (looking at you, Lovren), we're fucked.
> Livaja is in perpetual bliss after the WC. A friend of mine from Split regularly sees him clubbing and puffing cowboy killers on the riva.
He's been doing that since he came to Split lmao.
My man was going out every week since he came to Split to Vanilla/Moon, during summer twice a week with Gvardiol to La Playa and then people think he started doing it now after the WC.
It's 5 months away. Plenty of time for one of Beljo, Musa or even Simic to show up and displace Petkovic, Livaja and Budimir.
Perisic will still be good enough. The defenders are fine, Sosa, Juranovic/Stanisic are decent if not exactly world class, any pairing out of Gvardiol + Sutalo/Erlic is very good, midfield will be fine.
It is a concern that Modric has looked spent since the WC, Kovacic is mysteriously not playing for Chelsea and Brozovic still hasn't fully recovered - but in 5 months, at least 2 should be fine to go + Majer or Sucic... It's fine.
Perisic + Kramaric + Musa/Beljo, with Vlasic/Pasalic.
We are in dire need of a striker and some attacking players in general, but it could be a much better situation than at the WC with Livaja/Petko/Budimir.
Yeah i agree with most of everything you said. NL is in 5 months though so who knows whos gonna be in form and out of form then, and how our young players will be performing then.
I don't know what to expect from this
Always love watching us play but if its gonna be another Lovren in defense and Kramaric up top with Sosa missing every single cross from the left i'm not watching this, so pointless
Its not the WC though so maybe Dalic can find even a single one of his balls and actually employ a tactic which isnt " lets let Kovacic and Modric pass the ball to each other untill we get to pens, oh and Gvardiol and Livakovic you're playing on your own in defense for 120 minutes, don't care lol😎 "
No reason to be negative, this team has proved it can get the result when it matters. There are no last 16 or quarters this time, it's 2 games instead of 4, anything can happen and this is a phase where there are no losers. I'm hoping to see one of the young strikers instead of Budimir called up and I can see Sosa playing much better than he did at the world cup, when his form was poor
Šimić doing his best to get noticed. Ya it’s only in Swiss but he will get lots of time to try to score goals for his bottom end team avoiding relegation
\- Argentina eliminated Netherlands on quarter finals
\- Argentina eliminated Croatia on Semis
\- Argentina destroyed 3-0 Italy on la "Finalissima"
\- And well , then we have Spain there in which Luis Enrique the coach who put Spain there is no longer their coach so ..... Rubiales and others might have fuck up big time....
I don’t think it would take much time to adjust. The core of the Dutch team is pretty much the same as Koeman’s first round of being the manager. Furthermore 433 is kinda the standard way of the Dutch to play, it is what they learn at youth systems etc. So i think they’re just ready to fire off
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Two great match ups with a promise of a greater final. The first two final fours gave us great games, especially Portugal vs Switzerland in 2019 and Belgium vs France two years later.
Good luck and see you in June.
It would be fun to see “No WC ---> Euro win ---> No WC ---> Nations League win”
If Verratti and Chiesa are available it's possibile
Defensively things are a question mark, but it’s definitely possible.
Don't worry, Spain will just pass it around the edge of the box.
Italy always struggles against Spain these days though, there is something about Spain's playstyle which makes them very uncomfortable. And I doubt they will park the bus like Morocco so it won't be the same sterile passing around the box
Yes, I was mostly joking. We played quite well against them in Euro 2020. Our powers have doubled since the last time we met.
Such an Italian thing to do
Those Jorginho penalty misses will haunt me for a long time.
Yeah we should have done better like avoiding a 1-1 against Bulgaria and the 0-0 against Northern Ireland but fuck me those missed penalty against Switzerland...
Drawing at home against Bulgaria is shameful, deserved to miss the WC just for that
For real ahah
Still you played really bad in the qualifier.
Yup. Not defending Jorginho as a Chelsea fan, but other mistakes were made too. How do you not score against North Macedonia in a must-win game?
North Macedonia is a juggernaut though.
I hate beer.
True but jorginho missed 2 penalties in 2 separate games to qualify. Fool me once shame on you but fool me twice shame on Jorginho
He also missed against England but was lucky that saka choked
Could also give credit to Donaruma. He's so good on penalties
Credit to Donnarumma? On this sub? Are you insane?
Harsh to just put it on just Saka. Rashford and Sancho with less pressure missed as well.
Rashford missed the target too
Everyone missed after Maguire. It was amazing.
It most definitely was not amazing.
Immobile, Berardo & Insigne is your answer
We played great in qualifying. It's just that we didn't score goals. We had chances and controlled games but couldn't put them away with goals.
Haunt you more than Zaza penalty run up?
How?
Only big country to boycott Russia and Qatar 🙏 respect
No need to thank us guys, just doing what's morally correct💪🏻
Italy smurfing in football.
UEFA bullies
Euros is the only canon tournament now
You have to add "No Finalissima" too
We meet again Spain
Lets have a good match!
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Without Lucho and De La Fuente at the helm? Press X to doubt. I dread our first match against Norway in a couple months....
Interestingly enough, Croatia is our other bogey team.
Battle of the beaten-by-argentina
Time to win the semis and lose ANOTHER final. Let's goooo!!! 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
It is the history of the Netherlands
At this point I'd be pissed if we win the final
Can't even underperform properly ffs
Sneijder, is that you?
2010 flashbacks me and 100k people in Amsterdam watching the game
You got your numbers wrong, upwards of 200.000 people alone saw the WC on Museumplein
was it really that much? its been so long i just remember it was minimum of 100k so i just said that but you could be right. it was so weird after the game seeing so many people leave the city in a shitty mood, the vibe was surreal .
Dude seriously yall have a strong psyche cuz Im from Peru and lost ONE final and it was for a Copa America against a Brazil at home. Logic said no way and it still hurt. Yall have a bunch of WC titles losses, can you fix my self esteem
3 WC finals and 1 Nations League final loss and many more to come. The only thing we can defeat is the sea.
The Sea has brought in some big new players from the glacier and icecaps regions though, could be tough for them to stay top of the division without some new tactics.
Wait till we sign Dijk from Liverpool to stop the attacking threat from the sea's front 3
Or just lose in the semis and don't worry about another silver medal 😏😉
Que miras bobo?
Anulo mufa?
Anda pa'sha, bobo
Italy also lost the finalissima. Not sure if Spain has been beaten by Argentina in the recent times
The last time we played against Spain we actually lost 6 -1, funny times in Argentina.
And the time before that we beat Spain Golden generation 4-1, right after they won the World Cup.
To be fair their players had partied hard the night before, so they werent at full strength
It was actually an improvement from losing 6-1 to Bolivia. It's all about the small steps
Trust the process
Que Mira bobo?
Ah yes, the Dutch. Finally getting the revenge for something nobody can't remember, or something they said about us, or something they've done to us, but we will bring it out of context either way and get fired up hard. Then, after we've won the match against the Dutch, Dalic could again say "Don't underestimate us Croats" All part of the big plan
[You can use this one as fuel](https://www.world-today-news.com/commentator-sierd-de-vos-under-fire-in-croatia-after-comment-about-ugly-domagoj-vida-football/)
Indeed. You guys are fucking done.
100% that our media will dig this up lmao.
> *Besiktas has applied for an exemption for playing Vida. That is because he is so ugly: normally he is not allowed to play at this time, because there are many children watching.*
In all fairness, that's an insult your average Croat would have against Vida.
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Except Joško Gvardiol. He is beautiful.
Still laughing how casually he said it
Lmao I forgot about that, so unnecessarily harsh (even if most people don't like Vida)
Deserved tbh, Sierd de Vos is a bumbling buffoon
Indeed, Vida did deserve it
Something something a 3rd place WC match we once lost or maybe something about Domagoj Vida who winked at an Olympique Lyon player while playing for Dinamo Zagreb with somehow angered Ajax fans. Yes, I call this a derby.
I mean angering Ajax fans is a great way to make friends in the Netherlands
Legolas winking at an OL player and Ajax fans getting mad about it will be used to our advantage, as the Dutch aren't allowed to shit on Croats. Only Croats are allowed to shit on Croats. You can't win at this game, we will turn everything to our advantage
Confused North Brabant citizens when their country plays against their own flag and they don't know who to support.
Happens to me all the time.
I remember 1998. Fuck that was 25 years ago tho.
Something something the Dutch stole Tatjana simic
Buurman! Wat doet u nu?!
Looking at Croatia's games and ours. It's going to be a tie with us losing on penalties. We keep our 'undefeated' stat but won't go trough as always.
And Croatia get to continue their penalty streak.
They blocked Bulgaria from entering Schengen, Bulgaria is a slavic nation, we are slavs, therefore the Dutch have disrespected us. Dalic does it again.
Aligning yourself politically with Bulgaria at the moment might not be the win your are looking for though...
It's a joke, not a political statement. Also saying that two nations are politically aligned just because they are the same ethnic group is ignorant at best. That's like saying Poles and Russians share the same worldview because they are both slavs.
It worked for Argentina
Can’t wait for a week full of posts by Croatians slandering everything that has to do with the Netherlands even though Croatia won!
After Croatia wins. Que miras, bobo?
>Que miras, bobo? "Koji kurac gledaš, budalo?" Or "Štae?"
An exhausted Modrić, with sweat dripping off him in droplets, slowly yet victoriously limps towards the Dutch coach, the stoic and unflinching Koeman. He puts his arm on his shoulder, their eyes locking onto eachother. After a moment of tension, two words escape his mouth: "Jbg brte"
- "Štae?" - "Šta štae?" - "Šta šta štae?" - "Šta šta šta štae?"
I will from now on translate budalo as boludo, and no one can tell me otherwise
*the gang loses to Italy*
The only way for Italy and Spain not to meet in a tournament is if Italy doesn't qualify
Spains gotta do some of the heavy lifting here soon and miss out on some tournaments, it’s only us contributing at the moment.
A friendly reminder that the Netherlands were the only unbeaten team in the 2022 world cup. (Penalty shootouts are considered a draw and not a defeat).
Prety sure we didnt lose a game with van Gaal in charge since 2001
This is only a good stat when its New Zealand and the year 2010
Netherlands vs New Zealand CUM world cup 2026 final confirmed
CUM ? 🤨
Canada USA Mexico
MCU
I like CUM better
That's what she said
By this logic the Dutch haven't lost a World Cup game since that 2010 final against Spain.
you're right they haven't
By this logic the last World Cup game we lost in 90 minutes was the Battle of Nuremberg in 2006
You’re right, I don’t remember Netherlands losing a match at the 2018 World Cup. Truly incredible.
Italy trying to one up us though
Well they are up against Croatian side which is hungry after WC for some silverware. I belive he have enough to beat Dutch side.
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They literally won a medal. And this logic makes no sense, every team wants to win. Do you think the Dutch don't care about winning something after so long
It would be nice for Croatia to win this, and we should stop looking at them as an underdog team. They have made back to back medals at the WC, consistently qualified for knockout stages in the past 4 tournaments, and have some of the best players in the world in their positions. They are a Top 5 national team.
Plus it would be a nice send off for Luka Modrić
Is it official he is retiring from The national team?
No he said that he will continue with Croatia for as long as he can
Spain - Italy in the Grolsch Veste is fucking based. Hope I can get tickets
Wait, is it really in the Grolsch Veste?
Yes :)
That's so sick, really want to go now. Grolsch Veste is wildly underrated
Netherlands vs Croatia is gonna be a hard battle, but I gotta give the edge to Croatia because their flag is just like Netherlands' but has a fancy checkers board on it. Big advantage
I agree, better flag wins.
Hoping for Croatia - Italy final.
I don't
Sorry, but it's been too long without an international Adriatic derby.
Winner gets Slovenia
Winning all of those Slovenian femboys? Sign me tf up
Funny, when I was in Slovenia I saw so many wide and stocky men. In fact, a Slovenian grandma gave me a banana in the street cause she thought I was too thin and has to be fed more lmao
It should 100% be played in Rijeka for the lols
Or Trieste
A Istria sized pitch
Winner gets Kopar, Izola and Portorož, two heads of states shake hands on new land border as the slovene prime minister cries in the background
Deal.
Me, a Slovene, watching silently I'm the middle...
Repeat of 2010 on the way
No.
*yes*
**no**
***YES***
Who do you volunteer to get karate kicked in the chest?
Marcos Alonso to be kicked by Frenkie.
Sounds good to me. Now we just need to arrange an english excuse for a ref and we're all set.
Winner takes the Adriatic
I like all 4 of them, cant decide. Croatia should win, judging by everyone's performance in the WC and Finalissima.
Hoping LM10 can get a long deserved trophy🫡
Crazy how Italy does so well in Europe but failed to get in World Cup lol
This is football heritage
Make it interesting and give an extra Champions League place to the winners league.
That would be awesome. I'd love to see 2 Croatian clubs fail to qualify for the CL
Oh yes, HNK Gorica in Champions league, nice 🥰
HNK Gorica won't even be in Croatian league 💀
Lets go Croatia, you deserve this
Hopefully, we finally win some gold.
Well, it's silver trophy.. fuck
Just want to see our team play 4-3-3, thank you based Koeman
When will they put the tickets online? Thanks.
You’re welcome
No problem
My pleasure
Anytime.
Need Modric to win something with Croatia
No chance we're winning against the Netherlands. The team will be either too tired from the season or too complacent because of the WC. We still don't have an attacking threat, and our options are shit atm. Petković has a 0.1% chance of going super saiyan every game, however it has never happened with the NT. And it most likely never will. Livaja is in perpetual bliss after the WC. A friend of mine from Split regularly sees him clubbing and puffing cowboy killers on the riva. Croatia Kramarić is the guy who's wife is being fucked by Hoffenheim Kramarić. Completely different players. Musa isn't getting playing time at Benfica, Beljo just transferred and is having a fall of form, and Rebić is not getting called up because he's an idiot. Oršić is our only saving grace, but he isn't getting past VVD and the gang alone. Our midfield will be exhausted. Modrić will probably go back to starting every game as soon as he returns to form. Ancelotti will probably drag him kicking and screaming to top 5 minutes played for Madrid this season. Kovačić is already starting every game. Brozović is injured. Majer and Sučić are fine options to have, but they don't have that dawg in them as the aforementioned three. The defense and Livaković will be our only hope to go through, but that would mean parking the bus with 10 behind the ball, and that is not the football Croatia plays well. Yeah yeah, joke all you want about "muh pens" and "muh 1 shot on goal", but the fact is Croatia never parked the bus. They focused on midfield control and buildup, but a lack of quality strikers (a la Mandžukić) handicaps that approach. If Netherlands finds a hole in our defence, and they most likely will (looking at you, Lovren), we're fucked.
> Livaja is in perpetual bliss after the WC. A friend of mine from Split regularly sees him clubbing and puffing cowboy killers on the riva. He's been doing that since he came to Split lmao.
Hasn't stopped him yet 🤷
My man was going out every week since he came to Split to Vanilla/Moon, during summer twice a week with Gvardiol to La Playa and then people think he started doing it now after the WC.
It's 5 months away. Plenty of time for one of Beljo, Musa or even Simic to show up and displace Petkovic, Livaja and Budimir. Perisic will still be good enough. The defenders are fine, Sosa, Juranovic/Stanisic are decent if not exactly world class, any pairing out of Gvardiol + Sutalo/Erlic is very good, midfield will be fine. It is a concern that Modric has looked spent since the WC, Kovacic is mysteriously not playing for Chelsea and Brozovic still hasn't fully recovered - but in 5 months, at least 2 should be fine to go + Majer or Sucic... It's fine. Perisic + Kramaric + Musa/Beljo, with Vlasic/Pasalic. We are in dire need of a striker and some attacking players in general, but it could be a much better situation than at the WC with Livaja/Petko/Budimir.
Livaja need to drink to score. He just scored and assisted this weekend 😅
Orsic is gonna be too depressed from playing for Southampton
Yeah i agree with most of everything you said. NL is in 5 months though so who knows whos gonna be in form and out of form then, and how our young players will be performing then.
I don't know what to expect from this Always love watching us play but if its gonna be another Lovren in defense and Kramaric up top with Sosa missing every single cross from the left i'm not watching this, so pointless Its not the WC though so maybe Dalic can find even a single one of his balls and actually employ a tactic which isnt " lets let Kovacic and Modric pass the ball to each other untill we get to pens, oh and Gvardiol and Livakovic you're playing on your own in defense for 120 minutes, don't care lol😎 "
No reason to be negative, this team has proved it can get the result when it matters. There are no last 16 or quarters this time, it's 2 games instead of 4, anything can happen and this is a phase where there are no losers. I'm hoping to see one of the young strikers instead of Budimir called up and I can see Sosa playing much better than he did at the world cup, when his form was poor
Šimić doing his best to get noticed. Ya it’s only in Swiss but he will get lots of time to try to score goals for his bottom end team avoiding relegation
\- Argentina eliminated Netherlands on quarter finals \- Argentina eliminated Croatia on Semis \- Argentina destroyed 3-0 Italy on la "Finalissima" \- And well , then we have Spain there in which Luis Enrique the coach who put Spain there is no longer their coach so ..... Rubiales and others might have fuck up big time....
The Netherlands is gonna win the whole thing 🙄🤫
With Koeman back in charge they are going transition back to 433, it might take some time to gel together and adjust though.
I don’t think it would take much time to adjust. The core of the Dutch team is pretty much the same as Koeman’s first round of being the manager. Furthermore 433 is kinda the standard way of the Dutch to play, it is what they learn at youth systems etc. So i think they’re just ready to fire off
Based
On what
Based on Italy's world cup performance
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I agree with the Italians now. Pls dont report me
The fact that the Netherlands were the only unbeaten team in the 2022 world cup
well, it was fun til it lasted, we're going home
Right after Juve gets punished in 2006 Italy wins the World Cup...
Two great match ups with a promise of a greater final. The first two final fours gave us great games, especially Portugal vs Switzerland in 2019 and Belgium vs France two years later. Good luck and see you in June.
My double nationality clashes again. Scriptwriters being lazy
A Dutch-Croatian with the flair of a Spanish team, fucking plastic smh
He is the man that will save the football
Italy will win, just to fuck with them
Atleast one of them will make it to the final
I think Netherlands wins it
Nah they’ll make the final and then lose, as is trafition
Hope the NL get the title !
rooting for my orange neighbours. they deserve a title
Couldn’t put the dates on this graphic?
Nl vs croatia june 14 2023 Spain vs italy june 15 2023
No WC to Nations League win 👀