#FT: Croatia 0-1 Turkey

Venue: Opus Arena

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Croatia

Dominik Livakovic, Josko Gvardiol, Josip Sutalo, Borna Barisic (Borna Sosa), Josip Stanisic, Marcelo Brozovic, Mateo Kovacic (Dion Drena Beljo), Luka Modric, Petar Musa (Bruno Petkovic), Josip Brekalo (Nikola Vlasic), Mario Pasalic (Lovro Majer).

Subs: Domagoj Vida, Nediljko Labrovic, Martin Erlic, Ivica Ivusic, Nikola Moro, Josip Juranovic.

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Turkey

Ugurcan Cakir, Abdulkerim Bardakci, Samet Akaydin, Cenk Özkacar, Ferdi Kadioglu, Hakan Calhanoglu, Salih Ozcan, Ismail Yüksek (Kaan Ayhan), Baris Alper Yilmaz (Bertug Ozgur Yildirim), Kerem Aktürkoglu (Kenan Yildiz), Irfan Can Kahveci (Yunus Akgün).

Subs: Orkun Kökcü, Cenk Tosun, Evren Eren Elmaci, Ertac Ozbir, Emre Akbaba, Berkan Kutlu, Altay Bayindir, Zeki Celik.

MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN

12’ Marcelo Brozovic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

16’ Baris Yilmaz (Türkiye) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

30’ Goal! Croatia 0, Türkiye 1. Baris Yilmaz (Türkiye) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Salih Özcan with a through ball.

34’ Borna Barisic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

63’ Substitution, Croatia. Lovro Majer replaces Mario Pasalic.

63’ Substitution, Croatia. Bruno Petkovic replaces Petar Musa.

63’ Substitution, Croatia. Nikola Vlasic replaces Josip Brekalo.

65’ Substitution, Türkiye. Yunus Akgün replaces Irfan Kahveci.

68’ Ugurcan Çakir (Türkiye) is shown the yellow card.

75’ Substitution, Türkiye. Bertug Yildirim replaces Baris Yilmaz.

80’ Substitution, Croatia. Borna Sosa replaces Borna Barisic.

80’ Substitution, Croatia. Dion Beljo replaces Mateo Kovacic.

86’ Substitution, Türkiye. Kenan Yildiz replaces Kerem Aktürkoglu.

86’ Substitution, Türkiye. Kaan Ayhan replaces Ismail Yüksek.

88’ Luka Modric (Croatia) is shown the yellow card.

89’ Bertug Yildirim (Türkiye) is shown the yellow card.

89’ Bruno Petkovic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card.

  • spritskoekenBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Demiral used to be a beast. Now he’s just a passion merchant. Glad Montella picks the players based on their form and training performance.

  • spritskoekenBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    When was the last time Croatia lost at home? Surely that must be something rare and exotic.

  • laki1986BEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    This loss is completely on Daliban and his fucking tactical inabilities. Once Modrić retires, he should go with him.

  • spritskoekenBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Roughly two weeks after the devastating Latvia draw at home, Lazio deliberately conceded a last-minute goal to Sparta Prague so that Beşiktaş wouldn’t advance to the UCL RO16. That was even much more traumatising to me. Those soul-crushing moments have been preserved by Siyah Beyaz Arşiv in this link.

  • RigelmeisterBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Thank you Montella, you are my best friend

    You are the clean sheet keeper, you are the legend

  • sherlockbutholmesBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    and this team stil doesnt have a real striker and arda güler.

    its time for dark horses to rise again (im ready to go mentally ill)

  • Bolte_RackuBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Dalić is really going to play the same tactic with any team against any opponent huh.

    Gvardiol was epic and also Modrić has all my respects. He realised even in the first half that when our fullbacks overlap with the wingers the wing loses on potency and he adjusted by overlapping the full backs. He just sees everything

    • RigelmeisterBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Not-so-fun-fact: motherfuckers beat us in playoffs to qualify for EURO 2004 actually. We can’t even have PTSD because there is no “post” for this stress, they keep traumatising us.

  • bishey3BEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Great job from us. Very strong first half. Then we lost the possession in the second half completely but we stood firm. Even got the chances to score the 2nd. Deserved victory!

  • chessshenBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    wow I didn’t expect this result and it means so much to us tbh after 2008 they beat us every single game until this groups two wins in a row against very solid Croatia.

    This win is really so special

  • laki1986BEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I can’t deny that he is the best coach in our history. However, his tactical abilities are just wack and that can’t be denied. Furthermore, we can’t say that a 352 never works as we have never really tried it with this set of players.