The young Croatian under-17 national team will play their second match at the European Championship against Estonia on Thursday in Tallinn at 6:00 p.m. Croatian time.
Croatia is looking for a European exhibition the first victory which paves the way for a place in the semi-finals.
We passed the match with Belgium, made an analysiswe saw what was good, what was bad and what we need to fix. We turn to the match against Estonia, which hosts the championship and as such always wants to prove itself. In the match against Spain, they were cheered on by five thousand local spectators and in that context The Estonians will certainly want to prove themselves furtherbut I think that in that game we will be dominant and a lot will depend on us. When we fix some things that were worse against Belgium, I think we would we should be the ones to rejoice. We worked on a performance that was not good at the level, in a championship like this every individual mistake is punished, and to win in every game you have to have a good performancereports Croatian Football Association menu words Marijana Budimir who watched Estonia v Spain.
Coach Budimir said that his team must open up Estonia, which will defend itself, as soon as possible.
Estonians will mostly defend themselves against usso it would be good to open them as soon as possible. Spain opened them with two goals that they received after kicks from twenty-five meters. On the other hand, we have to take into account that the game is played for ninety minutes, we have to be patient even if everything doesn’t go well from the beginning. The atmosphere after the defeat to Belgium? I will repeat what I said immediately after the game, I have nothing to complain about the boys, except for some individual mistakes. We played a good game against strong Belgium, we dominated, the only thing that was lacking was the execution. This is a good school for us that sometimes we have to play for the resultconcluded Budimir.
Nik Škafar Žužić Croatia’s hope is in the wing position, and he announced the match against the Estonians by saying that they are going for victory and that they proved against Belgium that they can play against anyone.
We’re just going for the win! We unfortunately lost against Belgium, but we showed character and quality, proved that we can play with anyone. We were better, we created chances, but we weren’t concrete. The ball simply did not want to enter the goal. We need to be better against Estonia, prepare well to win. We are aware that there are no easy opponents at Euro, we are focused exclusively on our qualities and our game. After the defeat against Belgium, we were sad, but we realized that we were good. This defeat must not disturb us now, we need to come back as well as possible and win the gamesaid Nik Škafar Žužić.
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