On Thursday at 16:15, the Croatian under-17 football team will play its second match at the World Cup, the opponent in the second round of Group C will be peers from the United Arab Emirates.
Each national team won a point in their first performance at the championship hosted by Qatar.
Croatia drew without goals against of Senegalwhile they are UAE played 1:1 against Costa Rica. On the eve of the match, the coach of Croatia U-17 Marijan Budimir he referred to the preparations and expectations.
We had a regeneration training, and then we will have the last tactical training where we will play out the tactical ideas that we intend to carry out against the Emirates and practically determine the composition, Budimir said. The coach pointed out that all rivals are at the World Cup very high quality and that there are no easy games.
UAE as a team is good. We can see for ourselves that there are no weak teams at the World Championship according to the results, except for a few exotic islands. All other results are there somewhere. The Emirates are well organized, fanatically combative, have a good transition, an extremely physically dominant attacker and are good at stopping. We have to work on those things and take that into account, added Budimir, who believes that he will Croatia to take the initiative and control the game.
I think we will be the ones to dominate the game and we have to find a way to get into that final third and score bettersaid Budimir, and before the match, the national team player is also positive Raul Kumar.
I think we will go in full of energy and enthusiasm and we will be chasing three points. This is expected from us because we have the quality to win not only them, but other national teams as well. We have to be real like we were against Senegal, take our chances and I don’t think there will be any problemsKumar said.
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