The Croatian national football team won against Slovenia in the last preparatory match before going to the World Cup with a score of 2:1. The winning goal in stoppage time was scored by Mario Pašalić and thus enabled the Flames to travel to the WC in a celebratory atmosphere.
There were a lot of good things in these two friendlies, but there were also bad thingscommented Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić after the victory in Varaždin.
The Croatian strategist believes that she was heavy, lively and aggressive match.
We had transition problems towards the back where the Slovenians threatened us dangerously. We are worried about the opponent’s chances, as well as the goal that happened after our mistake. We have more ten days of work and we have to fix that. After all, the important thing is to winsaid Dalić and turned to what he saw after the matches against Belgium and Slovenia.
We wanted to get back in shape through the games Modric, Kovacic and Guardiola. That was the most important thing for us, and it’s not easy because, for example, Kovačić is outside of real football almost a year. In total, there were good and bad things in these two duels. We made a lot of technical mistakes, which is not typical of us. We need liveliness and energy, but we have solutions and know what to do. We are impatiently waiting for the start of the WC where the goal is to pass the group, and after that we will go step by stepDalic said.
He specifically referred to Luka Modrić who scored the first goal last night.
We are talking about the best Croatian player in history, about a man who did so much good for Croatian football and who is known as the number one player in Croatia for all time, and I don’t think anyone will ever pass it or reach it. His quality, his humanity, his seriousness, his work, his trophies, it will be hard for anyone to achieve thatsaid Dalić.
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