If you would have said Rijeka were two games away from playing in the Champions League group stage a year ago, you’d get thrown in the looney bin. But that’s exactly where the Croatian champions are sitting right now. Rijeka took care of business against Red Bull Salzburg and then were handed a difficult draw with Greek champs Olympiakos. […]

    For Croatian fringe players Dejan Lovren and Andrej Kramarić; Tuesday night did not fare well for either of them. Lovren got the start for Liverpool and Kramarić got the nod for Hoffenheim in their Champions League playoff round 1st leg. The winner of the tie would progress to the group stage.     Lovren was shaky in the […]

    After a disappointing loss to Iceland in June, Croatia will continue their World Cup 2018 qualifying campaign in September against Kosovo in Zagreb on the 2nd and in Eskisehir versus Turkey on the 5th. The usual suspects will make up the starting XI with no real omissions. Hajduk’s Zoran Nižić and Osijek’s Borna Barišić have been called up to back […]

        Is it too early to congratulate Dinamo Zagreb on regaining the Croatian Crown?     Five weeks into the 2017/18 season and Dinamo already hols a three-point cushion on the second-place team, Hajduk. Dinamo has already faced Croatia’s toughest challengers and have emerged nearly unscathed.     In a three-week span, Dinamo drew Osijek and defeated […]