Mateo Kovačić was sent off in the FA Cup Final Saturday after an extremely soft second yellow card booking in the 73rd minute. Already being booked in the first half, Kovačić made contact with Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka and was wrongfully booked. You can clearly see that Kovačić plants his right foot first and Xhaka actually steps on him. Arsenal was up 2-1 at that time and held on for the FA Cup trophy over their London rivals. LINK TO FOUL
It’s confusing to me how in a world of VAR, yellow cards can’t be reviewed. It took all the wind out of Chelsea’s sails and handed Arsenal the game and FA Cup. It will be a disappointing day for Kovačić who has been a fan favorite at Chelsea in 2020. He will get a chance at redemption August 8th when Chelsea face Bayern Munich in the Champions League Round of 16, already down 3-0 from the first leg.
Marcelo Brozović played the full 90 minutes in Inter Milan’s 2-0 win over Atalanta in Italy’s last game of the season. The win means Inter Milan finish second in Serie A and will be placed in the Champions League Pot 3 or 4 for group play; unless they win Europa League. Mario Pašalić played 61 minutes for Atalanta in the loss. Nikola Kalinić scored a goal for Roma in their finale 3-1 win over Juventus.
Bog i Hrvati
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That’s the wise choice.
@elviss
Look I get it you blame minorities for you being a fucking retard its cool. You have an inferiority complex. Feel free to name call me all you want but it doesnt negate the fact that the SS got their asses fucking pummeled. With that being said even if I was pro yugo, which im not, Id rather be pro yugo than back the fucking nazis and the loser SS.
In fact im a proud croatian catholic, born and raised actually, I doubt you can say the same, in fact im gonna guess your history, correct me if Im wrong, your family was on the losing side of WW2 and they had to flee out of Croatia, so you were born in either the US, canada, or australia so in order for you to feel more croatian you try to cling to this bullshit ideology. But you do what you have to do because in the end the only time you ever spend in croatia is vacationing.
@ElviSS
Would Drazen Petrovic, Danijel Subasic and Luka Modric be considered “untermensch” because they’re half Serb, or would they be acceptable to you?
@ElviSS
“Although usually incorrectly considered to have been coined by the Nazis, the term “under man” was first used by American author and Ku Klux Klan member Lothrop Stoddard in the title of his 1922 book The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-man.”
@Pro white guy loves the nationalist cetniks and their celebrating the killing of white Croats in Srb annually, a celebration allowed by Croatia’s government. Could what happens in Srb be considered as a celebration of white genocide? I ask you because you’re the race expert.
The SS were a force of good you Serbo Undermensch.
@Anon
Fuck you and fuck the Lakers.
Degenerate city and legends like Kobe the rapist.
We aren’t Undermensh remember, we were made Goths
You Yugo cunt. SS had more honor than scum
Like you.
Bilic trying to bring in orsic. Good move?
@ elvis
Dont talk about Laker royalty like that you piece of shit. By the way its really pathetic how you put SS in your name, I can only imagine what kind of ubermensch you are. Fucking fascist piece of shit.
My buddy met magic in Atlanta …coming out of a limo at a PF Chang’s…he went up to him and just said hello and mentioned how he knew a teammate of his at Michigan state.
Magic and him talked for 20 minutes as his entourage was getting annoyed..sounds like a decent guy to me.
I see that AIDS bag Magic Johnson
is on vacation in Croatia. Him and Kobe
The rapist such class
I think Mateo will do well next season. Chelsea are looking to spend some money to bring in talent. They are rebuilding, and it seems that Kovacic has the confidence of Lampard, and is a key part of the future for this club.
that was some bullshit
Chelsea is a shit club
Kova is wasting his talents there
Find a better club brate or Chelsea finds a better coach or better players
Kovačić gets fouled and stepped on.
Then he gets a SECOND yellow and is sent off?
And the narrative is Kovačić is not good enough.
Kovačić was his average on Saturday.
And there were 3-4 players directly around him who were trash that day.
Jorginho
Alonzo
Rudiger
Azpilacueta
Absolutely BS performances by the above players that directly make the game even more challenging to create for Kovačić.
Pašalić should not be mentioned in the same breath as Kovačić.
Also two Chelsea players tear hamstrings ?
Arsenal players running around no problem?
Were Chelsea over trained this past week?
Kante has hamstring issues for months?
Tapering makes a difference at the highest level.
With all those matches you need to allow the body to rest and do your best.
Kovačić has been excellent this year.
Does he hunger to become elite?
We’ll see.
Well Brozovic should join juve so he can keep up his drinking habit
http://twitter.com/SempreIntercom/status/1290045729218547713
What drama is unfolding at Inter?
Kovacic’s press resistance is impressive. Too often it doesnt end with a great ball though. He needs to shoot more too.
He’s growing but I dont know if he’ll ever be someone we need in the starting 11.
https://www.croatiaweek.com/video-eurobasket-mvp-in-tears-after-being-gifted-drazen-petrovics-jersey/
JUST to get away from the political commen’ts..above ,here’s a heart warming story about legendary Drazen petrovics.nets jersey.
Kovačić and Pašalić have never played well for us.
Both have been completely timid and invisible on the field, and the few offensive chances they’ve ever had for us, they did very poorly. Kovačić missed a sitter in front of the net against Nigeria, and took a terrible penalty against Russia during the shootout. Pašalić also missed a sitter too (I believe during Qualifying) when he last played minutes for us.
Kovačić has been frustrating for us for many years now, and although it’s a smaller sample for Pašalić… he’s done absolutely nothing in the 10-15 games he’s come off the bench for us when called up.
Guys like Vlašić or Brekalo have done more in their first 3 or 4 callups than either of these guys have done in all their games combined.
However, Kovačić and Pašalić are still young and they play well on their club teams so I’m hopeful they can add value for us.
The good news is that we don’t have to wait for them. We have plenty of options and if they never do play well for us, then we will insert someone else.
Wow, watched the Chelsea game just to see why so many think Kovacic should start for us.
Boy do I feel vindicated for saying Kovacic and Pasalic shouldn’t start over Modric, Brozo, Vlasic, or Rakitic.
I know he is talented.
I know he is World Class, but even the worst talent scouts can see he just doesn’t mesh with our NT’s style of play. I’ll give it more thought and analysis next time he plays for us. Right now I think it comes dow to this:
He isn’t talented enough in either end of the field to have added value. He can’t be our cdm nor our 8 or 10. He might be our best dribbler, but that doesn’t do much for us.
That said, what a great luxury to have a guy like him on
our bench.
“If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.”
― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries
How come Croatia’s communist government allows @Pro white guy’s nationalist cetniks to celebrate the killing of white Croats in Srb in 1941?
Glad to see Kovačić step up huge this season and take a nice step forward
It really says a lot about our NT midfield quality that the star player on Chelsea can’t seem to crack the rotation, lol.
I expect him to continue to progress, and finally start for the National Team.
KUP JE NAS PICKETINE
@ Poglavnik
Your Kovačić evaluation is valid from the perspective of what he is not?
I actually think he is a #8.
He created some nice movements throughout the match.
That phantom foul becoming a second yellow/red was BS.
Jorginho is tough to play with as he is redundant and weak.
Giroud just posts up now and again, zero movement.
Kovačić was his average today and missed an opportunity to be a field Marshall. He was surrounded by arsenal players all match as Jorginho was playing patty cake.
The level we are talking about is world class and that as we have learned is not easy.
Curious to see Kovačić with Chelsea next season with their upgrades in tow.
Again for us he just needs to be a #8 or 6?
Definitely a poor performance this week for our boys
-Chelsea loss and Kova got red carded. Now he’s suspended for the Bayern fixture
-Brozovic yellow carded but looked decent
-Rebic out cause of red card
-Pasalic was invisible today.
Oh well, at least champions league is soon and nations lest be starts in a month.
Damn those evil hippies!
The BLM crowd definitely has that in common with the hippies – fake revolutionary/establishment toadies; except this ain’t the 60’s and in the REAL world a multiracial state doesn’t have a class war like in a hollywood movie, in the REAL world, a multiracial state has a RACE WAR.
Notice how no latinos, nor asians, nor muslims have joined in the BLM rioting? Just blacks and a minority of white traitors – these same traitors would join any of the aforementioned groups if they are rioting against whites.
Imagine if in the movie ‘The Hunger Games’ the establishment media not only televised every rebel protest, but actually cheered them on! You’d say this movie is retarded.
Yet, the BLM crowd actually believe the media that they are True Revolutionaries! Fucking MORON antiWhite establishment toadies.
I can’t stand the new 24 team watered down field and especially the cheap 3 out of 4 group teams making it into the knockout stage.
I think the European Championships should be 20 teams, 4 groups of 5 teams. Top 2 teams in each group go to final 8. This equates to about the same amount of games played in the tournament as the current 24 team field fiasco.
Croatians have held roughly the same territory for 1,400 years for our own gene pool (basically some combination of Aryan-Persians, Ukrainians, Germanic-Ostrogoths & Romans) but “Crnkovic” is the one who’s going to change that, he’s the one, the special one, he’s the “anti-racist” who’s going to bring in negros, mestizos, indians & other diversities and teach them “croatian folk dance” and shit. Oh man!, oh man! the PUNISHMENT you antiWhite TRAITORS DESERVE.
He doesnt fit any midfield role.
Too soft to be a good #6 and not enough creativity to match his on the ball skills to be a good #8 or #10. Hes got quality but it doesnt translate.
He was hard done by those 2 yellows but that being said you need to be in control and not lunging and sliding all over the place.
What is worse?
That non foul second yellow or playing along side Jorginho?
I am going with playing with Jorginho.
Kovačić will have all the support around him with Croatia.
Naprijed ..
343 doesn’t suit kovacic. Too much space to cover, he is better in our 4231
Fuck Chelski!
Kovacic is balls!
Invisible as usual.
Pulisicks done more in 6 months than Kovacic has done in 6 years. Hes nothing more than a technically sound pawn that puts zero stamp on a game.
Kovačić keeps Modrić as effective as possible.
His dynamic speed and ability to track back allows Modrić to move forward like he has been doing for Real Modrić.
Brozovic is too slow and similar to an aging Modrić.
Rakitic comes in for Modrić to settle things down for a nice tidy win and keeping Luka fresh for the next round.
Older legs can play great in a one off match.
It is the grueling intensity of a deep finals run that get the legs.
I’ll take 70 minutes of Modrić any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Rakitic is our best better penalty taker if need be.
He is the best midfield sub in a match that either needs his settling presence or long range passing and shot skills.
Mandžukić starts lighting up Serie A next season as #9 and you don’t consider him?
Surrounded by Vlašić, Rebić, Perišić maybe Brekalo, he would get chances galore to finish.
You can start him for 60 minutes or you can bring him on for 30.
Either way you get beast mode.
The key To the Nts success in the euros will be not making the mistake of starting rakitic
People scoffed at me before Euro qualifiers when i has said it was time to pick between modric and rakitic cause you can’t have two old pairs of legs in the midfield
The choice was always clear in modric but made easier to execute by rakitic never really showing up to play
I was proved correct when vlasic was inserted and proved vital to Croatia qualifying
Kovacic has stepped up to a new level but so far vlasic seems to provide more needed bite… if it was modric and kovacic in the midfield they might just pass the ball back and forth to each and never move forward
One under appreciated thing about kovacic this season though is his defense has gone up a notch
Some calling him corona cause he’s putting players in lockdown
And playing a key strategic role in disrupting the Other teams main midfield engine
Pašalić actually looks like the most fit I have ever seen him.
Atalanta are a high octane team and he is benefiting from that system.
His size and skill are an asset, but as pointed out you need to be world class to be a lock in our starting midfield and some where near that to be really considered.
All eyes on Kovačić today.
Can he bring an extra quality to a cup final?
Arsenal will not be game planning to stop him in the final third.
Please take the shot when the defense plays off of you for the pass.
His game too telegraphed in the final third.
This is the area where you have to not worry about losing the ball and simply attack the goal.
He has shown glimpses over the years.
Very talented player Pasalic. The only thing that frustates me about him is he is getting by on talent alone.
Bring back Corluka! (said no one since his achilles injury.)
but for arguments sake…
I’d bring back Corluka way before I start Kovacic and Pasalic over any combination of Modric, Brozovic, and Rakitic.
But I think that a younger player will catch up to him and surpass him before he gets to start.
Someone like Palaversa or maybe Moro or something.
Well, maybe after Modrić and Rakitić retire… And if Brozović gets tossed in prison for his 10th DUI… Then we’ll see Pašalić crack our lineup.
Pasalic even when Modric and raketa retires would still be on the fringes
You would throw him in the last 15 minutes of a game if croatia was chasing a game
Other than that he’s unfortunately surplus to requirements
Pašalić may be doing well at Atalanta, but no way can he start ahead of Modrić, Brozović, Vlašić, Rakitić or Kovačić.
Poor guy lol. He’s never gonna start.
Kepa sucks. I can play stop more.
AC Milan’s defense also sucks.
Brozo is 27 and starts for a top team week in week out.
Vet*
I keep on saying, get rid of these guys that are mediocre and not team players. Dalic better start Vlasic, Kova, Pasalic in mid for Euros. Keep the guys that are has beens like Rakitic, Brozovic, Lovren all on the bench. Sick and tired of hearing “BrINg BAck CorLuka, MaNdzukIc, and others. We have fucking youth that are dominating in top leagues and having good seasons. Only bet as of now that deserves to start is Luka.
Brozovic, come on buddy. Why are you drinking and driving?
That said, a competing player’s agent could easily have set him up. It has been suspected before.
Guy has a few drinks with teammates.
Slightly over the limit.
Some benchwarmers agent calls police when they know Brozovic is getting in car.
Big money on the line in soccer, many players have been targeted by slimy agents. I’d probably do it too, if I knew I could make a few million to donate to a pediatric charity.
I think brozovic is on a bender, possibly losing control down a ski slope 😉
https://www.espn.com/soccer/internazionale/story/4150844/military-called-to-hospital-to-calm-inter-midfielder-brozovic-sources
I didn’t know who this Kris Bubic was, and his dad is actually a boater from Croatia who lives in Miami lol. Mom’s Croatian too. Hopefully he plays for our National Baseball Team. 😉
When is the follow up piece of Owen Marecic coming (remember him)?
Dude is apparently going to be an MD now. Tells the 49ers he no longer wants to play in the NFL, and ended up going to med school instead.
https://theathletic.com/1049751/2019/06/28/lefty-kris-bubic-youngest-of-royals-2018-top-draft-quartet-quietly-dominating-in-first-full-year-of-pro-ball/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/12264935/chelsea-player-ratings-2019-20-season-kovacic-mount-kepa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunfootballfacebook300720&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1596123090
Kovacic getting recognized! Best player on Chelsea this season.
Croatian Cup final tomorrow. Anyone? Bueller?
Kovačić Saturday is a much watch.
He is major component to the winning game plan for Chelsea.
If he plays well they win.
If he plays great they dominate.
These cup finals are what build the elite confidence.
I pray he at least looks at t he goal in the final third.
No one expects him to score so the shot is always on for him.
Atalanta and Inter will be a battle.
Curious to see if Pašalić can hang in matches on this level?
Brozovic is due for worldly goal.
Rebić available for Cagliari ?
I thought he was on yellow card suspension?
He has to now realize that defenders see that temper as a weakness to exploit.
He needs to jog away and bum rush past the defender on the next play.
Would be such a dream come true for Mateo if he scores the winner in a FA Cup final
That would be tops
Fingers crossed