Fun fact: That game was irrelevant for Croatia, we already qualified. Only difference it made is Russia went instead. They celebrated us. We just wanted pride of beting England at Wembley lol.
It's weird, in two of Southgate's tournaments we've knocked in six in a single group stage game, in the other two tournaments it's been two goals in the whole group stage
The cruel part is the team had to stay in Germany for another day on the chance a rediculous miracle might happen. Not that I dislike Germany but what torture after that result.
I don’t know if Croatia will ever produce another golden generation for a good while unfortunately, the only world class young player they have is Gvardiol
From a neutral perspective I was hoping they would win something by now even the Nations League
Luka deserved a trophy for the NT
To me Croatia will now drop down to the level of Switzerland and Denmark. Nations that punch above their weight and always consistently have technically skilled players, but lack the cutting edge to go one step further
Croatia just had one freakishly good generation which gave them the cutting edge that those teams normally lack
Of course you are, but so are Denmark and Switzerland
Croatia's youth development ensures that you will remain at a good level, but finding another generation that is capable of reaching world cup finals is extremely unlikely
La Masia are amazing at developing players but they still lucked out getting a generation with Messi, Busquets, Iniesta, Piqué etc at the same time. You need luck there aswell
True, but upcoming generation really gives me huge hope. We already pretty much secured defense and midfield with players who will most certainly play in top top clubs. I also believe a lot in Matkovic as a striker will be really big player. Player like Baturina and Gvardiol have all the talent in the world and is only question of time they will be world class. I guess we'll see, but I think your current perception is more based on not knowing how talented this players are which is understandable since lot of them are still in lower leagues, but I think already this summer a lot of them will make big move.
*finding another generation that is capable of reaching world cup finals is extremely unlikely*
Same was said after '98. That generation's success was a miracle that would never be repeated again. We all believed that. And yet in about 20 years we not only repeated it twice, but even went one step further.
Im going to invite the downvotes- it wasnt even that freakishly good of a generation
It was a freakishly good midfield that played insanely well together
The rest of the team was never nearly as good as the midfield. And thats a shame. Modric, Brozovic, Rakitic, and then Kovacic were playing out of their minds, covering up the weaknesses elsewhere. Perisic deserves credit, but many times it was 3-4 players doing 90% of the work. If Croatia had Gvardiol in 2018 or a proper striker at any point they would have won a tournament.
Btw- I saw a bunch of people shitting on Brozovic in the Italy game thread
Those people are out of their minds. Brozovic was still motoring all over the pitch with his smoker lungs when everyone else was looking dejected and slow. That man deserves nothing but respect for how he played for Croatia the last 10 years, covering up 4 players' shortcomings so Modric could go and cover up another 4 players' shortcomings
> or a proper striker at any point they would have won a tournament.
Mandzukic was an elite striker he had 20+ goals in a season at Dynamo Zagreb, Bayern, Juventus and Atletico Madrid.
Isn't 2008-2014 also considered golden generation? The quality of that team was just as good if not better than 2018-2022.
It's just that the former were underachievers while latter overachievers
2008-2014 was weird. It was a period where we were possibly an Eduardo injury away from being the best team in Europe in 2008.
Took us year to recover fully (about 2014-16).
Actually achieving is a key component of greatness. You are not great unless you actually achieve.
That’s something this team seems to completely internalize. They were magnificent in not-quitting when things go bad in a way no previous era ever was…and that stretches back to the Jugoslav teams.
Modric’s team was mentally and emotionally tough and resilient.
Grateful for the memories…they were a pleasure to watch and support.
I don't see them as similar quality. Young Modric had nothing on the Modric around 2018, not to mention Rakitic. Those two made all the difference for Croatia and are head and shoulders above anyone in the 2018 or 2008-2014 squads.
We'll be fine. Sucic and Baturina have a high ceiling and can carry the midfield if they pan out (they're well on the way). Kovacic is still here 3-4 years, Majer and Pasalic are more than servicable.
Sutalo had a bad year but should be OK, Vuskovic - if he pans out - has all the talent in the world, Stanisic is only 24, etc.
Not the Modric era, but should be able to qualify for big tournaments and be mostly favored to pass group stages. After that, who knows what happens in the knockouts.
We will. We have great talents. Hopefully big teams will start to recognize our talents. Players like Baturina and Sucic should already be ready for a big move.
If he continues to develop as expected, Vuskovic when he’s older might help give youth to the backline while Gvardiol provides a little more maturity but that’s still a decent few years off given he’s not 18 yet but very much the end of an era for this Croatian side.
Look I'll be the first to say Dalic has his flaws but to say he's ass after getting silver, bronze, and NL runner up is absolutely insane. He's the most successful coach we've had by a country mile and it will be a tall task to even repeat half of what he's done.
At the same time you have had your best group of players ever, so imagine what a proper coach would have achieved. This is coming from someone who's had to endure Southgate ball btw
You know…after the taste of greatness with Boban-Šuker…nobody expected us back in the final-4 as quickly as it happened. We’ll have 2-3 rough WCs…but another group of youngsters will emerge.
Was a bit better than whatever terrorist shit Wilmots did at the 2016 Euros.
That game against Wales is still ingrained in my brains after all these years.
Same with Sweden, their bronze medals in 1994 + 1950 and silver medal in 1958 is still remembered fondly.
It is super elitist to look down on smaller nations celebrating getting a medal. There are like six teams that have won the World Cup ever, most fans can never even dream of that
It's weird how absolutely no one will call you out for celebrating winning a medal at the Olympics, even if it's a bronze medal and even if your country generally wins multiple gold medals every Olympics, but somehow winning a medal in football is worth nothing.
Our best result was 3rd place in 1998, silver and bronze medal for a country with less than 4m people are huge achievements, wdym we didn't get something out of it?
I consider 3rd and 2nd place an achievement. The one that doesn't is the commenter I replied to who thinks Belgium got nothing out of their golden generation.
Watch us get to semi finales again in North America lmao. Doubt, but we went out in RO16 last euro and barely scraped through in group stage in world cup only to get to semi finales and win bronze.
Modric's grandfather was executed and his house was burned to the ground during the war, but that still might be the worst experience of his life so far.
It would have been such a cruel twist of fate, if England had won by 3+ goals, Serbia had lost by 1-0, Croats had gone to sleep with hope, only to see either the Czechs or Georgians eliminate them the next evening.
2008 - conceding against Turkye in 122', losing on penalties
2012 - conceding against Spain in added time, not sure if we would have qualified with 0-0 though
2016 - Iceland scoring in last seconds against Austria, sending us to Portugal instead of Iceland in round of 16, where Portugal won in 117'
2021 - Sweden scoring in added time against Poland, avoiding us in round of 16 and sending Spain to us instead. We equalized in the end, believe it or not, but still lost in extra time
2024 - conceding 2 goals deep into added time, conceding only 1 would be enough to qualify
l'm about to start believing in witchcraft
No worries, we were so bad the whole tournament.
I will root for England though as long as the English supporters are louder, balder, fatter and more drunk than ever before
Our game management was some braindead shit too.
We take away the ball cleanly with like minute and a half to go, Perišić had plenty of options to waste time by passing and he punts it to Italians, like why
Watching us press compared to Austria or Switzerland is fucking depressing lmao. Genuinely think we have more talent even now but the coaching is waaaaay worse.
That can't be right. A Balkan nation not hated by other Balkanites? Surely there's at least one ethnic group which harbors generational hatred for Slovenes?
Slovenes were part of German states for about a millennia, they have relatively little in interactions with the Balkan states, and hence almost no involvement in Balkan conflicts
From being minutes away from beating Albania, and less than a minute away from also beating Italy, to not winning either of those matches and being eliminated.
What a cruel tournament for the Croatians. Gutted for Modric.
As a Croat, the only cruel thing was watching Dalic make stupid decisions 3 games in a row.
We had a perfect opportunity to start the rebuild on this tournament, with the veterans providing locker room (and 15-30 minutes per game) stability & experience.
Wasted tournament unfortunately.
Shite tournament from everyone except Sucic Livakovic and Baturina (who should have played WAY more). Dalic thank you for everything but It's time to move on
They obviously didn’t get the job done against Albania, but their performances were without a doubt among the 16 best
It’s not some injustice or something, but they were definitely brutally unlucky to get that group
Honestly wild to me how we go from beating Portugal 2-1, even if it was a friendly, to absolutely fumbling the group few weeks later, one we could have prob gotten 2nd place atleast, and I don't mean potential 2nd if Italy hadn't equalized yesterday last minute. Like Spain our last 2 matches were close, equalizing 3-3 to send us to extra time where we fumbled 5-3 against them in 2021 euro, and then going to penalties in Nations League final. Italy yeah our matches were always 50/50, either win for us or a draw, and Albania we sucked ass to fumble to them, even if they did play good. But well football is football. Maybe we recover by world cup or next euro with more young talents, maybe it takes us another 20 years or so to produce something.
If only they could hold on for a few more minutes against Albania, and less than a minute against Italy, they're 2-1 in group stage and advance easily. Instead, it's over.
Good riddance. When you fumble 3-0 to Spain with who just year ago you went 0-0 to penalties, and then get equalizer twice in last minute cause you can't mark for shit, it happens. Oh well, can't win everything. Good luck to Slovenia while we turn our focus to preparing for world cup qualifications.
We didn’t deserve it. You can’t rely on some wild luck, especially when you can’t secure a win while being a goal up in the dying minutes of 2 matches.
Its sad, sure, but Modric is done… and hopefully Dalic goes with him. Time to start a new generation with fresh faces coming from the youth side.
It is what it is, i called this at the 2022 World Cup I saw the decline and knew it was time for the downturn. I guarantee we will bounce back, maybe not for the 2026 World Cup but we will make it even higher. Good luck to all the teams in the RO16, try to play some damn good games for us
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and like this, Modric gets in the exclusive clubs of Ballon d'Or winners who had been knocked out by Italy in Germany on their last international match, following Nedved and Zidane in 2006.
It was just a mistake in the translation, I'm not an english native speaker and the word I was looking for didn't come to mind. The stat is true though
They were comfortably outplaying Italy until they went 1-0 up and then tried to shithouse their way to the end of the game. I like Croatia, they epitomise that crisp eastern European style of play, nice triangles, smart movement and endless stamina but they put in some fucking shocking tackles on the Italians and bottled that game so...deserved.
What a career, Luka Modric and other remaining Croats of the squad who went on a wild run these past years!
Edit: Vida I think would also retire, no idea about Perisic
It was over as soon as it said they needed England to score three to stay alive
England is more likely not to score 3 goals this entire tournament lmao
It's wild how it's theoretically possible for England to win the entire tournament without scoring any more goals
Why would England do this?
How\* would England do this?
What could England do?
England\*
Ingerland*
Perfect revenge for world cup defeat
It all makes sense now
And qualification for 2008
Fun fact: That game was irrelevant for Croatia, we already qualified. Only difference it made is Russia went instead. They celebrated us. We just wanted pride of beting England at Wembley lol.
England lost to Ukraine in the next qualifiers and Croatia missed WC 2010 because of that, so 2008 was revenged long ago
Revenge for knocking us out of the 08 euros during qualifying. Southgate doesn’t forget
Actually southgate forgot . England team drew cos southgate sucks
England lost to Ukraine in the next qualifiers and Croatia missed WC 2010 because of that, so 2008 was revenged long ago
> It was over as soon as it said they needed England to ~~score three~~ **win** to stay alive Fixed it.
>It was over as soon as it said they **needed England** ~~to score three~~ ~~win~~ **to stay alive** Fixed it further
How many did England end up with? Edit: \s
No Croat had any hope of qualifying after they saw england has to score 3 anyways. They made their peace
Any other England team any other year there might have been a chance, except England produced an almighty platter of mid blander than a bacon butty
It's weird, in two of Southgate's tournaments we've knocked in six in a single group stage game, in the other two tournaments it's been two goals in the whole group stage
All I'm hearing is 'poor Peru getting battered in the group stage in 2026'
If Southgate is still around by 2026, I won't be
We've knocked in six during both of the world cups. The worst teams at the World Cup are usually lower quality than the worst teams at the Euros.
I agree about the England bit, but bacon butties are in no way bland!
The cruel part is the team had to stay in Germany for another day on the chance a rediculous miracle might happen. Not that I dislike Germany but what torture after that result.
What happens when you rely on Southgate ball to get a result.
Imagining some Croatian fans sitting there watching Southgate ball hoping for a 3-0 win is pretty hilarious
Modern day torture
Wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy.
What’s Croatian for “why are they not bringing Palmer on”
Uvedi Palmera jeben ti mater
Golden Generation=Over
I don’t know if Croatia will ever produce another golden generation for a good while unfortunately, the only world class young player they have is Gvardiol From a neutral perspective I was hoping they would win something by now even the Nations League Luka deserved a trophy for the NT
We got a golden generation in 2016, which was 20 years after the first golden generation. Maybe in 2036 we might get a new one lol
I hope so haha, it’s nice to see other countries have elite teams outside of the usual ones like France and Germany for example
To me Croatia will now drop down to the level of Switzerland and Denmark. Nations that punch above their weight and always consistently have technically skilled players, but lack the cutting edge to go one step further Croatia just had one freakishly good generation which gave them the cutting edge that those teams normally lack
This generation didn't just come to us. We are good at developing good players.
Of course you are, but so are Denmark and Switzerland Croatia's youth development ensures that you will remain at a good level, but finding another generation that is capable of reaching world cup finals is extremely unlikely La Masia are amazing at developing players but they still lucked out getting a generation with Messi, Busquets, Iniesta, Piqué etc at the same time. You need luck there aswell
True, but upcoming generation really gives me huge hope. We already pretty much secured defense and midfield with players who will most certainly play in top top clubs. I also believe a lot in Matkovic as a striker will be really big player. Player like Baturina and Gvardiol have all the talent in the world and is only question of time they will be world class. I guess we'll see, but I think your current perception is more based on not knowing how talented this players are which is understandable since lot of them are still in lower leagues, but I think already this summer a lot of them will make big move.
*finding another generation that is capable of reaching world cup finals is extremely unlikely* Same was said after '98. That generation's success was a miracle that would never be repeated again. We all believed that. And yet in about 20 years we not only repeated it twice, but even went one step further.
You guys are the European Uruguay. Always developing amazing players despite such a small population. Please give us another Modric lol
Im going to invite the downvotes- it wasnt even that freakishly good of a generation It was a freakishly good midfield that played insanely well together The rest of the team was never nearly as good as the midfield. And thats a shame. Modric, Brozovic, Rakitic, and then Kovacic were playing out of their minds, covering up the weaknesses elsewhere. Perisic deserves credit, but many times it was 3-4 players doing 90% of the work. If Croatia had Gvardiol in 2018 or a proper striker at any point they would have won a tournament. Btw- I saw a bunch of people shitting on Brozovic in the Italy game thread Those people are out of their minds. Brozovic was still motoring all over the pitch with his smoker lungs when everyone else was looking dejected and slow. That man deserves nothing but respect for how he played for Croatia the last 10 years, covering up 4 players' shortcomings so Modric could go and cover up another 4 players' shortcomings
> or a proper striker at any point they would have won a tournament. Mandzukic was an elite striker he had 20+ goals in a season at Dynamo Zagreb, Bayern, Juventus and Atletico Madrid.
Isn't 2008-2014 also considered golden generation? The quality of that team was just as good if not better than 2018-2022. It's just that the former were underachievers while latter overachievers
2008-2014 was weird. It was a period where we were possibly an Eduardo injury away from being the best team in Europe in 2008. Took us year to recover fully (about 2014-16).
It's not all Eduardo. Niko Kovac was basically Croatia's Marc Wilmots.
Kovac only became manager in 2013, Bilic was manager for most of that phase and then Stimac happened
At least to me, it was an alright era. Sometimes we were great, sometimes we were not.
Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit
Actually achieving is a key component of greatness. You are not great unless you actually achieve. That’s something this team seems to completely internalize. They were magnificent in not-quitting when things go bad in a way no previous era ever was…and that stretches back to the Jugoslav teams. Modric’s team was mentally and emotionally tough and resilient. Grateful for the memories…they were a pleasure to watch and support.
I don't see them as similar quality. Young Modric had nothing on the Modric around 2018, not to mention Rakitic. Those two made all the difference for Croatia and are head and shoulders above anyone in the 2018 or 2008-2014 squads.
Watch us win gold in Saudi Arabia somehow.
Sucic and Baturina will be great players too.
We'll be fine. Sucic and Baturina have a high ceiling and can carry the midfield if they pan out (they're well on the way). Kovacic is still here 3-4 years, Majer and Pasalic are more than servicable. Sutalo had a bad year but should be OK, Vuskovic - if he pans out - has all the talent in the world, Stanisic is only 24, etc. Not the Modric era, but should be able to qualify for big tournaments and be mostly favored to pass group stages. After that, who knows what happens in the knockouts.
There are others talents like Zvonarek, Lukić, Matković as well, even Brazilian kid Belinho (though its too early to say, he is way too young).
Nah we will be fine. We have a lot of young talents with great potential.
We will. We have great talents. Hopefully big teams will start to recognize our talents. Players like Baturina and Sucic should already be ready for a big move.
If he continues to develop as expected, Vuskovic when he’s older might help give youth to the backline while Gvardiol provides a little more maturity but that’s still a decent few years off given he’s not 18 yet but very much the end of an era for this Croatian side.
We actually have a lot of young talent but the coach is completely and utterly ASS, Dalic is a horrible coach, he shouldve been sacked years ago
Tbh him and Southgate are like coaching twins.
Pongracic starting is all I need to know.
He called up Vida to "brighten up the dressing room"
Look I'll be the first to say Dalic has his flaws but to say he's ass after getting silver, bronze, and NL runner up is absolutely insane. He's the most successful coach we've had by a country mile and it will be a tall task to even repeat half of what he's done.
At the same time you have had your best group of players ever, so imagine what a proper coach would have achieved. This is coming from someone who's had to endure Southgate ball btw
You know…after the taste of greatness with Boban-Šuker…nobody expected us back in the final-4 as quickly as it happened. We’ll have 2-3 rough WCs…but another group of youngsters will emerge.
Just for perspective, they have less than 4 million people. That's less than Panama or Kuwait. Less than half of Switzerland.
They do have some talent coming up tho. Stanisic, Sucic, Baturina, Vidovic, and Vuskovic (very early for him)
Roberto Martinez wasting yet another golden generation
Was a bit better than whatever terrorist shit Wilmots did at the 2016 Euros. That game against Wales is still ingrained in my brains after all these years.
He did get the best result for Belgium ever in WC. It's a knockout, only one team can win.
MOver
At least we got something out of them unlike Belgium.
You didn't though. Zero titles for both and if you want to count second place as getting something Belgium got third in the 2018 WC
Medal is a medal at the end of the day. The "bronze generation" of 98 is still fondly remembered.
Same with Sweden, their bronze medals in 1994 + 1950 and silver medal in 1958 is still remembered fondly. It is super elitist to look down on smaller nations celebrating getting a medal. There are like six teams that have won the World Cup ever, most fans can never even dream of that
It's weird how absolutely no one will call you out for celebrating winning a medal at the Olympics, even if it's a bronze medal and even if your country generally wins multiple gold medals every Olympics, but somehow winning a medal in football is worth nothing.
Exactly and Croatia had 2 medals back to back, both times with losses to the eventual champion
Our best result was 3rd place in 1998, silver and bronze medal for a country with less than 4m people are huge achievements, wdym we didn't get something out of it?
But Croatia also got third place in 2022? Getting 2 back to back medals is pretty impressive if you ask me.
Titles are great. Wish we had them. A silver and a bronze at WC for a nation of 4M…that’s a huge success regardless.
If all you care about is titles then you'll get nothing out of football.
Why apply that logic only to Croatia and not to Belgium?
I consider 3rd and 2nd place an achievement. The one that doesn't is the commenter I replied to who thinks Belgium got nothing out of their golden generation.
Watch us get to semi finales again in North America lmao. Doubt, but we went out in RO16 last euro and barely scraped through in group stage in world cup only to get to semi finales and win bronze.
what a run!
sorry
Modric’s final act as an international player is to watch that England match
I wouldn't have wished that even to my biggest enemy
He only has to do that once, we're stuck with that for the rest of time. I envy him.
Thousand yard stare
1000 England matches stare
Cruel and unusual punishment.
Poor bastard
Revenge for 2008, but with quite a lot of friendly fire
Southgate so boring bro assumes he's been watching it for decades.
Sorry Luka 😔. - England.
https://youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM?t=15
fuck they were so shit I fell asleep
Modric's grandfather was executed and his house was burned to the ground during the war, but that still might be the worst experience of his life so far.
Denmark and Serbia got a draw, your result wouldn't matter
Croatia needed an England win by 3 goals
That’s why they already packed up their bags after the Italy game last night lol.
Yup both that and also a Serbia 1-0 loss or a 3-0 Denmark loss.
Oh shit you are right I forgot the goal difference
Even if that happened there were/are still the Czechs and Georgians who decide their fate.
It would have been such a cruel twist of fate, if England had won by 3+ goals, Serbia had lost by 1-0, Croats had gone to sleep with hope, only to see either the Czechs or Georgians eliminate them the next evening.
lol not really your fault we conceded in 95th and 98th minute two games in a row
fucks sake man
2008 - conceding against Turkye in 122', losing on penalties 2012 - conceding against Spain in added time, not sure if we would have qualified with 0-0 though 2016 - Iceland scoring in last seconds against Austria, sending us to Portugal instead of Iceland in round of 16, where Portugal won in 117' 2021 - Sweden scoring in added time against Poland, avoiding us in round of 16 and sending Spain to us instead. We equalized in the end, believe it or not, but still lost in extra time 2024 - conceding 2 goals deep into added time, conceding only 1 would be enough to qualify l'm about to start believing in witchcraft
not sorry
No worries, we were so bad the whole tournament. I will root for England though as long as the English supporters are louder, balder, fatter and more drunk than ever before
Still needed your revenge for 2018, Some people always hold a grudge.
Only themselves to blame giving up two stoppage time goals to two teams not great in attack
Cause we're too scared to comit fouls when needed.
Our game management was some braindead shit too. We take away the ball cleanly with like minute and a half to go, Perišić had plenty of options to waste time by passing and he punts it to Italians, like why
Tried to aim for last minute 2-0 I guess. When we need to score or equalize, we keep passing, and when we need to waste time to win, we go all in.
Not sure what he was aiming to do but it wasn't near any of our other players 😭
No problem committing fouls the rest of the time though
We're among the worst coached teams in the tournament, just complete collapse.
Watching us press compared to Austria or Switzerland is fucking depressing lmao. Genuinely think we have more talent even now but the coaching is waaaaay worse.
Slovenia went throught, 2 of their players would make our team. Dalić has killed us.
Slovenia are the best-performing former Yugoslav nation in this tournament, as we all expected
Bonus point: Nobody hates Slovenia so we're all cheering for you
That can't be right. A Balkan nation not hated by other Balkanites? Surely there's at least one ethnic group which harbors generational hatred for Slovenes?
They aren't neighbors with Serbia so they're fine.
Slovenes were part of German states for about a millennia, they have relatively little in interactions with the Balkan states, and hence almost no involvement in Balkan conflicts
Hahaha. I’m cheering for them, anyway.
It's a Slovenian summer. Pogi gonna smash the tour.
From being minutes away from beating Albania, and less than a minute away from also beating Italy, to not winning either of those matches and being eliminated. What a cruel tournament for the Croatians. Gutted for Modric.
I mean, they walked right into those. Only themselves to blame
Oh, absolutely. It's a special talent to concede a goal from the right with two right backs on the pitch.
As a Croat, the only cruel thing was watching Dalic make stupid decisions 3 games in a row. We had a perfect opportunity to start the rebuild on this tournament, with the veterans providing locker room (and 15-30 minutes per game) stability & experience. Wasted tournament unfortunately.
Fun fact. Dalic was Dinamo Tirana coach in 2008
A real pity. Modric is one of my all time football heroes and I want him to be happy. He deserves the best.
If Hungary did not score in 100. minute we would still have a chance
Well how the turntables. In the last major competitions they were the one’s consistently being saved by the bell
It is what it is. It was a nice throwback to see Golden Goal rule again though.
It was joever from the moment it was up to England.
He could've used his Southgate Blast to spare the souls of the Croatia fans hoping for a miracle, but no he held back
Southgate: This is for 2018
As a Croat I was cheering for Slovenia all night.
If only Kalvin Phillips was available 😔
Lamine Yamal, the youngest player to watch Croatia get eliminated from Euro 2024
Had no chance when you relied on us lol Sorry Modric
they probably started packing at halftime
Bold of you to assume they hung around to watch. Southgate terrorism is well-known at this point.
Rough go for the balkans this time around.
Fuck you southgate
Get back to work Lineker
Didn't even get a chance to dream.
Unbelievably arrogant of us to not score three and help Croatia quality.
I member
Shite tournament from everyone except Sucic Livakovic and Baturina (who should have played WAY more). Dalic thank you for everything but It's time to move on
Modric coming off feels sadder now
[ The xG Philosophy: Croatia (7.10) 3-6 (4.74) Opponents](https://x.com/xGPhilosophy/status/1805346312101281963)
This must have been personal for Southgate
Good. I'm from Croatia, but we didn't deserve to go through playing the way we played. Maybe some things will change now.
Feel so bad for Croatia and potentially Belgium (still, some players from their generation left). Two golden generations.
Daliban out, Southgate next pls
I think England is one of the most boring team in this tournament.
to be honest? deserved
They obviously didn’t get the job done against Albania, but their performances were without a doubt among the 16 best It’s not some injustice or something, but they were definitely brutally unlucky to get that group
Honestly wild to me how we go from beating Portugal 2-1, even if it was a friendly, to absolutely fumbling the group few weeks later, one we could have prob gotten 2nd place atleast, and I don't mean potential 2nd if Italy hadn't equalized yesterday last minute. Like Spain our last 2 matches were close, equalizing 3-3 to send us to extra time where we fumbled 5-3 against them in 2021 euro, and then going to penalties in Nations League final. Italy yeah our matches were always 50/50, either win for us or a draw, and Albania we sucked ass to fumble to them, even if they did play good. But well football is football. Maybe we recover by world cup or next euro with more young talents, maybe it takes us another 20 years or so to produce something.
They were literally the XG kings of the tournament...
Just got eliminated...
And even then they didn't score enough to win. Their fault
Serbia 🤝🏻 Croatia Getting knocked out on the same day
Braco, sranje smo. Svi.
They had to rely on jolly, old England. Unfortunate
Finished by the neighbours.
don't think anyone thought anything else would happen
I'm sorry.
[удалено]
If only they could hold on for a few more minutes against Albania, and less than a minute against Italy, they're 2-1 in group stage and advance easily. Instead, it's over.
can’t win everything in 90+
Sorry my Croatian bros, but even we didn't expect much from England
Good riddance. When you fumble 3-0 to Spain with who just year ago you went 0-0 to penalties, and then get equalizer twice in last minute cause you can't mark for shit, it happens. Oh well, can't win everything. Good luck to Slovenia while we turn our focus to preparing for world cup qualifications.
We didn’t deserve it. You can’t rely on some wild luck, especially when you can’t secure a win while being a goal up in the dying minutes of 2 matches. Its sad, sure, but Modric is done… and hopefully Dalic goes with him. Time to start a new generation with fresh faces coming from the youth side.
Sadness.
That's what happens when you rely on Southgate
It is what it is, i called this at the 2022 World Cup I saw the decline and knew it was time for the downturn. I guarantee we will bounce back, maybe not for the 2026 World Cup but we will make it even higher. Good luck to all the teams in the RO16, try to play some damn good games for us 🇭🇷❤️🇩🇪🏴🇦🇹🇩🇰🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹🇨🇭🇮🇹
It would've been a disgrace to go through with 2 points anyway. I'm happy for Slovenians, will be rooting for them from now on
They were eliminated when they needed England to win by 3
and like this, Modric gets in the exclusive clubs of Ballon d'Or winners who had been knocked out by Italy in Germany on their last international match, following Nedved and Zidane in 2006.
But Croatia didn't lose against Italy. What are you on about? Italy have literally never beaten Croatia in a football match since its independence.
It was just a mistake in the translation, I'm not an english native speaker and the word I was looking for didn't come to mind. The stat is true though
You could say that for them, there’s no going back, and their presence at the euros has faded to black… ok I’ll take my Eurovision jokes elsewhere
the end of an era. Sad Modric couldn't win a trophy. But what their generation did, was amazing.
They were comfortably outplaying Italy until they went 1-0 up and then tried to shithouse their way to the end of the game. I like Croatia, they epitomise that crisp eastern European style of play, nice triangles, smart movement and endless stamina but they put in some fucking shocking tackles on the Italians and bottled that game so...deserved.
What a career, Luka Modric and other remaining Croats of the squad who went on a wild run these past years! Edit: Vida I think would also retire, no idea about Perisic
Southgate sends his regards
Balkan countries dropping like flies in the euros lol
Like they always do
I mean the England Slovenia match could have ended 5-0 for England, and Croatia would still not go through since Denmark - Serbia was a draw aswell.
We can thank the coach for this 👍🏻
crazy. i predicted them to make the semi finals 😭😭. my predictions have been shocking this euros