Dalic: “Brazil is the best team in the tournament”

The choice of Croatia, Zlatko Dalicexpressed confidence in his team, caught up in a generational change and “different from four years ago” and acknowledged the potential of his next rivals, Brazil, who he described as the best team in the world.

“Brazil This is the best team in this tournament; is the fastest and most energetic, with more diversity than the other teams. You never know where the danger comes from. If we don’t play together we will have big problems. When the ball is lost, they press high and sometimes mess up because they don’t get back quickly enough. That’s what we want to do, we can’t be alone, but act as a team and help each other”, evaluated the coach of the world runner-up.

Face the quarterfinals Croatia for the second consecutive edition. “You don’t need a bigger motivation than a quarterfinal and against Brazil. We all dream of matches like this. We know what Brazil means in football, it is by itself an incentive for everyone. We have nothing to lose. Croatia already had a good role although we want more. If it is in the final it will be better.”

Plot Dalic that in his hands he has nine selections compared to Russia 2018, which is a finalist. “This is a new team. We have eighteen new players and it is impossible to compare. We had a great generation that played together for ten years, ups and downs, ending in Russia. They are players at the best clubs in the world and now it’s not like that. For It’s a success for me. And luckily there are players who were in Russia like Luka Modric, Ivan Perisic, Dejan Lvren or Domagoj Vida”, he recalled.

“This is probably the strongest opponent we will face in the World Cup. Out of eleven games we overcame ten correctly. However, it came too early, in the quarterfinals,” he said. Dalic which he considered the final battle.

“There is not much time to prepare. This fight is too fast. It is important that we recover from Japan; Borna Sosa trained yesterday and I think he will play. We won’t change much, we know what we can do. It was incredible for Croatia with an almost new team. We are playing against one of the great favorites. We expect a very difficult game where Brazil is the favourite”, he insisted.

Brazil announces new dances if they score a goal. “They have their own way of celebrating and having fun. They show unity, character. If they are respectful with their rivals or not, I don’t care. We don’t like to celebrate like that but they have their character and it go with them and that’s good”, said the coach who against Japan he replaced Luka Modric before the end.

“We talked about it, it’s not a one-part decision alone. We thought about the best. The match was very difficult and we were very tired. I want to refresh the team. We passed and it was good. Luka will play as much as he can but we have to take care of him. No there’s a problem,” he said.