Zlatko Dalic, Croatian coach, broke the unity this Sunday in Neuruppin, the town where Croatia trains, with statements that they taught Bruno Petkovic after the heavy defeat against Spain (3-0) where the striker missed a penalty that he caused himself, in a play where the coach believed that he could have done more to score an empty goal.
In the closing stages of the match at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Petkovic was in the six-yard box, without a goalkeeper and with the ball at his feet. A light touch of Rodrigo It knocked him off balance and he fell to the ground, a decision that, in his coach’s opinion, was wrong.
“When I saw the video later, I think should be marked a goal. Maybe Rodrigo touched him, but I think he should have done everything to score that goal. That’s my impression. The goalkeeper rushes to the other side, everything is empty. “I think he needs to make an extra effort to score a goal,” he said at a press conference.
As if the Dinamo Zagreb striker was not angry enough, he revealed that I shouldn’t have taken the penalty because he broke the basic locker room rule.
“It’s a situation already we have to solve. The rule is that the player who receives the penalty does not take it. We will solve that,” he commented.
The situation worsened because he already failed against Unai Simón in the final of the League of Nations: “Especially because he failed in the Nations League with both goalkeepers. Here’s the choice there is no room for ego. “Perišić or Majer should shoot…” he added.
The coach fielded eleven against Portugal in the last friendly, which they won “After that match I said it was a friendly match. “We knew it was a friendly match, although it gave us optimism,” he highlighted.
“Against Spain we entered the game badly, we are too far behind the players, we are late in all the duels. Afterwards we established control, possession, play, but we got a goal in a situation that was unusual. I can’t help but have the feeling that we conceded the three goals very easily. But Spain has been very good for us,” he said.
Dalic was removed Modric and Kovacic thinking about the game against Albania, a ‘final’. “We know that if we haven’t been able to reverse the result after an hour (3-0), we have to start thinking about against Albania. “The reason for these substitutions is not a bad game, but for the players to recover for the next one,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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