Marcelo Brozovic may have said goodbye to the Croatian national team at the age of 31, or at least that is what the press in his country points out, after a European Championship in which the Al-Nassr pivot has seemed heavy and clumsy, without rhythm . Much of the blame for the Vatreni lineup falls on him and Dalic’s insistence on fielding him, just as in Serbia, which has also scored at home, they focus their ire on Mitrovic. The forward scored 40 goals in 44 games for Al-Hilal, but has not found the net in 241 minutes of Group C.
His teammate and national team mate, the Spanish-Serbian Milinkovic Savic, has played less but has performed more or less the same. The Portuguese Rubén Neves, who also plays for the Saudi champions, must not have been seen very well by Roberto Martínez either. He has played in two halves, and the second of them culminated in the unexpected failure against Georgia.
Koeman called up veteran pivot Georginio Wijnaldum (Al-Ettifaq) for three sad endings to matches, one of them in the defeat against Austria in the last matchday. Yannick Carrasco (Al-Shabab) started in Belgium’s first match and lost against Slovakia. Then, the former Atlético de Madrid player came out for two spells, without goals or assists either, against Ukraine and Romania.
Romanians are the only two Saudis who have attracted attention in a positive way. Nicolae Stanciu (Damac) scored a great goal against Ukraine and immediately attracted the attention of other big Saudi teams, such as his compatriot, central defender Andrei Burca (Al-Okhdood), who was also instrumental in the surprising qualification of the team coached by Iordanescu.
Between the brilliance of his first day, where he received the MVP, to a certain impotence in the other two games in France, N’Golo Kanté, who plays with Benzema at Al-Ittihad, has moved. Spaniard Aymeric Laporte publicly asked for more consideration after criticism for injuring himself just before the competition. But he saw good minutes against Italy, which gave him his physique. He plays for Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr. Roberto Martínez, his coach, continues to speak wonders of the Portuguese, but at the moment the player from Funchal has not achieved the goal that would make him, ahead of Luka Modric, the oldest player to score in a European Championship.
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2024-06-28 11:54:56
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