the Croatian national football team was defeated in Glasgow against Scotland, and they did not secure further passage in the League of Nations. Everything will unravel in the last round when Croatia and Portugal and Poland and Scotland play.
– A strange little game, we played well, the red card changed the course of the game. We had a chance to win, but in the end we lost. We are not shaken, we have a match with Portugal in Poljud. As for the red card, I don’t think there was any material for that punishment, he said Dominik Kotarski.
The first 90 minutes in goal for Croatia.
– It would have been much nicer if we had won, but it is the way it is, but we are optimistic, we believe in passing the group. I believe that we will do well in the match and that we will pass, adds Kotarski.
– I think we were the better team, but the fact is, we lost, he points out Luka Sučić.
– Of course it was too strict, the referee made things a little complicated, but I wouldn’t argue about it now, let’s move on, the match with Portugal is next, adds Sučić.
– I congratulate the opponent on the victory, we were good in the first half, we had everything in our hands, and then the red card happened. In the end, we conceded a goal and lost the game. I have nothing to complain about the boys, we committed seven fouls, received four yellow cards and one red card, said the coach Zlatko Dalić.
– The Croatian national team plays football, we are not rough and aggressive to get four yellow cards in the first half. I think it affected us, it made us nervous. We still have that last game in Split, added the coach.
Dalić wanted to talk to the Israeli referee at halftime.
– I told him in the corridor that Croatia plays football, that it is not a rugby team, that it is not a team that has the aggression to get four yellow cards and a red in the first half. He killed football, the game. It killed everything that was good, made it negative, spoiled the game. But what’s there is, we can’t get out of that skin.
He adds that Dominik Kotarski lived up to expectations in tonight’s game.
– We have to rest now and forget everything and get ready for Portugal, he adds.
– What can we say after a game like this, we dominated until the red card. I don’t like to comment on these things, but I don’t think it was the most correct. We fought well, we held on until the very end, but we conceded a goal. We had opportunities to equalize. But now the focus is on the next match, we need maximum support, he pointed out Josip Sutalo.
– Let’s rest well and prepare for Portugal. We’re going for three points, we’ll try to do the best we can in front of the home crowd, he adds.
He also expressed his thoughts Josko Guardiol.
– We did not hope for this outcome, but now everything is still up to us, we have to regenerate as much as possible and prepare for the match with Portugal.
– It is important to be as ready as possible on Monday, he adds.
– It is difficult to analyze a match when the referee kills it. We were absolutely the better team in the first half, we deserved to lead by one or two points, but then the referee ruins the game and then it is difficult to analyze. I think we fought like lions, but we didn’t manage to last until the end. We had chances to win, that Pašalić’s chance, but there it is…, the captain pointed out Luka Modrić.
– The judge was arrogant, he wanted to talk to me, but not to others. I don’t know how to express myself. You don’t give Sučić a card for the first start, you give him two. We received four cards, out of a total of six or seven violations. I guess someone needs to explain to him that not everyone is a start card. To ruin a match like this, which was not rough, is really unbelievable to me.
