Dinamo showed for the umpteenth time last night that they have been a serious European team for years. Nenad Bjelica is in his second term on the Blues bench and could very easily write Dinamo’s European history for the second time.
Dynamo the current season can be characterized as turbulent. Purely because of the always unpleasant coaching change and the biggest defeat in the club’s history. The situation in HNL is not the best either, but everyone is somewhat aware that it is Dinamo is still the master of Croatian football and that with eventual relegation from the Champions League, he will put in two more gears and probably overtake Hajduk.
Hajduk has stabilized and a lot of positive things can be said about “To the master from the sea”but the fact is that the roster is very thin and relatively questionable in many positions. The crisis will come, and the question is whether they will be able to get out of it when they are blown right in the back Dinamo with 20+ serious players, Dinamo who, if the forecasts are correct, will play in Europe at least until the very end of February (if they enter the Champions League Play-off).
Dinamo did a lot of good things at the end of last season and at the beginning of this season. The atmosphere was great, the team was really strengthened, and those who were already there obviously became very serious players with the gap of a year (Baturina, Sučić and even Stojković). Thanks to the great European coefficient, Dinamo “missed” a couple of standard European preliminary rounds and the team was perfectly composed for a serious test, Karabagh.
It wasn’t some kind of perfect performance by the Blues, but Champions League was won, five goals were scored and zero conceded. After passing on, colleague Roglic he saw quite optimistically what is to come for Dinamo in the Champions League, but also praised the team as serious and ready for a breakthrough. What he wrote exactly about the current team Dynamo read HERE.
The new Champions League in this league system simply depends a lot on the draw you get. PSG got probably all the worst possible opponents, Celtic probably the best possible, and Dinamo, we’ll agree, did very well. Bayern, Arsenal and Dortmund were there, but against one of the strong ones you simply have to. THIS is how we dissected Dynamo chances after the draw of the first, historic new season was made Champions League.
All this was followed by a collective depression after the defeat of Bayern. There was talk of the worst Dinamo ever, the coach was replaced, and the team was lost Hajduk the Slaven Belup.
Only a month later, when the passions calmed down and the quality came to the fore, we can conclude that we were very likely right in August. None euphoria it must not rise and emphasize what it is Dinamo now ahead of Bayern and a couple of other giants. The reality is just like the title, Dinamo is a serious European team, which the draw quite realistically enabled them to reach among the best 24 teams in Europe.
Whitefish has raised the team, self-confidence is maximum and there is no reason not to think about what is currently quite realistic. After these four points and towards what is to come, which are above all Slovan and Celtic, Dinamo has the right to hope, he would even say that he has to aim for further placement. And defeats like the one against Bayern will certainly still be, maybe under Bjelica and not by such a difference. However, the difference in European football is simply that Goliath sometimes simply cannot and will not win.
Dinamo has already done a lot, and Bjelica has the opportunity to write Dinamo’s European history for the second time in his second term. You just have to believe!
