On the evening of June 20th, in the second round of the European Cup group stage, Croatia drew 2-2 with Albania. After two rounds, they only have 1 point, and their prospects of qualifying are not optimistic. However, Croatia coach Dalic said that everything is still in their hands.
Dalic said after the game: “This game was not easy, the first half and the second half were completely different. In the second half, we gave our all and took a 2-1 lead, but then we conceded a goal. It’s very unfortunate, but everything is in our hands. Now we move on, we go fight Italy, nothing is over yet, we haven’t lost anything.”
Speaking of the game, Dalic said: “We wanted to use Perisic and Juranovic on the flanks to create an advantage. Petkovic’s position up front should have given us more possession, but we were too slow. In the last 5 minutes, everything changed. We gave them opportunities.”
On the result, Dalic said: “It’s painful to concede a goal in the last minute, but if you look at the first half, things were still ok. The problem wasn’t tactics, it was poor execution, too slow, too sluggish. I’m sorry we retreated unnecessarily in the last minutes, clearly we lacked strength.”
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