So, today is Thursday, my favorite day of the week. This Thursday I'll meet with my boyfriend after one week apart, yay! I couldn't sleep last night cause i was excited haha :D who'd say i'd be like that after a year and a half together :) awesome :)
Anyways, about football. Yesterday I watched Dinamo-Helsinki match, 2nd leg of qualifications for Champions League. Dinamo had 2-1 from first match in Helsinki so they were all 100% certain that it's already done. Tickets for the match were sold out hours after sale began. They were only 0.25 and 1.25 pounds!! So, the stadium was full, atmosphere was awesome, weather was nice, some would say perfect conditions. I won't write the match report, I was tweeting about it yesterday and only few cared for that, so :P I'll say most important stuff. As one Croatian news portal said, they(the audience) payed 1 pound for football, and that was what they got. Dinamo played good,i'd even say great, for first half an hour. 70% possession, constant attacking, good chances, no goals. But then they kinda relaxed, especially in second half. Luckily, Helsinki is really not so good so they didn't take advantage of that relaxed Dinamo. They should have, at least the match would be more interesting. Crowd was booing players and manager, they want him to leave. Dinamo's manager is Krunoslav Jurčić, one of the amazing Croatian '98. generation that was 3rd in the world. But as a manager, he plays for result, not for the beauty of the game. That was the case yesterday, and in every league game so far. That's why people don't like him so much. Yes, they had chances yesterday, but no goals, until the end of the match, when Ibanez scored in 90th minute. And people just forgot about everything haha, classic. Dinamo is in next round, waiting for their new opponent, which will be known on Friday after the draw.
Arsenal was interested in buying some Dinamo players, Vrsaljko and young Mateo Kovačić. No deal was made cause Dinamo wanted too much money. I'm happy for that, cause I really think they are not worth it, especially young Kovačić. He played a lot yesterday. One Dinamo's player got injured in first half, and Kovačić came on. I can't help myself, but I reaaaaaaaaaally don't like him. I only saw mistakes yesterday. He is still too young, he has so much to learn and he has to grow a bit more to be fit for Premiership. Vrsaljko on the other hand was great, had some great chances, he was both in defense and in attack, I liked him. I wouldn't mind if we try to buy him for next season. He can only get better, especially if Dinamo will play in Europe a bit longer that before.
And today is Europa League Qualification day! I'm finally going to watch my hometown team, NK Varaždin! They play vs Dinamo Bucharest today, 2nd leg. It was surprisingly good in Bucharest. They drew, 2-2, and no one expected that(me neither :D ). Croatian media acted like they were not even playing. I was so mad.. But thankfully, Varaždin proved them all wrong. They are very young team, and in big financial problems. Players didn't get their last 6-7 paychecks, or even more. Couple of young and perspective first team players left at the beginning of preseason,and no new players were bought. Varaždin is the kind of team that makes the players,and them sells them at the end of the season to have some profit. I'm sure if they were together for 2 years or more,they could do big things. So, today they just have to keep the result, maybe score a goal or two and show the Croatian media and public that you can play good and get results without any money. :)
As for "my weak nerves" part of the title, I had to download Google Chrome :( I've always been a FIrefox girl. I love it so much, you can personalize EVERYTHING! But.. it got so slow.. I don't know what they're doing there in Mozilla Labs, but I want them to fix that as fast as possible. This Chrome is so...empty...simple...easy...plain...I don't like it,although is so fast. I just miss my toolbars, my colorful buttons, Personas, and everything.. Hope Firefox will get better...
Anyways, thanks for reading! If Varaždin plays good today, I'd maybe write another post today just to praise them :D haha :D
Roza
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