If one national team deserves one thread it is the young nation of Bosnia-Herzgowina ! http://transfermarkt.de/en/nationalmannschaft/3446/bosnien-herzegowina/uebersicht/startseite.html Road to WC 2010: Play offs against Portugal taking place on 14th November and 18th November.
Hihi, tomorrow Bosnian Ibisevic/Salihovic and Dzeko/Misimovic will face each other. Super excited but hope is that no one is getting injured before the play offs.
The only thing I wanna see tomorrow is four of them finishing the games as fit as they started. Don't care about the outcome or their performance.
The Bosnians have impressive offensive potential, but the defence seems to be pretty average and could be their huge handicap beneath the lack of experience (at least their manager is an "old fox" Nevertheless, I expect 2 close games against a Portugal without Ronaldo. We'll see...
Exciting match so far. I see the Portuguese Diving Team has shown up in full force. Their dives are absolutely disgraceful........and they just did another one.
0-1 lost, on Bosnias side: 2 times hitting the bar, one time the post. Unbelievable. Pooh, this must be the weakest Portugal side since a long time, if Bosnia cannot make it against them, this would be one big annoying time. Salihovic is playing as a left full back, he was everywhere left. Probably MOTM next to the goalie. Big dissappointment in Misimovic, god, he was so awful. But I do believe that Bosnia will win the second leg.
I haven't seen the game ... but judging from what I saw in the "ZDF Sportstudio" report, Bosnia got totally dominated by Portugal after the interval (and this without Ronaldo) and was lucky not to concede the 0:2. Apparently a good first half by the Bosnians and impressive last 10 minutes. Unfortunately they didn't take their chances to score the 1:1 ... it could have also been 0:2 in the end, though. Surely not the perfect result for Dzeko & Co. , but the chances to qualify are still there. Btw: I noticed that 4 Bosnian players got penalized tonight, Ibisevic among them. Does he have to miss the retour match? If yes, it's surely a huge handicap! EDIT: According to "Kicker", all 4 Bosnian players (and also Deco) saw their first yellow card tonight, so both teams will be in full strength on Wednesday. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...pielbericht_portugal_bosnien-herzegowina.html
I am very curious about FIFA shitting in their pants if Bosnia will score early...Blatter is a Ronaldo fan boy and I am sure we will see strange things this night.
I doubt that the referee will be keen on getting lynched by the crowd. I expect the hosts to score at least 2 goals, so all depends on their defence. If they defend as they did against Spain, even 6 goals won't be enough. )
Portugal did carry the game but they didn't create any terrific chances aside from the goal. On the other hand, we got 5 solid chances: Dzeko chance which just missed to the side. Salihovic big powerful shot that the goalie saved well. Ibricic crossbar. Dzeko crossbar. Muslimovic post. This game, Pjanic and Bajramovic will play, two players that are more talented than the guys who got the cards. Both have been on the bench for different reasons. Pjanic because of inexperience,(despite starting regularly for Lyon and being their key player) Bajramovic because of injuries in the past so others got to be regulars. But these two have what we were missing there, an ability to control and distribute the ball. I can't see us not scoring 2 goals at least.
I dreamed that Bosnia will play a 1-1. Misimovic will be out, many Bosnian's media say. Pjanic' big time ahead.
---------------------------------Hasagic--------------- ------------------- ----------Pandza--------------Nadarevic------------Jahi c-------------- --Ibricic---------------------------------------------- -------Salihovic-- -------------------Pjanic-----------------------Bajramo vic-------------- --------------------------------Medunjanin------------- ------------------
At the end it was not enough. They could have played until tomorrow they would not have scored. Very sad that they did not make it since they played this great qualification.
Bosnia was disappointing in attack tonight (from what I've seen in the highlights, they didn't have one single top chance). But well, it's useless having 2 top strikers when there's nobody to feed them... The dream is over, nevertheless they can be proud of what they achieved! However, maybe it's good that the Bosnian fans (they should learn how to behave first) don't travel to South-Africa. Obviously, many of the former ex-Yugoslavians (except for the Slovenians) don't know what fair play means. I bet that FIFA is gonna react after tonight's incidents!
Misimovic, worst in the first leg against Portugal, has announced that he did not take part in the second leg due to personal problems with the coach. And now he will step down from the national team as long as Ciro will be coach. Super mad at Misimovic.
Shorter. Very fast. Good technical skills. Dangerous in the box. Scored a lot of goals these past 2-3 years. Is underrated in Croatia because he's not Croatian. For instance, he scored just as many goals as their top 2 young strikers Kalinic and Mandzukic the past 2 years, yet they for some reason have a much higher price tag than Zec. Whoever gets Zec will get just as good of a striker (who can also play wide) for cheaper. Good player overall and we have good hopes for him in our National Team. Would love to see him in the Bundesliga since that's the league where Bosnians do the best in it seems.
Lol, Germany will face Bosnia in friendly before the WC 2010. Yeah, how great is that ? http://www.bild.de/BILD/sport/fussb...9/12/16/letzter-test/deutschland-bosnien.html