Group F Discussion: Argentina, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Iran, Nigeria

Blu Bianco · June 22, 2014

mitch said:
Disaster for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We will surely lose to Iran and help them move into second round.

What was going on there? I thought Bosnia were much better than that.

It was like they never showed up, and the manager playing the winger Lulic at left back and not doing anything about it when he could see it wasn't working!

Yeah, Dzeko's disallowed goal was one of the, if not the, worst decisions of the tournament this far but he had a few more, simple for him, chances which he failed to convert.

He was complaining about the referee this morning, saying that it was his fault they were going home. The disallowed goal is understandable, but he was also complaining about the Nigerian goal. He is well wrong though on that, Spahic was not fouled, Emenike was just way too good for him.

mitch · June 23, 2014

Blu Bianco said:
What was going on there? I thought Bosnia were much better than that.

It was like they never showed up, and the manager playing the winger Lulic at left back and not doing anything about it when he could see it wasn't working!

Yeah, Dzeko's disallowed goal was one of the, if not the, worst decisions of the tournament this far but he had a few more, simple for him, chances which he failed to convert.

He was complaining about the referee this morning, saying that it was his fault they were going home. The disallowed goal is understandable, but he was also complaining about the Nigerian goal. He is well wrong though on that, Spahic was not fouled, Emenike was just way too good for him.

Who knows?

Surely something gone bad... I wrote about it before, there were lots of problems in last months. Džeko and Spahić are the ones who create the squad, they decide who will get called up and who won't. They decided that this Ibričić guy will get called up although he rarely plays in Turkish second division. They decided to go to camp in the center of Sarajevo instead of some peace and quiet place in Bosnia Herzegovina or even in Austria - result is that players look like 50 year olds, couldn't run for 45 minutes. They don't like Hajrović and they were against manager's decision to give him a call up to the squad. Džeko's father publicly attacked manager (Spahić too, few days later) after he did not sub Džeko in friendly game in March althouhg it was arranged that he will play for only 45 mins.

Also, manager is tactical fool, he was astonishing player, one of Yugoslavia's finest ever, but he sucks as manager. He thinks that names play, that Džeko and Pjanić equals win against likes of Nigeria. Also, he invited his nephew although that guy does not deserved to get call up, he invited player from his brother's players agency that also has no room in 23. Classic Balkanic nepotism.

On saturday Džeko looked uninterested, Pjanić too, Spahić was lousy, some players were far away from their ideal position... goalie saved us, we should have lose by 3-4 goals. I don't like to mention referees - although there was big mistake there, I don't blame them, we should have won no matter one goal was disallowed or not.

It will be interesting to watch what would NT look like in forthcoming period - I think Israel and Wales will make tough opposition on our road to 2016 EC. Changes are needed, asap.