and I wonder how anyone can keep Kramaric in the team considering he kicks the ball like a 5-year-old...?
Have you seen our other forwards? Budimir couldn't score from 2 meters and Matanovic is shooting mindlesly from all positions and needs like 10 chances to score 1 goal. For them, Kramaric is Davor Suker. By the way, Kramaric scored ~250 goals (club and national team combined) in his professional career, making him our most prolific scorer ever after beforementioned Suker.
As for coach Dalic, he has a contract for 2 years and the goal is to take Croatia to the World Cup - the League of Nations was less important to them anyway, but they managed to reach the next stage of the competition - the only thing waiting for them there is Spain, Germany or France with which will be very difficult to play.
Unfortunately, even if by some miracle we don't go to WC, they wouldn't sack him. He would maybe get sacked if we miss 2 competitions in a row.
This forum has many Croatian supporters, but I think the time has really come for someone to realize this team is not worthy of their FIFA ranking. Every now and then getting a great game is not gonna sustain any team for long.
Croatia is 12th atm, and to be honest I don't see many (if any) teams that are below us who would be favorites against us if we were to play elimination game.