27th Jul: Croatia

[kompressaur]

Inter Zapresic - Sibenik HNK	Sun 27-07-2008 - 20:00	16	2.10	3.30	3.60	AH	OU	HC	HT
Cibalia Vinkovci - Slaven Belupo Koprivnica	Sun 27-07-2008 - 20:00	15	2.50	3.20	2.75	AH	OU	HC	HT
Varteks Varazdin - Zagreb NK	Sun 27-07-2008 - 20:00	16	2.05	3.30	3.75	AH	OU	HC	HT
Croatia Sesveta Zagreb - Osijek NK	Sun 27-07-2008 - 20:00	16	2.65	3.20	2.60	AH	OU	HC	HT
Hajduk Split - Zadar NK	Sun 27-07-2008 - 20:00	16	1.25	5.50	11.00	AH	OU	HC	HT
Dinamo Zagreb - Rijeka HNK	Sun 27-07-2008 - 20:10	16	1.40	4.40	9.00	AH	OU	HC	HT

[Mrs. Smith]

Hajduk - Zadar
aaaah, begining of the league, best league in the world, forget Premiership, forget Serie A, Bundesliga, forget every other league, this is the one, if you like Monty Pythons that is. So lets start with with my home team, Hajduk. They got some good signings this summer, in order to get closer to Dinamo, played good in friendlies, have a fairy unexperience coach but good one. Zadar sold Hajduk their best player and goalkeeper Subašic. They have 'orible defence and withouth Subasic.... hmmm. Hajduk and Zadar are very friendly teams, if you know what I mean Do I have to say more?
Hajduk won against Zadar last 9 at home with handicap, so what are you waiting? Expecting something like 3-0, 4-0,

Hajduk-Zadar (0:2) 1 @ 2,55

[Mrs. Smith]

Croatia Sesvete - Osijek

First time ever in 1st league for home team, so I expect a huuuge party with lots of beer and kebeb, and dance and hope they will play some football as well. Home team, in this case is not exactly at home, they do not have licence to kill, sorry, to play at they home ground so they travel to Velika to play on Kamen Ingrad stadium, and it is about 180 kilometers away, shite, no beer, no kebab..
Croatia Sesvete is first Croatian club with Serbian coach, Ljupko Petrović, who won CL trophy with Red Star Belgrade last century well in 1991 I think, sorry, to lazy to go and check. They have expirienced players with 1st league expirience, but also some guys that showed up from lower leagues.
Osijek have almost unchanged squad from last season when they finished 3rd, and are experienced cause they play together for last 2-3 seasons already.
They have good coach as well, no big stars in team but very good team in every position. In preparation games Osijek scored lots of goals and conceided some as well, so I'll take over as my first bet on this one
Croatia Sesvete - Osijek over 3 @ 3,10

Only because it is first game for Sesvete I will not go on AW with full stakes, I will do chicken and take Osijek DNB @ 1,75 which is fine with me...

[Mrs. Smith]

when we are talking about licence to play, there are few teams in Croatia that do not have one, so I'll say this only once..

ZADAR goes to ŠIBENIK
Zadar can no longer play at their stadium, so they will have to travel to Sibenik to play.. 80 km away.

CROATIA SESVETE goes to VELIKA
As I said above it is 180 km away, but president of the club said they will make it happend soon, we'll see that.

CIBALIJA VINKOVCI goes to OSIJEK
Cibalija will play in Osijek, 40 km away, so their game against Slaven Belupo is not exactly home game.

[selectabet]

Good stuff Mrs. Smith.

I've never bet on the Croatian League so will watch your tips with interest.

[kompressaur]

FT Cibalia Vinkovci 0 - 0 Slaven Belupo
FT Croatia Sesvete 1 - 1 NK Osijek
FT Hajduk Split 1 - 0 NK Zadar
FT Inter Z. 2 - 3 HNK Sibenik
FT Varteks Varazdin 2 - 1 NK Zagreb
FT Dinamo Zagreb 2 - 0 NK Rijeka

[Mrs. Smith]

Originally Posted by selectabet

Good stuff Mrs. Smith.

I've never bet on the Croatian League so will watch your tips with interest.

oh well, please don't