In a lively appearance coming off the bench, Mateo Kovacic played 20 minutes today in Croatia’s second World Cup feature.
After coming on in the 72nd minute, Kovacic had the second highest pass-success rate on the field with his 16 completed passes at 94%. The 20 year-old played the majority of his time central and linking play from the left, although one of his rare forays to the right led to goal. That included his one successful dribble, which lead to a key pass, culminating in Mandzukic’s second goal. One through ball he played for Eduardo was of sublime quality, setting up the Brazilian-Croat by slicing through Cameroon’s central defenders from the left to center. He ran a total of 2.2 kilometers in his cameo featuring 21 touches of the ball.
Source: InterData (SempreInter associate)
Don’t think he’ll start in the next game tho
Hopefully Croatia make the knockout rounds and we see more of him! Oh shit… They’ll probably face holland-they’re screwed
tbf, croatia is quite strong team with or without kovacic at best and i believe they can cope with this dutch team.
Anytime I think of Inter Milan’s problem, I remember Kovacic then I feel better
+1 my friend. Credits to branca for this haha! Still, it doesn’t make up for his past mistakes.
Kova represents hope for all of us Interisti out there. With each passing year he grows and improves and also the other youngsters represented in Juan and Icardi. Having he team built around those guys, I believe we’ll truly have something great in 2-3 years like Thohir have said. He’s working slowly but surely.
agree
He had a nice match, could start against Mexico, we will see 🙂