Petkovic, Croatia’s hero against Brazil, revealed if the DT has a special plan in place to stop Lionel Messi

Bruno Petkovic scored the most important goal of his career last Friday. That left footed shot that deflects into Marquinhos and beats Alisson conceded Croatia reach the penalties and eliminate Brazil, giving one of the shots of the World Cup scene in Qatar. Now, in projection, comes the Argentina national team try to play the decisive match again like four and a half years ago in Russia, and advance if the coach zlatko dalic prepare a special plan to stop the captain Lionel Messi.

“We don’t have a plan or an individual idea on how to stop Messi., we will not focus on a single player. I don’t think we will have a special plan for just one person, Argentina has many good players and it’s difficult to focus on just one,” he said at a press conference this Sunday about the player from Rosario, who joined Gabriel Batistuta as the top scorer in history at the World Cup

The Dinamo Zagreb striker claimed that the secret to surviving two consecutive penalties, against Japan in the round of 16 and against Brazil in the quarter-finals, is to keep calm.

“Many people are excellent at taking a penalty, but the difference is calmYou have to resist the pressure. And there’s our goalkeeper, who you can always count on and who makes your life easier. In those moments you see the character of the team, and ours has a huge one,” he said.

He acknowledged that the goal achieved before the end of extra time was the “most important” goal of his career and that he will forever cherish it as one of his fondest memories.

“Now, after some time, I’m aware of what that meant. I don’t know what can match that feeling. I hope to find out in the semifinals and maybe after that,” said Petkovic, who has declared himself a fan of Brazil’s Ronaldo Nazario.

“He was a player who played football with ease, he liked the sport, everyone seemed to be fighting on the pitch and he enjoyed himself and played with a smile. He had movements that no one will be able to do.”he trusted.

On the other hand, he considered that “with each passing game the team has more and more confidence”.

“As far as I’m concerned, scoring a goal in the last minutes gives a lot of confidence, but if you also look at extra time, in which we were 1-0 down, the team didn’t give up. We all believed it, we all said we were still in time. This is the strength of a team, which does not give up and which has a self-confidence that is not based only on people. We have a lot of faith in the players and in the coach,” he said.

consulted by Dominik Livakovicteammate at Dinamo Zagreb and one of the great architects of the Croatian advance, underlined that “he’s a great goalkeeper”, “a hard worker, he analyzes every situation after every game, maybe too many times”.

“He’s very critical of his mistakes, I think he doesn’t even sleep after a few games. Work and try to improve constantly. We knew how he was training and now he’s showing it to the whole world,” she said.

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