Barracudas in the fourth Olympic semi-final
The Croatian national team will play the semifinals of the Olympic tournament in Paris against Hungary on Friday evening, starting at 19:35.
Menu Ivica Tucak will shortly before the semi-final match:
- We will try to keep them away from the goal. They are not as strong in team counterattacks as the Spaniards, for example. They often fly out, go into one-on-one counters where they are strong of course. We have to be smart, decisive, reduce the game to as few goals as possible. If we go to the game with 14-15 goals, it will be problematic.
Konstantin Harkov:
- We know more or less everything about them, as they do about us. Both through clubs and through representative duels. Hungarians play a little differently than most national teams. They enter from all positions at two meters, they have excellent centers. And to be clear, they have two excellent left-handers.
Marko Žuvela:
- I am deeply convinced of our good preparation and that we can repeat the game against Spain. With that kind of desire and will, and an attitude as if there is no tomorrow, and we will certainly set ourselves up like that in the semi-finals, I clearly hope for success. As they say, we will "die" for that victory. We need to prevent 'waiting' goals, especially foul shots, and counterattacks. If we are compact like the match before, and aggressive.
This is our fourth Olympic final, after Atlanta in 1996, London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Should we mention that so far, in all three previous semi-finals, Croatia has reached the final. Well, let such a tradition continue
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Barracuda record viewership
As many as 13,100 spectators watched the quarter-final match of the Olympic Games in Paris, Croatia - Spain from the stands of the La Defense Arena, which was filled to capacity. It is the largest visit to a match of the Croatian national team in history.
The previous record was 11,500 spectators who watched the European Championship match in Belgrade 2016, Croatia - Serbia.
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Croatia – Hungary
Ratio at the Olympic Games
Total: 3 1 0 2 27:32
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Total ratio
75 22 6 47 676:782
