What if England had Luka Modric?
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- Leeds and Ireland legend John Giles reviews England's World Cup semi final defeat to Croatia and emphasises the importance of the midfield battle
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Croatia consists of players from Real Madrid, Juventus, Athletico Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, AC Milan etc. Intimidated by reputation of players from Leicester, Tottenham and Everton?? Nah...
HelgeKS Croatia have good players for sure, but Inter Milan and AC Milan are not big European clubs any more. They don't come close to winning Serie A.
Anyway, Harry Maguire won't be at Leicester next season...no way! And maybe Pickford won't be at Everton....we'll see...
This Croatia team is at its peak time, while this England team is just beginning it's journey. It's all good...😁
Alchemy * take a look at croatian under 21 players and then tell me we don't have players for the future. As example:
Letica FC Brügge
Sosa VfB Stuttgart
Caleta-Car Red Bull Salzburg
Benkovic Dinamo Zagreb
Majer Dinamo Zagreb
Coric AS Roma
Balic Udinese
Rog Napoli
Vlasic FC Everton
Moro Dinamo Zagreb
Brekalo VfL Wolfsburg
Sego Hajduk Split
And then we have Kramaric, Rebic, Pjaca, Brozovic, Kovacic, Vrsaljko and Jedvaj who are 27 or younger
Rioma ofcourse you have players developing, but it's unlikely you'll have two as good as Modric and Rakitic at the same time. Maybe this was your golden generation!?
Alchemy * do me a favour and take a look on some of these players, especially lovro majer and filip benkovic. You would be surprised. Sure not all of them will succeed. But modric and rakitic will play at least 4 more years, so im really not scared. I guess our golden generation will come. Because in defense we have good players, but thats our biggest instability. Especially left back, even strinic played very well this tournament.
England will come in next time. You left the curse of penalties and bad goalkeepers behind you and are blessed with many talents
Alchemy * that's what we thought for the generation of '98. Šuker alone scored 6 goals in that world cup
Modric is truly one of a kind. Amazing little fella, plays like no one is around him
ljerci5 The best description of him. When we watch him play I'm sure the day seems better. :)
Kante
things that make Modric better than everyone: review of the game, distribution of the ball, change of rhythm, quick thinking, in addition he has top technique and physical fitness
Hope Croatia beats Wakanda in the finals.
hahahahahaha
Looool
😂😂😂👍
Rob Curios hahahahhahah
Isn t Wakanda the 51st state of union?
England simply does not have better players on any position no matter how much you think it.
Croatia has better player on every position even the coach is better.
Dumb Dumber Croatia has better players because they are honestly some of the hardened players. So much experience with that team. England may be young, but youth doesn't always beat experience.
What if croatia had same amount of money as england...
or the same population...
International players play for nothing.
@@barnbersonol he was talking about how much England puts money in football academies ad footbal talents and how much Croatia does, its not even close, young players from Croatia develop in terrible conditions
@Vegeta Dbiop 😂😂😂
@@barnbersonol You miss points like ramos misses penalties
Players from Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, Inter Milan, Liverpool, AC Milan, Monaco, Atletico Madrid etc. intimidated by...? My goodness, such poor analysis. The Croats were rocked by the early goal and England's pace. Later, their superior quality showed through.
agree..if we compare the two teams...Croatia has players in top Europe leagues and are playing in champions league kinda every year...Rakitić and Modrić are kinda in semi finals or finals of Champions League every year...and Kovačić/Real Madrid player that lets face it...does not even have a spot in first 11....do we need to say more ...Modrić won last 4 champion league cups...i mean...common..
You are right mate. First goal was a major blow. It took some time time for Croatia to adapt and we had to survive. Second goal from England would kill the game. But after we scored England really had no chance..We were superior to them..
I was thinking the exact same thing and I can't even finish watching this video LOL Terrible analysis.
@@ztislaric I predicted England would only score on penalty.
Luka Modrić is really, really good, but Croatia is much more than any one player.
Then people would see him as a God of football, hes underrated because hes from Croatia
Great video and you explained it so good about Modric! There is only one Modrić 💪🇭🇷⚽️👌The Best in the football History! Absolutely Amazing. Amazing, Amazing ⚽️👌 Everyone is gonna miss him...Amazing ball feeling ⚽️👌
A je da je Baba musko zvala bi se Duško.
hahhahah tako je
moj je kometar bio za naziv videa a ne za kaj je deda pričo.
whitemagmacro pa i odgovorio ti je ,, tako je '' za odgovor na naziv videa, a ne kaj je deda rekao
ne bio je jedan drugi odgovor na moj komentar, valjda je komentar izbrisao sad.
Ima li ko cenera posudit
lol, if they had Modric they would not know how to use him, they had Scholes for years, please stop the jokes.
Jw Wu To be perfectly honest, neither did we. Only after Dalic took over did every player come in his right place and start connecting with each other. Also, not only is he fantastic tactician, he did a miracle in mental readiness department, something which was always lacking in Croatian team. They were always fantastic physically and technically, but due to lack of mental conditioning, they could have beaten world champions and lose against middle schoolers, any time. That all changed this yeat, and credits go to Dalic. His calmness and level headedness spread over to whole team. Did you see Argentina? Exactly opposite thing happened. Coach acts as cranky 10 year old, and so does most of the team.
Tom Pax, Dalic did well, congratulations to him, taking a small nation to the WC finals is an overachievement in itself anytime. Croatia have my respect for playing at 120% and pressing so hard, they gave a good contest.
Southgate may have used him. He got an average team to semis so who knows.
Croatia would have been intimidated by Engerand? Are you joking? Look at the clubs our guys play for and the clubs their guys play for. No contest, Croatia is better hands down.
Iggsy81 I doubt Croatia were intimidated, but to say hands down haha. Game of two halves. England was by far the better team in the 1st half and Croatia was better in the 2nd etc. 2-0 at half time and its a different game. Credit to Croatia for showing determination. Deserve the win. The English team done well in the WC considering average age and inexperience.
I was at this game, also 2007 on Wembley.
Let me make one thing clear: Croatia most certainly were not intimidated by England and the the "big clubs" they play for. What the f%ck did I just watch, seriously. 🙄
Yes they were, they were intimidated by the massive size of the pundit's delusion and ego.
Jw Wu 😂😂😂
What if Croatia had a population of 56 million people like England?
We keep former Real Madrid player ,currently one of better mid field players in Premierleague- Kovacic -at bench lol
They'd still find a way to lose
even if they had modric? nicely said :)
lol
They (England) can only lose at the finals against France.
England had one of the greatest midfield player of his generation in paul scholes, and they didnt know how to use him
Because english believe in box to box running and power shots.They don't know the importance of holding mid fielders. That's why they waste their energy in first 60 mins and get exposed later
Oh goodness
Enough already
England can’t have a Modric because you don’t have skilled players because you always overhype average players because your people are just not good enough
Accept it find ways to better yourself and move on
Not at the moment they dont, but the last generation of english players was better than anything Croatia has ever produced, paul scholes used to school modric in the premier League and make him look like a pub team player, scholes could do what modric could and more and score 20 goals a season in his prime.
steven gerrard, lampard , david becham, they was all better than modric, dont get me wrong modrics a world class player, but england sometimes produce great players, they just cant use them in the right way, england play to direct and can be very predictable, when their up against a world class side, their really easy to work out, all they do is string 5 passes together then put the ball into the box over and over again , they dont probe and look for opening and work the ball.
@@ivanjankovic3740 To be fair buddy i was only having a bit of banter with the Croatian fan who originally commented above, i actually have a lot of respect for the Croatian players and team, they play some fantastic football and play the game in the right manner, you will never see them try and cheat, they don't dive and play act and they don't ref bait, and are perhaps the most honest team along with england in world football, and Modric and paul scholes are more or less a carbon copy of one another as far as their styles of play are concerned, scholes scored a lot more goals but modric is happy to sit in the midfield and dictate play more, their about the same overall, and i think he deserved his awards this year too,
to quote iGOR ŠTIMAC while he met Rio Ferdinand.....we have 89 cups and england only 19.....
what if, what if... Croatia has him, England doesn't, end of the story. What if Croatia had 11 Luka Modric's? C'mon.
Jhon Giles speaks so much sense very educational listen
The best commentary on the game so far
Pavo Mrnarevic yes -- this man is a real analizer
intimidated by reputation ??? LOL what reputation ???
BigDrama Show right? this was the only thing about he said that I couldn't agree
Premier league players
again what reputation ???
BigDrama Show they’re referring to the fact that all the English players are premier league .
Say what you want but only The bundesliga and La liga compete with the EPL for quality . A sizeable portion of the Croatia team don’t.
Not saying they should have been intimidated obviously as look what happened but it so easily could have been the case .
yea i know they referring to premier league , but those players in england team dont have that good reputation in premier league
Croatia has better players playing for better clubs and a better footballing nation
Croatia v Africa, who will win ???
Nevsack63 🇭🇷
Africa
Croatia.
You mean all those guys born in France
car9melo, You’re stupid if think our lineage is based on country where we’re born..
LMAO - where did you find this nabo. Croatia won because Dalić told his players to keep the ball close to the ground in second half and outplay the English through skill.
England don't have a modic because the English game prizes athleticism over artistry.
England play for 60mind at high pace.
if they are two goals up by then then they are fine (like v Sweden or Panama).
they are ok. if not (as v croatia or Tunisia or columbia) they will run out of steam and be hard back.
Brozović was croatian best player in midelfeld in that game!!!!
Brozović was very good and worked very hard ( he ran over 16km which is a world record ) but modrič was the leader of the team and without him we wouldn’t have won.
He is once a generation type of player and it will be difficult to find a replacement but we eventually will😀
England have enough foreigners without Modric !
shredder They need English Modric, did you even watch the video?
Heheheh, if you only could have one of our Players in the midfield...
2-1 supermario mandžukić 🇭🇷❤
the key words: "....the first test they had."
Great and super analizer
Modric the best player!
Croatia is not only Modrić.
"First time they got the preasure on defence"? Like, you don't remember that you also lost the game against Belgium in group.
If England had Luka Modric they would have 12 players !
nice 1 lol
What if England had Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, De Gea, Ramos, Kroos, Pogba, Kante, Mbappe, Griezmann etc.? Lmao, What if. These so called experts and pundits getting more stupid everytime they open their mouth.
I think the reason the question works is because they're asking "What if England had an excellent midfield player?". Since that's where they were most lacking.
I see your point but the media always use "What if", every single team England get's knocked out or loses. They had Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney and still didn't qualify for the Euros 08. Then again, of course Modric would make England stronger.
You couldn’t have said it better..pundits make this stuff as they go along..3 weeks ago they were fawning over the unstoppable Germans...
They'd probably still blow it !!
France had no midfield at all and ...
Its crazy how top teams in the world dont have anybody who can slow the game down, a midfielder like MOdric. You are at that top level, and you don't have someone like that. It's just crazy.
Tbf Modric is unique, there are maybe 3-4 midfielder EVER that are on his level and all of them are legends of the game. No matter how much talent and money you have you simply cant just easily find someone like that
Modric is like Beckham and Giggs together
Intimidated for sure,even more than against Messi &Co...
Incredible how people who dont know football end up in tv looool
What if Ireland actually qualify for a World Cup 🤨🤔🤔
If they had Modric Southgate would play him at left back.
Steven Johnstone :) :) :) lmao
What if England had Modric, Ronaldo and Messi? They wouldn't suck! What a surprise lol
A match takes 90 minuts....Modric is not from this Planet...
I agree he was kept quiet in the first half but when England tired Modric came more into the game and when Henderson came off Modric had much more space. England need another Paul Gascoigne. 1990 England had a great midfield Platt, Gascoigne and Steven. Gascoigne would still be a key man today. Modric 2018 ballon d'or though I still think that is a bit of a joke for not awarding Thierry Henry in 2004 when no one in the world was better.
Henderson would never be able to actually succesfully man mark Modric, Modric is a master of being unable to press, he is perfect under pressure and getting out of it so someone like Henderson simply wouldnt be aboe to do it, we've seen it plenty of times in UCL too
England will never have player like Modric. Hit and run, crossing, corners, free kicks... that's English style and culture of playing football.... and I almost forgot long ball style. Hahaha
England have had many players better than modrics , including 5 Ballon d'Or winners.
Do you really think all the great english clubs in the late 70 and early 80 who had not 1 foreigner playing for them, dominated europe playing that type of football, Liverpool won the chapions league in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, Nottingham Forest won in 1979, 1980 Aston Villa won in 1982 , they all played flowing football.
England and english teams can play good football when the quality is there to do so :)
They didn't do nothing as national team last 50 years. Last twenty years all best players in premier league was foreigners and specially today. All best managers are foreigners. That's is fact.
I agree with you buddy, about the english national team, but in the 1990 world cup england had a decent chance of getting to the final that year and perhaps could of won it ,if they had a bit more luck in the semi against germany ,they were the better team that day and out played germany at times, same goes for euro 96. england were once a top 6 side for decades.
I also agree with your comment about the premier league, but i would say the last 15 years i cant argue with you there,
They would still have lost the semi with the slow paced Harry Kane at the front. Perhaps the guy couldn't shoot with left foot. It's not about one person. England's midfield had been very solid butvthe chose to play long ball most of the time. With fast and physically strong Vida Kramaric, Rebic and Perisic who practically runing the entire pitch, they stood no chance. If Croatia had the skill and control of Suker in this match it could have been worse for England.
England's best team ever after 1966 was the Euro 96 lineup; fast, strong, charismatic, more physical and tactical approach and with full passion i.e., Sheringham, Ince, Gascoigne, Scholes, Neville Bros., Shearer, Anderton etc., that team and the characters have been irreplaceable until today.
England have great team, only middle it is hole . Young players, fast wings, striker like Kane. Gret from Croatia 4 all sports people. Ajmo Hrvatska!!
This Croatian team is at it's peak, while the England team is very young and just beginning it's journey. English football is progressing; there has been big investment in the infrastructure, and we are current world champions at under 17, 18 and 20 age groups. Just think about that for a while....it hasn't happened before! There is a clear strategy in place, and it appears to be having an affect already.
Serbia had u21 world champions. They also had a generation before that one, who have beaten modric, kranjcar, mandzukic, da silva and most of our todays players 2 times easily.
But where are they now? Does anyone remember their name?
Croatia has great young players who will come on eventually for senior squad. But being great at young age means (mostly) nothing. Somehow a lot of young players simply don't make it, or at the very best, don't fulfill their potential.
But with all that said, I wish you all the best :)
Marin K. I agree that only a certain percentage goes on to be top level players, and many will end up in the lower leagues.
I'll also add that England U21's have won the last 3 Toulon tournaments, which we've never achieved before, so the point I'm making is that so far there seems to be a new-found level of success and consistency. This hasn't happened before! Coincidence? Or results of long term investment and planning? Only time will tell I guess...👍🤔
Great analysis. England having proper peak atm and Croatia at the bottom after changing 14 players since 2018 😂
guys, a win by britain would have been a huge upset. the croats were favorites to win and did so in style. end of story. only weird islanders would disagree.
In that scenario, England was supposed to face France at the finals so England was definitely the favorite to beat Croatia. This is why the organizer wanted to take steps to ensure England reach the finals by rigging the match towards England.
lots of revisionist history here and its only been a day. Sweden are awful? really? Dominated Mexico, Dominated Germany.
Colombia, Sweden and Croatia are not "easy teams". If harry kane finished or passed the ball to sterling, its a real different game.
If a ballistic missile flew onto the pitch and defected perišić's shot into the goal, it's a real different game.
First of all Kane was offside even if he did score which he obviously didn’t... and it was saved by Subasic for your information...It wouldn’t have counted Sherlock... Perisic hit the post right after Croatia scored for 1-1... if that goes in game is not going to extra time... let’s not mention England really only good chance of the game came from a free kick on the edge of the box... other than that they had absolutely NOOO chances to score.. obviously I’m not counting Kanes “miss” since he was offside and they called it offside... and he was offside which even if they didn’t call V.A.R would have called back
You had Scholes Gerrard Lampard... :D
Pb Clips But they didn't know how to play them, Eriksen was huge failure.
@@stevem2323 Stevie deseeved so much more in his career
When Scholars was playing we should have built the midfield around him with Gerrard or Lampard bursting forward
What if QPR had neuer?
He's right we don't have a midfield, it's patchy af
It is unlikely that Modric would make it into the professional game in England let alone play for the England team. There is so much wrong with English footballers it is demonstrated again and again every year in the players picked to represent England.
Typical EPL BS. EPL is only league Giles watches or knows. Who on the English team plays for clubs with the caliber of Real Madrid, Barca or Juve like Ratitic, Modric etc? Answer, none. Afraid of England? Mega BS Giles.
You want to mark Modric ...... good luck with that!;-)
Modric is the most successful Tottenham player😂
I blame the Queen!
Go woke go broke. Croatia doesn't bend the knee stupidly before each game. Our players are proud
Croatzien 🇭🇷🇭🇷💪💪👍👍
England should've took Wilshere......... (he laughs)
direct elimination :england don't play world cup
Lol, no bud!test assured that Croatia does not get intimated
That’s like saying Downton Abbey should be in Croatia. NO!!!!!
Kings Landing forever.
you would still be out.. shoutout to martin taylor the first hired football career killer who broke modrics and eduardos leg in a very suspicious time span and dissapeared from the football map afterwards, england losing on purpose against ukraine so croatia misses out on the world cup.. nahhh no finals for you
what if Croatia had Ronaldo?if we win the world cup?wtf this argument?analized your team and maybe found a problem why the worl cup don't came home after 1966
He said intimidated by England players wow wow wow biiiiiiig mistake mate,how can Real Barcelona Juventus Atletico Madrid player be interested by players who play for Everton Tottenham and other English teams???man what a arogance emglish have.
Why sub sterling
psssssst this is something you don't want to hear, but is the truth, ok= ok...it' s not just one guy, not just Luka, every Croatian guy is at least twice better then english...voila
I suppose modric hasn’t time on his side but he is stylish player
I need to cut my toenails.
spyingcactus me too
Cut mine yesterday, after weeeeeks without doing it
They didn't. Deal with it.
John is a vary smart man...he is spot on.pelz come back too rte... and get rid of Duff and the other ediot..
This guy talks alot of sense they dont have a holding midfeider but even that loftus chick was their bring him on
England it’s always a what if isn’t it.....please there’s no need to speculate about things that will never happen or players you can’t have
Then he wouldn't be Luka Modric
Love England but, you've had ball playing midfielders (Paul scholes, micheal carrick) you always chose physicality and pace over the brain..no goals from open play against stronger teams is telling..you simply bully teams, ie---Panama but ball playing teams show your lack of quality ie--Belgium...."i can turn a footballer into an athlete but i can never turn an athlete into a footballer" johan cruyff...
What if Croatia had Kane
If baba have kur... Dont need a Djedicu
Intimidated by English reputation? What reputation? They did nothing relevant since 1966 lol.
Lol they would still loose...
Henderson needs also Erikson and Dembele at Tottenham to make anything. He never takes the ball forward. Totally overrated
Or what if England had Ronaldo cr7
Thank the lord they didnt as I'm scottish
What if my granny had a pair of baws? She’d be my granda.. stupid arguments..
Just reach to your former colonies like any other imperial SOBs. Ignore English boys who play fooball 24-7 and dreaming about national team. and wait another 66 years.
I'd take Kane over Modric.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha kane hahahahahahaha
Laughing. And messi and mbappe and de Bruyne and...
england does not have better players?!!? what?!?! What?!!? what?!?! raheem stirling is useless. defense is sub-par. john stones and trippier are the okay ones in the entire squad. stop insulting croatia's players. jokes
that england team was the weakest england team ever...
That England team was also the worst world cup finalist ever. Most likely even worse than Germany 2002.
The english are so ignorant and this interview shows it 😂
Well this was a waste of time
yeah Modric is better than Deli Alli but he's also ten years older so swap? No thanks!
Yes but Ali will never reach modric's level or win so much trophies like he did or even play for club that big as RM, so if l need to pick one of these two l always go for modric tehnique and brains
@@role6159 That's true but he's at the end of his career. He might have one tournament left in him but no more.
Barkley was a big miss for them...
Long term injury and has whilst was an excellent prospect has not moved on with his game in the last 3 years. Not sure why. I am sure in another league he would be excellent
Haha oh my God .. The English national team has players from all over the world .. British colonies you know, English black man haha come on ... And now you want more of our players hahaha .. To have a population of 3 billion you are no better than 4 million croats .. You know why? You are the conquerors of the countries, and we have been used to dying for your country and holy faith for centuries!
Oh I don't think you understand how it works. If you live in a former colony like India you can't play for England.
Joj koja spika...