Two upsets seems to be happening. Azerbaijan and Serbia match is tied at 1-1 now, after 80 minutes of play. And Cyprus is leading Slovenia 1-0 after 79 minutes. Cyprus have a history of causing upsets and if they can defend well for another 10-15 minutes, then we will get to witness another upset victory by the islanders. But keep an eye on Montenegro vs Norway and Slovakia vs Russia (about to start in a few hours).
Slovenia lost to Cyprus, which is another surprising result in group H.
In this group, it seems, there are no clear favorites and anyone can beat anyone.
Malta and Cyprus can obviously surprise all the favorites in the group.
At the moment, it seems that this group will be one of the most uncertain in the European qualifications.
Good for us (Croatia), we played 3 bad games and finished this mini cycle on top of the group
To be fair I only started watching the game today after minute 60 and 4 subs already made and I am thinking that it must have been bad first 60 minutes if Dalic decided to change that much players and bring Modric in.
This is shaping to be a group where all favorites will spill points on regular basis.
Trust me, you didn't miss a thing
Once again, it turned out that Croatia has big problems when the opposing team defends exclusively with all 11 players.
There are no pre-arranged actions, the players are too slow and the opponent manages to set up and block every attack.
Honestly, if Perisic had not scored, it would have been difficult for Croatia to win this match.
Fortunately, other national teams are not playing well in this group either, they are struggling and losing points and that is the only good news for Croatia.