The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier
Squad28 Jul 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Robert Knezevic
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiva Zagreb lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Jul 2036
A fracture rules Duje Reić out for 30 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotiva Zagreb will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Jul 2036
Still nobody has beaten Lokomotiva Zagreb
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Jul 2036
A one-man rearguard from Maksim Podliesnyi
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market28 Jul 2036
Only the photograph left for Matías Contrera
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matías Contrera will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiva Zagreb the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Jul 2036
Tempers go at Lokomotiva Zagreb
Mirko Sušak was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings28 Jul 2036
Matija Subotić was immovable
23 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings28 Jul 2036
A defender's afternoon for Nikola Soldo
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market28 Jul 2036
Istra 1961 watching Noa Godec
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Lokomotiva Zagreb have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Aiham Dahche
- Player ratings Cardoso Varela leaves them behind him
- Match No goals between Lokomotiva Zagreb and NK Osijek