The Zadar Gazette
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Mario Corluka takes the afternoon — 9.23
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mario Corluka provided it, and the 9.23 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Robert Rebic runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Kristijan Vrsaljko says Zadar went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Oct 2026
Zadar make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Zadar have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Zadar
Niko Livaja and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Robert Rebic falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mario Corluka is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.27 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Ivica Lovren
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match17 Oct 2026
Zadar find a way past Lucko
Lucko made Zadar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- The dugout Mato Babic: “That is the standard”
- Squad Mario Corluka named player of the week
- Market No place for Kristijan Bjelica in the plan