The Zadar Gazette
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Zadar
Rodrigo Díaz 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Zadar get the job done against Segesta
A 2‑1 win over Segesta, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
One of those days for Tin Vlasic
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.79, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad9 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Rodrigo Díaz
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Díaz, and the manager let it.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Tin Vlasic in the eights
A performance of 8.70 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
One of those days for Ivan Majer
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.62, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Andrej Kasalo out for 21 days
The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Andrej Kasalo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tin Vlasic finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Zadar have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Milan Kovac runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market The Milan Srna story refuses to die
- Market Talks stall between Zadar and Dario Stanisic
- Market Martin Vlasic placed on the list