The HNK Rijeka Chronicle
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Tornike Morchiladze runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at HNK Rijeka
Toni Fruk 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Amer Gojak
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Justas Lasickas dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market24 Aug 2026
Antun Marković brings the grey hairs HNK Rijeka lacked
At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Match22 Aug 2026
No goals between HNK Rijeka and Lokomotiva Zagreb
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Lokomotiva Zagreb will be the happier side with the point.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Joris Delle
- Market HNK Rijeka send Aleksa Todorović out for first-team football
- Market The Ethan González story refuses to die