Beijing time on June 25th, in the third round of the European Cup group stage, Croatia will face Italy. Before the game, Croatian player Kovacic attended the press conference.
talked about how he will meet many of his former teammates
Kovacic: "It's great to meet some Italian players, especially Jorginho, who we played together at Chelsea. The game against Italy will be very difficult, they It's well organized, but we know what to do and have to perform well in key moments."
On whether everyone is worried that this will be Modric's last national team game
Kovacic: "We are not thinking about it. Is this his last big game? We are happy and proud that he can lead us and I hope we can perform well. I believe Modric realizes that he needs to lead us and we only focus on this difficult game and nothing else. Consider."
Regarding the outside world's opinion that they are older and their form has declined.
Kovacic: "We have several older players, but we feel very good. We have not shown our true strength many times. We all did it and football gave us the chance to show it again. Everyone has their own opinion and for us it is a huge honor to play for Croatia and hopefully we can play like we always do," said
Spalletti. You have a good relationship. How is your relationship with your former Inter teammates?
Kovacic: "I never played under Spalletti, maybe you confused me with Perisic or Brozovic, but I respect him very much, he achieved great results, tactics Very good. Regarding the players, I am very happy to meet some friends who have played together, such as Jorginho. We have a good relationship on and off the field. "
The performance of the midfielder is not like before, you and Modry. Was this issue discussed between Qi and Brozovich?
Kovacic: "We have no pressure, we are very good friends off the court, and we know that we did not perform well, were not calm and compact enough, and this affected the game. But it doesn't matter, we still have a third game against the powerful Italy Game, we need to do better in terms of composure, we understand each other and hopefully that can be shown again."
What did you learn in Italy?
Kovacic: "Italy taught me a lot, from a tactical and defensive point of view. Look. I had three different coaches who helped me a lot when I was growing up. I was not very good defensively and playing in Italy improved me a lot."
said about it. Tomorrow could be the last game of this generation
Kovacic: "No, we didn't say this will be the end of our generation, we don't think so at all. We are only focused on tomorrow's game and know that we have to win the contest.”
