Mud

De Bleeckere

Despite terrible field, it was an easy match to referee, but De Bleeckere had two situations in the penalty box. He didn't award a penalty where he should have. He stopped the game for every contact what was a right decision on a field like that. But the biggest question was why was the game played on such a field. After 20 minutes we couldn't recognize which players play for which team, they were that dirty. The ball was sticky from mud so when a player tried to play a pass it stopped after half a meter.

Match

It was a game without any action, any normal pass. It was just kicking ball from side to side and that was to the benefit of Macedonia because Croatian players couldn't play the skillfull way way they usually do.