克羅地亞隊主教練克拉尼察爾21日告訴國家電視臺，伊維察奧利奇將首發迎戰澳大利亞，以幫助球隊拿下這場必須勝利的比賽。

　　奧利奇將頂替之前狀態不好的17號克拉什尼奇。主教練希望他打入克羅地亞隊本屆世界盃的首粒進球。

　　之前，克羅地亞隊0-1負於巴西，0-0戰平日本。

　　鏈結：http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-fblwc2006gpfcroausolic&prov=afp&type=lgns

　　原文：Olic set to start against Australians

　　June 21, 2006

　　ZAGREB (AFP) - Croatian striker Ivica Olic will start the must win World Cup Group F match with Australia, the Croats coach Zlatko Kranjcar told national television.

　　Olic, who was not fully fit for the first two matches, will replace the misfiring Ivan Klasnic as the 1998 semi-finalists endeavour to score their first goal of the tournament following a 1-0 defeat to Brazil and then a tame 0-0 draw with Japan, leaving them two points adrift of Australia.

　　"With regard to Olic, he is now 100percent fit.

　　"He is better suited to how we will play against the Australians than Klasnic," said 49-year-old Kranjcar.

　　Kranjcar, who has seen the forward line-up of Klasnic, Dado Prso and his son Niko fail to sparkle, said he believed that the strategy he had adopted for the Socceroos clash would at last see their goal drought broken.

　　"After having analysed the Aussies two systems of playing, I think that ours will put us in a situation where we can at last provide the decisive pass and score."

　　Olic has been hit by injuries in the past year, the 26-year-old CSKA Moscow striker suffering a knee injury last August and then having recovered from that was laid low before the finals with a calf injury.

　　作者-北京外國語大學 英語 柳瀚

責編：盧爽