Telekom Veszprém - Metalurg Szkopje 33:21

 

Telekom Veszprém: Alilovic – Gulyás 2, Iváncsik 4, Schuch, Ilic 3, Gajic 6 (1), Kopljar 2, Chema, Terzic 1, Blagotinsek 5, Sulic 6, Milasevic, Lékai 2, Ligetvári, Tóth 2

  

Metalurg Skopje: Arsic – Petrov, Drogrishki 2, Kosteski 2, Tomovski, Obradovic 3, Kuzmanovski 5, Ilic, Pecenkovski, Nelovski 1, Krstevski 2 (1), Peshevski 5, Palevski 1, Gugleta, Arsenovski

  

Penalties: 1/1 and 3/1

Suspensions: 6 min. and 2 min.

 

 

Xavi Sabaté: First of all congratulations to the guest team. I would like to thank Gergő Iváncsik, for playing ill. I would like to congratulate my team, everyone played well, even the youngsters. The team is not on 100%, we are only working together for 2 days. Everybody is tired a bit, but it is understandable. Laci, Sliskovic, Palmarsson and Ugalde are injured, and we still do not know anything about their injury. In the first half of the season we had 40 games, we had to travel 24 times out of the 40. The defense was very good, Mirko Alilovic was fantastic. Our goalkeeper coach does a brilliant job with the goalies. I was happy for our 18 fast break goals, because we heard we are not fast. I was happy to give a chance to the young players such as Ligetvári who played in the World Championship, which may have been a surprise to many. We started to work with our young talents last year and now everyone can see the result. They played today and will play tomorrow. I am happy for the great work ethic of the team.

 

Mirsad Terzic: Congratulations to Metalurg. It's hard to play against them, they have a very young and fast team. However we had a good defense today, it could be faster and more concentrated, we must work on it. We must improve game by game. As Xavi said, we hope we will get through this period full of with injuries and we will try to play well in every game and win them.

 

 

Lino Cervar: First of all congratulations to Veszprém, they played fair and game a wonderful performance. We knew from the first minute that it is going to be a hard game for the team. Veszprém was the better team today. We started pretty good but during the game we made a lot of mistakes. Veszprém showed that they play in a higher level and they grabbed victory. I hope that the next game will be more successful for my team.

 

Nemanja Obradovic: Congratulations to Veszprém. I can't say more than my coach did. Our opponent was better, they played in a higher level. Today we weren't as good as we really are.

 

 

Photos: Zsolt Melczer