Veszprém - Flensburg pregame statements

Ljubomir Vranjes: It is something special meeting the old club of 11 years. There are a lot of players and friends over there. I know what my previous team, Flensburg is capable of. I want to improve the defense a little bit more. We need to have a good defense because they are really fast. Our defensive wall have to be a bit on their feet in the first 15 minutes. We have something to improve there so we can help our goalkeepers more. We have to have their good performance on that game. I think we played pretty well in Celje. In the last 3 games we always scored more than 30 goals a game. I cannot say nothing wrong about the attack. We run much more so we score a lot of goals and the opponent has more time on attack. We are playing at home so I think we are the favorites for this game. I am sure our fans will support us 100%. We are going to do our job for 60 minutes and hopefully together with our fans we can get the 2 points to Veszprém.

 

 

Mirko Alilovic: They had a lot of changes since last year but their main players stayed there. The three back positions are almost the same. I think their most important player is Rasmus Lauge Schmidt. He is playing on the top level and he is a world class player. A lot depends on him. They have a new coach now but the system is the same. They have some problems but as we can see in the Champions League no one can beat anyone easily. We have to play better than we did in Celje but I think that on home court we will have that extra motivation. We would like to show everyone that we are in a good process and that we can play better and better from game to game.

 

 

Gasper Marguc: It will be a special game for us, especially for our coach. This will be the first Champions League game of the season in our own Arena. The games against Flensburg are always difficult. They are a good team, they play fast handball but I think we also play fast games this season. Compared to the Celje game we have to improve our defense. Although it will be a difficult match we are the favorites in our own Arena. We expect two points.

 

 

Dragan Gajic: I think we know them very well. We played against them last year. I think they have not changed much in their style of play. It is going to be an interesting game from many aspects. I think that we will be prepared very well, both in tactics and in the game plan. I hope that the Arena will be full and together with our supporters we can celebrate our first Champions League home win of the season.

 

 

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