Pesevski: „We’re prepared, focused and ready to win!“
Металург се надева да ја прекине серијата без освоен бод
After a year-long break Tatran will once again travel to Skopje to meet Metalurg. Match is scheduled for Sunday, 20.30 CET in ‚Boris Trajovski‘ sports hall where hosts will look to end negative series of four defeats in a row. In their last match they were a step away from surprising Meshkov at home and on the other side Tatran is coming to Macedonia after a road victory from Nasice against NEXE.
Score between these two teams in direct encounters is 4:3 in favour of Metalurg. A season ago, in their last two matches Tatran has managed to reach two victories. However, Metalurg is this season on a good level losing with only one goal difference against favored Vardar and Meshkov. They have even managed to play a highly competitive match against reigning champions which proves that it won’t be easy to take points away from Skopje in face-offs against Cervar’s boys. Home team however has certain problems with injuries - Dragas, Mladenovic and Velkovski are still dealing with minor problems and are questionable for the duel against Tatran.
Lino Cervar, Metalurg coach:
Tatran is the strongest team in Slovakia, a team that has a
very strong back line in attack and we must pay more attention to the
transition element of the game where we must achieve more goals. I am
pleased with our recent performances, we’re slowly reaching good form, getting
closer and closer to our rivals, However, we’re a young team and it is
important to stay with both feet on the ground. We have some injured players
like Velkovski, Dragas and Mladenovic and on Sunday we’ll have to play with what
we’ll have available. I’d like to invite fans to come and support us which is
important for our young players and their development.
Zarko Pesevski, Metalurg
player:
Metalurg so far has three matches against strong teams this
season but it is important to note that we did not surrender against anyone of
them. We are playing above our possibilites. This will be another match where
guest will be faovirte but we’re prepared, focused, ready to play at high level
again and win!
Rastislav Trtik, Tatran
coach:
Metalurg achieve good results against SEHA Gazprom
league favourites. In these equal games they lost by Vardar and Meshkov Brest
by one goal and were defeated by Veszprem by 3 goals. We will play in turbulent
environment at the court of Metalurg. We will encounter very strong rivals. We
play one game after another in 3 different competitions, which is very tough.
Disadvantage is that fatigue of players culminates. Advantage is that players
get coordinated more and more, which is visible on the court. I wish we would
repeat our excellent performance from Nasice - both in defence and attack. I
believe we will manage it to have the reason to be satisfied after the game.
Jakub
Hrstka, Tatran player:
We have not watched Metalurg`s game of the new season. Considering results they have
reached so far, they are a very good team that will be very unpleasant to play
especially on their home court. Now we have to recover and prepare thoroughly
for Metalurg. In Skopje we want to deliver at least such a performance as we
did in Nasice.