Another home „failure“ for Metalurg

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Metalurg Lovcen



The match against outsider Lovcen was supposed to be only a test of current shape and strength of Metalurg , but guests came with ambition to make surprise. Draw 19-19 (7-10) means a big points for visitors, and for Metalurg another failure at home after those against Tatran and Nexe. After ‘losing’ two points Metalurg stays on fourth place instead of coming much closer to city rivals Vardar.


Guest goalkeeper, youngster Vuko Borilovic (18) was one of the best Lovcen's players, especially in the first half when he gave motivation to his teammates. He had amazing 19 saves (14 plus 5 penalties). His previous good performances on matches against Borac and Zagreb CO were not just a "good day" but great shape.


Hosts have had a chance to score from penalty maybe for victory, 30 seconds to finish, but Pavel Atman hit the crossbar. Lovcen has also had last chance to score, although they had only 6 players in play, but Igor Markovic failed to realize. Coach Zoran Abramovic got two minute penalty and then red card for discussion with delegate Dragan Nacevski.


Metalurg decided to rest three important players from first squad, goalkeeper Darko Stanic, Naumce Mojsovski and Renato Vurginec. Coach Lino Cervar missed the press conference and has sent his assistant  Aleksandar Petrovski to talk to media.


Pavel Atman with 7 goals was the best scorer, Vanco Dimovski scored five goals for Metalurg, while Danijel Vukcevic was, with 5 goals was Lovcen’s best scorer.



Igor Markovic - Lovcen’s player

- After a poor start to the season, the team was able to get back in game and play great games. We are delighted with this point.


Igor Mandic - Metalurg’s player

- We had a chance to win. This week we’re expecting a tough game against Vardar, and our thoughts are focused on that game. Hopefully there is enough time to make good atmosphere in  team until then.


Zoran Abramovic - Lovcen’s coach

We’ve lost both games last season to Metalurg with 13 goal difference. This time we’ve managed to leave hall with smile on our faces. I think we deserve this point. We know that Metalurg has problems with their squad but this is not excuse. They have at least two good players on each position.


Aleksandar Petrovski - assistant coach of Metalurg

Although our focus was not game with Lovcen we’ve tried to tell the players that Lovcen’s form is rising, and that it won’t be easy to go out and win. We continue to give points to teams that are not on our level. We knew it would be a difficult game, but players didn’t.  I can’t imagine playing the match against Vardar on Sunday this way.We have 4-5 days to stabilize the team.