Gorenje Velenje - Metalurg 37:25 (21:13)

(Cehte 6, Klec 6; Ferlin 15 saves / Ilic 8, kuzmanovski 7)

Aleksandar Jovic, Metalurg coach:
Congrats to Velenje on this win. Hosts decided everything in the first half as we entered the match poorly committing too many mistakes and allowing easy goals. I think this was our worst SEHA match of the season. We can’t do anything but analyze mistakes we made today and hope to learn something from them.

Ante Tokic, Metalurg player:
Gorenje were today better in all aspects of the game. They managed to stop our one-on-one offensive actions eventually scoring a lot of easy counter-attack goals. We were also not as aggressive in defense as we should have been.  However, we are a young team and I have no doubts we’ll learn from this and move on.

Zeljko Babic, Gorenje Velenje coach:
I have to thank and congratulate my players on an extraordinary performance here today. We showed a lot of focus on the defensive side of the court which eventually led to our quick counter-attack goals. Most important thing is that we were able to capitalize from our good defense today and by that goalies were amazing.

Nejc Cehte, Gorenje Velenje player:

We started the match off great scoring a lot of easy goals. Our goalkeepers helped us enlarge the gap early and in that period everything worked in our favor. We experienced a mini crisis in the middle of the second half but in the end we, in my opinion, took a well-deserved victory.