On Sunday, from 18:00 in Ljubuški, the handball players of Izviđa will play the first match of the quarter-finals of the European Cup against the champions of the Czech Republic, the Karvina team. It was on this occasion that a press conference was organized today, where the match was announced by team leader Nedan Zovak, coach Ivan Džolić and players Filip Odak and Diano Ćeško.
He gave the opening remarks Nedan Zovakwho said that Ljubuški will be the center of Bosnian sports and for the club to appear in the quarterfinals of the European Cup for the second year in a row.
Some will call it historic, but Scout played a lot of historic games, I would rather call it a pride match. As I said, for the second year we are playing in Europe for Easter, we are proud that for Easter the colors of our city, the colors of Herzegovina and the colors of the handball world will be our club and our Scoutssaid Zovak.
This will be for the team from Ljubuški 19th and 20th European performance in the past two years. Since these two teams met two years ago in the European League qualifiers, when Karvina was more successful, their opponent is well known.
Coach Ivan Dzolić he pointed out how they are the outlines of the opposing team remained almost the same compared to last season, with one significant change in the staff.
Their best player Dominik Solak left the club, who moved to the Bundesliga. We started preparing from last week. It is certainly a very high-quality team, above all a team that has heads and tails, they are very patient in attack, they make very few mistakes, so we will certainly have two hard games waiting for us. Regardless of the fact that it is not the most attractive opponent, it is still the champion of the Czech Republic and they have quality. The fact that they knocked out the Hungarian representative Balatonfüredi in the round of 16 speaks volumesDzolic said.
He added that pivot Ratković has injury problems, which he suffered in the match in Trebinje concussionwhile the rest of the team readily welcomes this duel. When asked by a journalist if the team better or worse compared to last season, he pointed out:
We have the experience of playing those games last season and this season. It is certainly a team of similar quality. We will be well prepared for each other and know what to expect.
In the double match BH. and the Czech representative, Izviđač was eliminated after a heavy defeat in the first match, while in return it was within reach of a turnaround. Right winger in those matches Filip Odak he scored 14 goals.
In the Czech Republic we had one bad period of the match where they broke us. We tried to fight the whole game, but we didn’t succeed. Here we went for all or nothing, we ran regardless of technical errors. We were better and we saw that we can play against them, so I think we will ask ourselves well in this double match. I expect a good game. I think we have prepared well, we have a serious approach, we have been training well all week, we are all healthy and I think that if there is an approach in the match like in training, there will be no problemsOdak said.
Captain Diano Češko believes that he will a lot depends on their game.
I think we will be asked a lot. If we are real like we were against Trim, I believe in passing. No matter how much we win, we will go to them again for the second game. We will have to prepare well for both. I’m not afraid of them at all, I’m afraid of what we will be like. If we are aggressive from the first minute, I believe in passingpointed out Česko.
Džolić believes that they did well in the draw, but cautions against caution.
When we look at the teams of Karvina and Trim, they are two completely different teams. Trim’s team likes to run a lot, while Karvina has very patient attacks, especially when they play seven on six. I hope we have analyzed them well and I think it might suit us better Karvina teamDzolic said.
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