The fourth round of the UEFA Conference League brings a test between HŠK Zrinjski Mostar and BK Häcken. This match is scheduled for Thursday from 18:45 in Mostar, and coach Igor Štimac and player Igor Savić addressed the media.
Head coach Plemić believes that tomorrow his team will have “a nice challenge”, that is, a team that is tailored.
Maybe they are one level above us in terms of quality. However, that is the beauty and charm in which we want to show ourselves and others that once again we can deal with an opponent who will require a lot of energy, a lot of aggression, a lot of running, quality in passing, defending and attacking – so we joyfully welcome this meeting, said Štimac at the beginning of the press conference.
As for Haken, Štimac believes that they analyzed everything well. The Swedes have two points from three difficult European performances, and Zrinjski’s strategist believes that they had the misfortune of the unpleasant weather in Shelbourne, where they drew only a point. They had two more strong opponents, Villareal with whom they played a 2:2 draw and lost to the very high-quality French from Strasbourg at home with 2:1.
It is about an excellently balanced team, a structured club that has good sports policy according to what I analyzed, who sold three players last year for sixteen million euros based on the previous season. A club that develops a lot of young players because if you just look at the roster they have, you will find among those forty players six or seven thirty-year-olds who are backbone of the team, carriers of quality and experienceand everything else is seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty years. Therefore, this is somehow my wish and how I see Zrinjski in the near future, the development of young players, a team with good energy, a team with good speed and technically equipped. This is what we strive for, and I hope that tomorrow we will also show that we have the youth, energy, desire, will, and experience to match such an opponent, added Štimac.
The coach of Mostar added that tomorrow, unlike the match against Dinamo Kyiv, there will be no calculations.
No, tomorrow there will be no calculations because if we had to calculate and think about what we would sacrifice, I think we wisely decided to sacrifice that, that game against Dinamo. Although we tried our best in selecting the team and everything, everything we did to give ourselves a chance, we had that chance and missed it in the first half hour of that gamesaid Štimac.
Watch the entire press conference below:
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