On Thursday, Zrinjski’s players will face SK Rapid Vienna in the sixth round of the group stage of the UEFA Conference League. The match will be played in Mostar, and Plemić’s head coach Igor Štimac and football player Mario Ćuže shared their expectations for that meeting.
Although the team Rapida does not yet have a single point in the Conference League and is on the last one36th place in the ranking, doc Zrinjski on the other hand there is six points and is located at 26th placein Mostar are aware that a new demanding match awaits them tomorrow at home.
It’s always nicer when you wait for a big game like this after a couple of wins, and we had two defeats, in addition to, in my opinion, a solid game and despite the fact that we deserved more than defeat in those games with the play and the chances we created, but we are where we are. We can’t cry or feel sorry for ourselves, but we must look to what is before us. In one a solid, aggressive opponent which is not adorned with a good position on the scale, but also yes it does not deceive us their strength.
Igor Štimac, head of the professional staff of HŠK Zrinjski
The head coach of Mostar stressed that it is an Austrian team that is much more expensive than Zrinjski.
It is a team that is six or seven times more expensive according to Transfermarkt than our team, and it is a team that is changed coach four or five games ago, which now looks much more concrete, stable and aggressive, so it’s waiting for us a very difficult task and what we are certainly aware of is that we will having to outdo ourselves again to jump this hurdle, Stimac said.
Mario Čuže he commented from a player’s perspective on the upcoming game against Rapid. He believes that the team is aware of what awaits them and what they must do in order to fulfill the goals that have been set before them.
Many times we have cheered ourselves, the whole club, the city and Herzegovina and all the people who follow us, and we expect to do the same tomorrow. We will do our best to play one of the best, if not the best game tomorrow to fulfill our goal. We know what awaits us, we know what kind of team Rapid is, so we know what lies ahead. It is up to us to do our best and I think this team he has the quality to win tomorrow, said Ćuže, who also commented on the difficult schedule of playing matches.
Mario Ćuže, player of HSK Zrinjski
It was too many matchesover 30 this half season. It’s hard to play every three or four days. They are all tough matches some in the domestic, some in the Conference League, but the team is that submitted in a good way. Of course, there is always that extra step forward, but I think that we are in a very good place in both leagues, there is still a lot of work ahead of us, we still have doors open everywhere and I believe that we will fulfill all our goals, Ćuze added.
The match is scheduled at Thursday from 9 p.m with a live broadcast on Arena Sport 1.
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