The meeting between Široki Brijeg and Zrinjsko will take place on Saturday, All Saints’ Day, within the 13th round of the WWin League BiH. The match was announced by the home team’s head coach Dean Klafurić and midfielder Mato Stanić.
Klafurić claims that his team looking forward to this meetingstressing that tomorrow is an “inconvenient date” for Catholics, but that he expects full stands.
Zrinjski is coming to represent us in Europe. We know it is championship leader with Borac and especially with this victory against them, they come to us full of confidence. For us Catholics, the game comes at an inconvenient time, when we go to cemeteries to honor our dead. However, on the other hand, the game is in the evening, so we believe that it will come and more viewers because after the family lunch, people who have now come from the areas where they live outside Široki Brijeg will also come, so I believe that the attendance will be very large. Of course, this represents an additional motivation for all of us, and always in such situations, when we play against the favouritesI like to refer to Scripture and the story of David and Goliath. So, we want to win with faith and hope to make our fans happy, Klafurić said at the press conference.
Positive atmosphere in the team
Mato Stanić, scorer in the last meeting with Zrinjski in Pecara, claims that the team worked well all week and to prepare as much as possible for what awaits them tomorrow.
The situation in the team is excellent. We also had the Cup this week, we passed that step and I believe that we will without any negativity we are preparing for Zrinjski. He’s in the locker room positive atmosphere and we can’t wait for the game to start. (…) As for me, let them all score except me tomorrow, just to win. It is less important who will use the opportunity, if the team is good, someone else always “jumps out”. said the experienced midfielder in the ranks of Široki.
To the journalist’s statement that Široki Brijeg u last 13 games against Zrinjski, he did not register a victory and the last victory was in May 2021, and the question is whether this represents additional motiveKlafurić said:
If we look back only at the short history, which is this year, we played only three games with Zrinjski and we played tied twice and once it is us won by the minimum score. It is also a pledge to us in our faith and hope for a result in this game.
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Good form stopper
The head coach of Širokobriježan was also asked about Marić in the first 11, and he commented on it now situation with hitchhikers on Pecara.
Ivan Marić is certainly in the narrowest circle of candidates. He certainly, along with the others, played well, and when we played without him, the defense was stable. We had a clean sheet in some games and without it, it is our forte in this championship good form of our stoppersnot only Ivan Marić, but also Stanić and Senić, Klafurić added, commenting on where he sees the biggest threat from the visitors:
He will not compete in this meeting Matej Senic who has an injury of a minor nature, Marko Matic due to groin injury and Antoni Bajkušawho is still in the rehabilitation process.
The meeting is scheduled from 18:30 at the Pecara stadium, and Luka Bilbija will serve on the field.
Bilbija na Pecara, Kazlagić in Posušje
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