The basketball players of Mornara will officially open the season in "Topolica" in the most beautiful way - after a convincing victory in Lisbon (96:68), Mihail Pavićević's team will only have to confirm their passage to the group stage of the FIBA Champions League, where they are in group C in tonight's rematch in Bar. expect Brose Bamberg, Tenerife, Nimburk, Riga, Peristeri, Gaziantep and probably Nizhny Novgorod.
- Basketball is an interesting game, you never know what the next game will bring. Benfica is a team to respect, and we will approach that match as if we didn't achieve anything in Lisbon, but we will go for the win, like every other this year. We have to be serious, because, for example, Keravnos lost 15 at home, so they won 25 points away. I hope we will not be so foolish as to allow any surprise. Quality is on our side, but we have to be wise and finish the job. I hope that our players are eager to present themselves in the right light to the bar audience, I hope that we will enjoy a nice basketball show and that we will celebrate in the group stage of the FIBA Champions League - said Mihailo Pavićević for "Vijesti".
Apart from the first quarter, which the Portuguese won in their favor (24:18), Mornar controlled the events on the floor of the match in Lisbon from the second half. In the end, he achieved a more convincing victory than anyone in the bar team expected, especially considering the problems in the preparatory period.
- I have nothing to hide, I was quite afraid of that game, since we didn't have any training together in the preparatory period, we bought and searched, and Vranješ, Nidam and Pavić were out of action. In addition, Benfica had respectable results in the preparatory period, they won against Bilbao and Gran Canaria, and in the first qualifying match at home against Groningen, they played really well and got 30 points. Benfica is composed of a large number of quality Americans, but we played our best at the right moment, defensively we stopped three of their best players, the best scorers, and in attack we played very smart, especially in the last quarter, which was the best quarter since we gathered - added Pavićević.
As in the first match, the injured Nemanja Vranješ and Vukota Pavić will not be in the lineup tonight, as Mirza Begić will not play again.
- Begić did not play in Lisbon because of the regulations passed by FIBA, and we did not know that, that the team must have at least five players who grew up in Montenegro, which means that between the ages of 12 and 20 they must play at least three season in Montenegro. So we had problems there as well, but I hope that in the next matches we will not have problems when Vranješ and Pavić return - concluded the strategist of Mornar.
Those five players in Mornar for today's duel are Jelenić, Šehović, Mugoša, Vujošević and Pavićević, and along with them in the roster will be Nidam, Ross, Pullen, Luković, Markota, Bjelica and Voler.
The match in the hall "Topolica" starts at 19:XNUMX. The ticket price is three euros.
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