The Arsenal players from Tivat also finished the set of control games in anticipation of their debut season in the first league club. Radisav Dragićević's team played six preparatory matches, three of which were in Slovenia, one in Croatia. After returning home, the team will prepare from tomorrow for the first game in the Telekom 1. CFL, a clash with Petrovac in Kotor next Saturday.
Arsenal played excellently in the last control game, 2:2 against the Hungarian giant Honved (goals by Boris Došljak and Julian Montenegro), and welcomes the championship with a lot of optimism.
"We worked in perfect conditions during the 10 days of preparation in Terme Čatež, we had extremely strong tests and we are satisfied, despite a little fatigue from the 12-hour journey. We played excellently against Honved, we led both times, and it remains regrettable that we dropped the victory at the end of the game. In the previous preparatory games, it was different, all football players got a chance and the result was secondary. For example, against Dinamo Zagreb we were 1:1 until half-time, until the very end we were losing 2:1, but they took advantage of our many changes to achieve a convincing 5:1 victory in the end", says Tivčan right winger Boris Došljak. .
He arrived at Arsenal during the half-season of a historic year for Tivat football, which Arsenal crowned with a play-off triumph against Podgorica and placement in the elite.
"The skeleton of the team that won the place has been retained, and we have strengthened ourselves significantly, with quality players. Božo Marković, Danilo Bakić, Nikola Čelebić, Marko Čavor, Bogdan Rašović, goalkeeper Igor Nikić, 'bonus' player Đorđe Stešević and striker from Beran, Savio, arrived. The team's goal is to win direct survival, without playoffs in the first season. I think we have the quality, the club has organized fantastic conditions for preparations and I think there should be no problem to meet the requirements."
The Tivat team will play Petrovac at the start - the hosts will be in Kotor, because the stadium in Tivat does not yet meet the first league conditions...
"In the first part of the season, we will play home games at the Bokelja stadium, and from January we expect that Tivat will have a stadium with a quality surface and stands. The club is ambitious, it is progressing in every aspect, and it is up to us to finish the preparations, analyze and prepare for the rival in the last six days", concluded Došljak.
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