From the special reporter "Vijesti"
Stevan Jovetić returns to "Cardiff City" after 13 years.
The captain is the only Montenegrin footballer who played against Wales in Cardiff on September 2, 2011. He scored a great goal in the first defeat of Montenegro in that qualification cycle (2:1, in the 5th match) - a defeat that slowed down, but did not stop the path of our selection to the barrage for the big competition, the only one so far.
"For sure I remember, I think it was my first full game after the break due to injury, I scored a goal, we did lose, but it was our best qualification in history," said Jovetić, then Fiorentina's striker, now an experienced 34- yearbook in the Cypriot Omonia jersey.
Montenegro then landed in Cardiff as a favorite - and lost, now arriving as an outsider, with no points after three rounds of the League of Nations, against the motivated "dragons" who have already collected five.
Football often directs surprising episodes, can it hardly happen tomorrow?
Wales beat Montenegro 2:1 in Nikšić last month.
"We have a difficult game ahead of us, we almost played against Wales, with a serious national team, it will be even more difficult in their stadium. We were unlucky in Nikšić, it was a strange game, we conceded two goals in the first three minutes, it was not easy to recover mentally , on a difficult pitch. We succeeded, created a lot of chances, hit the bar and the post, deserved much more," the Montenegrin team captain points out.
Three games - three defeats, in a cycle in which our selection secretly hoped to be able to produce a result that would bring them closer to the big competition. What are the motives, expectations and goals now?
"Before the start, we had much bigger goals, unfortunately they are no longer realistic. I never look for Albies, but it is not easy without five, six, seven footballers, and in such circumstances there were good matches, apart from the one in Iceland. Also, we played with very serious national teams, unfortunately we were not even lucky. There is never a lack of motivation, now we are motivated to get as much as possible to the end, to win some points, we will see if and for what it will be enough".
The Welsh, on the other hand, are unbeaten under Craig Bellamy, with a win and two draws, and tomorrow they are handicapped without the great Brennan Johnson, a guy who, playing for Tottenham and the Welsh national team, scored seven goals in the last seven games.
"Everyone who plays is a good player and I don't like to talk about individuals, but OK - it will be easier for us without him. However, we also have a lot of problems," Jovetić replied to a Welsh journalist.
The match at the "Cardiff City" stadium will be played tomorrow at 19.45:XNUMX p.m. local time, an hour later our time, and the referee will be Slovakian Filip Glova.
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