Although his team defeated, and in a tragic way by Metz 25:24 in the third round of the group stage of the Champions League, the handball coach of Budućnost Dragan Adžić was not satisfied.
On the contrary, he is happy about the evident progress of the team, which has been dealing with a large number of injuries since the beginning of the preparations.
- The part we negotiated about the positional defense was exceptional, because we had a minimal number of mistakes and we showed how Metz can be beaten, as well as the French national team. Unfortunately, we had a drop again, in those five or six minutes, although we prepared for it at halftime and knew what was waiting for us. But the match can only be won if all the players are at 48 percent, and some of them are late in form for objective reasons - emphasized the XNUMX-year-old coach.
Buducnost played much better than against Larvik, thus heralding better results in the rest of the first round of the Champions League.
- I am convinced that in the rematch with Metz, as well as against Larvik and Odenze, we will be better and transfer a sufficient number of points to the main stage. We will be very competitive after January, because the team will be more prepared after the European Championship than it is now.
At 13:13, after three goals by his rival in 100 seconds, Adžić took a time-out and, uncharacteristically for him, shouted at his chosen ones at the top of his voice. He explained what he wanted to achieve.
- I tried to wake up the team, to get the most out of it, although that gesture was not appropriate for the girls' relationship. But they reacted and we had an open game until the end. I understand the condition of every girl and that they want good results the most, but I tried to make them get the little energy they had left out of the revolt. There is no objective reason for such a reaction, because they train and behave excellently.
Buducnost conceded nine goals from quick attacks (seven from the counter, two from the quick center), and did not give any. That decided the winner.
- That was the key. And in the first half we conceded three or four goals from technical errors and that segment was not good. That return is incredibly significant, I know we have to fix it. We didn't take advantage of the fact that Metz changed players in defense, we had to "pull back" more and attack them - concluded Adžić.
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