There are two rounds left until the end of the main stage, and the goal has already been fulfilled - by winning over Dinamo from Volgograd in "Morača" (26:18), the Budućnosti handball players secured the 1st place in group 1 and, on paper, the easiest rival in the quarterfinals.
Who it will be, Viborg or Baja Mare, or someone else, will be known only in about 10 days...
The beginning of the match was not promising. The European vice-champion struggled for a long time to find a way to the net, and Marta Žderić saved Jaroslava Frolova's puck on the counterattack with the score 2:4.
That seemed to be a wake-up call - Katarina Bulatović scored Podgoričanka's first goal from the game at the end of the 12th minute, and her third (two from seven), before Kristina Neagu and Dragana Cvijić took care of the turnaround, after an assist from Milena Knežević.
The connection with the pivot worked completely, because the Romanian passed the ball three times to the corpulent Serbian, who shook the net on two more occasions and forced the exclusion of Darja Dmitrijeva, then Majda Mehmedović made it 8:5 on the counter and forced Viktor Rjabih to ask for a time-out. aut.
The phenomenal Ana Kočetova kept the Russians' "heads above water" with lucid moves, but Budućnost with three quick attacks and two hits by Knežević and one by Neag escaped to 115:13 in 8 seconds and eliminated all dilemmas. If there were any at all...
Realizing that everything was over, Ryabih decided to rest the team for Wednesday, when the leader of the Russian championship, Astrakhanochka, arrives in Volgograd. He left on the bench the striking back trio of Kochetova - Olga Akapyan - Dmitrijeva, as well as goalkeeper Ana Sedojkina, who saved only one shot.
Her alternative, Jelena Utkina, made a much better impression, but nothing could stop Budućnost on its way to its ninth win in the elite competition this season and the definitive 1st place in Group 1.
Until the end, Adžić also gave a chance to all players from the bench, and the starters slowly headed towards the dressing room as if they were injured.
Some were confused, like Dragana Cvijić, who appeared in the middle of the match on the famous "balcony" in "Morača" and sat next to the president Predrag Bošković. She quickly realized that she shouldn't be there...
Only Kamila Dalbi was not included in the list of scorers, while Željka Nikolić scored her first goal in the Champions League after two hellish years, during which she was out of the field due to injuries more than on it.
The women from Podgorica will play their next match on Saturday against Leipzig, but they will leave for Germany already on Wednesday, because it was impossible to find seats on the later flights due to March 8.
Buducnost - Dinamo 26:18 (13:9)
Podgorica - SC "Morača". Spectators: 4.000. Referees: Horvat and Marton (Hungary). Sevens: Buducnost 4 (4), Dinamo 5 (3). Exclusions: Buducnost 14, Dinamo 8 minutes. Red card: Ramusović (Buducnost) in the 60th minute (3X2).
Future: Voltering, Rajčić (one save and seven goals), ŽDERIĆ (14 saves and seven goals), PETROVIĆ 1, NEAGU 7, Nikolić 1, Dalbi, BULATOVIĆ 6 (4), Ramusović 1, CVIJIĆ 3, MEHMEDOVIĆ 1, Despotović 1, Pavićević 1, Bizdra 1, KNEZEVIĆ 3.
Dinamo: SEDOJKINA (one save), Utkina (five saves), Černova, Belikova 1, KOČETOVA 4 (2), FROLOVA 2, FANJINA 2, AKAPJAN, DMITRIJEVA 1, Danšina 1, Vedjohina 1 (1), Suslova 3, Petrova 1 , Capikjan 1, EL GAUI 1.
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