Bojana Popović: It's hard for me to understand why we stopped playing

In a scoreless match, Buducnost Bemax handball players lost to Esbjerg 30:20.

Although the "blues" can neither be above nor below the 5th place in group B of the Champions League, Bojana Popović had no reason to be satisfied, because her team "shut down" after 9:9 in the 23rd minute and allowed the rival a 12:1 series for 21:10.

"We played well only in the first 25 minutes, after that the girls stopped enjoying the game. It's hard for me to understand that, because it didn't happen to me in my playing career. If you can play well for 25 minutes, you should continue in the same rhythm until the end of the match," said Popović.

In that series, the backs of Esbjerg burst into flames, and winger Beyza Turkoglu was also unstoppable.

"Their shooters were getting into good positions, we didn't find a way to stop it. We missed a few shots at the end of the 1st half and nervousness crept in. In the following, all the girls got a chance because we are building something for what awaits us in March, when the round of XNUMX is played. "It was a good game to learn something, but we have to do better, because we can't have such drops in the game," Popović pointed out.

Of the girls from the bench, Vanesa Agović took the best chance. The girl who grew up in Denmark, where her mother Maja Savić played, scored four goals.

"It is very difficult to play against a team that has a Scandinavian way of playing. Their players are tall, they play fast and it's hard to stop them," said the 26-year-old guard.