On Friday, the Montenegrin national team will have three opportunities to reach the grand finals of the European Boxing Championship under the age of 22, scheduled for Sunday in SC "Morača".
After Bojana Gojković and Tomislav Đinović, the role of favorite was justified by Petar Liješević with an easy victory in the cruiser over Talanta Jakupi from Kosovo.
Liješević forced his rival to disqualification in the middle of the second round.
Our representative in the difficult Nikola Lekić failed, because in the middle of the first round, selector Nikola Ružič and coach Milorad Purić estimated that he did not have enough experience for the great Hungarian Levent Kiš.
Liješević's rival in the semi-finals is Georgian Georgi Gucajev.
"He is a great fighter, but he has set his dream on the final. I have boxed many times in Podgorica, never in "Morača"... Jakupi was not a threat, I knew that even before the fight, I am not scratched and it is important that I am fresh for a tough fight in the semi-finals "Here, for the first time after so many fights, I made my rival disqualify because of continuous holding," said Liješević and added:
"I secured a medal for Montenegro and Budva, and now I want gold to achieve my goal".
And Lekić entered the match very well, he twice brilliantly "hooked" Kiš, who took advantage of Lekić's inexperience for an unpleasant blow to the back of the head.
Ružić and Purić immediately reacted by interrupting.
"He turned his rival around twice, he's already done a lot in the championship and that's enough to start with. He's not yet ready for elbows, below the belt or in the back of the head," Ružić pointed out.
On Friday, Bojana Gojković opens the semi-finals with a duel with Belarussian Marija Mirancik, while Djinović's opponent, who defeated Portugal's David Duarte Realinja (5:0) in the quarter-finals, will be Bulgaria's Radoslav Rosenov.
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