Horvat: "We're in real Christmas mood lately giving points as gifts"

Hrvoje Horvat

Vojvodina - Nexe 29:28 (10:14)

(Jovanovic 9, Stankovic 4 / Zrnic 11, Buvinic 5)

Dragan Kukic, Vojvodina coach:
I have to congratulate my players on rising in this difficult situation and after a series of defeats. For the first time this season we managed to play good throughout the full course of the match. Players finally showed frenetic fighting spirit and this is the result of it. Victory was necessary to boost our self-confidence and make us believe in what we're doing. I'm very happy!

Todor Jandric, Vojvodina goalkeeper:
After the defeat in Pancevo we did not really have much time to prepare for this match. However, we were ready to give all we've got and fight until the final whistle. Thank God everything went down in the right way for us in the second.

Hrvoje Horvat, NEXE coach:
We're in real Christmas mood lately giving points as gifts. Key for this loss was the fact players who usually don't play as much did not know how to use the playing time they were given today. This is just a confirmation that players who don't play much really don't deserve it yet either. We still hope to celebrate in front of our fans in the last round this year and close it the right way.

Sasa Barisic-Jaman, NEXE player:
We've had everything in our hands and we threw it in the wind. Obviously warning in Pancevo was not enough for us. We've rotated a lot of players today and in the end Vojvodina deserved to win this.