First win for Partizan in SEHA GSS

Partizan Lovcen

Serbian vice-champion RK Partizan celebrate the first win in SEHA GAZPROM SEHA South Stream League over RK Lovćen 26:23 (13:12). Belgrade's "black-white" took the first points after tight match with brave team from Cetinje in front of 500 spectators at "Banjica" hall. In decisive moments home team had goalkeeper Mihailo Radovanović (10 saves) on the high level and right wing Luka Minić who scored two important goals in the last few minutes. The TOP scorer of the match was Partizan's left wing Viktor Matičić with 7 goals, while Vukićević and Nikolić scored five both for Montenegrian team.

After 12 minutes of the match, Partizan's coach Aleksandar Brković had to call time-out in order to stop bad performance of his players. In that moment, Lovcen had +5 - 6:1 led by goalkeeper goalkeeper Vladan Abramović and strong defense in front of him. Young Partizan's back-line finally found the rhytm and balance with the rival. In 23rd minute, Luka Minic scored for the first lead of home team - 19:9, while Viktor Matičić with the last second goal kept advantage on the half time - 13:12.

At the beginning of the second half, Partizan made first +3 - 15:12, when Montenegrians answered with series - 4:0 for 16:15 lead in 36th minute. Goal by goal was the rhytm of the match until Partizan's line player Mijailo Marsenić scored for +2 - 21:19 in  51st minute.

Until the end Partizan had clear advantage. Three minutes before the end home team didn't score from attack fo +4. Lovćen had a chance to make a thriller on the end, but Igor Marković missed to score for 24:23 80 seconds before the final whistle. After time-out called by Partizan's coach Aleksandar Brković (24:22), home team scored two goals in the last 30 seconds...

STATEMENTS AFTER THE MATCH:

RK Partizan coach - Aleksandar Brković:

- It was a hard fight between two teams tonight. I was concerned about my young and unexperienced players ability to finish this thight match. I am not sure that our back line was 60 years old together. We made advantage on the end and I am really glad because of that fact. Our wish is that our young players gain as much experience as they can from the strong matches in SEHA SSL. I am very happy because of the first points. We had a motive more to play good tonight because of the guys who passed away last week...

RK Lovćen coach - Kasim Kamenica:

- Congratulations to Partizan on deserved victory. Their talent and youth made were dominant over our experience and fake skills. Good start wasn't enough to win the match. I don't want to underestimate victory of home team, but my players played awful in the second half. We had bad invidual performances and a lot of tactival errors.

RK Partizan - playmaker Igor Mršulja:

- I am happy because of win. Hopefully this will be the motive for some other victories in SEHA.

RK Lovćen - Draško Kaludjerović:

- We have been in Belgrade for three days in which we prepared the game. We began good, made some advantage, but at the end we didn't follow instructions of our coach.