Narrow defeats for Vardar and CO Zagreb in EHF's CL

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After great opening from both teams at the beginning of the competition where Zagreb won to Slovenian Celje Pivovarna Laško and Vardar tied with Barcelona, in the second round neither team managed to bring home points from eastern Europe.

 

Belarus Dynamo from Minsk hosted Macedonian champion and won 26:24 in a really close and hard match for both teams. Shelmenko scored 6 for Dynamo, Dibirov also with 6 for Vardar. In the next round Vardar will host PSG keeping them on some sort of 'Macedonian tour' as in the second round they will play Metalurg in Skopje.

 

Zagreb has on the other hand played in Ukraine against Motor Zaporozhye and lost even closer 31:30. Burka and Onufryenko were Motor's best players scoring 7 goals both for them and speaking of Zagreb, Horvat, Mandalinić, Šebetić, J. Valčić and Marić scored 5. In the end Zagreb had few chances to tie the result, but the pressure was too big on this young team and they have made many technical mistakes. In the third round they will play St. Petersburg in Russia.