Vardar leaves Brest with three points

Brest - Vardar

 Macedonian champion Vardar needs 30 minutes to "break resistance" of Meshkov Brest and leaves Belarus with victory 27-23 (14-14) in third round of SEHA GSS league. This is second Vardar's win in last two months in mutual matches, second this season in Regional SEHA GSS league.  At least one day "red-black" will be SEHA lieder with seven points from three matches and will wait for result from tomorrow game Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb - Partizan.

For Belarus team this is second home defeat this season, as they also lost in first round from Tatran Preshov, entered into a bad series of defeats.

 

When Dobrivoje Markovic use one Meshkov technical errors and score for lead 16-19 was clear sign that Vardar takes control, not just results, but also on court. They use every chance to score, and Alex Dujsehbaev once again was "man of the match" scoring 5/5, and three goal in closing minutes from the game not allowing the opponent nor hopes to reverse.

From "minus 3" in 40 minutes, Meshkov manage to reduce to 18-19 and 19-20. And that was all they do. Vardar has three series in row scoring two goals and five minutes from the end Matjaz Brumen realize penalty for 24-20. Good sign for Vardar to start celebrate on bench another victory, and Dujsebaev score last three goals for Macedonian champion.

 Coach Zoran Kastratovic decides to rest goalkeeper Strahinja Milic and gave chance to newcomer Petar Angelov and Spanish Aldave Malumbres. Only middle back Igor Karacic did not enter the game although he was in line up. Whole team has their 30 minutes or more to show their form. In first half plays Malumbres, Rakovic, Dibirov, Stojance Stoilov, Mite Stoilov, Petric..Continue with Dujshebaev, Markovic, Brumen, Chipurin, Angelov, Lazarov, team manage to lead and to save results.

 On the other side Meshkov coach Zeljko Babic only could count on Slovenian David Spiler even with his shoulder problem, plays most of the time and scores 3 goals from 5 attempts. Right winger Maksim Baranu and left back Nerijus Atajevas due to injures misses this match.

 Zoran Kastratovich, head coach of «Vardar»: «Thank you for the correct match».

You have witnessed the very correct match, in which both opponents showed all the beauty of handball. In both halves I've used all the players, who arrived in Brest. I would like to note that we had very difficult match in Minsk on Wednesday. Today our team looked better. During the game we controlled the result. I would like to thank our players and the opposing team players for the good match.

Mikhail  Chipurin «Vardar»:

Thank you for the warm welcome. The game was very tense. All struggled and fought in full force. It seems to me that our goalkeepers have worked better. And the team played quite well at the defense.

Zeljko Babic, head coach BGK: «We showed 100% of our today’s opportunities»

Today my players compared with the previous game played handball. They played strong in defense. I think that today we showed 100% of our opportunities. In the second half we had some good goal-scoring opportunities but didn't use them. However the opponent didn’t miss this chance.

Dmitry Kamyshik, player of BGK: Prepared for the match well. And the game made up good. "Vardar" played a little bit better in the second half: the best in protection, and at the end of the match we had been pressed in attack.

In next round Vardar will host Tatran in Skopje, and Meshkov meet Lovcen in Montenegro.