Tatran got his revenge for the loss against NEXE in Osijek in the first part of the league. Win 43:37 (21:16) has lifted them back on league's top. It was SEHA's most effective match this season so far with 80 goals. Fast match and high rhytm proves that both of these teams are ready for EHF's Cup matches in the next two weeks. In Tatran's team best scorers were trio Kristopans-Antl-Čip with 7 goals each along with fantastic Verkic on goal. Vujić was NEXE's best scorer with 10 goals (10/11) , Mrdjenovic added 4. Here are after-match statements:

Peter Hatalcik, Tatran's coach:

Today’s match would bear the highest criteria. Our fans were pleased with the game. The coach of Nexe, Zdenko, is too careful in his statement and we believe that Nexe will shuffle table within first six teams in this league. We had quite big problems in our team before the beginning of this match. Today’s players list was not optimal, we had some injuries and few sick players. The main thing is that we won this home match.

 

Radoslav Antl, Tatran's player:

We tried to do our best. We saw that Nexe was trying to do their best as well and they were fighting all the way to the last seconds. Opponent was today also quite fast. Congratulation to Nexe, we wish them all the best in EHF Cup and we hope we will get a good rest before our Saturday’s game against Maribor Branik in third round of EHF Cup. Great performance from the whole team today.

 

Zdenko Kordi, NEXE's coach:

Congratulations to Tatran. Nexe is the one of two teams that was able to beat Tatran this season which is a quite good perception. We knew we were coming for a tough game. Tatran Presov was favorite in this match and together with Vardar, Metalurg, Croatia Zagreb and Meshkov they make a group of five leading teams in this league. We believe that Nexe could be sixth one in top six teams. It was a very tough match and we wish Tatran all the best in upcoming third round of EHF's Cup.

 

Luka Sokolic, NEXE's player:

It was a nice fairplay game. We had very weak defense and we were making too many technical unforced errors. Tatran took advantage of these errors and scored goals.

 

Tatran will in the next round play in Novi Sad against Vojvodina and NEXE will play Borac in Banja Luka.