Urban: ‘’Point would satisfy our expectations in Brest’’

Урбан: «Даже одно очко удовлетворит наши ожидания в Бресте» | Urban: "Akýkoľvek bod by bol pre nás cenným ziskom"

Lukaš Urban Tatran Prešov

Meshkov and Tatran will in three days meet twice and in both cases Belarus champions are clear favorites. They will on Monday (18.00) have a chance to take leading position in SEHA Gazprom League with a victory.

On Saturday they were better with 32:26 with an excellent performance. They are still in race for TOP 2 positions in their CL’s group which would bring them eighth-finals’ clash. Their form is improving which will make the situation for guests even harder.

In SEHA Gazprom league they are both among TOP 4 with Tatran leading the table with 24 points and Meshkov being right behind them with only a point less from as many games. This season Tatran have series of five matches unbeaten in the competition suffering the only defeat of the season in Skopje against Vardar. They however still have to play against the best  - Veszprem and Meshkov already have losses against Veszprem and Zagreb behind them.

Sergey Bebeshko, Meshkov’ coach:

Tatran are currently leaders in the League but they still have to face strongest teams - us, Vardar and Veszprem. They were however better than PPD Zagreb. I don’t think SEHA League is their top priority, they’ve just had a chance to show their power but what is sure is that we’ll have to play a team which fights until the end.

Dainis Kristopans,  Meshkov’ player:

We’ve played well in our first clash on Saturday but I’m sure we can deliver even better performance. We’re having certain problems playing against them because of their rhytm which changes a lot during the game. We’ll do our best to correct mistakes and not allow such things to happen in SEHA League.

Rastislav Trtik, Tatran´s coach:

On Saturday in the EHF Champions League in Brest we lost by six goals but we showed relatively stable play with solid defence. The whole team delivered really disciplined performance. The question is how we’ll manage to use our knowledge and experiences from Saturday´s game in another clash in Brest on Monday.

Lukas Urban, Tatran´s player:

In the EHF Champions League’s game Meshkov confirmed the role of favorite and used the home-court advantage. On Monday we will try to reach better result in Brest. We are leaders of SEHA League at the moment. We would like to surprise Meshkov and remain on top of the table. Any point taken from this tough game would be a precious asset to us.