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Celje PL - PPD Zagreb 23:30 (12:19) (Mackovsek 7, Beciri 4 / Pavlovic 8, Horvat 7, Vuglac 7)   Zlatko Saracevic, PPD Zagreb coach: It was hard to play this match after a month and a...

Handball fans all across the region expected a tough and narrow battle from Balkan Clasico between Celje PL and PPD Zagreb but one team dominated the court in Zlatorog Arena tonight and that was, a bit unexpectedly, PPD Zagreb. ’Lions’ celebrated a resounding 30:23 win overtaking the second position in the regular season standings. When Borut Mackovsek and Jaka Malus combined to give Celje 8:7 lead a bit more than...

Metalurg - Vojvodina 30:26 (21:9) (Jaganjac 8 / Nadoveza 4, Radovic 4)    Aleksandar Jovic, Metalurg coach: Despite of the hard situation we're dealing with here, players are giving their best on each training session and it was visible on the court today. We've played a great first half extending the gap but in the second half we slowed down.    Filip...

Thanks to a furious start of the match Metalurg managed to reach a 30:26 win versus Vojvodina. Triumph put Metalurg in a good position in fifth-place race while Vojvodina remain on the bottom.  Left back Halil Jaganjac dominated the encounter with eight goals from 10 attempts adding two assists scoring six in only the first half. A bit more than 20 minutes into the match Macedonians were...

After Men’s EHF EURO 2018 kept all the handball eyes looking towards Croatia in January, SEHA - Gazprom League is slowly, but in style, easing its way into the handball focus with some thrilling matches already behind us and with some both great and important yet to come. One of those will also surely be Balkan Clasico with Celje Pivovarna Lasko...

Remaining six regular season matches each Metalurg and Vojvodina still have to play in SEHA - Gazprom League’s seventh season can’t change much for either of them. Metalurg are looking at yet another mediocre season, their Final 4 hopes vanished even before the winter break and situation is not looking like it may get any better with the departure of...

Gorenje Velenje - Nexe 30:30 (13:14) (Pejovic 6; Ferlin 13 saves / Sipic 6, Buvinic 6, Zrnic 5) Hrvoje Horvat, NEXE coach:Congratulations to both teams on a good match. Game was interesting and tense. In the second half we gave them too much space in defense and because of this we are not leaving Velenje with all three points. Match was in the end decided with one shot. We still have things to improve but I think we delivered...

After a 24:24 draw in their premier encounter of the season in Nasice, match between Slovenian and Croatian vice -champions Gorenje Velenje and NEXE Nasice once again ended with teams sharing points. In the end 30:30 after Marin Sipic netted one for NEXE only three seconds before the final buzzer. NEXE were given an...

Tatran Presov - Vardar 22:30 (13:14) (Hrstka 8, Vucko 3, Kasal 3 / Dibirov 9, Kristopans 5, Cindric 5, Vojvodic 5; Milic 12 saves)   Slavko Goluza, Tatran Presov coach: We prepared for the game thoroughly and wanted to win it. We had a huge motivation and saw our chance in the fact that Vardar is coming here with a weakened roster. In the first half we defended and ran very well scoring...

Vardar managed to remain invincible in SEHA - Gazprom League. After a draw in Brest, two days later they reached three new points beating Tatran 22:30 in Presov. Macedonians had their thing going from the beginning and Tatran were throughout the full course of the match trying to keep up. In the first half Luka Cindric and Timur Dibirov were running the game for Vardar while on the other...