After the historic placement in the 3rd round of qualifications for the Europa League and the elimination of Kazakhstan’s Astana, our champions are focused on Sarajevo.
Mladen Milinković’s team is working hard at the Old Airport, tomorrow they will perform mandatory tests for the corona virus according to Uefa’s propositions, and on Wednesday morning they will take off on a charter flight to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The match with the burgundy team will be played on Thursday at 8 pm in Zenica at the “Bilino Polje” stadium.
“We played great and knocked out Astana, so our appetites increased before the game with Sarajevo. Few believed in us, but all of us within the club were convinced that we could go further. Sarajevo is the most important thing now, we just think about it and of course we are all optimists “, said Igor Ivanović.
Our “blue ten” watched the current champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the conclusion is: Sarajevo is not invincible!
“The professional staff will bring our opponents closer to the last two days, and I watched them against Dinamo from Brest (2: 1 defeat) and Borac from Banja Luka (4: 2 victory). Sarajevo is a quality team that plays aggressively, and as the best player stands out Benjamin Tatar “, says the 30-year-old offensive player, who continues.
“Our advantage is that one game is played and there is no audience when we are already playing away, because Sarajevo has great fans who give them the wind in their backs and who are often players. We have to be careful, and there is certainly no lack of confidence after Astana.”
Our club dreams of a historic success and a premier placement in the play-off round of the Europa League, and there we would be better off from the duel Riga – Celtic.
“Sarajevo is weaker than Astana in terms of coefficient, if we could have chosen, we would certainly like to draw Sarajevo in the draw, but that does not mean that we will relax. We neither can nor can. We have to be more aggressive and concentrated than against Astana, because the stakes are much higher, and the desire of all of us is to reach the playoffs for the Europa League “.
Buducnost played one of the best European matches in Almaty last Thursday (the victories against Deportivo La Coruna and Genk were great, but did not bring a pass further), because our team against the seven-time champion of Kazakhstan was disciplined, tactically and physically great.
“We analyzed the game against Astana once again, we played a top team game and that especially thrilled me. When one player moves to the side, everyone moves and each of us was in the right place. Now we need to repeat all that and yes we will be even better and more serious “, said Ivanović.
