Impressive away eight goal victory of Tatran Presov over Meshkov Brest in SEHA Gazprom League
Tatran Presov managed to take their revenge against Meshkov Brest only two
days after a six
goal loss in the Champions League in Belarus. The Slovakian champions impressively beat Meshkov 31:23 in SEHA Gazprom League’s first place clash in Sport Palace Victoria in Brest. This victory enlarges Eastern Slovakian team’s winning streak to 6 games with two important wins over PPD Zagreb and Meshkov Brest.
Tatran Presov were led to the crucial victory by an excellent Slovenian centre back Vasja Furlan who scored 10 goals and amazing Ukrainian goalkeeper Igor Chupryna who pulled off a string of stunning 19 saves finishing the game with 45% efficiency of saves.
Tatran remain the top of SEHA Gazprom League. In their 10 games theyreached 27 points after 9 wins and 1 loss enlarging the gap between them and Belarusian champions who are 6 points behind with 7 victories and 3 defeats.
Rastislav Trtik, Tatran’s coach: I am very happy with the result. We improved our performance in comparison with Saturday’sChampions League game. Сhupryna showed his amazing skills making this victory possible. To be honest I have to admit that Meshkov were a bit unlucky in some moments of the match but that is sport.
Vasja Furlan, Tatran´s centre back: We were really happy about our performance today. We did well in three most important aspects of the game. Our offensive display was smart and patient, defensive system was tough and goalkeeper Chupryna was simply outstanding. We can enjoy it only little for a while, because we need to focus on another tough Champions League´s game in Novi Sad against Vojvodina this Thursday.
Viacheslav Sadovyi, Tatran’s left back: It was a tough gametwo days after our Champions League´s clash in which we suffered a six goal loss. Our opponents appeared to be stronger than us but we analysed their play very well and mainly improved our defensive performance. We are really happy to win this important game.
SergeyBebeshko, Meshkov's coach: No one likes to lose with such a goal difference. On the other side I cannot say that we played badly today but we should have scored more goals missing so many clear chances. We tried to play 2-4 defence in the second half because we wanted to speed up the tempo.Unfortunately it led to many technical mistakes. That is why we were not able to keep up with such an opponent. I feel like players were not completely focused on this encounter considering the match on Saturday but this was a completely different story.
Simon Razgor, Meshkov’s left wing: Congratulations to Tatran on their excellent performance. Now we have to forget this match as soon as possible and do everything in order to prepare for Saturday’s Champions League´s clash in La Rioja in a right way.
Photo: Tatran Presov
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