Ante Šimundža disagrees with Zoran Zeljković: ‘No match is over after 22 minutes; we’ve seen numerous turnarounds in football’
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Maribor comfortably won the 155th eternal derby, but despite this, Zoran Zeljković, the coach of Olimpija, emphasized after the game that the home team was not better than zmaji in any aspect. Well, except in finishing… Zoran Zeljković also added that Olimpija was buried due to a catastrophic start in the game. However, Ante Šimundža disagrees with his younger colleague.
The Maribor coach expressed his belief after the game that a match cannot simply end after just 22 minutes, regardless of everything, and that the home club was very good even after an exceptional start in the eternal derby. Except for the end of the game, as Ante Šimundža added.
Ante Šimundža: “Certainly not easy”
“The game surely doesn’t end in the 22nd minute; in football, we’ve seen many twists and turns in the past,” Ante Šimundža told Šport TV, continuing after the match witnessed by 7500 spectators: “But even after 3:0, we were focused and concentrated. We had two very good chances that could have resolved any doubts definitively. We didn’t manage that, and I particularly don’t like how we ended the game. I really didn’t like the conclusion.”
If he wasn’t pleased with the conclusion, he was even more satisfied with the first half. Ante Šimundža admitted that at that time, he saw Maribor, which he wants to see in action all the time: “I don’t even need to say much about the first half. We were at a high level, capitalized on the created opportunities. We were at the level I’d like to see Maribor at. But from start to finish. Certainly not easy. We’ll work on that. Anyway, if we sum it up, we entirely deserved the three points.
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Author: editorial Football Planet