Boštjan Cesar suffered his first defeat as Maribor coach in the match against Primor: “Football is cruel. It doesn’t give you if you’re not the right one”
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For most of the second half, he merely stood by the pitch, staring somewhere ahead of him. It was as if he was looking into emptiness. Without a doubt, Boštjan Cesar was thinking about what he could do to change things. But evidently, he found no answer. Maribor suffered their first defeat under his leadership. Deservedly, if we may add. Primorje played better in Nova Gorica. Maribor was modest. Faint. Poor.
“Football is cruel. It doesn’t give you anything if you’re not right. This time, we weren’t right for 90 minutes,” Večer reported Boštjan Cesar’s first comments after the defeat to the club from Ajdovščina. Maribor now trails leaders Olimpija by six points, which is not insignificant, considering that the dragons rarely make mistakes.
Boštjan Cesar: “We weren’t right in the basics”
The Ljubljana native continued by searching for reasons why Maribor experienced what they did: “We weren’t right in the basics. Mistakes are part of football, and those who make fewer mistakes have a better chance of winning, but in the basics, such as duels and second balls, we were very poor, especially in the first half.”
At least on paper, Maribor set up with four at the back. In practice, it wasn’t quite like that. At the back, it was more like three. Deceptive maneuver? Even if it was, it didn’t work. “We didn’t want to surprise anyone, we worked on this for two weeks in training, but this time, what we had discussed and worked on in training wasn’t there. Deserved victory for Primorje,” Boštjan Cesar congratulated the opponent.
And the disallowed goal by Benjamin Tetteh? Boštjan Cesar did not want to follow the Koper example: “He told me it was a foul, that he had raised his foot too high. I didn’t see the replay, I trust the referee.“
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