Captain Timi Max Elšnik didn’t hide his disappointment after the defeat in the eternal derby at Ljudski vrt: ‘The result of the match hurts us. Absolutely hurts’
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No, such a performance from Olimpija at the 155th Eternal Derby was truly unexpected… But that’s football – the king of sports. A game where the most unexpected things happen time and again. This time, without a doubt, Maribor was unexpectedly on the positive side. Štajerci entered the match with sheer force and were already leading 3-0 in less than half an hour. Timi Max Elšnik, Olimpija’s captain, admitted that there was considerable disappointment in the camp of the reigning champions. A lot, indeed.
“The result of the match hurts us. Absolutely hurts!” emphasized Timi Max Elšnik, who agrees with coach Zoran Zeljković that after the catastrophic 20 minutes, everything else resembled Sisyphean work mostly.
Elšnik: “Everything went in their favor”
“In the first 20 minutes, we dug ourselves quite a hole from which we couldn’t escape. It’s true that at 0-3, there was a chance for a comeback, but we couldn’t make it. Well, we did score, but it came too late. We have to congratulate Maribor for the win. They capitalized on the chances they created at home. At the start of the game, everything was going in their favor, and we lacked decisiveness in front of their goal,” elaborated Timi Max Elšnik, adding that Olimpija was undoubtedly better in the second half and attributed the loss to luck, saying it wasn’t on the side of the club from Stožice.
“This time we lost the game in the first 20 minutes,” added Timi Max Elšnik, reiterating the words of his coach. These were the words that coach Maribor’s Ante Šimundža disagreed with…
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