Damir Krznar remains calm, but he is aware that Celje is on a very good path: “Until the end, we must win seven or eight more times”
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Celje didn’t shine, but it triumphed. And that’s, according to Damir Krznar, one of the hallmarks of great teams. The leading club of the Prva Liga Telemach faced Radomlje last weekend and emerged victorious with a score of 2:1. Celje, along with Olimpija’s draw, went into the international break with a 12-point lead.
“Difficult game. We were very, very, very tense. The combination of fatigue and the importance of the match got us tense. The game came just two days after the match with Koper, more than 70 hours had passed plus the travel. This was noticeable in the players. We weren’t as fluid and quick in the field. But what’s most important if you want to be champions is to know how to win such games ‘by muscle’ throughout the season. This one was like that. It wasn’t particularly beautiful, but we won it with desire. We pushed the ball into the net with utmost effort,” said Damir Krznar to the club’s website after the victory over the millers.
The expert from neighboring Croatia is even more pleased with the victory because, in his eyes, the match against Radomlje was very important in the battle for the title: “As important as it was, it represented a burden for us. We tried to relieve the players, to focus only on this match, not to calculate points and positions ahead. I think we need to continue like this. Simply, game by game. Focus only on each next match, next win. I don’t want to look at the table, I don’t want to look at the difference. We decide for ourselves. Until the end of the season, we need to win seven or eight times. First, we want to rest and prepare for Mura again, regroup, not Mura, first Aluminij, then Mura. We want to be maximally prepared and brave.”
Damir Krznar: “There’s still a lot we can improve”
During the international break, the Styrians can relax, but Damir Krznar says they won’t be short of work. “There are still many things we can improve. I would like us to work on our counterattack in these two weeks. We are good at winning the ball in the final third, but then we have trouble threatening the opponent through counterattacks, especially considering the fast wing attackers we have available. We will address this during the break. I admit, we haven’t paid too much attention to it until now, so we’ll work on it now. This is also a component of the game when the opponent manages to extract you, to hurt them with speed through transition, as it’s hard to break through teams that defend. We have to capitalize on those two, three, four situations that arise when we’re high up,” concluded the former Maribor coach.
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