09.05.2013, 08:03 Six times EHF Champions League winner is convinced that Győr will not let the title slip out of their hands this time. |
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Popović: Győr will not repeat mistakes from the pastWith an accolade of six trophies and two awards for the top scorer, Bojana Popović is considered to be one of the best players of the EHF Champions League history. After she won her sixth title last May with Budućnost (before that she was three times EHF Champions League winner with Slagelse and two times with Viborg), she finished her brilliant career and become a sport director of Montenegrin champions. Interestingly, Bojana Popović won the EHF Champions League titles with some players from this season’s finalists – with Cecilie Leganger in 2005 and 2007 playing for Slagelse, and with Katrine Lunde in 2009 and 2010 playing for Viborg. Popović speaks for ehfCL.com about the first leg of this season’s final between Larvik and Győri Audi ETO KC and her expectations for the second and decisive game.
ehfCL.com: What are your impressions after the first final game? Therefore, Larvik had a lead, as that was the only way to compete with Győr, to play a perfect defence with a reliable goalkeeper Cecilie Leganger and to score goals from counterattack, because in positional attack, actually, Larvik is not so dangerous. But, in the second half Larvik lost the momentum, I think Joan Radičević was "guilty" for that fall, because in few minutes she scored four goals from counterattack. She has a fantastic feeling to ran a counterattack, so she was punishing the rival with easy goals. Győr then managed easily to come back and to take a lead.
ehfCL.com: Did you expect Győr to win as they defeated Larvik in all three games this season, twice in the Main Round?
So, for me, this was an expected result, although Larvik could have got a better result if they played smarter in certain moments of the game, and didn’t allow counterattacks to Radičević. Győr played with a lot of patience and waited for the right opportunity and got it at the end. TEXT: Saša Jončić / br |
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