Europa League: E. Pelister did not disappoint against Nimes in France
Today in its seventh match of group "D" from Europa League the team of E. Pelister away losses from Him with 25:23. After a break of four months, the Macedonian runner-up tasted the bitterness of defeat.
Four standard and important players from Bitola did not play in this match in France, Mateo Marash and Nemanja Obradovic were positive on Covid-19, Mirko Radovic was injured, and Josip Peric was absent due to illness.
But despite that E. Pelister proved to be a worthy and strong opponent, leading for most of the first half had the highest "plus three" positive - 8:5.
And on the stat from the second part, our representative was in the lead, he was standing at the traffic light 16:14, but then the opponent took control of the result in his favor.
E. Pelister came to "minus one" several times, but not to make a complete turnaround, so in the end he had to come to terms with the second defeat this season.
They had four goals each Madzovski, Mandalinic and Taboada, and on the opposite side Sanad entered the list of shooters 10 times.
In the incomplete seventh round, Nimes leads with 11 points, three more than the second-placed Nimes, followed by Sporting (7) and Cadet (6) who have to play their match, and AEK and Tatabanya have four each.
In the next round, the players of coach Zeljko Babic will welcome Kadeten from Switzerland on February 22 at home.