Milojević: European match, we were excellent

- I think we played an excellent game for this stage we are in. A few players had contact with the ball for the first time today, and felt the team, first of all I'm thinking of Puma, Stojić, Ivanić who we missed. All in all, a lot of young players and a good game for us, at the level of European matches. Maybe we didn't do our best at the beginning of the game, but I think we showed character. These guys stuck to the plan, that is, what we want from them. All in all, they gave their best - said Vladan Milojević.

The head of our professional staff touched on the team itself, and pointed out that there is no euphoria and that the team still needs to prepare for the main challenges.

- We have a big and good roster. With a constellation of senior players, who are my right hand and who have been with us for many years. They adapted in the best possible way. Young players who have great quality need matches like this, because they are the best thing that can happen to them. Maybe they were under a heavy load today, and they made mistakes, but I asked and insisted on exactly that from them, because I am someone who will take responsibility and I will always stand behind them, so that they can learn from their mistakes and have self-confidence. We played against a phenomenal Zenit team and you saw that they are "legionaries", players who have been there for a long time, they are the champions of Russia and in any case they have good character. We changed the mechanics a little bit in the second system, which we wanted, and everything worked in the best possible way and it was crowned with victory, but I will mention it again, it is always nice to win when you play for Red Star, that is not in dispute at all, but whatever if the game ended tonight, I would be proud and happy because I really am they try to convey the things we do in training. It was not primary, but it is nice to celebrate, and in any case we have to move on, nothing more than that, there is no euphoria. I don't want that, and my players are aware, I already told them in the dressing room. Tomorrow is a new day, a new training and proving. I repeat, let's move on.

Milojević then emphasized that it was important to see how much the coaching staff could get from which player.

- Always when you play something, whatever it is, you play to win, but at this stage it is not so important, as it is important for us to see some details for which we were perhaps in a rebus and we saw certain players in certain positions . We insisted that they be repeated, for the pure reason that we would know and have a clear picture, as much as we could get from whom.

In the end, he revealed with a smile whether the Zvezda players will have a day off after the victory.

- It's hard to get a day off with me. It always has to be done, because we don't have much time. One afternoon is quite enough for them, so there is no need for a day off - concluded Vladan Milojević with a smile.