The players of Red Star are visiting the team of Monaco in the third round of the Champions League, and the expectations before the game were expressed by the head of the professional staff of our club - Vladan Milojević.
- Monaco is playing very good football this season. With his arrival, Adi Hiter changed the DNA of the team, he plays with a lot of dynamism and energy. The players accepted the new coach in a great way and certainly have a lot of self-confidence, which can be seen from the games in the French championship, as well as the Champions League. It is true that we have a lot of problems, they have been ongoing since the beginning of the season. We have to constantly change from the formations to the players themselves. Some footballers have a great influence on our game, we don't have them in the squad at the moment. We are in the Champions League, we want to go out and fight, and we will see how the game will end - started Milojević.
The strategist of our team also reflected on the previous matches.
- It is true that we made a lot of individual mistakes in the first two games. There is a big difference between playing in our league and the Champions League. We talked a lot about what we can change, where to correct mistakes, certainly none of them did it on purpose. We are playing against an extremely strong and powerful opponent, with high pressing. It is a French team with a German style, there will be mistakes, but they must be kept to a minimum .
A representative break reduces the amount of training and preparation time.
- We have a game plan, we were preparing for this match. The fact that we have a lot of national team players and that after the break we have little time to prepare for the next challenges makes it very difficult for us. What we should be working on, we can't get there. Certainly, we are ready and we will see how it will all look like. We will try to threaten the opponent in the segments where he is the weakest .
About the injuries of Glazer and Drkušić.
- It won't be safe with us, we'll see for what period of time. Drkušić is also injured, they were injured during their duties in the national teams, we cannot influence that. Especially on Glazer, he already had one injury, we tried to heal him, but he came back after representative duties injured again. Players can't keep up with that rhythm, and problems often arise. We're talking about the Champions League, without any alibi, you've never heard that from me, but without Glazer, Ivanić, Mimović, Drkušić, Hwang who left... These are footballers who had an impact on our game. Everything takes time, we are forced to innovate, but what is there is. The players are coming back from representative matches, where our job is to heal them as soon as possible and get them back into rhythm. The League of Nations is no longer a competition with friendly matches, it is not a match in which reserve players perform. It now brings great benefits and everyone is looking out for their own interests. Who doesn't have it, you have to do without him. We will do our best, we will try to solve that problem as well .
Duel with Barcelona far away, focus only on the match with Monaco.
- We got extremely attractive opponents. All of them are leaders in their leagues, they come from the best championships. For me, the next match is the most important, this was our goal, there is time until the next match, now we are focused only on what follows - said Milojević.
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