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Ventspils suffered a minor loss to 0: 1 (0: 1) Thursday in the first qualifying match of the European League against the famous French team Bordeaux "Girondins", having lost the only goal in the third minute.
"We were ready to face a strong opponent, but the door that gave a quick kick changed the whole game," said Dane Vukicevich, Ventspils head coach, at the time. ;a press conference. "We saw that we were playing against a high profile opponent, we all knew we were playing with a club from a country that had won the World Cup, I think a lot of our footballers are not happy with their Ventspils looked good on the field, but did not win the goal.
Girondons scored the only goal after a free kick when 19-year-old Yusuf Zaidu came out with the ball in the top corner of the goal and reached the edge in the third minute.
"There were two errors in front of the goalkeeper, when we were looking at the place like a traffic light. Vukičevič said in an imaginative tone. "While admitting an error on the reds, a penalty is immediately followed. and his opponent has understood, a strong opponent can use it and mistakes are expensive to such teams. "
" Vitaliy Jagodinsky suffered a back injury during the match, so he was replaced. In addition, Nikita Kolesov, Vadim Zhulev and Vitaly Reichick are traumatized by the local population. We miss four local footballers, but in a few days, a super league match is important. That's why we changed Ritvar Rugin. The coach added that the Ventsmen were aligning standard attitudes. "Playing against such teams, nine of the ten standard situations should be good, but we were bad for this time."
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" I would like us to remember what we did against Bordeaux, not only that we played with them, "said Vukicevich. Today, they were in the mainstream of almost all the best footballers. They do not have better ones. The Girondins are aware that they are stronger than us, and there will be more fans in the answer. I do not think they'll relax. Such teams can play on the score. In response to the match, we must grasp the opportunity after standard situations, we just have to believe it. "
The coach of Bordeaux Gustavo Poyet said that the match was very difficult:" Everything did not happen as I wanted, but I'm happy. Everything happened very quickly, unfortunately, you were not ready to play at this temperature.
The winners of the "Ventspils" and "Girondins" will be in the third round with the Swedish club "Stockholm" Djurgardens "or" Mariupol "of Ukraine
The third round of the European League of the UEFA will take place on 9 and 16. August.
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