Coach of Vojvodina FC, Miroslav Tanjga, congratulated the team of Red Star on winning the Cup trophy, but at the same time he drew attention to the non-football things that were happening during the match.

Players of the Old Lady lost today in Zaječar to the team of Red star with the result 0:3, and the head of staff talked about the interruptions during the second half as well.

  • I congratulate the Red star on winning the Cup trophy. Yet, there is regret since in the second half we had the initiative and whenever we were dangerous, some non-football things started happening. I will not even talk about the torches thrown onto the pitch, when three or four players fell, and the match was interrupted for a few minutes. Those are things we need to mention, because it is not normal for such things to be happening during a finale, and in my opinion, that stand had to be emptied in order for the match to continue. That is my only remark, but it is not a small remark, because it wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last time, and we have to mention it because if this is how we will play football, then we shouldn’t play. Still, I am not diminishing the importance of their victory, that is not my intention. However, whenever we were attacking and had two-three chances, we were interrupted by the smoke bombs, torches and anyone who was at the stadium will tell you the same thing – Tanjga said.

He then analyzed the match itself.

  • We slept through the first half, and in the second half when we were attacking and posing danger, there were interruptions, and that changed the flow of the game. At halftime we made some changes, we were more dangerous. This is a criticism regarding only the organization of the match, everything that was happening outside the pitch, and we cannot say that nothing happened. In the first half we were not aggressive enough, and we prepared for that the entire week, not to allow them to have one-on-one situations. Simply, we slept through the first half, and we sold a lot of balls in the middle field, and didn’t enter the match as we had wanted. Later on we made some changes, we were better in that second half, but we were prevented from doing certain things in continuity – Tanjga highlighted.

Head of staff of Vojvodina FC believes that his team will secure placement to Europe in the last round of Super League, after the missed chances against Radnički 1923 and tonight’s finale.

We hope that the third time is the charm, and it certainly won’t be easy to lift the team mentally after this defeat and the lost Kup. However, if something has to be done, it’s not difficult. We have to close ranks, we cannot lose in Belgrade, we have the motif and that has to be our guiding light, we have to prepare and give our maximum. We will have some problems, we have a red card, but I think that everyone else is healthy, and there’s no other option but to secure the place in Europe. After everything that has been happening in the club, we have to be pleased and we cannot be unrealistic – Tanjga concluded.