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The goalkeeper of the German Melzungen also reflected on his poor performance at the previous Euros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"It wasn't good... It will take time and patience for the new guys to arrive and everything to integrate. I hope that the European Championship was just the first step and that things will get better in the next games,\" the \"Minister of Defense\" emphasized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simi\u0107 also warns about the importance of the first match, and reminds us of the two-match tie with Italy in the World Cup play-offs when our team was considered a strong favorite, but was eliminated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"We honestly don't have any room to adjust. We're playing tomorrow and it's a serious game. We felt last time against Italy at one point, when the game was starting to go wrong, that we could lose by ten goals. We managed to come back, make it six, and then try at home against them, but it's very unfavorable when you start losing away. The audience factor, and then you have that second game in which you have to watch the goal difference... That's why we have to show our true colors right away and play the game at a high level in Finland,\" Simi\u0107 emphasized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aleksandar Baki\u0107, who also missed the European Championship due to health reasons, has a similar opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"All of that was hard for me... but now the feeling is phenomenal, like every time I come to the national team,\" says Baki\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Croatian Nekse defender does not shy away from expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"We shouldn't shy away from the role of favorites. We need to take a look at them because I don't know what kind of squad they have. We have rejuvenated the team a lot, some new guys are now available to coach Dinar. Honestly, I expect a win in both matches.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slovenia awaits the winner of this two-legged tie, but the focus is currently solely on Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"After that result from the European Championship, the focus is on these first two matches. First, let's justify our role as favorites, and then let's think further,\" concluded Baki\u0107. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Montenegrin handball players begin a key mission in Vantaa today (5:30 p.m.) on their way to the 2027 World Championship in Germany - their rival in the qualifiers is the Finnish team, against whom the \"lions\" want to confirm their role as favorites and get a good result before the rematch in Podgorica, which will be played on Sunday. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":899538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[1280,10418,25487],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-942676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-kvalifikacije-za-svjetsko-prvenstvo","tag-muska-rukometna-reprezentacija-crne-gore","tag-muska-rukometna-reprezentacija-finske"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lavovi-grupna-Kolektiff.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942676"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942738,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942676\/revisions\/942738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942676"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=942676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gradski.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Aleksandar-Bakic-RSCG-Stefan-Ivanovic.webp\" "\\"\\"")