Zalgiris coach stings the Balkans: They had problems, they received goals from a short player

The Balkan team launched last night's adventure in European competitions with a draw against Zalgiris.

Within the framework of the first qualifying round towards the Champions League, the Balkans equated as local at the “Fadil Vokri” against Zalgiris with a score of 1:1, Kosovo Preses follows.

Now, last night's match has analysed Lithuania champion Vladimir Cheburin, who stinged the Balkans, pointing to their problems on the team while hoping to benefit the locals a week later.

We talked a lot about standard situations, that the opponent has problems, doesn't protect, doesn't cover, just spaces. Ball came in, the player took a position. Short player, but he did his job well”, Cheburin said.

We feel the support of our fans, even though there wasn't much in comparison with locals. It was great that they supported the team. I hope a lot of fans support us in Vilnius so the team has the advantage of the local stadium. If you play in a full stadium, you don't feel the advantage. We hope our fans will come, so that ordinary conditions will be favorable to us in our field of”, Zalgiris coach added further.

Return match will take place on July 12th, where the Balkan team will be in guest role at stadium “LFF” to Vilnius.