Haris Medunjanin talked about not being able to win the match against Zenit St. Petersburg on the first Europa League Matchday at the Netanya Stadium:
“Nobody understood why there was a free kick including the Zenit players. When you play such a good game and you give it away, it was not very professional from our side. We need to know that games are 95 or 96 minutes and we have to be focused until the end of the match. It happened against Beitar and now it happened against Zenit.”
More about the ruling on the pitch:
“These things happen in football, where a new rule comes up that nobody knows about. We were all in shock. I don’t want to talk about the referees.”
Learning from experience:
“When you come into a game like this as an underdog against such a good team and one that has so many international players with a lot of experience. But when you are leading after close to 80 minutes you have to play a it smarter by keeping the ball with the team and also have some help from the referee instead of giving up a goal on such a free kick. What can you do, it’s football and I hope we can learn from this”
Take aways from the match:
“We need to take from everything we do. We have no points and there are five games to play. But if we play like this then I think we have a good chance of making it to the second round. But it’s just the early stages of the season and we have a few important league games before the next Europa League match.”
