If the France team have suffered for Macedonia, on Friday during the first day of Euro (30-23), Nikola Karabatic was to outcome of this inaugural match not more worried that for the Blues. For dtricolore boss, the Blues have managed begins a complicated they knew.
Nikola, how do you feel after this victory?
We knew it was going to be a tough game. Our debut Euro and even a general competition, are always difficult. Macedonia is a good team. Nevertheless it makes a good first period, where we play well in defense and tactically well in attack. Then we missed easy things, details, of investments that we have worked in training, but we failed to reproduce. One would go home with a small gap at halftime, but in the last two minutes, you put them in (12-12, 30th). After we have many exclusions and it was difficult to make the difference. We also missed some easy shots, me, that could have put us away earlier. Finally, we did not panic, we knew play smart, especially in defense. Experience played at the end.
The defense was very present, is the big satisfaction of this match?
course. Our defense gives us a lot of certainties. We have good guards behind, and all that gives us a lot of confidence. But I would say that attack was also satisfactory. What we missed is the easier shots. We had a lot of missed shots to 6 meters, which should have allowed us to kill the game earlier. But I think that the balance must be positive. He especially missed the details.
This lack of success you he cares?
I do not see why we should worry. If it’s like that every game will be different, but this is one game. Perhaps we have missed a little bit of juice. We arrived the day before yesterday (Wednesday) and yesterday (Thursday) we did two drives … I do not know … This is not something that one should linger. The important thing is to continue to play without panic, without getting upset, even if it was sometimes in check.
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