"Even though we played at home with the North Macedonian team, the score was not encouraging at all."
Alyona Barbakadze, the handball player of the Azerbaijan national team, told Idman.biz.
She evaluated the meeting with North Macedonia (22:37) in the qualifying round of EURO-2024. According to Barbakadze, although they worked hard for victory, they could not make it official: "North Macedonia is a European level team. It was quite difficult to fight because the opponent simulated a lot. We started the game well, everything was going as we wanted. But later we started making mistakes. The opponent also took advantage of our mistakes very well. We lost to this team in our first meeting with the score of 17:40. Our head coach was not with us in that game. That's why we couldn't win. Also, playing away is always difficult. Our next opponent is the Spanish national team. We already know that this opponent is the leader of the group. We will do our best to succeed. We work hard for this. Because it is hard and difficult for us to win against this opponent.”
It should be noted that the Azerbaijani national team will face Spain on April 7.
Banuchichek Huseynli
Idman.biz
