The dream of the second Champions League vanished for Atlètic Barcelonta in the semifinal penalty shootout against the host Novi Beograd (10-12). The Catalan team, who played a great quarterfinal match against Jug Dubrovnik, fell against the Serbs in the shooting lottery after 8-8 with which the 32 regulation minutes ended.
Despite the 2-4 tiebreaker, in which Munárriz and Pavillard missed their shots and neither Unai Aguirre nor Jon Porter could stop any shot, Atlètic Barceloneta began to say goodbye to the final in a dismal third quarter in the who conceded a resounding 1-4: with two goals from Dusko Pijetlovic and one from his former teammate Ãlvaro Granados, the Catalan team went from a dominant 5-3 to a worrying 6-7.
“I’m proud of my players, they played really hard,” said Elvis Fatovic, the Barceloneta coach, who suffered his second disappointment in the Champions League, especially this year, after signing the best group stage in history. with 13 wins and a single loss. Counting the final eight, 14 and 2.
In the semifinal against Novi Beograd, one of the favorites for the title, Atlètic Barceloneta had a very good start to the game. After the 1-1 draw in the first quarter (as against Jug), with a goal from Larumbe, the Barcelona team accelerated in the second set with a superb 4-2 with goals from Perrone, Munárriz (2) and Matkovic, who made it 5 -3. But the third quarter was a disaster (1-4), and in the last quarter they came to dominate (8-7) with goals from Munárriz and Perrone, but Vlachopoulos made it 8-8 that led to fateful penalties.
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