Captain Josip Radosevic led his team in the Croatian Cup semifinal match against Lokomotiva at Kranjceviceva Hajduk reached the finals by better performing the penalty shoot-out, and Radosevic scored the key penalty kick, which resulted in a great celebration.
"There was a plot on stake in this game, but we were not nervous, even before the penalty shoot-out we were at piece. We all believed in ourselves, we were the better team today and we knew that it would come back to us. We had a few good situations in which we could score and end the game earlier, but after such win everything is much sweeter. We are now turning to Osijek, this is the most important for us at this moment and we will learn a lot from this game" Radosevic said after the match.
His teammate, midfielder Toma Basic also played a good match, although he didn't manage to score a penalty.
"I didn't score, but I was calm, I felt the collective energy and the serenity of the team, in the end everything ended as we wanted" Basic said, who then commented on the course of the match in which Hajduk was the more dominant team.
"It's nice to win after the penalty shoot-out, I can only congratulate all of my teammates, they were fighting to the very end. In the first half we forced them back into defense, they played better in the second half, but then we created some great situations that didn't result in a goal. In the end, this was a great physical and emotional battle, we now need to regenerate as soon as possible, so that we are ready for the next match against Osijek" concluded Basic.
