On Thursday, coach Joan Carrillo held his pre-match press conference, announcing the match against Cibalia, this Friday at Poljud, kick - off 18:00:

"We analyzed the match against Slaven Belupo during our preparation for Cibalia. I am pleased with what we did this week. There will be some changes in our game, Cibalia has different results in the championship than our previous opponent. Hamza will miss the next match against Cibalia because of accumulated yellow cards, Futacs is training with the squad, but we have one more training. We will talk with the doctors, he was on antibiotics, we should take care that he recovers completely" said Carrillo, and continued:

"Kozulj has been injured for two months, he began to train with us and played 45 minutes for Hajduk II. He is getting closer to the first team. Nizic missed Slaven Belupo due to fever but trained with the team last week and he feels very good now".

"My first match was against Cibalia, it took us a long time to win points. I saw their games against the teams from the top, they played each of them very well. Details were deciding the winner. We highly respect them, but our goal is to win three points. I expect improvement of our game in comparison to the last game against Slaven Belupo. It will be somewhat different match with respect to the playing style of these two teams" concluded Carrillo.