"The whole team is excitedly looking forward to Thursday evening when we go out onto the pitch in the EL group stage. It will be the first game and we will be playing at home. I hope that the stadium will be full and the supporters will help us to get a nice result against BATE. It is not a secret target that we want to start the group stage with a win. We will need everyone to perform to their maximum to achieve this. It is a massive loss to us that Adam Kovacsik suffered a serious injury and cannot be in goal. However, we are fortunate at the same time to have Tomas Tujvel, who is a very good keeper. I know that he will do really well to replace Adam on Thursday evening" - commented Boban Nikolov.