{"id":130304,"date":"2025-08-27T17:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/dragons-chase-a-turnaround-in-armenia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:43:18","slug":"dragons-chase-a-turnaround-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/dragons-chase-a-turnaround-in-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons Chase a Turnaround in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olimpija team landed in the Armenian capital yesterday evening local time and is preparing today for the return match of the Conference League qualification play-off against FC Noah, who will be defending their 4-1 advantage from the first leg in Ljubljana. This morning, the team conducted an activation session, and in the evening, there will be a press conference and official training at the stadium in <span class=\"stadium\">Abovyan.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Captain Agustin Doffo revealed at the press conference how Olimpija will respond after the defeat in the first match: &#8220;We analyzed the previous game and identified what we did poorly. We are clear on where we need to improve, so I&#8217;m confident about tomorrow&#8217;s match. We know what&#8217;s at stake and we want to fight for a place in the Conference League.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a clear plan for tomorrow and we must execute it properly. We need to give everything we have to show our best version. That&#8217;s how we will win tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stadium in Abovyan is located in an extremely windy area, which was immediately noticed by the Dragons&#8217; strategist Erwin van de Looi: &#8220;The weather conditions surprised us a bit. The wind is really strong, the pitch is slightly smaller, and we need to adapt to that. These are unusual circumstances, but they might even work to our advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since we&#8217;re behind, we need to take more risks, which is completely understandable in our position. We made a lot of mistakes in the first leg, especially in the defensive phase. We need to correct these tomorrow, and I believe we will be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the European test, we return to league action on Sunday. The Eternal Derby against Maribor is scheduled for 20:15, and you can secure your ticket at a pre-sale price at shop.nkolimpija.si or in our official club store. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olimpija team landed in the Armenian capital yesterday evening local time and is preparing today for the return match of the Conference League qualification play-off against FC Noah, who will be defending their 4-1 advantage from the first leg in Ljubljana. This morning, the team conducted an activation session, and in the evening, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":130233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-https-nkolimpija-si-en-news-first-team-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkolimpija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}