At the beginning, I was speechless because absolutely nothing was going right for me – neither attack nor serve. This was one of the toughest moments in my recent past, maybe even in my career. I started the first game without an attack point, and in the last six matches, I haven't had less than 20 points. Suddenly, after two games, I only had two. It probably showed on my face what I was feeling.

And right here, I want to thank the incredible team behind me – Asparuhov, Martin Atanasov, Moni, the centers, Zhoro Tatarov, who joined in excellently. They brought me back into the match, and this victory is their credit. Afterwards, I simply returned the favor because I couldn't leave things like that – we had to fight. And we fought. In my opinion, we were the better team.

Honestly, I have no idea what we are achieving. If someone had told me three months ago that we would play in a semi-final, I would have laughed at them. Now we are living our dream – the one we trained and gave our all for the whole summer. I'm glad we have a chance to make it happen right now.

We will give our maximum in the semi-final against the Czech Republic. I only hope I don't start such a weak match again. We will fight to the end – just like we did today, to the very last point.