FK Partizan - Borac 2:1 (superliga, round 23)

Dear everyone,
no beautifying, no cosmetics, no retouch, just the raw honesty: This. Was. One. Fucking. Goddamn. Great. Game.
It was exciting, it had a great pace and most of all, we played very well.
Fans hung this banner before the game supporting Everton after that racist incident. Svi smo mi, Evi - we are all Evi (Everton).

In the first half we controlled the game. Borac got stuck in their half playing bunker football. They crossed the half-line first time around the 13th minute. (But even that didn’t last long.) The first 20 minutes didn’t bring any considerable attempt, "only" very heavy Partizan-domination. Borac sometimes tried with a counter-attack, with no success. Practically all their players tried to make traffic around their penalty area for Partizan-players.
Not as if that would have helped.
In the 26th minute Vulićević crossed from the right. Kosović, who celebrated his 22nd birthday yesterday, arrived at the best time, shot and scored. GOAAALLLL! 1:0

(photo: mozzartsport.com)

Borac tried over and over again with counter-attacks, but they all died off, they didn’t even reach our penalty area. Meanwhile in the 32nd minute Janković had a great solo running up. He shot, the goalkeeper saved.
In the 34th minute we got a penalty kick. Someone among Borac’s players (probably Ignjatijević) pushed Janković down to the ground. The referee immediately whistled it off and pointed at the white spot. Leonardo stood behind the ball...

...and made it perfect. 2:0

Janković again tried with a shot in the 33rd minute, but again the goalkeeper saved it. A minute later after a huge fault of Borac’s defense line Leonardo grabbed the ball, but finally defenders could tackle him.
Borac’s first attempt to mention was in the 41st minute.  After a corner kick (this was Borac’s first corner kick...) Tiago shot, Kljajić saved, then right there Stefan Mihajlović had another shot, Kljajić saved this one as well.

Tawamba was active, if only he could score

In the second half Borac opened and attacked more, played braver, the game become much more open - another thing is that Partizan still controlled the game. There was a penalty-suspicious case in the 54th minute, again Janković was pushed to the ground, but the referee didn’t whistle it off.
In the 60th minute Leonardo dribbled through the penalty area, he shot, the defenders blocked, it ended with a corner-kick. Three minutes later Tawamba got a pass from Leonardo, he made a cannon shot, pity it was too high.
Borac got a penalty kick in the 65th minute. Janković kicked Tiago to the ground inside the penalty area. Stefan Mihajlović stood behind the ball, he scored, 2:1.

Two minutes later Tiago thought to push the limits. He shot, but it was too wide.
We got a free kick in the 73rd minute, about 17-18 metres from the box. Leonardo shot, the goalkeeper had a big save. Nemanja Mihajlović had a great solo in the 77th minute on the left side. He dribbled to the penalty area and passed to Janković, he shot, too high. A minute later again Neca ran up on the left, this time he himself shot, the goalkeeper saved.

Borac had only one attempt, Punoševac had a shot in the 84th minute, it was too high.

Svi kao jedan - All for one

There was a small celebration in the locker room. The team greeted Nebojša Kosović for his birthday -  Kosović scored himself a birthday gift goal, but after the match he got a cake from the Captain.

Facts:

Venue: Partizan Stadion, Belgrade

Number of spectators: 2500

Official: Ilija Brdar (assistants: Svetozar Živin, Jovica Milin - 4th official: Róbert Kis-Csepegi)

FK Partizan: Kljajić, Vulićević, Milenković, Ostojić, Miletić, Kosović, Jevtović, Janković (S. Ilić, 89.), N. Mihajlović (Đuričkovć, 85.), Leonardo, Tawamba (Jovanović, 90.)
Head coach: Marko Nikolić

Borac: Mišić, Ignjatijević, Marković, Drašković, Kostić (Zoćević, 67.), Marčić (Delić, 46.), Marinković, Tiago, S. Mihajlović, Jovanović (Punoševac, 76.), Živanović
Head coach: Mladen Dodić

Goal scorers: Kosović (26.), Leonardo (34. - pen.), S. Mihajlović (65. - pen.)

Yellow card: Marković (55.), Punoševac (90+2.)

Highlights:

League table will be brought tomorrow.

(unmarked photos: partizan.rs)

Borac Čačak - FK Partizan 0:2 (superliga, round 8)

Routine victory. We won over Borac with two confident goals.

Vulićević was the team captain

The match started in the usual style. We attacked heavily in the first 20 minutes trying hard to score, with no success though. While for Borac, the only thing they could gain was a red card in the 18th minute, when Maslać got his second (!) yellow card and had to leave the pitch. From then on Team Čačak played with 10 players.
The first mentionable attempt was in the 26th minute. Bojinov crossed from the right, Đurđević in the middle missed it with just one step. It ended with a corner kick.
After the strong start the pace started to slow down around the 30th minute. Average Fan thought - with a tired sigh - that the game would be again like the others earlier, we make it until the end with the most simple passing around. But in the 38th minute a free kick came from the right side. Jevtović pushed it with his head, then Miletić jumped up and headed it into the box. Goal! 0:1

What is more.
Barely 2 minutes passed, when Borac’s defense made a great mistake. Mihajlović took advantage, grabbed the ball, tackled the goalkeeper, then the entire defense line and sent a cannon shot into the box. 0:2

Mihajlović shoots...

...and it’s celebration time

Đurđević had one more try at the end of the first half, shooting it just a little bit too wide.
In the second half we had a great attempt in the 58th minute (until then there wasn’t much to mention). Vulićević crossed to the middle, there the goalkeeper performed a great save from Đurđević.

This game was in fact rather good. There was pace, there was fight, sometimes it was even spectacular. We attacked. A lot. With conception in our attacks.

There was still some cabaret in the 80th minute. Vulićević crossed, someone shot, the goalkeeper had a great save. The ball dropped downfield, again someone shot. The goalkeeper again saved, but he dropped the ball out of his hand. Bojinov was right there, "zicer" situation, all doors and windows were open, the problem was that he was on an XXL-sized offside. He shot the ball into the box, but the referee had whistled it off before he raised his leg to shoot.
Đurđević had one last try in the 85th minute (too high), then in the 88th Janković sent a flat shot to the box, the goalkeeper saved.

Highlights:

Facts:

Venue: Stadium FK Borac, Čačak
Number of spectators: 6000
Official: Majo Vujović (assistants: Dejan Petrović, Dejan Potočan - 4th official: Róbert Kis-Csepegi)

Borac Čačak: Aleksić, Tanasin, Maslać, Drašković, Obradović, Bogdanović, Delić (Marčić, 61.), Stanković (Krstić, 24.), Zoćević (Baldé, 86.), Sajčić, Thiago
Head coach: Ljubiša Dmitrović

FK Partizan: Kljajić, Vulićević, Milenković, Balažic, Miletić, Marjanović (S. Ilić, 65.), Jevtović, Mihajlović (Janković, 63.), Leonardo, Đurđević, Bojinov (Vlahović, 85.)
Head coach: Marko Nikolić

Goal scorers: Miletić (38.), Mihajlović (40.)
Yellow card: Maslać (10.), Milenković (33.), Tanasin (79.)
Red card: Maslać (18.), second yellow card

Current championship standings:
1. CZ 22 points
2. Vojvodina 17 points
3. Radnički Niš 16 points
4. Metalac 14 points
5. FK Partizan 13 points
6. Spartak Subotica 13 points
7. Napredak 12 points
8. Mladost 12 points
9. FK Voždovac 11 points
10. Rad 10 points
11. Novi Pazar 8 points
12. Javor 7 points
13. Radnik 6 points
14. Čukarički 5 points
15. Borac 5 points
16. OFK Bačka 4 points

(photos: partizan.rs)

Napredak - FK Partizan 2:1 (superliga, round 2)

There's nothing to say about this match.
We were a pile of shit. A pile of soulles, talentless monkeys with no ideas and no balls.
We deserved it.
There's no place for excuses. Nobody cares that the pitch was terrible, nobody cares about the referee's possible mistakes. Normally we should have won with 3-4 goals.

After all, what the hell did we expect? The team has been suffering from a heavy lack of strikers and goals, but fear no more, Ivica Iliev came up with the Big Solution.
He signed another goalkeeper.
Well done, idiot.

The first goal was scored by Napredak from penalty in the 19th minute. Šaranov fouled Gobeljić at the goalmouth, the referee’s decision for penalty was absolutely right. (The slow motion replay confirmed the foul.) Šljivić stood behind the ball, he shot and scored, as it should be. 1:0
Here we kept on trying. At the 23rd minute Mihajlović had an attempt, goalkeeper Petrović made a big save.

He was the only one who had ideas about what to do and how

Other than this Leonardo sent a free kick right to the crossbar in the 44th minute.
That's all about the first half.
The second half was even worse.
There was nothing. NOTHING. No shoot on target. No fight. No winning mentality. No running, no pace, no attack. Nothing.
Well, maybe there was a little bit of attack, or at least something that reminded of attacking (watching from distance with eyes half closed). Mihajlović ran up here and there on the left, but even he couldn’t do miracle among those fumbling handicapped ducks.

Gogoua = a miserable pile of crap
Everton = primitive idiot
Janković = overly neurotic
Leonardo = butterfly fart
Vulićević = getting slower and slower
(this last one especially makes me sad...)

Then the (non-existing) pace slowed down and turned into the most annoying knock-the-ball-around game. Prva Liga feeling... (but I'm sure even in the 2nd Serbian league there are more exciting games than this). And please, someone tell me why Mihajlović had to be substituted and especially why was Bojinov his substitute?...
Napredak’s 2nd goal came in the 71st minute. Projić shot a, well, let’s be honest, a fantastic cannon shot goal from the left corner of the penalty area. 2:0
We had a huge chance in the 82nd minute. Janković shot, but the goalkeeper saved it. Then the last 7-8 minutes were spent with desperate Partizan-atttempts. Its only result was a penalty in the 87th minute, after Šljivić thwarted Saša Ilić at the baseline

an additional assistant referee would have come to hand

and the referee gave us a penalty shot.
Time has come for Bojinov. The Bulgarian kicked the ball into the box. 2:1

After almost 360 minutes we scored the first goal of the season. From penalty.
Well done. Just well done.

As the result of the defeat and especially the terrible, atrocious performance head coach Ivan Tomić has resigned right after the game. There are no infos yet about his possible successor.

I feel for Tomić. Even a level Mourinho coach couldn’t have brought out any better performance from this line-up. This was the only possible step he could make.
Iliev, Vazura, Vučelić, Vuletić, you’re next!...

Update: upon the informations of mozzartsport.com the management would like Marko Nikolić to return to Partizan’s bench. The two other possible candidates are Vuk Rašović and Zoran Milinković.
Okay. Now wake me up, because this is surely a nightmare.

Highlights:

Facts:
Venue: Stadium Mladost, Kruševac
Number of spectators: 7000
Official: Dejan Santrač (assistants: Dejan Petrović, Darko Savović - 4th official: Lazar Tripković)

Napredak: N. Petrović - Simonović, Frimpong, Urošević (Beljić, 85.), Projić - Šljivić, Vulić (Vukanović, 52.), Gobeljić, Varga, Markoski - N’Diaye (B. Petrović, 78.)
Head coach: Dragan Ivanović

FK Partizan: Šaranov - Vulićević, Gogoua, Ostojić, Bogosavac - Everton, S. Ilić - Janković, Leonardo (Radović, 82.), Mihajlović (Bojinov, 63.) - Vlahović (Đurđić, 73.)
Head coach: Ivan Tomić

Goal scorers: Šljivić (19. - pen.), Projić (71.), Bojinov (87. - pen.)
Yellow card: N’Diaye (60.), Šljivić (69.),Everton (79.), Leonardo (81.), Varga (90.)

Current championship standings:
1. Mladost 6 points
2. CZ 4 points
3. Spartak Subotica 4 points
4. FK Voždovac 4 points
5. Napredak 4 points
6. Vojvodina 3 points*
7. Radnički Niš 3 points
8. Metalac 3 points
9. Javor 2 points
10. Mladi Radnik 2 points
11. Novi Pazar 1 point*
12. Čukarički 1 point
13. FK Partizan 1 point
14. OFK Bačka 1 point
15. Borac 0 point
16. Rad 0 point

*Vojvodina and Novi Pazar have played 1 game so far

(photos: partizan.rs)

A tsunami of stupid in the press after yesterday's elimination (NSFW)

Catastrophal defeat yesterday, flood of idiotism today. Iliev, Vazura and the whole gang overtook the forever-ready-for-some-gossip press and loaded a pile of shit to the by default angry and bitter fans. Iliev told to Mozzartsport (you can read it here if you want...) that

The management is not responsible for the defeat. They did all they could to support the team. They tried to live up to expectations on every field. In my opinion they are innocent. They never caught up in the business part, they always had a positive attitude and ensured excellent circumstances for the team. That's how it should be. Well, unfortunately we had no luck.

Wait, wait, it's still not the end. Here comes the self-polishing.
I still take responsibility for my work. I'm expected to give the maximum, so I give the maximum. [...] And again I repeat, we did not lose, we just couldn't qualify.

Yea. Sure. You are not mental either, you just ran out of your medicines, right?...
Afterwards the Fantastic Sports Director told that the management still supports the head coach.
Our team is continuously improving, technically, physically and morally.

Don't laugh!...

In the past six months Ivan achieved everything a head coach can achieve, he won the Cup, he finished on the second place of the championship. Now he had an excellent preparation with the team, we could see the result at the first match against the Poles.

Yea, fucktard, absolutely. We did. The problem is that it should have been seen on the second game, you sicko. We can stick the first match right up into our ass.

Unfortunately we are hostages of the final result.

Yes. It did get released like this, publicly. "Nažalost, taoci smo rezultata." He did say this, he had the courage to speak like this. FUCK YOU, ILIEV! GET OUT OF PARTIZAN, NEVER EVER COME NEARBY EVER IN YOUR LIFE! You fucking, mentally retarded Vazura-servant, you can thank your guardian angel if your head won't be torn off by angry fans! (Yet you'd deserve it...)

The best is yet to come.
Vazura threw this up from himself, to the press.
I repeat, Europe is not a priority.

Yes. He said that. Europe is not a priority. I put the screenshot here, it's from mondo.rs, you can see it in its original form here, just click.
Take that.

(screenshot/mondo.rs)

DIE.
That’s all I can say on this.

Meanwhile players are totally down, Janković collapsed after the game in tears.

Filip Kljajić, Partzan’s reserve goalkeeper supports Marko Janković walking off the pitch after yesterday’s defeat

(photo: partizan.rs)

It hurts, said Nemanja Mihajlović, one of the tragic heroes of the game according to mondo.rs. I think we were better on both games, but it seems it’s not always enough. We knew we were better but we couldn’t show it on the field.

Son,
I find you a very talented youngster, but the sad truth is that you were all crap. You were fucking not better. Do you know what would have been, if you had really been better? YOU’D HAVE SCORED GOALS, GOALS!!! Not one, not just two, but many!

And now it’s time for superliga. Maybe we can score a few against Bačka Palanka and Napredak. Maybe.

Zaglebie - FK Partizan 0:0 - 4:3 with penalty shootout (Europa League qualifying, round 2, return match)

Well done.
We're fucked by the Poles big time. The world champion, CL-win aspirant Zaglebie Lubin

please, see the irony in it, thank you

labeled Partizan with the "rinky dink" price tag on the European football market. And let's be honest: for 210 minutes we could not score one single goal against them, because we played a brutally low level, soulless game.
It was especially a low blow after those bumptious, stuck-up statements for the press before the match. 'We came to Lublin to win', 'Partizan is the better team', 'we have optimistic expectations', blah blah blah.
Let's start it by making a few important things clear.

ILIEV OUT!!!

VAZURA OUT!!!

VUČELIĆ OUT!!!

VULETIĆ OUT!!!

Ivan Tomić must immediately resign if he still has a little bit of self-respect.
As for these so-called "players", ALL of them must hand down their shirts and jerseys NOW at the team ordnance and all of them continue their career as ditchers. None of you deserve to wear Partizan's jersey, you soulless, talentless fakers!!!
And hereby I declare, that the Polish team did deserve to qualify to the next round. We can thank only to goddess Fortuna that they didn't beat the hell out of us in regular time.
That Zaglebie we saw in Belgrade, that played monotonous, boring bunker football was gone. Instead there was an aggressive, ballsy, fearless Zaglebie on the field, of where the players knew very well what they wanted and how they could achieve it. Apart from a few minutes here and there they kept control in their hands for the whole game. Partizan had no time to pass the ball around or think things over, because Poles instantly tackled them and attacked.

The starting eleven was the same as for the previous game. I bet the tactics were also the same...

Radović freaked me out not just once. He was the weakest link of the team. He was mentioned a couple of times at the beginning, but even those were about how much he was fumbling. Then he stayed invisible until he was substituted (why did that happen so late?...).

Who brought him here and why? A League 5 veterans’ game has more fire and excitement than him. Even Babović was better.

Babović is a Matthäus compared to him...

The Polish team didn’t waste their time. They attacked, ran, had target shots, when either Šaranov had to perform big saves or they missed the target just with a few centimetres. As for us, all we had was Đurđić getting injured on his head after a clash. After he started to bleed, he got a turban made from gauze on his head. That was the mark to show that he is (still) on the field, because he made absolutely no other impression at all.

In the second half Mihajlović had a few moments that are worth to mention.

The truth is that our FIRST attempt was in the 82th minute. It was a 20-metre cannon shoot by Mihajlović.

IN THE 82TH MINUTE.

Our first actual attempt on a competitive game happens in the 82th minute, only 3 days before the superliga starts.

Dissolve the team now. Get out of the pro league, everybody, NOW, and go to the amateur league. We have nothing to do among professionals.

It's a joke. Nothing more.

Nemanja Mihajlović

And then Radović was about to receive a pass, but instead he did the splits down to the grass, like an over-aged ballerina, in the middle of nowhere, being all alone. Nobody was around him. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE, TELL ME IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!

Then came 30 more minutes of this struggle.

Here came the first positive moment, because Saša Ilić joined the game after a long time (substituting Radović). We immediately had a chance afterwards, Brašanac missed it out.

I swear, after a while I was begging for one goal. One single goal. It didn’t even matter to me who scores it, just make this shit end and let’s go back home.

They didn’t score.

Kubicki missed out an attempt, then Vlahović couldn’t find the target (Brašanac had a shot from the left, but his attempt was saved by the goalkeeper. He couldn’t grab the ball, it dropped to Partizan’s young striker, but he missed it out as well.)

Penalty shootout.

First came Brašanac. He shot it too high. 0:0

Then came Janus, he scored. 1:0

Next Saša Ilić. Calm and professional, as always. 1:1

Guldan. Easily. 2:1

Đuričković. Him too. 2:2

Todorovski. Šaranov saved it!!! 2:2

Janković. 2:3

Wozniak. 3:3

Mihajlović. He missed it!... He shot, the goalkeeper could touch it and pushed it to the goalpost. 3:3...

Last man. Vlasko. He ran up... and scored.

4:3

The end. Goodbye, Europe.

You can watch the penalty shootout here. At the end Janković collapsed :(

Facts:

Venue: Stadium Zaglebie, Lubin, Poland
Number of spectators: 7000
Official: Anatoliy Abdula (assistants: Serhiy Bekker, Oleg Pluzhnyk - 4th official: Oleksandr Derdo) - UKR

Zaglebie: Polaček - Todorovski, Guldan, Dabrowski, Čotra - K. Piatek (Tosik, 101.), Kubicki - Wozniak, Rakowski (Vlasko, 61.), Janoszka (Janus, 74.) - L. Piatek
Head coach: Piotr Stokowiec

FK Partizan: Šaranov - Vulićević, Milenković, Gogoua, Bogosavac (Đuričković, 120+1.) - Janković, Brašanac, Everton, Radović (Saša Ilić, 91.), Mihajlović - Đurđić (Vlahović, 70.)
Head coach: Ivan Tomić

Yellow cards: Čotra (6.), Wozniak (32.), Dabrowski (57.), Janoszka (72.), Radović (88.), Everton (103.)

(photos: partizan.rs)

FK Partizan - Vojvodina 3:2 (superliga, round 37 - play-off, round 7)

Despite it was the last round of the season, again there were less than few spectators in the stadium. (The official report mentions 4000.)

Saša Ilić warming up

(photo: partizan.rs)

A few minutes before start

I could catch this image, and it’s too beautiful not to share it with you. Partizan stadium’s tribunes in the foreground, St. Sava Cathedral in the background

(screenshots)

(photo: Twitter)

Teams arrive

(screenshot)

The match had a heavy start, Vojvodina got a free kick already in the 3rd minute, about 18 metres from the box. The shoot was too wide. Two minutes later they got another free kick. The cross arrived from the left, but the referee whistled it off, as one of our defenders was pushed down to the ground.
Then came the 6th minute. We got a corner kick, Mihajlović kicked it to the goalmouth, where Milenković raised up and headed it into the net with a classic movement. 1:0!

(photos: partizan.rs)

Both teams attacked and ran a lot, there could be no complain for the pace. Vojvodina started an attack right after the kick-off. A cross came from the right, Meleg shot it to the box, missing it just with a few centimetres. In the 13th minute Saša Ilić ran up on the right with the ball and crossed it to Bojinov in the middle.
Seriously I haven’t seen such fumbling in my life as that was presented by Bojinov here. (Or if I still have, it was very long ago.) All doors and windows were wide open, but he could still fumble it away. You can watch it in the highlights at the end of the blogpost from 1:40, but only for those with strong nerves. (I warned you.)
In the 15th minute Vojvodina got another free kick, 20-22 metres from the box. Meleg shot, Kljajić had a fantastic, spectacular save.
Meanwhile on the southern tribunes fans made an amazing demonstration. They hung a rope across the tribune and hung all those T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoods they stole/robbed/tore off from Crvena Zvezda-fans. There were those with CZ-logos, Delije Sever-logos, even with Olympiakos-logos. Then they ritually burned these (often terribly dirty) clothes to ashes, while chanting tongue-in-cheek, vulgar rhymes.
You get photos:

(photos: Twitter)

There’s even a video about it:

In the 18th minute Brašanac got the ball after a free kick. He shot it to the box, it was too high. It was his turn again in the 22nd minute. He ran up, dribbled, then shot, but it wasn’t powerful enough to land in the net. The goalkeeper caught it.

Darko Brašanac some time during the game

(photo: partizan.rs)

After this Vojvodina made an immediate counter-attack. Bogosavac stopped them in the last minute, making the attempt end in a corner kick. In the 25th minute another Vojvodina-attack arrived from the right. Rosić (if I could see his shirt number well) crossed to the middle, someone headed it to the box, barely missing it.
A minute later Mihajlović arrived at Vojvodina’s penalty area from the left. He dribbled himself to the middle, then shot and scored, like it’s written in the Big Book of Football. 2:0!

(photo: partizan.rs)

The 29th minute brought another of Bojinov’s great (?) moments. Mihajlović crossed to the middle, Bojinov attacked, he even shot, right into the goalkeeper.
Vojvodina’s first goal came in the 32nd minute, after an embarrassing ball-losing by Partizan. Meleg was right there, he grabbed the ball, ran up and shot it into the box next to Kljajić, who ran out of the goalmouth. 2:1
Two minutes later Nastić had a shot from the left, Kljajić had a great save.

This was the point when I realized there was a relatively peaceful atmosphere on the pitch (despite the usual fouls that always happen on football games). No fights, no yelling, no pushing each other around, yet there are goals, attempts, pace, like on an average football match.
Oh, wait. Everton didn’t play today, so there was no one to pick up useless fights with the opponent.

In the 38th minute we made Vojvodina stuck a bit into their penalty area. We passed the ball around, finally Mihajlović shot from the left, onto the side net.
The last minute brought another dangerous-looking action - well, it would have been dangerous if the ball hadn’t ended at Bojinov. Golubović passed it to the middle, but I have no idea what was going on with the Bulgarian, whether he fumbled it away again, or - AGAIN!!! - he was slower than a snail, nevertheless a defender from the guests tackled him easily.

To the neighbourhood, with lots of love

(photo: Twitter)

The pace slowed down for the second half. The first actual attempt came in the 53rd minute. Lukić ran up in the middle, then passed it to Saša Ilić. The Captain passed back to him. Lukić wanted to shoot, but he kicked the air instead of the ball.
We were leading to 3:1 in the 61st minute with an own goal that literally ached. Rosić wanted to block one of our attacks, but either the ball hit him and flew away in the most possible twisted way, or he kicked the ball into the worst direction, nevertheless instead of the (probably original idea) kick-out/downfield kick the ball flew into the middle of the net with such a fantastic arch you can barely see even at action goals. The goalkeeper desperately ran back to the box, but it was impossible to save this, even if he had stood on the goal line. 3:1

Deep inside I felt for Rosić. It could be a terrible feeling.

In the 65th minute Jovičić sent a distant shot to our box after a free kick, it was too wide. Then in the 73rd minute it was already 3:2. Meleg got a pass in the middle and shot right there, from 20-22 metres. That’s what they call cannon shot.
Vojvodina sped up, they definitely wanted to equalize. In the 77th minute Vukčević (if I could see well) sent a distant cannon shot to our goal after a free kick, but instead of hitting it, he sent the ball out of the stadium. In the 82nd minute Vojvodina got another free kick. Now Meleg shot, Partizan-defenders cleared, though as I could see, it was very close. Another Vojvodina free kick came in the 85th minute, again by Meleg, it ended in a corner kick.

Young Birmančević arrived in the 88th minute as a substitute for Mihajlović

(photos: partizan.rs)

Vukčević sent another cannon shot to our box in the 90th minute, Kljajić saved. Finally, in the 93rd minute there was one free kick left for Vojvodina at our penalty area line, but it ended in the wall. This was the moment of the final whistle as well.

(photo: hotsport.rs)

This is one of the most touching moments of the game, if not the entire season. This photo says more than a million words

(photos: partizan.rs)

Match highlights:

Facts:

Venue: Partizan Stadion, Belgrade
Number of spectators: 4000
Referee: Bojan Nikolić (assistants: Nenad Kurčubić, Srđan Minić - 4th assistant: Uroš Stojković - goal line assistants: Dejan Dimitrijević, Novica Anđelovski)

FK Partizan: Kljajić - Vulićević, Milenković, Jovanović, Bogosavac - Brašanac, Jevtović, S. Ilić - Golubović (Lukić, 46.), Bojinov (Vlahović, 65.), Mihajlović (Birmančević, 88.)
Head coach: Ivan Tomić

Vojvodina: Kordić, Lakićević, Rosić, Miletić, Nastić - Sekulić - Malbašić, Paločević (Jovančić, 58.), Babić, Meleg - Ašćerić (Vukčević, 68.)
Head coach: Nenad Lalatović

Goal scorers: Milenković (6.), Mihajlović (26.), Meleg (32., 72.), Rosić (61. - own goal)
Yellow card: Vulićević (35.), Rosić (58.), Brašanac (62.), Jevtović (74.)

End result of the play-off:
1. CZ 54 points
2. Partizan 40 points
3. Čukarički 39 points
4. Vojvodina 36 points
5. Radnički Niš 35 points
6. Borac 30 points
7. FK Voždovac 25 points
8. Surdulica 25 points

End result of the play-out:
1. Mladost 31 points
2. Spartak Subotica 29 points
3. Metalac 28 points
4. Rad 27 points
5. Javor 26 points
6. Novi Pazar 25 points
7. OFK Beograd 18 points
8. Jagodina 15 points

We-know-who’s are the champions, hooray, applause and congratulations.
LOL, just kidding.
Eventually we made it to the 2nd place. Thanks to this and to our cup winning we can enter Europa League. Čukarički and Vojvodina will join us. What is already sure that we enter the Liga in the 2nd round of the qualifyings. The draw will be on 20th June.
As for the play-out: Jagodina is dropped out together with OFK Beograd that had a surprisingly terrible performance this season. Napredak and Bačka Palanka qualified from the prva liga, for the latter one this will be the first season in the superliga.

FK Partizan - FK Voždovac 2:1 (superliga, round 35 - play-off, round 5)

Partizan-bench before the start of the game: Miroslav Vulićević, Saša Ilić and Filip Kljajić

We had a heavy start. In the first 10 minutes we got Voždovac stuck at their half, we practically made them play bunker football. In the 3rd minute Alen Stevanović ran up on the left and crossed to Lukić. Lukić shot almost from the baseline, the goalkeeper saved.

Saša Lukić wore the captain’s armband in the first half

In the 6th minute Subić (who finally played again after a very long pause) passed to Bojinov. A Voždovac-defender tackled by sliding in, the ball hit his arm (the slow motion replay confirmed it), but the referee again didn’t whistle for penalty.
Voždovac could break out from the bunker in the 11th minute. They got a corner kick right there (which was inactivated by Partizan-defenders). From then on the match was less one-sided, yet it still lacked action. The teams were running all around, mostly on the midfield, sometimes one of them ran towards the box, but could barely make it further than the penalty area line.
In the 19th minute Subić crossed to the middle. Kosović was about to head it to the box, but a defender was quicker and sent the ball out through the baseline.
In the 22nd minute Golubović got the ball after a throw-in. He quickly crossed it to the middle, where Lukić headed it towards the box, but it was too wide. A minute later Voždovac’s Radin sent a sudden, distant shot to our box, it was too wide.
In the 29th minute Everton got the ball from Stevanović in the middle. He shot it to the box from at least 30 metres, the goalkeeper caught it.
In the 33rd minute Srećković ran up towards our penalty area

meanwhile on the other side Subić was rolling on the ground in pain, but seemingly nobody cared
this kind of unsportsmanlike behaviour can totally freak me out, when such occurs at better places, the ball will be immediately kicked out, even by the opponent, for the medical assistance to be able to enter the pitch, but the referee also whistles off the attack
fair play, my a.....

he shot after a big solo, but missed it out.

Everton just had to pick a quarrel with the opponent’s player AGAIN. It was not the first time he started to push someone from the other team, while the (alleged or actual) foul was not committed against him, what is more, most of the time he wasn’t even there when it happened. Still he appears there and starts to push the opponent’s player around while cursing.
I also noticed, whomever we play against, no matter what is the standing of the game, after a certain time the opponent starts to grind Everton strategically. A kick here, a brunt there - it doesn’t matter as long as it makes him fall on the ground and he hits himself. It’s not less unsportsmanlike than Everton’s primitive and aggressive manifestations on the field, but nevertheless it’s not surprising at all. And it will continue as long as this Brazilian boor keeps up hthis attitude.

Other than this above nothing happened on the match. Voždovac got more and more closer to our penalty area, while we passed the ball backwards, having no better idea. At the very end in the 45th minute Bandalovski had a mentionable attempt, kicking the ball to the middle from a sharp angle, but the goalkeeper caught it.

Question of the day: why didn’t Aleksandar Subić get any chance to get into the starting eleven until now?
(He could be seen often on the bench, so he was surely not injured.)
Just because at this match he played very well. He had great crosses to the middle, he ran a lot and he was dangerous for the opponent’s goal as well. But even earlier, when he was (still) in the starting eleven, there was never any complain for his game. He is a defender, but he can play left-winger as well. He plays through the entire left side, he is also dangerous for the opponent’s goal. If he got much more chance, we could easily bring the best out of him.

We started the second half with a goal.
It was like in a comedy. Stevanović forwarded the ball to Subić on the left. Subić ran up to the baseline and sent it back to Bojinov. Bojinov wanted to shoot, but he hit Radojević instead, who arrived sliding in. He still wanted to pick the ball, but that rolled away from him. Golubović appeared, grabbed the ball and kicked it into the box. 1:0

After this Voždovac tried with a counter-attack. Mašović shot, it was too high.
In the 54th minute Voždovac got a corner-kick. After kicking the ball around it was Blagojević, who got the chance to shoot. It was too high (also, as if the ball had hit someone before flying out).
In the 58th minute Bojinov was tackled by the defenders. The ball rolled to Golubović, he immediately shot, the goalkeeper caught it. Still in the same minute Everton received the ball from the left. From him it was sent to Golubović again. Golubović again shot, missing the box with just a few centimetres.
In the 70th minute Saša Ilić shot from the middle, the goalkeeper easily caught it.

As slow as the game was flowing in the previous 10-12 minutes, it sped up as much for the last 20. In the 71st minute Srećković got the ball from Odita (the Nigerian player sent it backwards with an Oxford trick) and shot from 18 metres, missing the box barely. A minute later again Srećković made some unpleasant moments inside our penalty area, this time Šaranov stopped him. In the 73rd minute the guests got a free kick, almost at the left corner flag. Ivković sent the cross to the box, but it was too high.
In the 80th minute Mihajlović ran up with the ball on the left. He had a big solo, dribbled around then shot and scored a great goal. 2:0

Voždovac’s reply came two minutes later.
They got a corner kick. The cross flew through the goalmouth, Partizan’s entire defense just watched in shock. Kosović tried to do something, but the ball dropped to Mihajlov and he shot it into the box. 2:1
In the 85th minute Mihajlović ran up again on the left with the ball and crossed to Saša Ilić in the middle. He shot, the goalkeeper saved.
Voždovac had one attempt left in the extra time (90+4.), Stojanović shot, Šaranov saved.

Highlights:

Facts:

Venue: Partizan Stadion, Belgrade
Number of spectators: 1500
Referee: Nemanja Petković (assistants: Uroš Stojković, Bojan Stanojević - 4th assistant: Vladimir Šegrt - goal line assistants: Milorad Milićević, Jovan Šegrt)

FK Partizan: Šaranov - Bandalovski, Gogoua, M. Stevanović, Subić - Everton, Kosović, Lukić (S. Ilić, 46.), Golubović - A. Stevanović (Mihajlović, 65.), Bojinov (Vlahović, 72.)
Head coach: Ivan Tomić

FK Voždovac: Popović - Ćirković, Mihajlov, Radivojević, Ivković - Radin, Pavlović, Blagojević (Petrović, 78.), Srećković (Račić, 80.) - Odita, Mašović (Stojanović, 55.)
Head coach: Bratislav Živković

Goal scorers: Golubović (46.), Mihajlović (81.), Mihajlov (83.)
Yellow card: Kosović (39.), Ivković (68.), Radin (86.)

Current standing of the play-off:
1. CZ 45 points
2. Partizan 37 points
3. Čukarički 36 points
4. Vojvodina 33 points
5. Radnički Niš 32 points
6. Borac 29 points
7. Surdulica 25 points
8. FK Voždovac 21 points

(photos: partizan.rs)