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Showing posts with label Nemanja Petrović. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nemanja Petrović. Show all posts
I swear it wasn’t my idea.
Prva TV uploaded a video to Youtube, where you can see Partizan-players taking part at a fashion photoshoot. There’s nothing special in it, there are a million other examples of sportsmen modeling, or even being the ambassadors of a certain brand. (E.g. Neymar Jr. and Police.)
So, Prva TV uploaded the video on Youtube titled "Stefan Babović - Zavodnik bez premca" (Stefan Babović - The peerless seducer).
The video itself is funny, sometimes even entertaining (except for the trashy background music). There are a lot of excellent, talented football players who tried out what it could be like to be fashion dolls, and they seemingly had fun doing it.
And there’s Babović.
Excuse me for the not-that-presentable question - I try to use my words as delicately as possible - but please, anyone, tell me, who is that at Prva TV, with whom, ahem, well, erm, has a close (sexual) relationship with Babović? Because it is not the first time that this talentless, wooden-legged nobody player was mentioned as "zavodnik".
If I wanted to be very demagogue now, I’d say, luckily the pure talent and commitment is enough at all the other players, so they don’t need any extra grammatical modifiers. But let’s not get into these now. What’s the most important and what has the greatest priority now is that
tomorrow at 18:00
149th eternal derby
Crvena Zvezda - Partizan
The game will be broadcasted live by ArenaSport 1. So far there’s no info that the state-owned TV or any other channel with better coverage would also broadcast.
Victory at a terrible match against a weak opponent, with a very lucky goal. This was yesterday evening, summarized.
Oh, and the players were wearing the brand new 2015/16 jersey. Looks fine, well, definitely better than that grey piece of cloth from last year.
Before the match Partizan’s management gave a golden plaquette to Veljko Paunović for his World Cup title with the U20 team.
Fans greeted Paunović with ovation and great applause.
We had an attempt already in the 5th minute. Aboubakar passed the ball out to the right side to Vulićević. He shot it to the middle, where Brašanac welcomed it and headed it right to the goal line. The ball still flew out next to the goalpost. Two minutes later we got a free kick about 40 metres from the goal line on the left. Ninković stood behind the ball, shot, the ball flew out above the crossbar.
In the 10th minute again Brašanac got the ball. He ran up with it in the middle, the passed to the left to Petrović. Petrović kicked it to middle, to Babović, but Babović was pampering the ball too long, eventually he was tackled. No problem, we still got a corner kick. Georgian defenders headed the ball out, but we still possessed it. Aboubakar tried some tricks, then shot, but it was too high.
I think, this was when the Georgian team had their first real attack - but even this one could be made after Ćirković’s mistake. Their attacker ran up with the ball, it all seemed to be quite dangerous, finally Balažic tackled him. We immediately started a counter-attack, Aboubakar ran up on the left with the ball, but he was tackled inside the opponent’s penalty area. It ended in a corner.
After the first 15 minutes it was clear that Partizan is stronger, also Georgians switched to bunker football and we couldn’t really do anything with it. Partizan had approx. 3 players (Ninković, Brašanac and Petrović) who played well, fought a lot and tried to stay creative while building up attacks. Maybe Balažic, too, whenever Georgians happened to appear around our penalty area. The rest fell into the grey shades of mediocrity. Sometimes Aboubakar had a try, but as soon as he touched the ball, he was tackled, sometimes in a quite rough way. We had attempts from free kicks, e.g. in the 17th minute. Ninković shot it from the left sideline, but the goalkeeper punched it out of the goalmouth.
And so it was going. Our attempts died on the Georgian bunker, our free kicks missed the goal line. In the 28th minute Ninković tried with a sudden, distant and powerful shot from 20-22 metres. Goalkeeper Shevchenko demonstrated his great reflexes by saving it.
A minute later Brašanac gave a great pass to Petrović. Petrović shot from a sharp, left-side angle, the goalkeeper again had a great save. At this point there were numerous attempts by us, putting the Georgian goal line under pressure, but we couldn’t score. It ended in a counter-attack, Balažic and Ćirković stopped them.
Gregor Balažic, Slovenian axis of Partizan’s defense line
In the 33rd minute again Ninković sent a distant shot to the goal. The goalkeeper saved. Corner, Brašanac headed the kick to the goal line, barely missed. A minute later Dila Gori attacked. Their player shot from about 20 metres, but it was too high.
In the 37th minute Ninković passed the ball from deep to the middle. Aboubakar headed it to the goal line, but the attempt ended in a corner. It caused a goalmouth scramble in the Georgian penalty area. Babović tried with a shot, so did Balažic, finally defenders cleared the area.
In the 40th minute Bojinov tried with a not too powerful shot from 25 metres. Missed.
In the 42nd minute Georgians again made it to our penalty area. It was dangerous, but finally Jevtović stopped them, Živko Živković quickly grabbed the ball. In the meantime Ninković was pulled to the ground, additionally he was stomped, too. (But he returned to the field after a short medical attendance.)
Before the end of the first half Aboubakar got a pass from Bojinov. He shot from the right side, but the ball flew out of the field.
Fans some time during the match. The atmosphere was great, while we lacked actual football
The second half started with fans chanting "hoćemo pobedu", while nothing much happened on the field. Georgians kept on playing bunker football, Partizan didn’t seem to be able to solve this problem. In the 51st minute Aboubakar got the ball on the right side and passed it to Bojinov, but the Bulgarian attacker was tackled. In the 54th minute Ninković made a sudden shot from the left, the goalkeeper had a great save.
We kept the opponent under continuous pressure, we were attacking all the time, but the truth is, we barely had any real attempts or goal shots. The two strikers were lost in the Georgian maelstrom, while midfielders struggled to break their wall.
In the 60th minute young world champion Andrija Živković arrived at the field (as a substitute for Aboubakar). Fans greeted him with applause and chanting. (And yes, this was the only happening that broke the silence of monotony.)
In the 61st minute came the probably biggest chance of the entire match: Brašanac shot from the penalty area line. The ball hit the crossbar and dropped on the upper net. Average Fan was almost screaming GOAAAAL, but then it became a cardial arrest. In the 64th minute we got a free kick. Ninković shot, Brašanac headed it, Shevchenko saved.
Brašanac was undoubtedly the best player of the game
Did I hear well, that at this point fans booed Babović after his (x+1)th unsuccessful attempt?...
In the 70th minute Babović fumbled too long and missed out a chance - it was not the first and not the last time he did it, even though he got a great pass from Brašanac. Then in the 72nd minute Saša Ilić arrived as the substitute of Ninković.
Why? Why did Džigi have to come off? Why did one of the best and most active player leave the field? Why? And how did Babović rise to the level of holy cow?...
Nobody can stop the Boss
In the 76th minute Saša Ilić had a shot, but it wasn’t too powerful, the goalkeeper saved it easily.
In the 82nd minute the referee sent off Phalavandishvili. The Georgian player kicked Andrija Živković to the ground near the penalty line. He already had a yellow card, now the German referee showed him the red one. Free kick. Perfect angle. Saša Ilić and Babović stood behind the ball.
Did I hear well, that fans chanted the name of Andrija Živković, demanding him to shot the free kick?
Finally Babović shot. The ball flew into the net near Shevchenko. 1:0
Babinjo, God bless your heart. What a goddamned lucky bastard you are. The one and only difficulty in your life was to get born.
The pace was nearly dead in the second half, even the goal couldn’t make it any faster. The final minutes brought a bit of excitement though. After a Georgian defender passed the ball back to the goalkeeper, they made a mistake and the referee whistled a free kick for Partizan at the corner of the Georgian goalmouth.
It was something I have never seen before. I didn’t even know such exists. Well, you always learn something new.
Saša Ilić just touched the ball and Jevtović shot. Brašanac tried to push it somehow behind the goal line, but the goalkeeper saved.
In the 90+4th minute Šaponjić shot from right, the goalkeeper saved. Just moments before the final whistle Andrija Živković tried with a shot, but a defender blocked it. Ćirković, who was lurking there, immediately grabbed the ball and shot, but it was too high.
Then the referee ended our sufferings.
Return match will be on 21st July.
Highlights (of that one and only goal):
Facts:
Venue: Partizan Stadion, Belgrade
Number of spectators: 18 000
Referee: Bastian Dankert (assistants: Rafael Foltyn, René Rohde - 4th assistant: Benjamin Brand) - GER
FK Partizan: Ž. Živković - Vulićević, Balažic, Ćirković, N. Petrović - Jevtović - Aboubakar (A. Živković, 60.), Brašanac, Babović, Ninković (Ilić, 72.) - Bozsinov (Šaponjić, 77.)
Head coach: Zoran Milinković
Kneel down: the champions of the autumn season are watching you.
(photo: partizan.rs)
In the 1st minute Marković wanted to welcome the Čačak team with a goal, if the goalkeeper hadn’t pushed himself in the way, it would have been 1:0 then. Both teams started with great pace, Borac looked as if they wanted to show everyone, by any price that they don’t get scared in the "lion’s cave". In the 6th minute their defender, Obradović ran up and kicked the ball from the right, into Lukač’s hands.
In the 12th minute Partizan had a corner (that was the first corner of the match). Marković jumped up for the ball and headed it right on the top of the net. A minute later Škuletić passed the ball to the middle from the left, goalkeeper Petrić saved, and they were immediately set up for a counter-attack. Stojanović made some uncomfortable moments in front of Partizan’s goal line. The ball was dropping in the goalmouth in a hair-raising way, finally Lukač caught it.
Then in the 18th minute Božić sent a shot to our goal line. It was dangerous, but ended as corner (it looked as if the ball would have hit Drinčić before rolling out of the field). The kick was shot by someone on the goal line, but Petrović saved it throwing himself into the way of the shot. But the ball dropped in front of Đoković, who passed it into the net from the goalmouth. 0:1
The moment when Petrović saves
WTF. Cold shower. No. Just now. It’s just a joke, right? A glitch in the Matrix. No way such a disaster can happen to us on the last match of the season. Let’s reboot the match, okay?...
In the 20th minute it seemed, Škuletić missed the Chance of the Year. He got a huge pass, but the goalkeeper threw himself into the way. In the 27th minute Babić sent the ball to our goal line from 17 metres, the ball flew out above the crossbar.
Here I must remark, dear Mr. Anđelovski, in the 29th minute Stanković did not have any foul at all. Yes, there, when you whistled, because he was focusing on the ball, not on the ankle of the Borac-player. For your great luck, Mr. Referee, Lukač saved the free kick you gave to the guest team afterwards.
In the 30th minute Drinčić got a brilliant pass from Lazović. He headed it to the goal, the goalkeeper saved, meanwhile the assistant was already waving for offside. Four minutes later a quick counter-attack was led by Borac after a Partizan-corner. Stojanović was running up to our goal. Lukač faced him all alone. The striker took advantage and shot from the penalty area line. He barely missed.
Then in the 42th minute Grbić was wrestling with two defenders at the same time near Borac’s penalty area. He fought himself inside the goalmouth while both defenders were hanging on him and passed the ball to Volkov. Volkov thanked and kicked it into the net. 1:1
For the rest of the first half there were two more Borac-chances left. The first was by Božić, he sent the ball from distance. Lukač caught it, then he even saved a free kick. Then everyone could go back to the warm locker-room for a pause.
The first two minutes of the second half brought two more Borac-chances. First Stojanović kicked a distant shot to Lukač, but our goalkeeper easily saved. A bit later Božić got a dangerous pass, but thankfully his shot flew out of the field above the crossbar.
In the 50th minute Škuletić had a try, but he shot into the goalkeeper. Then a minute later Borac had a chance, that brought heart-attack to Average Fan. Stojanović had the ball and could have shot, but he was fumbling too long. Partizan-defenders cleared the area (Lukač would have missed the shot if there had been any). We made an instant counter-attack, Marković shot from 25 metres, missed.
Verbal karate between oversized Jovančić and little Živković
In the 54th minute Škuletić missed an even bigger chance than the one in the first half (and it cost a new grey hair for every fan...). He shot the ball from around the penalty point. The ball was dropping through the field and no joke, it would have needed only 1 centimetre to get into the net. But it was missed, the ball left the field next to the goalpost.
Živković working hard
In the 57th minute Stanković was just one step slower than Drinčić’s free kick arriving into Borac’s penalty area. Three minutes later Borac missed a similar chance (they were also on offside) and we could immediately run up for a counter-attack. Škuletić got a marvellous pass from Lazović, he shot, the goalkeeper threw himself in the way.
In the 63rd minute Drinčić had a 30-metre free kick bomber. Defenders headed it out, right to Saša Ilić, who shot, but the ball left the field above the crossbar.
Then came the 65th minute. Lazović passed to Škuletić, who ran up and kicked the ball near the goalkeeper who slowly fell on the ground. The ball dropped in the net. 2:1
Two minutes later it was 3:1.
Substitute player Živković got the ball from Volkov. Volkov ran up on the left side and passed to the young midfielder. Živković didn’t waste much time, he checkmated the goalkeeper with a movement that must be taught. 3:1
In the 72nd minute a free kick dropped in front of Marković, but the midfielder shot the ball out to 25. Mai museum. Four minutes later there was an upheaval in front of Partizan’s goal. Milojević was dribbling, he shook off the defender and properly shot the ball above the crossbar.
Kojić about to arrive
In the 82nd minute Drinčić shot a free kick bomber into the goalkeeper. Then in the 87th Kojić got the ball from Saša Ilić. The striker ran up to the guests’ goal line and missed.
Škuletić arrived right then, but his shot was saved by the goalkeeper.
A minute later Saša Ilić showed everyone who’s the boss.
Kojić sent him a pass and he kicked it into the net with such a cold-blooded, elegant way as if he would have been wearing tuxedo instead of football shirt. 4:1
Jedan je Ilić kapiten.
The rest was fiesta. Škuletić got a huge pass in the 90+2nd minute and gave the coup de grace to the Čačak team. 5:1
We could see this 5 times on Sunday
Petar "I make your ass a goal" Škuletić.
Petar "I break Cléo's record" Škuletić.
Because Škuletić broke former Partizan-striker, Brazilian player Cléo's record, who scored 21 goals in a season. This goal was Škuletić’s 22nd one in the 2014/15 season.
Facts:
Venue: Partizan Stadion, Belgrade
Number of spectators: 2000
Referee: Novica Anđelovski (assistants: Milan Minić, Darko Rasinac - 4th assistant: Miloš Gagić - goal line assistants: Ilija Brdar, Igor Stojilković)
FK Partizan: Lukač - Petrović, Stevanović, Stanković, Volkov - Grbić (A. Živković, 56.), Marković, Drinčić, Ninković (S. Ilić, 46.) - Lazović (Kojić, 83.), Škuletić
Head coach: Marko Nikolić
