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Showing posts with label Radnički Kragujevac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radnički Kragujevac. Show all posts
I don’t know whose idea this was to put the water polo match right to the same time as the football game. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who would have loved to watch the water polo team tearing Team Kragujevac to tiny pieces and enter the final with flags high (because the game was broadcasted live again on Youtube). Nevertheless my warmest (not) greetings to everyone in charge.
Other than this, it was a smooth thing. After the sparkling 9:2 of the previous game it shouldn’t have been any kind of difficulty.
Well, it didn’t. In the first quarter we pushed down the home team deep through the pipes of the Kragujevac city pool. Gogov started the row, followed by Subotić and Jakšić (0:3). Here came a Radnički-goal (1:3), but Subotić and Drašović didn’t allow space for any possible hopes for the hosts (1:5).
Kragujevac started the second quarter with heavy attacks. They scored one more goal (2:5), but then Rističević decided to stop being nice and he saved all the attempts of the home team for the rest of the first half. Meanwhile at the other side Gogov and Tanasković had a parade, bringing Partizan to a 5-goal-advantage for the half-time (2:7).
The second half was easy. Radnički scored their last goal in the third quarter, but practically we controlled the game, and we didn’t even have to push ourselves at all. The end result speaks for itself, in the final we’ll clash with Crvena Zvezda, unti two victories. The first match will be on 22nd May.
This match has three heroes, Subotić, Jakšić and Gogov, they all scored 2-2 goals. The rest of the goals (5) are shared among five players: Gilen, Tigkas, Drašović, Tanasković and Radojević.
Here is Gogov, as he is swinging the ball, and a goal is coming in 3, 2, 1...
"Routine victory", "the odds were with us", as they say.
Well, yes, something like that.
I brought some screenshots. The game was streamed on Youtube, because none of the sports channels broadcasted it. As usual.
The boys line up at the pool side
Last discussion among team captains and referees
Both teams are in the pool, we are about to start
Swim-off
It was something like you blinked twice and we were leading to 1:0 with Asanović’s goal.
Then you blinked once more and it was 2:0 (goal scorer: Tigkas).
Meanwhile Rističević saved everything. He was like as if all the devils of the hell would be sitting with him on the crossbar.
I’m sure after this game Rističević will appear in the nightmares of Radnički-players. He gives them a broad grin, doesn’t even look up and saves even their impossible attempts - and at this point Radnički-players wake up crying and they all swear they would continue their life on Mt. Athos.
The game was smooth. No heavy clashes, no brutal fights, Partizan was playing from routine. We could allow ourselves the luxury of missing out a penalty at the end of the quarter.
Time-out in the first quarter
In the second quarter Radnički tried to pick themselves together. They attacked, but Rističević saved their attempts with the cool manner of an English lord.
Then Gogov scored a cannon shoot goal in the middle of the quarter. He picked the ball in the middle of the pool, made a sway and threw it.
Then he tore the net to pieces. 3:0
Only 47 seconds were left, when Radojević joined the others on the goal-scorers’ list (4:0).
There were only 5 seconds left, when Rističević thought it might bring a negative light on him, if he didn’t get any goal during the match. Also, it is not nice to stretch the power of the host, not allowing the guests to play. So, Radnički could score a goal here (4:1).
In the third quarter Kragujevac scored another goal (4:2). On the other side of the pool their goalkeeper saved our attempts, well, for a while. In the 5th minute Manojlović scored a FANTASTIC goal with a backhand shot. It was that kind of goal that should be taught everywhere.
Meanwhile Rističević saved everything with a phlegmatic face.
After Radnički’s second goal he rolled down the shutters once and for all. Enough of this playground, kids, you got two goals, deal with it. Radnički-players couldn’t score to him even 2 cm from the goal line. Rističević didn’t even look up just raised his hand and caught the ball.
Next time he should take some crossword puzzle with himself to the box, or macrame, or something like that. Or else he’ll fall asleep in the water from boredom.
Then 14 seconds before the end Subotić scored another goal for Partizan. 6:2, we were ready for the last quarter.
The last quarter was a fiesta.
In the second minute Tigkas scored his second goal (7:2).
In the 4th Jakšić showed himself (8:2).
Rističević saved everything.
Finally in the 6th minute Gogov threw the ball from distance and scored a GIANT goal. (9:2)
I almost forgot about these two matches played in the previous week-end. Apologies from everyone. You get the two in one blogpost.
In the 16th round of the handball superliga Partizan welcomed Radnički in the Banjica sports hall. The game was very easy, despite the guests took the lead in the beginning with two goals (0:2), we equalized for the 5th minute, and two minutes later Maksić took us the lead (3:2). From then on we kept our advantage for the very end of the game. We were leading always with 4-5-6 goals, what is more, in the half time we were ahead with 10 (!!!) goals (24:14). We kept this pace in the second half as well, our advantage was 10 goals a couple of times, finally we won "only" with a 9-goal-advantage (41:30).
The hero of the day was Aleksa Maksić, scoring 7 goals. He is followed by Nemanja Živković (6), Lazar Kukić (5), Stevan Sretenović, Mihajlo Radojković and Živan Pešić (4-4), Igor Mršulja (3), Matija Pižurica, Darko Stevanović and Ivan Popović (2-2) as well as Mihajlo Stošljević (1).
Photos from the match:
In the last (20th) round of Triglav Liga Croatian team POŠK was Partizan’s guests. The game was important for us
yes, yes, I know, every game is important for us, but this one was especially important
because if we can win over POŠK, and at the same time Mladost gets beaten by Radnički, then we can qualify to the Final Four of the league.
In short: we couldn’t.
Even though we tore POŠK to small pieces (it ended with 15:4 for us), the Zagreb-based Mladost also won against Radnički
honestly, the chance for Radnički to win was less than minimal
therefore Triglav Liga has ended for us for this season.
The game itself meant no difficulties for us. Vladimir Vujašinović tried out a few young players at certain places, e.g. our goalkeeper was the young talent Lazar Brakočević instead of Dimitrije Rističević. In the first quarter the Croatians just kindly assisted for us while we kept on scoring (we threw 6 goals in the first part). They made it then to our goalmouth (it wasn’t that easy for them) only 2 seconds before the end buzz, and they took advantage of their chance and scored (6:1).
We slowed down in the second quarter, because it’s not nice to be a rude host, not even letting the guests breathe. POŠK scored two goals, but still, we had to make sure who rules the roost - we also scored two goals, the half time ended with 8:3.
After the break it was time to take control of the events. We ran through the Croatians like a steam roller and scored 3 goals. We were leading to 11:3, then came the final part.
The last quarter was in fact a formality. Croatians scored one more goal, we did four, then at the very end junior national team member Marko Kruška debuted as our goalkeeper.
The hero of the day was Filip Radojević with 3 goals, followed by Gavril Subotić, Radomir Drašović and Danilo Adžić (2-2) as well as Lukas Gilen, Draško Gogov, Marko Janković, Đorđe Vučinić and Mateja Asanović (1-1).
The most important must be announced before I start to write this match report. The MVP of the 14th round is OK Partizan’s youth national team member Aleksa Polomac!
(photo: zurnal.rs)
We started with struggling, the Kragujevac-based team jumped to 0:4. They were leading for almost the entire first part, once we could equalize (17:17). At this point it seemed that despite the guests’ advantage we can still win the set, but Radnički was eventually stronger, it ended with 23:25.
The second part was even more close. At first we were leading (8:7), but Radnički didn’t let us even breathe. We switched the standing from 15:16 to 19:16, and we won it, thanks to Pantić’s fantastic performance. The second part ended with 25:23, we equalized.
The third set was about Ivan Kostić. He organized attacks, when needed, or blocked, served, threw aces. It was smooth (25:19). We were leading.
The last part of the game was again very close. What is more, it was Kragujevac that reached the level of game ball first (23:24). It seemed twice in a row that they would win the set, but finally we gained match ball after a heavy fight as well as the victory.
OK Partizan: Buša (16), Pantić (21), Lopar
(10), Kostić (8), Veličković (19), Polomac (7), Rajković (libero),
Nedeljković, Jokanović, Perišić, Žugić, Tasić
Head coach: Vladimir Vasović
League table is coming soon, the last game of the round is played right now.
Update: current championship standings
1. CZ 42 points
2. Vojvodina 39 points
3. Novi Pazar 30 points
4. Niš 25 points
5. Partizan 23 points
6. Spartak Ljig 18 points
7. Ribnica 18 points
8. Radnički 15 points
9. Klek 14 points
10. Inđija 1 point
The two teams had a tough, fierce battle in the Kragujevac pool, at least based on the statistics. It says all that the ratio of fouls is 10:9, what is more, a Radnički-player, Manić was fouled out some time before the end of the 3rd quarter (I checked the live scores first around the end of the 3rd part, at that point there was already a big red "3" near Manić’s name).
The first quarter could have looked smooth. We were leading to 2:4, we all looked flawless and fabulous, probably everyone thought it would be a routine victory against the home team who are stuck on the 9th place of the league table. Then nobody knows what Radnički-players drank, smoked or chewed in the pause before the second quarter, because they returned to the pool being totally sped up (or we made too many mistakes - or both...). They scored 3 goals, we had only one. They equalized, making up the half-time result to 5:5.
For the second half there was only wrestling left. Both teams could score only 1-1 goal in both the third and the fourth quarter, increasing only the number of fouls.
The hero of the day is Mateja Asanović with two goals. The others scored only 1-1 goal, namely Gilen, Tigkas, Gogov, Tanasković and Stojanović.
The basketball game didn't even finish when the last game of the day, the water polo cup final started. At yesterday's training matchrehearsalsemifinal we knocked off Zvezda like the blind knocks off a glass from the table and we entered the final with fanfares.
RTS was of course blocked at everywhere. It came to my mind, it's one thing that being a foreigner I'm getting grumpy over it, having no available stream link beyond the borders. But what happens to those living in the diaspore as well as those fans who live/work abroad?... Or all those who don't pay their taxes directly to Čika Acika, they are all allowed to hang themselves?...
Fellow Fan kept on informing me for the whole game about the current standing. (Pigeon-post rocks.) Many thanks to him for this and you should all send him your love and blessings, because without him this post would have never been written. (I would have died for sure until news sites had bothered to mention this game. Information society, my a...)
So, we jumped into the water, quickly scored a goal (1:0), Kragujevac switched the standing (1:2).
But Partizan is Partizan, and such a triviality won’t break us. We were leading to 4:2 for the end of the first quarter, upon reports Kragujevac can thank their goalkeeper that this difference didn’t grow even bigger for us.
Then came the second quarter. We were leading to 6:2 with the goals of Subotić and Gilen, then 6 seconds before the end Radnički scored. We finished the first half with 6:3.
Time-out some time during the game
For the second half Kragujevac tried to speed up. They scored a goal right in the beginning (6:4), so did Manojlović (7:4). Another goal from Kragujevac (7:5).
And then came the Parni valjak.
Drašović. 8:5
Subotić. 9:5
Jakšić. 10:5. Less than one and a half minutes were left from the quarter.
At the other side Rističević saved all the attempts of Radnički, just like it is written in the Book of Rules.
There were maybe 3 seconds left from the quarter when Kragujevac pressured a goal into our net. We entered the last part of the game with 10:6
Partizan-bench, viewed from back
The atmosphere was so tensed for the last quarter that even the referee lost control and made nerve-racking judgements. Radnički scored two more goals (10:8). Then three and a half minutes before the end Subotić shot another goal (11:8) and at the very end, when there were only 15 seconds left, Kragujevac scored the last goal of the final (11:9).
But we won. WE WON.
We won the cup for the 24th time in the team’s history.
Rističević takes the cup from Milorad Krivokapić
Finally we could celebrate
The hero of the day was Gavril Subotić with 4 goals. He is followed by Radomir Drašović (2) as well as Lukas Gilen, Marko Manojlović, Nikola Jakšić, Mateja Asanović and Filip Radojević (1-1).
(photos: Facebook/Vaterpolo Klub Partizan Raiffeisen)
Yesterday there were two more games Partizan-teams took part at. The volleyball team travelled to Kragujevac to clash with Radnički.
Well... why should we try to attenuate it? We had a nasty defeat.
All looked smooth at the start. We won the first set to 16:25. It all seemed to be easy, maybe Veličković and Lopar even told each other jokes while rotation.
Then something surely happened, because Radnički sped up unbelievably for the second set - so much that they won it to 25:9 (!!!). (They made it to 8:2 even in the beginning, with black magic maybe...)
For the third part head coach Vladimir Vasović calmed down the upheaval in the heads. Kragujevac was still leading for the entire set (most probably), but the result was more narrow than the previous. The home team won it to 27:25, leading to 2:1 at this point, but hope was still not lost.
The problem was that Kragujevac mercilessly won the fourth (and last) set as well. It ended with 25:19, and with this Radnički won the game to 3:1.
The hero of the day was Luka Veličković with 11 points. He is followed by Aleksa Polomac (9), Boris Buša and Marko Popović (8-8), Dušan Lopar (7), Dimitrije Pantić and Vukasin Nedeljković (3-3) as well as Ivan Kostić (2).
Partizan’s handball team travelled to Kragujevac today in the 7th round of superliga. The beginning of the game was a bit tough, Kragujevac took the lead (2:1, 3:2), then Radojković equalized in the 8th minute (3:3) and Mršulja took us the lead (3:4). Radnički managed to equalize (5:5, 6:6), then Živković took the lead again and from then on there was no stop until 6:12. Radnički reduced the difference to 9:12, but here Radojković, who was one of the best players tonight, scored one (9:13). Radnički threw one another goal in the 27th minute (10:13), but then Đuričić and Popović increased the difference to 5 goals. The half-time result was 10:15.
In the second half we were leading for the whole time, always with 3-4-5 or even 6 goals. 12:16, 14:20, 17:22, 19:24, 21:25. Radojković scored our last goal in the 59th minute (23:28), the home team reduced the difference with one goal at the very end (24:28).
The two heroes of the day were Mihajlo Radojković and Ivan Popović, both with 6 goals. They are followed by Igor Mršulja (4), Lazar Kukić and Darko Stevanović (3-3) as well as with Đorđe Šotra and Nemanja Živković (2-2). Andrija Đuričić joined the heroes’ list with one goal.
Mršulja is wrestling for the ball with Radnički’s player
Mass scene at an attack
Popović, Pižurica and Kukić join their forces to stop the attacker of Radnički
Partizan’s water polo team again earned a smashing victory, now against Radnički in the 2nd round of Triglav Liga.
The available informations are less than minimal, what is important that Gavril Subotić was again the hero of the day with 4 goals. He is followed by Mateja Asanović, Nemanja Vico and Nikola Jakšić, all scoring 2-2 goals. Marko Manojlović earned 1 goal.
Nemanja Vico
(photo: vaterpolovesti.com)
Current standing of the Liga:
1. Dubrovnik 6 points
2. Partizan 6 points
3. Jadran HN 6 points
4. CZ 6 points
5. Primorje 3 points
6. Mladost 0 point
7. Radnički 0 point
8. Mornar 0 point
9. Vojvodina 0 point
10. POŠK 0 point
After all it can be taken as a great thing that Sportski Žurnal released something about this game. The most important is that we kept the 3-4 goal difference for the whole match, then the home team equalized just one minute before the end. Vanja Ilić
God bless both his goal shooting hands
scored the winner goal in the last minute.
The handball season has ended. Partizan finished it on the 3rd place of the Winners Stage. We could not qualify to SEHA Liga.
Žurnal said something about handball Serbian Cup, as something to be played, and if we win that, we can qualify to EHF Cup. I searched through the internet, but found nothing about the handball cup. If you know anything about it, put the link to the comment box.
The final result of the 2014/15 handball championship:
Winners Stage:
1. Vojvodina 20 points
2. Spartak Vojput 10 points
3. Partizan 9 points
4. Metaloplastika 9 points
5. Radnički 6 points
7. Jugović 6 points
This whole story starts in the Banjica swimming pool, where the team played the 2nd match of the final (you can read about the first one here)
and I send a nuclear bomb right into the lap with all my heart to that person who again put the water polo and football match right to the very same date and time
where the two teams fought and struggled with each other for 32 minutes, to make it to 7:7 for the end.
It began with Mandić, who came, saw and it resulted in 2:1 for us for the end of the first quarter. Partizan started with great pace and pressure, while the Kragujevac-based team was just watching with a dry resignation as our Captain scored two goals.
(photo: sportskacentrala.com)
For the second quarter they picked themselves together. They shot 3 goals, but at the same time we also scored 3. We were leading to 5:4 in the half-time. Radnički figured out, if they hadn’t done something very quickly, they would have waved goodbye to the championship title dreams.
After this they took the lead to 5:7 for the third quarter.
It must not keep going like this.
Timeout
(photo: sportskacentrala.com)
There came the 4th quarter.
Jakšić got the ball and scored. 6:7, the difference was only one point then. At the other side of the pool Rističević saved even the impossible.
Statue to him and Soro, NOW, to the entrance of the Banjica pool.
Subotić equalized. End buzz, 7:7. Penalty shootout. Soro was at our goal line, he was the goalkeeper in the first half as well.
And it was an excellent choice. Soro
engild both his hands
saved two penalties. One of them was shot by Ćirić, he saved it literally with his forehead. The other was by Vuksanović. The end result was 12:13, the team was looking forward to the Saturday match with two victories behind them.
(photo: zurnal.rs)
A big thank you to SOS Kanal to upload the highlights of these matches to their Youtube-channel. Without these videos I could have written even less about this match, because - you can pelt me with stones - I was watching the football team’s victory and joy in Kruševac.
Then came Saturday, third match, again in the Kragujevac swimming pool.
This was the most awful. At first it seemed to be perfect. It started after the football match, it all looked too good to be true. Well, it wasn’t. The match was broadcasted only by RTS 2. No other channel took it over, and none of the goddamn stream links worked. As if an elephant would have sit on all of them. I swear, I grew 10 years older during these one and a half hours, when I got to know the result. My gratitude goes to pafteq to inform me.
All that I could learn from the different reports, it could be the Match of the Year, nerve-racking, with lots of battles, being uncertain about the final result until the end buzz. We won the first quarter to 4:5. We were still on the lead to 5:7 in the half-time, but Radnički didn’t let themselves push down and it was clear, we must not gather long-term conclusions from this two-goal difference.
It was especially true when Kragujevac reduced the difference to one goal for the third quarter, when we were leading to 9:10. We were ahead with one goal, but the end seemed to be further than ever.
In the last quarter it was a nip and tuck game. One and a half minutes before the end the standing was 13:13.
Those lucky fans who could watch the game, were searching for heart pills at this point, or screamed for defibrillator.
And here came Dušan Mandić and his left hand.
13:14!!!!! We are leading!!!!
And it was still not the end.
Because only 30 seconds before the final buzz our goalkeeper, Dimitrije Rističević, who made wonders again at our goal line, performed one of his best, or not even the best save of his career by keeping our net from Basara’s shot.
End.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!
This is our 26th championship title, just like for the football team!!!!
Happiness. Joy. Tears. Screaming, singing, jumping to the water with clothes on.
(photos: zurnal.rs)
The players got these T-shirts after the victory. It says (approx.) "despite all, we are champions again".
(photo: juznifront.com)
(photo: Twitter)
Then they arrived back to Belgrade, where a bunch of happy fans with torches were waiting for them in Banjica.
(photos: juznifront.com)
Partizan will enter Champions League in the next season.
I would like to know who was that perverted monster being beside themselves who put the water polo final and the football match exactly to the same date. Therefore, until the final whistle in Kragujevac I was clicking between the two streams, and I would bet on anything, those who picked the football match missed more than those who watched the final. It could have been a fantastic game against Radnički.
The home team made a 3:0 series right in the beginning. At this point Vladimir Vujasinović had a time-out, afterwards we quickly shot two goals. Still Radnički won the first quarter to 3:2.
Then came the second part. Kragujevac scored another goal, they were leading to 4:2.
This was the moment they hopefully burned into their memories.
Because from then on Partizan didn’t let them even to find their breath. We scored 3 goals in the second period, our 4:2 disadvantage soon switched to a 4:5 leading. This was the result at the half-time buzz.
In the third part Partizan switched to gun-vessel mode. We were on the lead to 5:8, and that is against a team that made it to the final in the previous Champions League season, with all these young players, well, that was indeed something to remember.
Radnički picked themselves together for the final quarter. They scored 4 goals, meanwhile we had one. If my memories are correct, the standing was 9:9 then (because in the meantime the football match was tearing my nerves to pieces).
And then came Dušan Mandić.
The 20-year-old, 2-metre-tall, newborn-looking Mandić surpassed all the devils of Hell as he sped up and scored a giant goal only 14 seconds before the end of the game. The Park pool of Kragujevac collapsed, Radnički could not equalize, the final result was 9:10. The (other) heroes of the day are Gilen, Subotić, Jakšić, Asanović (all scored 2-2 goals) and Gogov (1 goal).
The second game of the final comes on Wednesday, from 18:00.
Needless to say, it will be again at the very same time as the football match. I send all my love to those who organized it like this, and I wish them all to bang their toes into the corner of the bed in total darkness, in the middle of the night, as they try to approach the toilet.
The handball team achieved their first victory in the play-off of the championship. In the beginning we were on the lead (9:7), but then Radnički took it over in the 20th minute of the first half (11:12). They managed to keep it up even in the 27th minute (14:16), but we could equalize for the half-time (16:16).
In the second half we kept things under control. Our advantage was always 2-3 goals (25:23, then 28:25, two minutes before the end 31:30).
The best player of the game was Vanja Ilić with his 14 goals, but the real hero of the day was goalkeeper Mihailo Ilić, who saved the enormous shot of Radnički’s Aleksandar Bosić in the very last second of the match, before the end buzz.
The Save of the Year:
You can watch the first half here, the second half here.
We made it to the semi-final!
The Marko Nikolić-Milija Mrdak axis got sped up and didn’t let the Kragujevac-based team even to find their breath. They contributed to the victory and qualifying with 13 and 17 points, respectively. (The third best scorer was Neven Majstorović, he earned 10 points.) We won the first set to 19:25, the second to 23:25 and the last one to 26:28. This latter one was a bit tough, Radnički came a bit too close, but eventually they couldn’t reduce the difference and switch it to their own benefit.
In the semi-final we’ll clash with Crvena Zvezda.
Sport sites don’t even bother to get into details, they just put it to the end of the usual report about the current round that Partizan’s volleyball team won again, now in the play-off of the 2014/15 championship.
In the beginning of the first game we had a very confident lead. First to 5:2, then to 14:10, it was later 17:12. Then the Kragujevac-based team picked themselves together and reduced it to 22:20.
Here came Milija Mrdak.
He took the team on his back and we quickly won the first part to 25:21.
The second game was ruled by Radnički. They took the lead to 0:7, then to 4:10. We could still equalize to 19:19, but two players of the opponent, Premović and Perović proved to be stronger. They won the game to 23:25 and equalized.
The third set could be a nightmare with heart attacks. The standing was 16:15 and it was absolutely unclear who’d win the game. Finally Radnički made mistakes at two counter-attacks, Partizan took advantage of them and won the game to 25:20. We were on the lead again.
The last game was easier. We made ourselves confident with 8:3, then the Parni Valjak started to roll and we won the set to 25:12 as well as the match. Return match is on Thursday in Kragujevac, if my infos are correct.
May everyone at RTS, who made yesterday’s broadcast chaos happen, get a brutal constipation. That kind, that leaves after one whole week with screaming, crying and sweating. You promised us to broadcast the water polo Serbian Cup final, but instead you broadcasted the Skupština, the Serbian National Assembly live, a bunch of corrupted, dirty bastards yelling and swearing with each other live instead of brave sportsmen. Meanwhile you silently threw the water polo broadcast to RTS Satelit, without saying a word, making fans sweat blood while finding it, and when we found it, the entire first half was already gone. Thanks, assholes. And all this from tax payers’ money. Bravo.
It could be a brutal match (it indeed was...) with barely any goal. The first quarter was won by Kragujevac to 0:1, with Petković’s goal, but out of this very case Rističević didn’t let the ball in.
The problem was that Radić on the other side has also "locked the shutters".
In the second quarter we equalized with Mandić’s penalty shot, but Radnički scored two more goals. The half time result was 1:3.
After the break Tanasković immediately greeted goalkeeper Radić (2:3), so did Trajković with Rističević (2:4), even though we wouldn’t mind him avoiding this level of chivalrousness... Gogov threw a goal (3:4), but then Popović scored from power play (3:5).
The last quarter was rather a water wrestling with a lot of exclusions. Jakšić threw a goal 2 and a half minutes before the end. Our sons were fighting very hard to equalize, but it was physically impossible to score for Radnički’s goalkeeper, as if all the devils of the burning hell would have been sitting on his crossbar.
Boys, you are our heroes. You are and will always be.
Partizan won in Kragujevac to 0:3 against Radnički. With this victory we are the only team in the league that won in all rounds. 7 rounds, 7 victories. At the first set it was still a bit on the razor’s edge (we won the game to 24:26), the rest was easier (16:25 and 22:25). The hero of the match was who else than Milija Mrdak, scoring 22 points.
Radnički: Anđelić, Dobanovački (2), Goić (5), Trifunović (4), Protić (libero), Perović (9), Rajković, Ilić, Premović (22), Pantović, Dačović (3), Stojanović (1)
Head coach: Mirko Ristović
OK Partizan: Ivković (2), Lopar (5), Kostić (1), Mrdak (22), Majstorović (13), Rajković (libero), Jokanović, Veličković, P. Nikolić (4), M. Nikolić (10), Popović
Head coach: Vladimir Vasović
This was the first time in 2 years that Kragujevac was beaten at their home. (It IS a big deal to own this honour.) The first quarter was won by the home team though to 2:1. (Gavril Subotić adjusted the result with a distant bomber shot, not to be so one-sided.) Then we started to come up slowly but surely. In the second quarter we led to 3:2, Lazić and Jakšić did not spare themselves. Radnički equalized just before half time.
In the second half we made a 4:0 series (7:3), the home team reduced it to 7:5. But Subotić and Lazić took the team on their back, swam through the pool like two hydrofoils and finally we won over the home team to 8:10.
(photo: mozzartsport.com)
Current group standings after 8 rounds:
1. Primorje 24 points
2. Mladost 19 points
3. Radnički 16 points
4. Partizan 12 points
5. POŠK 10 points
6. Budvanska Rivijera 10 points
7. Jadran ST 3 points
8. Branik Maribor 0 point
Fact, we were humiliated by Radnički in the Banjica sport complex. The smash right into the face was home-delivered.
In the first quarter we were on the lead. The result was 1:0, thanks to Jakšić, then in the 2nd part the guest team turned it by Trajković and Ćirić (1:2). It shook up a bit the otherwise uneventful game. The only problem was that Kragujevac started to score goals... Vuksanović and Marko Ćuk were not much gentle with the young Partizan team. Still, the home team replied with two goals. The last quarter brought three more Radnički-goals, Partizan scored only one.
Partizan’s best player was Jakšić with 2 goals. Đorđe Lazić and Gilen both scored 1-1. Among Radnički-players Trajković and Ćuk scored 2-2 goals, Ćirić, Petković, Vuksanović and Marković all added 1-1 goals to the result.
Today at 15:00 starts Partizan’s football team against Mladost. The team is still somewhat under the impact of the loss in Greece. Marko Nikolić is trying to shake up the players.
- This time we have realistic chances to get to the first position of the league table - he said. We have a great series for 20 matches, I think, this defeat came in the right time to be able to continue all competitions with the appropriate attitude.
The trainer admitted, he couldn’t give any information about when Drinčić, Ostojić and Brašanac would be able to join the battle. As for today’s match, even Andrija Živković and Volkov might possibly have to rest instead of playing.
Match will be broadcasted live by ArenaSport 1.
The water polo team starts at 17:15 in regional Triglav Liga. They play against Radnički Kragujevac in the 1st round.
- Our team was the youngest in last season’s Champions League, with the average age of 20,3 years - said Mirko Brdajić, sports director of VK Partizan. - Yet it does not mean we are not equal to others and we wouldn’t aim the highest. Our players are young but experienced, with numerous games behind them. A lot of them come from the youth team, they all developed during the summer.
- Right now Slobodan Soro is in Brazil, he has obligations there - head coach Vladimir Vujasinović added. - He joins us either in November or in February. We have three young goalkeepers, but we still need Soro’s experience and routine very much.
- In our team there are 8 players who are in the youth national team - Vujasinović continued. - Among them Rističević and Mandić are in the senior national team as well, the latter one won gold medal at all three senior international competitions this summer. We do have talents, we must now make the best possible conditions for them.
Water polo match starts right after football, ArenaSport 1 broadcasts it live as well.
Update: there are some controversies around when the water polo team starts. Some resources say 17:15, others say 20:00. Well, let's keep our eyes open.
