Rudar - RK Partizan 30:30 (superliga, round 9)

What a game it could be, with an amazingly lucky home team goal in the very last minute, which brought them the draw. Just because, FYI we were leading for the whole game. (Well, okay, not for the entire game, because in the beginning it was 1:0, then 2:1, but it was gone quickly.) 4:8, 6:11, 10:14, 12:16, we had a smooth first half.

By the way, our team had quite a number of young players, compared to them our captain, 22-year-old Igor Mršulja was almost like a veteran.

Referees gave us too many exclusions even in the first half. (Looking at the records Rudar had half as many exclusions as us. Oh no, come on, who said that referees are biased? No way... in the superliga? Against Partizan? Neveeeeer...)
Things got a bit more tough in the second half. We got more exclusions, while Rudar got penalties. (We got none in the second half. Just sayin’.) We still kept ourselves rolling. 13:18, 15:20, 16:22. Then around the 46th minute Rudar started to reduce the difference. In the 50th minute it was already 24:25, we quickly jumped to 24:27, but from this point on Rudar was close behind us. They were so close that in the 59th minute they equalized (29:29), but Komnenić quickly took us back the lead (29:30).
Then Komnenić was sent off. Only two seconds were left from the game.
Don’t ever ask me why.
To cut it short, Rudar equalized at the very end.
The hero of the day was Lazar Kukić with 9 goals. He is followed by Nemanja Živković (7), Nikola Perović (6), Igor Mršulja (3) as well as Vuk Milenković and Petar Komnenić (2-2). Stefan Jokić scored one goal.
Photos.

(photos: srls.rs)

Current championship standings:
1. CZ 15 points
2. Dinamo 14 points
3. Vojvodina 13 points
4. Sloga 12 points
5. Spartak Vojput 11 points
6. Šamot 65 11 points
7. Partizan 8 points
8. Požarevac 7 points
9. Rudar 7 points
10. Metaloplastika 6 points
11. Morava 4 points
12. Jugović 0 point

RK Partizan - Rudar Kostolac 32:26 (superliga, round 11)

In the meantime the handball team welcomed Rudar Kostolac in the Banjica sports centre. It wasn't really a tough job, we were leading for the whole time. In fact the only question was how many goals we should win over them with. 4:2 (5th minute), 8:4 (10th minute) - at this point guests reduced their difference for the end of the first 15 minutes (8:7). But it didn't cause any upheaval, because we had a confident lead again 5 minutes before the end (13:9). We finished the first half with 15:11.
The second half was even easier. It was going without such excitements that e.g. the opponent approaches us to 1 goal. 18:11 (35th minute), 21:13 (40th minute), what is more, for the 42nd minute our difference was 10 goals (23:13). Then 25:16 (45th minute), 28:18 (51st minute), 29:21 (49th minute). At the end Rudar Kostolac focused probably only having a less-than-10-goals difference. In the last minutes they reduced their disadvantage a bit, the standing was 30:24 two minutes before the end. Pižurica and Živković quickly scored 2 goals, at the other side Dimitrijević pushed two into our net. That was the end result, 32:26.
The hero of the day was Nemanja Živković with 10 (!!!) goals. He is followed by Ivan Popović (6). Mihajlo Radojković celebrated his 21st birthday with 4 goals (Happy Birthday!). Captain Mršulja also scored 4 goals. Lazar Kukić threw 3, Aleksa Maksić and Matija Pižurica scored 2-2, while young talent Darko Stevanović added one goal to this parade.

(photos: srls.rs)

League table will be brought later.

Update: current championship standings
1. CZ 19 points
2. Sloga 17 points
3. Partizan 15 points
4. Metaloplastika 14 points
5. Požarevac 12 points
6. Jugović 11 points
7. Morava 9 points
8. Rudar Kostolac 8 points
9. Radnički 4 points
10. Železničar 1 point

Rudar Kostolac - RK Partizan 26:24 (superliga, round 2)

The first defeat came right in the second round of the superliga. The available informations are again minimal, I try to bring the best out of the one and only available referee report.
Rudar Kostolac took the lead right at the beginning of the game. At first it was 4:2, then 6:3, 8:3, 10:5 - at this point Partizan shook themselves up and reduced the difference to 11:8. But the miners’ team blocked our further attempts and changed the standing to 13:9. The half-time result was 15:12.
In the second half it quickly became 17:13. The Kostolac team was leading for the whole time, always with 2-3-4 goals. There was only one point when we equalized to 21:21. From then on the game became a bit more narrow, the advantage of the home team reduced to 1-2 goals. At the very end, when the standing was 26:23 we could score one last goal.
The hero of the day is Stevan Sretenović with 6 goals. He is followed by Igor Mršulja (5), Darko Stevanović (4) and Nemanja Živković (3). Mihajlo Radojković, Lazar Kukić and Ivan Popović all scored 2-2 goals.
As soon as there is any kind of photo or video resume about the match, I’ll update this blogpost immediately. Until then you get Ivan Popović with a teddy bear.

(photo: rkpartizan.rs)

Update: here are photos from the match.

(photos: srls.rs)

League table will be brought to you only tomorrow, because there is still one game left from this round.

Update: current championship standings:
1. Rudar Kostolac 4 points
2. Sloga 3 points
3. CZ 3 points
4. Partizan 2 points
5. Metaloplastika 2 points
6. Morava 2 points
7. Jugović 2 points
8. Požarevac 1 point
9. Železničar 1 point
10. Radnički 0 pont

RK Partizan - Rudar Kostolac 27:28 (SuperLiga, Round 18)

It wasn’t funny.
Let’s make it clear: being defeated is never funny. Especially not with just one goal. And such a defeat that comes from the team on the 8th place of the league table is the "Are you kidding?"-category.
Kostolac was on the lead practically for the whole time.

Well, okay. That’s not true. We took the lead for approx. one and a half minutes, to 2:0. Then it was gone.

Once we could almost equalize, but then guest team player Nedeljković sped up, about a minute before the end.
The hero of the day is goalkeeper Ćućuz with 16 saves, plus once he even saved a penalty. The most goals (7) were scored by Vanja Ilić.
Yet we are still on the 4th place of the league table, our position is not in danger. Thank God.

(photo: zurnal.rs)

Current championship standings:
1. Spartak Vojput 25 points*
2. Jugović 24 points*
3. Metaloplastika 23 points*
4. Partizan 22 points
5. Crvena Zvezda 19 points*
6. Železničar 18 points
7. Požarevac 15 points*
8. Rudar Kostolac 14 points
9. Planinka 14 points*
10. Kolubara 0 point

Teams marked with * will play on Saturday.

Rudar Kostolac - RK Partizan 27:29

Last match of the 9th round of the men's handball superliga was played on Tuesday between Rudar Kostolac and RK Partizan. Partizan won with 2 goals over the home team. The house was fully crowded, the atmosphere was fantastic and the final result was decided in the last minutes of the match by left-handed gods Radojković and Sretenović.

(photo: rkpartizan.rs)

Current championship standings:
1. Jugović 14 points
2. Železničar 13 points
3. Metaloplastika 13 points
4. Crvena Zvezda 11 points
5. Partizan 11 points
6. Spartak Vojput 11 points
7. Rudar Kostolac 7 points
8. Požarevac 5 points
9. Planinka 5 points
10. Kolubara 0 point