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 - Zaglebie (POL) 0:0 (Europa League qualifying, round 2)

At least half of the starting 11 line-up was totally unknown for me.

Someone should tell me why it’s good to scrounge a bunch of new players that could make up an entire starting eleven. Players you’ve never heard of, and you don’t know who and why wanted to sign them for Partizan. None of them is a class player, none of them has character, yet at the same time we sell out our own youth/cadet players even before they reach the coming of age.

Fans started to chant "Vučiću pederu" before the start. Nothing new, nothing special, just carrying on where we finished in the previous season, right?

Starting line-up

Bench

(photos: partizan.rs)

I’d like to ask head coach Ivan Tomić about why Saša Ilić had to stay on the bench for the whole time NOW, when we play in the Europa League?...
Then the match started and we passed the ball among us. We also kept on passing the ball. We passed the ball here and there. Our ball possession was excellent. We could even reach the Polish penalty area, but we then stopped there. Đurđić was supposed to be on the striker position, yet I could hear his name to be mentioned only once during the first 20 minutes.
Zaglebie played defensive football. They probably wanted to survive this game without getting any goal. The first time they had any mentionable attempt on our goal (and it was really on target) was in the 24th minute. Otherwise Partizan kept on passing the ball. Here and there. With no visible result.
It started to be exciting in the last 10 minutes. First Radović missed out 2 chances in a row, then it was Mihajlović’s turn to miss out an attempt with the ball hitting a defender and by this "ricochet" rolling out of the field missing the target with 2 millimetres or so. Bogosavac too had a great chance, hitting the crossbar, while Đurđić raised to Bojinovian heights, when he screwed up an attempt 3 steps from the goal line in the 41st minute. (Then he had a fight with Todorovski.)

The moment when you realize Euro2016 is over and you have to content yourself with superliga

(photo: partizan.rs)

I think it says all that I was begging for the game to end already in the 50th minute. Numerous attempts were missed out (Đurđić, Radović). Papadopulos got his 2nd yellow card in the 55th minute, from then on Zaglebie played with 10 players.
And we still couldn’t score one single goal. We tried, while the Polish team didn’t pressure themselves too much. They played it defensive. They had one attempt in the 61st minute, they dribbled it so good that they made Everton fall on the ground, then they barely missed it.

The Substitute Of All Times. Đurđić off, Bojinov on. Effectivity is not our cup of tea, is it? Most important is to look fancy on the field, with the trendiest haircut ever

(photo: partizan.rs)

The team seemingly started to get exhausted around the 75th minute. Players slowed down, they fumbled more and more. It was easy for Polish players to tackle them. They even got up to our penalty area

once Gogoua almost headed an own goal

then they quickly ran back home.

Iliev’s facial expression is just priceless. Only he can make such a numbskull face

(photo: partizan.rs)

The team picked themselves together for the last few minutes and attacked the Polish goal line continuously, with no success. Bojinov just had to miss out a chance, kicking the ball to the sky from the five-metre-line in the last minute.

BotoxBiki (aka Biljana Obradović, Partizan’s so-called PR-manager) was staying behind the southern goal line among photographers, bringing a rather polluted aura to the field. If I had been there with the players, I’d have suggested to play target shooting: those who can hit her botoxed head off her giraffe neck, would get extra bonus after the match.

Saša Ilić was surely not happy with the sight

(photo: partizan.rs)

Goalless draw against a team that played most of the second half with 10 players. We must very heavily pick ourselves together for the return match, if we want to be mentioned as a "European team".

Miroslav Bogosavac and Marko Janković were the only ones who had fair performance

(photos: partizan.rs)

Facts:

Venue: Partizan Stadion, Belgrade
Number of spectators: 12 000
Official: Eitan Shmuelevitz (assistants: Nissan Davidy, Matityahu Yakobov - 4th official: Ziv Adler) - ISR

FK Partizan: Šaranov - Vulićević, Gogoua, Milenković, Bogosavac - Janković (Stevanović, 83.), Brašanac (Marjanović, 75.), Everton, Radović, Mihajlović - Đurđić (Bojinov, 69.)
Head coach: Ivan Tomić

Zaglebie: Polaček - Todorovski (Tosik, 73.), Guldan, Dabrowski, Čotra - Wozniak, L. Piatek, Kubicki, Janoszka (Vlasko, 82.) - Rakowski (K. Piatek, 66.) - Papadopulos
Head coach: Piotr Stokowiec

Yellow card: Everton (28.), Papadopulos (44.), Wozniak (90+3.)
Red card: Papadopulos (56. - second yellow card)