Weekly on Bosnian football


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26 Eylül 2012 Çarşamba

BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 7th WEEK



Last season’s champion Zeljeznicar continues to loose points. Railroaders, who lost the away match against Zrinjski last week, had a surprising home draw with Radnik Bijeljina, that takes part in the Premijer League fort he first time in club’s history and already at the bottom of the table. Zeljo dropped back at the very beginning of the match at fifth minute, but managed to rescue one point by midfielder Nermin Jamak’s goal at 77th minute.

(Photo: Oslobodjenje)

Zeljeznicar will have an away match against Çelik next week in Zenica and if Slavija will be victorous against Radnik Bijeljina and Zrinjski will beat GOŞK, both in away matches, Zeljo may fall behind the championship race.

Having started with an unsuccessful draw result against Çelik in home match in the beginning of the season, Sarajevo did not loose even one point since than. This week, they had a clear 3-0 away victory against Leotar in Trebinje. Maroon-white team forged ahead by Hadziç at 37th minute and young left forward Suljiç made it 2-0 at 68th. Just after two minutes, the new transfer from Honved of Budapest, Emir Hadziç scored his second and Sarajevo’s third goal.

Sarajevo has strengthened his leadership with a five point difference away from the runner-up Zeljo with the stable performance.

Slavija and Zrinjski, struggling fort he third position had a 1-1 draw in Lukavica.

This week’s most spectacualr result was Borac’s home 4-0 home victory against Rudar Prijedor

Olimpik insists on playing a mediocre football. Until now they could not manage to have two victories in row. Although they had a 1-0 home victory against Leotar last week, they had a customary 0-0 away draw against Şiroki Brijeg. Despite being on 6th position in the Premijer League, with 5 goals for and 4 goals against, they are recognized as the most boring team to watch.

On the contrary to a very good start to the season, Velez could not continue and had another surprising home defeat against GOŞK Gabela in Mostar. GOŞK succeeded to score three goals in the first 25 minutes of the match.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 7th week are as follow:
Leotar Trebinje: 0 – FK Sarajevo: 3
Zeljeznicar: 1 – Radnik Bijeljina: 1
Slavija: 1 – Zrinjski: 1
Borac Banja Luka: 4 – Prijedor: 0
Şiroki Brijeg: 0 - Olimpik Sarajevo: 0
Travnik: 2 – Gradina Srebrenik: 0
Zvijezda Gradacac: 1 – Çelik Zenica: 0
Velez Mostar: 1 – GOŞK Gabela: 3

Standings of the teams by the end of 4th week:

(source: www.nfsbih.ba)

Next Week’s Schedule (Week 8)
September 29, Saturday, 15:30
GOŞK – Zrinjski
Gradina – Borac
Prijedor – Gradacac
Radnik – Slavija
Sarajevo – Şiroki Brijeg
Velez – Leotar
Olimpik - Travnik

September 29, Saturday, 18:30
Çelik - Zeljo

FK NOVI PAZAR

Starting the season as the leader after the first week’s matches with a 3-0 victory against Radniçki Niş, Novi Pazar could not succeed to have a victory since than. This week they played against BSK Borça who was one of thier rivals in the struggle to not to be relegated from Super Liga last season.

Enver Alivodiç, just transfered from BSk Borça to Novi Pazar scored at 31st minute against his ex-team. First half ended with that single goal. Second half was a duel of goals. Borça scored at 52 and its reply came at 63 by another new transfer of Novi Pazar, Saşa Popin 22 years old young scorer as tall as 203 cm and even 5 cm taler than Liverpool’s Crouch.

Borça compansated the score at 89 by Boskoviç. When the fans were just to think that the match would result with a draw, Irfan Vusljanin scored at 90+ and determined the result of the match: 2-3 and made Novi Pazar to be at seventh rank in the league table.

Pazar will play against Donji Srem, the new team of the Super Liga next week and a possible victory will maket hem to be at sixth posiiton by replacing their place with Donji Srem.

Standings of the teams in Serbian Prva Liga by the end of 6th week:

(Source: www. utakmica.rs)