BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 8th WEEK

(Click here for the original text in Haber Boşnak, published October 2, 2012)

(2 Ekim 2012 tarihinde Haber Boşnak’ta yayınlanan özgün metin için buraya tıklayınız)

Despite they fell five points behind the leader Sarajevo, Zeljeznicar passed Çelik away match with three very valuable points with a result of 2-1 and preserved his runner-up position. Zenica team had a quick start of the game and scored the first goal at seventh minute by Coviç. However, could not preserve the score. Adiloviç scored Zeljo’s first goal at 35th, and just at the end of the second half, Brkoviç scored the victory goal at 86th minute.

Furious Sarajevo added three more points by an easy home victory against Şiroki Brijeg. Husejinoviç scored the first goal of his team at 44th minute, and the experienced libero Torlak scored the second goal of his team at 66th minute. Şiroki could find their single goal at 90+4, which was not enough fort hem to claim for one more goal for a draw.

With the excellent performance, Sarajevo is five points in front of the runner-up Zeljeznicar in Premijer League.

 Zrinjski, which is just following the leader and runner-up silently but surely passed GOŞK Gabela in away match with a single goal.

(Photo: Dnevni Avaz)

Olimpik Sarajevo, had a 2-0 home victory against Travnik by two goals from Smajic. Since the beginning of the season, it is the first time that Olimpik managed to score 2 goals in the same match. Next week, they will play away match against Borac, who currently holds the fourth position in the Premijer League and Olimpik holds the fifth.

The recent spectacular team of Premijer League; Borac had a clear 3-1 away victory against Gradina Srebrenik.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 8th week are as follow:

FK Sarajevo: 2 – Şiroki Brijeg: 1

Çelik Zenica: 1 – Zeljeznicar: 2

GOŞK Gabela: 0 – HŞK Zrinjski

Gradina Srebrenik: 1 – Borac Banja Luka: 3

Olimpik Sarajevo: 2 – NK Travnik: 0

Radnik Bijeljina: 2 – FK Slavija: 0

Velez Mostar: 1 – Leotar Trebinje: 1

Rudar Prijedor: 2 – Zvijezda Gradaçac: 0

Standings of the teams by the end of 8th week:

 (Source: www.nfsbih.ba)

Next Week’s Schedule (Week 9)

Leotar – GOŞK

Şiroki Brijeg – Velez

Travnik – Sarajevo

Borac – Olimpik

Zvijezda – Gradina

Slavija – Çelik

Zeljo – Rudar

Zrinjski - Radnik

FK NOVI PAZAR

Pazar had an easy home 2-0 victory against Donji Srem.

Miloş Bogunoviç, who were quite act,ive in Novi Pazar’s struggle to succeed to play in Prva Liga, who also played in Cadiz in Spain and in Partizan Beograd previously, with a moderate career, scored Pazar’s first goal in the beginning of the second half at 48th minute. Damjanoviç was able to make a goal from the penalty kick at 73rd minute and Novi Pazar became at 5th position in Prva Liga after this match.

Pazarci are confident with Pazar’a current standing.

Next week, Pazar will have an important away match with Jagodina who holds the fourth position in the table an deven one single point would be good enough for Novi Pazar.

Standings of the teams in Serbian Prva Liga by the end of 7th week:

(Source: www. utakmica.rs)

BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 4th WEEK

(Click here for the original Turkish text in Haber Boşnak, published August 29, 2012.)

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The leader and runner up positions were occupied by capital city teams this week as well. Despite having the same goal difference, since Zeljo’s 8 goals made the railroaders to be at the top of the table.

Last season’s champion was hosted by GOŞK. The match was scheduled to be played at 17:00 because of the lack of lighting system in Gabela’s Podavala Stadium which avoided the match to be played in the evening surviving from the sharp heat of Hercegovina. Gabela, stemming his name from the Arabic word for “customs, is the bordering town of BiH with Croatia, predominantly populated by Bosnian Croats and recognized as one of the hottest settlements in the country.

At minute 9, Zeljo’s scorer Zeba’s goal was replied by Jusufbaşiç from the host team just two minutes after. At the end of the first half, in 44th minute, Selimoviç scored for Zeljo and the first haf’s score was 2-1 for the guest team. The players were quite exhausted because of the heat in the second half. However, Zeljo’s experienced Adiloviç scored his team’s third goal in the 80th minute, which was replied by Jusufbaşiç again at 82th, which determined the result of the match: 2-3 for Zeljo.

 In the match in Otoka, FK Sarajevo was victorous against Olimpik with Belozeviç’s penalty kick goal at 35th minute.

Slavija, which was the main candidate to relegate to ower kleague in the first half of last season, but who performed an excellent second half seems to continue her form in tghis season as well. Having the same poimt with Zeljo and Sarajevo, because of lower goal difference, Slavija is at 3rd place in the table. This week, they had a modest 1-0 home victory against Zvijezda by Vidiç’s goal at 35th minute.

The ranks at the first three places are likely to change after next week’s match between Zeljo and Slavija in Grbavica.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 4th week are as follow:

GOŞK Gabela: 2 – Zeljeznicar: 3

Olimpik Sarajevo: 0 – FK Sarajevo: 1

FK Slavija: 1 – Zvijezda Gradacac: 0

Zrinjski Mostar: 1 – Borac Banja Luka: 0

Çelik Zenica: 2 – Şiroki Brijeg: 1

Rudar Prijedor: 3 – Leotar Trebinje: 1

Gradina Srebrenik: 1 – Velez Mostar: 3

Radnik Bijeljina: 2 – NK Travnik: 2

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

(source: www.nfsbih.ba)

Next Week’s Schedule (Week 4: September 1-2):

Borac – Radnik

Sarajevo – GOŞK

Zvijezda – Zrinjski

Şiroki Brijeg – Prijedor

Travnik – Çelik

Velez – Olimpik

Leotar – Gradina

Zeljo - Slavija

FK NOVI PAZAR

Novi Pazar had a good start against Red Star an deven was beter than the guest team for a while where ex-Partizan player, Bogunovic scıred at 28th. However, just 10 minutes afterwards, Red Star’s Kasalica scored the draw goal for Red Star.

The strong guest team was dominating the second half and scored the victorous goal at 52 by Milunovic and leaving the pitch victorous.

Novi Pazar, occupying the leadership rank in the first week is now at 7th above three more teams who share the same points: Red Star, Sloboda, Radniçki Niş. Novi Pazar will play against Smederovo in away match next week.

Standings of the teams in Serbian Prva Liga by the end of 3rd week:

 (Source: www. utakmica.rs)

BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 25th WEEK

(Click here for the original Turkish text in Haber Boşnak, published May 8, 2012.)
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Only five weeks left for the end of the season and Zeljeznicar preserves seven points difference between Şiroki Brijeg. Leader Zeljo and runner up Şiroki Brijeg expects from one another to lose some points but this week they both scored five goals.

(Photo: Oslobodjenje)

 Zeljo passed GOŞK with a home 5-0 victory. GOŞK, with the poor performance in recent weeks became a candidate of relegation. Zeljo, on the other side keeps the track of being unbeaten in the last 30 matches and became one step closer to the title. Five different players scored the goals of railmen. Just at 15th minute Svraka opened the curtain of the show and followed by the goal of Zeljo’s goal machine Adiloviç at 30th minute. This was the half time score: 2-0. The second half started with Zeljo’s Liberian player Nyema’s goal at 48th and Bekriç’s goal at 52th minute. In 70th minute, Zeba did not forgive GOŞK’s defense’s mistake and finalized the match: 5-0. 

Şiroki Brijeg started the home match against Leotar with 20th minute goal of guest team’s scorer Ristiç. However, Captain Dalibor Siliç scored the equalizer goal at 24th and the half time score was 1-1. There was a Şiroki Brijeg storm in the second half. Brazilian Wagner scored at 50th and made it 2-1 for Şiroki Brijeg. At 58th minute Şiroki Brijeg won a penalty and the penalty goal was scored by Siliç. Just after three minutes Argentinean star Juan Manuela Varea scored the fourth goal. The closing goal came from Roskam at 84th. After the match, Şiroki trainer Ante Kokiç had expressed his hopes: “We wish Zeljo will lose some points in the remaining weeks, however, even if not we aim to play good football.”

Zeljeznicar will have a difficult away match with Velez, which has a shining performance in recent weeks.

Sarajevo was just to be defeated by Travnik in away match if Torlak and Krpiç did not score in the last ten minutes of the game.

Borac, at fourth standing had an easy victory over Çelik with two goals scored in the first 25 minutes of the match.

The bells are still ringing for Sloboda Tuzla after being defeated away match against Zvijezda. The only solace for Sloboda was that Slavija, which stands two points above, lost away match against Zrinjski 3-1. Indeed, Slavija started the match with a motivation as a result of the early goal scored by Raseviç at the first minute, however could not avoid Zrinjski’s three goals. Travnik, another team which is only two points above Sloboda and GOŞK three points as well lost the games and made the relegation pot to be warmed up again.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 25th week are as follow:

Borac Banja Luka: 2 – Çelik Zenica: 0

Zvijezda Gradaçac: 1 – Sloboda: 0

Zeljeznicar: 5 – GOŞK Gabela: 0

Olimpik Sarajevo: 0 – Velez Mostar: 0

Zrinjski Mostar: 3 – FK Slavija: 1

NK Travnik: 1 – FK Sarajevo: 2

Rudar Prijedor: 3 – FK Kozara: 0

Şiroki Brijeg: 5 – Leotar Trebinje: 1

Standings of the teams by the end of 25th week:

(Source: www.nfsbih.ba)

Next Week’s Schedule (Week 26: May, 5-6):

Çelik – Şiroki Brijeg

Leotar – Rudar

Kozara – Travnik

Sarajevo – Zrinjski

Slavija – Olimpik

Velez – Zeljeznicar

GOŞK – Zvijezda

Sloboda – Borac

BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 23rd WEEK

(Click here for the original Turkish text in Haber Boşnak, published April 17, 2012.)

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By the end of the eight matches of the second half of the season, it seems that the top of the Bosnian Super League is settled to a certain degree. Struggle for title continues between Zeljo and Şiroki Brijeg, where Zeljo has an advantage of seven points difference. The victory of both teams in 23rd Week did neither change the rank nor the point difference.

The interesting coincidence in this week was that, leader Zeljo played with 4th Borac, while 2nd Şiroki Brijeg played with FK Sarajevo. Those keeping the title struggle were the victorious, where Borac and Sarajevo struggling for European cups were the losers. If it happened vice versa, the struggle for the title would be warmed a bit. At least there would be three candidates for the runner-up.  

The gap between struggle for title and struggle for European cup did relatively become wider. Moreover, stable and constant Olimpik Sarajevo having home victory over Sloboda Tuzla, and spectacular home 4-2 victory of Zrinjski against GOŞK made both teams to be candidate for the struggle to be representing Bosnia in UEFA championship.

The relegation pot is still hot. Slavija, working hard to stay in Premier League is still under the red line, but there is only one point difference with Sloboda and GOŞK. Slavija got three points after an away victory against Rudar Prijedor, another team from Republika Srpska (like Slavija), and it seems Rudar, who has a relatively easy standing probably did not make the things difficult for Slavija.

Both GOŞK and Sloboda will have a difficult week, while Slavija will play at home against Travnik, another team who does not have claim for anything. On the other hand, Sloboda will host Zeljeznicar. That means, after the matches of 24th week, Slavija’s and Sloboda’s standings may be switched: Slavija above the red line, and Sloboda under. However, we have to keep in mind that Sloboda had played the most difficult matches and the rest of the fixture is slightly easy for Tuzla team.

  

Zeljo is again victorious over Borac after the third match they played this season. Borac and Zeljo were seeded in the Kup BiH as well. Zeljo, step by step on the way to the title, had a modest victory by Adiloviç’s goal at 31st minute. 

Zeljo’s scorer Adilovic (Photo: Oslobodjenje)

Şiroki Brijeg had a clear victory over FK Sarajevo by the opening goal of Vagner and later on two goals of the Argentinean star Varea. The capital city team replied by Husejnovic’s honor goal.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 23rd week are as follow:

Zvijezda Gradaçac: 2 – Çelik Zenica: 1

Zeljeznicar: 1 – Borac Banja Luka: 0

Olimpik Sarajevo: 2 – Sloboda Tuzla: 0

Zrinjski Mostar: 4 – GOŞK Gabela: 2

NK Travnik: 3 – Velez Mostar: 2

Rudar Prijedor: 0 – Slavija: 1

Şiroki Brijeg: 3 – Sarajevo: 1

Leotar: 1 – Kozara: 0

Standings of the teams by the end of 23rd week:

(Source: www.nfsbih.ba)

Next Week’s Schedule (Week 24: April, 28-29):

Çelik – Leotar

Kozara – Şiroki Brijeg

Sarajevo – Rudar

Slavija – Travnik

Velez – Zrinjski (Mostar Derby)

GOŞK – Olimpik

Sloboda – Zeljo

Borac - Zvijezda

FK NOVI PAZAR

After a difficult three weeks, Novi Pazar succeeded to stay above the red line. In this period, Novi Pazar’s away victory against Borac was a victory of six points!

As expected, Novi Pazar had an away 3-1 defeat against Radniçka, currently the third rank in Jelen Super Liga. However, the real surprise was Borac’s home 2-0 defeat by OFK Beograd. Last week, I had mentioned about OFK’s habit to lose against teams on relegation pot. The Beograd team ashamed us this week and the three points difference between Borac and Novi Pazar remained the same. Borça, who had victory against OFK last week, had a disastrous 4-0 defeat against Jagodina.

Javor, having victory against Rad, had increased the point difference with Novi Pazar to five points, and with Borac eight points and seems to be in a safer standing.

Metalac, who recently gave positive signals showing the wish to stay in Super Liga, had an important match against Hajduk. However, the 3-1 home defeat against Hajduk destroyed the hopes. On the other side, Hajduk, like Javor, seems to be in a safer standing as well.

Standing of the teams in Serbian Jelen Super League by 25th week:

(Source: www. utakmica.rs)

In this context, since Metalac can be regarded as the first team to be relegated, the question is “Who will be the second team?” Until last week, there were five candidates, but Hajduk and Javor are no longer in this group. Currently, Borac, Novi Pazar and BSK Borça are three candidates. However, we have to keep it in mind that Novi Pazar will play at home in the following two weeks.

Today (April 25, Wednesday), Jelen Super Liga’s 26th week’s scheduled matches will be played and three candidates will play against those rivals:

Jagodina – Borac

Novi Pazar – Metalac

Partizan – Borça

It is quite difficult for Borac and BSK Borça to have some points. On the other side, Novi Pazar is likely to have a home victory against Metalac. If Metalac have had a victory over Hajduk last week, it could be a difficult match for Novi Pazar as well. However, Novi Pazar’s victory will not be surprise. Considering those probabilities, the bottom of Super Liga may have such kind a view:

13. Novi Pazar (24 points)

14. Borça (24 points)

15. Borac (18 points)

16. Metalac (14 points)