CLUMSY TUTORIC RUINS NOVİ PAZAR

When OFK Beograd had unexpectedly beaten Borac in Cacak in 25th week, the gap between Novi Pazar and Borac became three points. This week we had such an expectation that Novi Pazar would have an easy home victory against hindmost Metalac and Borca would loose in away match against Jagodina, who struggles to play in European cups next season, and BSK Borça would loose against Partizan.

However, Novi Pazar made a surprise again and had a draw against Metelac in fron of 6000 spectacular’s at home match. By 53th minute, Djordje Tutoriç, 1983-Subotica born central defender, who previously played for Kocaelispor in Turkey and recognized with an own goal he scored, scored another own goal to Novi Pazar. Luckily, in 80th minute, Pazar’s own son, experienced left forward Admir Kecap brought the match to a draw.

Since Borac had an unexpected 0-0 away draw against Jagodina, the three point difference between Borac and Novi Pazar did not increased to six points, as we expected.

As Novi Pazar was not victorous, BSK Borça’s defeat against Partizan did not make any change in classification.

Here is the results of the matches of the teams in relegation pot of Jelen Super Liga played in April 25, Wednesday:

Novi Pazar: 1 – Metalac: 1

Jagodina: 0 – Borac: 0

Partizan: 2 - BSK Borça: 0

Current standings of team in Jelen Super Liga by 26th week:

(source: www.utakmica.rs)

27th week match schedule to be played in April 28, Saturday:

Borac – Partizan

BSK Borça – Rad

Novi Pazar – Hajduk Kula

It seems it will be a bit difficult for Borac to have a draw or a victory against Partizan in home match, but Novi Pazar’a away match against Hajduk Kula, recently having a better performance and does not want to turn back to relegation pot again will not be that easy as well. BSK Borça, after the home match against Rad, will probably leave Novi Pazar and Borac alone in the relagtion struggle.

BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 23rd WEEK

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

(17 Nisan 2012 tarihinde Haber Boşnak'ta yayınlanan özgün metin için buraya tıklayınız)


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)

FK NOVİ PAZAR MUFFED THE CHANCE

(Click here for the original Turkish text in Haber Boşnak, published April 5, 2012.)
(5 Nisan 2012 tarihinde Haber Boşnak'ta yayınlanan özgün metin için buraya tıklayınız)

Last weekend’s (21st week of Jelen Super Liga) matches were not that much fortunate for Novi Pazar. However, as I had written before; when Novi Pazar plays at home, Borac and Javor plays away matches, or vice versa. Therefore, if one week Novi Pazar is better off, the other week brings a setback. This week Novi Pazar had a vital match against BSK Borça. If they had managed to be victorous, not only they would get three points, but also they would pull BSK Borça deeper in the poll of the candidate teams to drop from Super Liga. But, the result was a 1-1 draw. Ristovski, the trainer of Novi Pazar resigned after the match.

The surprise of the week was the 3-2 away victory of Javor against OFK Beograd.

As had been predicted, Metalac who had good results in recent matches and increased their hope to not to be dropped from the Super Liga, had another home victory against Borac. This was the best, and even the only good news for Novi Pazar.

The results of the games of the teams in the den of hell of Jelen Super Liga played by April 4, Wednesday are as follows:

Novi Pazar: 1 – BSK Borça: 1
Metalac: 3 – Borac: 1
OFK Beograd: 2 – Javor: 3
Hajduk: 1 – Rad: 0

Standings of the teams by 19th week



As can be seen from the standings, we can talk about a newly appearing fault line among the candidate teams to drop: On the one side there is Borac and Novi Pazar being closer to the red line, on the other side stand Javor, Hajduk and BSK Borça who are in relatively beter situation. In this sense next week’s fixture is of importance, when Novi Pazar will play away and rivals will be playing at home.

Fixture of 23th week which will be played by April 7, Saturday:
Borac – Novi Pazar
BSK Borça – Sloboda Uzice
Javor – Jagodina
Hajduk – Radniçki 1923

Away match against Borac is extremely important for Novi Pazar. It is a match of six points. Even, we can call it as a do-or-die match since Novi Pazar will play at home against Red Star next week. If Novi Pazar succeed to get three poıints from this match, their hope for next season to continue Super League can be refreshened. Otherwise, they will be a stronger candidate to play in Jelen Prva League next season.

Novi Pazar has an advantage for his week. Both Javor and Hajduk will be playing against stronger teams who stil have claims for European cups. As for current standing, Radniçka 1923 is the team who will play in Euro cups. But, if they will have a defeat against Hajduk, and if Jagodina will have an away victory against Javor there will only be one point between those teams. If Radniçki will win and Jagodina will loose, than the gap between two teams will increase up to seven points, which means Jagodina will be one of the teams who will be desperately waiting for the end of the season without any claim for anything. Therefore, it seems Javor – Jagodina and Hajduk – Radniçki 1923 matches will be quite harsh ones.

No matter what will be the results of the other matches, Novi Pazar has to win three points in away match against Borac for sure! And this will be a bit difficult since the third trainer of Novi Pazar, Bekvalac will be in charge after Ristovski’s resignation.

The match played in Novi Pazar in the first half of the season between those two teams which were established both in the year 1928, was resulted with a 0-0 draw. Çaçak, the home of Borac is just 142 km away from Novi Pazar, which means a drive of 3 hours among mountainous roads of Southern Serbia. Both Novi Pazar players and fans will need strength in the field and on the road.