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)

BOSNIAN TEAMS SEARCH FOR VISA TO UEFA LEAGUE

(Click here for the original Turkish text in Haber Boşnak, published July 11, 2012.)
(11 Temmuz 2012 tarihinde Haber Boşnak'ta yayınlanan özgün metin için buraya tıklayınız)

Borac and Sarajevo will be in search for visa to UEFA League in tomorrow’s (July 12) matches.

Borac Banja Luka will be playing against Montenegrin team Çelik Niksiç. The first leg, played in Banja Luka was resulted in a 2-2 draw. Borac forged ahead twice during the match but could not avoid Nikşiç’s Bosnian player Semir Agoviç’s goal at 85th minute. The ongoing objection of Borac players against Turkish origin Dutch referee Serdar Gözübüyük resulted in two red cards for Borac players Kantar and Dujakoviç.

Borac, who lost the advantage in the first leg is expected to be more serious in the second leg. Tomorrow at 17:30 in Nikşiç, it is expected that the temperature will be over 40 degrees. If Borac will be victorious or if the match will be resulted with a draw where more than four goals will be scored, Banja Luka team will be the qualifying part. The qualifier will player with Ukrainian team Metalurh Donetsk by July 19 for the second qualification round.

Sarajevo on the other side expects to have an easy match against Maltese Hibernians. In the first leg, the early goal by Suljiç at second minute led to sluggishness which gave opportunity to Maltese to score at 20th by Farrugia and at 33rd at Rodolfo Soares. However, two splashing goals made Sarajevo to wake up and they finished the match with a 5-2 victory. Probably, Sarajevo will be qualified after the revenge match in Malta and play with Bulgarian Levski Sofia in the second qualification round.

Another match of tomorrow will be between St. Patrick’s from Ireland and IBV from Iceland. The first leg which was played in Ireland was 1-0 victory for the host team. The qualifier will be playing against Şiroki Brijeg in second qualification round.

Zeljeznicar, on the other side will play away match against Slovenian Maribor at July 18 for the first qualification group of Champions League. 

BOSNIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 21st WEEK

(Click here for the original Turkish text in Haber Boşnak, published April 12, 2012.)
(12 Nisan 2012 tarihinde Haber Boşnak'ta yayınlanan özgün metin için buraya tıklayınız)

Since the second period of the season had started because of the heavy winter conditions, the 21st Week scheduled matches were played yesterday (April 11, Wednesday)

Çelik, who hosted the capital city team Sarajevo last week in Zenica and destroyed Sarajevo’s hope for a claim to continue the struggle of championship, was guest of Zeljeznicar, the other team of capital city. After the goal scored by Svraka at 6th minute, just in the beginning of the of the game, the first half ended 1-0 while offence of Zeljo kept silent for the next forty minutes. However, the rail workers glowed in the second half of the game. The Zeljo storm started by Jamak’s goal at 51st minute and calmed down by Svrako in 89th minute, who was the scorer of the first goal of his team and thus who scored his second and his teams fifth goal in the match. Not only by the two goals that he scored, but also with his brilliant game in the midfield, Muamer Svraka was the man of the match. (Photo: Oslobodjenje)

Since Şiroki Brijeg also had a home 2-0 victory over Velez, the difference between Zeljo and Şiroki Brijeg remained four points.

Borac was third and Sarajevo was fourth in the table before the matches of 21st week. However, Sarajevo had an easy away 3-1 victory over Kozara with the excellent game of Asmir Suljiç, and Borac had an away 1-0 defeat against Zrinjski. After those results, Borac is currently the fourth in ranking and FK Sarajevo is third, which approved our prediction. At this point, if we will say that the struggle for the title of Bosnian Premier League is between Zeljo and Şiroki Brijeg, it will not be wrong.

The bottom of the table was warmed up last weekend after the victory of Slavija over Kozara, but an expected defeat of them in Leotar away match, the relegation struggle cooled off a bit. Kozara and Slavija are still the main candidates of relegation. Leotar Trebinje, the champion of the 2002/2003 when the Bosnian Serb, Croat and Bosniak teams began to play in the same competition since the war, had risen to 12^th rank on the table after the defeat of Sloboda and GOŞK.

The results of the matches played in the Bosnian Premier League in the 21^st week are as follow:

Zeljeznicar: 5– Çelik Zenica: 0

Olimpik Sarajevo: 2 – Zvijezda Gradaçac: 0

Zrinjski Mostar: 1 – Borac Banja Luka: 0

NK Travnik: 3 – Sloboda Tuzla: 0

RudarPrijedor: 3 – Gabela GOŞK: 0

Şiroki Brijeg: 2 – Velez Mostar: 0

Leotar Trebinje: 2 – Slavija: 0

FK Kozara: 1 – FK Sarajevo: 3

Standings of the teams by the end of 20^th week:

(source: www.nfsbih.ba)

Top goal scorers:

Adiloviç (Zeljo): 14 gol

Haskiç (Sarajevo), Wagner Marjanoviç (Zrinjski), Kajkut (Borac), Wagner (Şiroki Brijeg): 7 gol

Zeba (Zeljo), Obuça (Sarajevo): 6 gol

Next week’s schedule:

Borac - Olimpik

Çelik  - Kozara

GOŞK -  Travnik

Zvijezda – Zeljo

Sarajevo – Leotar

Slavija – Şiroki Brijeg

Sloboda – Zrinjski

Velez - Prijedor