Mozzart Bet Serbian Super Liga resumes after the international break, with Partizan away to OFK Beograd (Sunday, 7pm CET kick-off) as part of round 8 fixtures. OFK Beograd plays home games this season at Zajecar City Stadium.
H2H
OFK Beograd is back in the top-flight after 8 years. Two teams played three league games back in the season 2015/16 with Partizan winning both home games 2-1 while OFK Beograd won their home game against Partizan 2-1 as well.
TEAM NEWS
Apart from long-term absentee Zivkovic (knee surgery) there are no reports of any injuries occurring over the international break.
Partizan boss Aleksandar Stanojevic ahead of OFK Beograd away:
-Everyone coming from international duty is injury-free. We`ll see if anyone fells fatigued or if someone needs to be rested. We know what to expect against OFK and it`s important we return to winning ways. OFK Beograd is a young and quality team with a fine coach at the helm. But, we are looking at solving our problems first and foremost.
We are struggling at scoring but we do create opportunities although we didn`t in the first half of the game against Vojvodina which was the worst 45 minutes from us in my three spells at the club overall. It`s our priority to score goals and I`m not happy we failed to sign another striker. Djordje Jovanovic is excellent player but we are searching for attacker with different characteristics. It`s how it is and we`ll keep battling. I want us to play in a multiple ways and I know how we are going to do it on Sunday.
In general, I`m pleased with the signings apart from this thing with a forward. In other departments, we signed necessary players. Forward was crucial though and we had desire to sign Romanic who also had desire and ambition to sign for us. He showed character and it was not about the money.
Pape Fuhrer is Lyon academy graduate. Talented player with whom we negotiated for a while. He`s got technical ability but he will be out of contention for OFK as he just got here. We want to have youngsters playing as many games as possible.
