Mozzart Bet Serbian Super Liga, round 15 fixture
Venue: Partizan Stadium
Kick-off time: 3pm CET
Referee: Novak Simovic
Yellow cards: Jurcevic, Scekic, Djurdjevic (PAR) – N`Landu, Radovic, Stankovski (RKG)
GOALS: 1-0 `25 Natcho, 2-0 `33 D Jovanovic, 2-1 `38 Simovic, 2-2 `83 Ben Hassine
Teams:
PARTIZAN
A Jovanovic, Djurdjevic, Filipovic, Arriaga, Jurcevic, Scekic, Zahid (Fuhrer 87), Natcho (Owusu HT), Kalulu (Trifunovic 72), Zubairu, D Jovanovic (Nikolic 79)
RADNICKI 1923
Milosevic, Adzic (N`Landu HT), Simovic, Mitrovic, Radovic (`Dadic 72), Ristic (Golijanin HT), Cosic, Gluscevic (Mircetic 60), Stankovski, Evandro (Ben Hassine HT)
Beograd, November 10
After a six-game winning streak, Partizan dropped first points under the reign of the new boss Savo Milosevic, drawing 2-2 at home to Radnicki 1923.
In absence of suspended Ilic, right-back Djurdjevic was introduced to the starting eleven while Filipovic moved to centre-back position.
Although a game of high-tempo, there were no opportunities until 18 when Zubairu missed a sitter sending the ball high over the bar from close range and after a return ball from D Jovanovic.
Zubairu failed to return the favour to Jovanovic on 20 as his pass inside the box was not accurate but young Partizan winger did well to break into the box on 25 for his shot to be saved by the away keeper only for Natcho to seize on rebound and send the ball into the empty net. Partizan 1, Radnicki 0.
Zubairu was in action again on 30 but his fine edge-of-the-box drive was met by equally good diving save from Radnicki keeper.
From the resulting corner-kick, Arriaga sent a header wide of the left post.
Partizan doubled the lead on 33 after a poor defensive pass reached Natcho who calmly played it for D jovanovic for Partizan forward to send the ball into the bottom left corner of the net. Partizan 2, Radnicki 0.
Moments later, Zubairu played a return ball for Jurcevic followed by left-footed angled strike just over the bar.
Visitors halved the deficit on 38 after the flank set-piece ball dropped for centre-back Simovic who sent it into the net with his heart-of-the-box shot. Partizan 2, Radnicki 1.
Zubairu had another great opportunity on 40 but keeper came out of the line to stop his effort.
After the break, boss Milosevic introduced Owusu for clearly not fully-fit Natcho while visitors made three half-time subs.
It was a rather non-eventful second half. Visitors had a number of attempts wide with sub Mircetic, former Partizan youth, looking the liveliest of the bunch.
On the other side, Scekic blasted the ball over the bar on 53 from a promising edge of the box shooting position while Zubairu`s edge-of-the-box drive on 58 ended just wide of the right post.
Trifunovic came in for Kalulu on 72 while D Jovanovic had to be subbed on 79 for his groin issue, in came Nikolic.
Out of the blue, visitors scored an equalizer and it was a brilliant 22-metre strike over to the top right corner of the net from sub Ben Hassane. Partizan 2, Radnicki 2.
Partizan pushed forward in search for a winner losing Zahid to knee injury in the process, in came Fuhrer.
Radnicki had a fine opportunity on 90+2 but keeper Jovanovic made a good save from edge-of-the-box attempt by Stankovski.
Radnicki almost scored an own-goal on 90+4, Stankovski`s header clearance attempt made Radnicki keeper stretch to push the ball over the bar.
Radnicki had a final say, shot from Mircetic on 90+7 was met by another fine save from A Jovanovic.
Partizan is home to Napredak after the international break, for a SSL round 16 encounter.
