Partizan is home to IMT on Monday (7pm CET kick-off) as part of Mozzart Bet Serbian Super Liga round 19 fixture, penultimate round of SSL football before winter break.
H2H
Partizan and last season`s SSL newcomers IMT met three times in a top-flight so far. Last season, Partizan won away fixture 3-2 and a home one 5-2. This season`s corresponding league fixture away to IMT ended in a goalless draw.
TEAM NEWS
Marko Zivkovic (knee), Ghayas Zahid (ACL) and Djordje Jovanovic (adductor) remain out. Mario Jurcevic is close to full injury recovery and might make it to the bench for this one. Caretaker boss Marko Jovanovic there are “couple of knocks that need to be checked”.
Caretaker boss Marko Jovanovic `s press ahead of IMT:
-Fixture list is congested but the same goes for all the teams in the league. Unfortunately, we lost our last fixture but that`s behind us now. We have IMT tomorrow who are a good team and we know it`s going to be tough against them. With the arrival of new coach Zoran Vasiljevic, IMT entered a four-game streak without a defeat. They are good, I know a lot about them and they have lots of players with pace in their roster. I expect my team to show reaction and character, players to their best to get a win. This is our final home game before winter break and I would like to call on Partizan supporters to come and support us. Our youngsters really need this support, they are the heart and soul of this club.
We should always play our kids. Naturally, we need to have a balance and experienced players to lead them and help them overcome this tough period. I`m fully behind our youngsters and they`ll be even better after the winter preps.
After IMT, we have Radnicki away before players get a bit of a break during wintertime. I will shuffle the deck a bit tomorrow and I expect from those who will be the starters and didn`t start the previous game, to add new energy to the team.
