Partizan Belgrade (a) European Cup Winners Cup First Round, Second Leg
| Date: Thursday 1st October 1998 Live on Channel 5 Venue: JNA Stadium Conditions: fevered |
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Partizan Belgrade |
Newcastle |
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1 - 0 (2-2 agg) (Partizan win on away goals) |
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| Half time: | 0 - 0 | |
| Score Sheet: | ||
(52) Rasovic
(pen)
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Teams |
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Damjanac Rasovic Savic Krstajic Stojanoski Trobok Ivic Ilic Tomic Bjekovic Kezman |
Given Griffin Glass Batty Shearer Speed Ketsbaia Charvet Solano Dabizas Pearce |
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| Substitutes: | ||
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Stojisavljevic for Krstajic |
Albert for Griffin (73) | |
| Subs not used: | ||
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Ljubanovic Duljaj Gerasimovski Vukovic |
Perez Gillespie Barton ?? Harper Georgiadis Howey |
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| Bookings: | ||
Bjekovic
Kezman
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Batty
Solano Shearer Glass |
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| Dismissals: | ||
| None | None | |
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Referee: M
Diaz Vega (Spain) |
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Attendance:
41,008. Renovations
to the stadium saw workmen bolting seats on to home terraces just hours
before kick-off. The bolts were soon removed by home fans and used to
bombard the travelling contingent, along with stones, lighters, coins and
anything else that was to hand. Still it could have been much, much worse - a fan was shot outside the stadium before the game during clashes between rival groups of the "Grobari" (home fans), who were on a war footing. Even getting to Serbia was an achievement, with travel restrictions caused by escalating political tensions in the Balkans requiring a circuitous route to be taken.
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Goals |
Half time: Partizan Belgrade 0 Newcastle 0
52 mins:
David Batty's ill-advised tug on the shirt of Vladimir
Ivic was punished with the award of a penalty kick from the referee who was
almost within touching distance.
Vuk Rasovic obliged from the spot as he had done at Gallowgate two weeks ago,
Given diving the correct way but unable to keep out the ball as it flew to his
left 0-1
Full time: Partizan
Belgrade 1 Newcastle 0
We Said |
Ruud Gullit said:
To
follow
They Said |
Ljubisa
Tumbakovic:
To follow
Stats |
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Waffle |
Independent match report: In the end Gullit's men could not quite
stand the heat as they lost agonisingly on away goals but no one could say they
did not go down fighting. They battled for every ball, but in the end
went out to the heartbreak of another penalty from Vuk Rasovic - the man who
had slotted home the all-important away goal at St James' Park a fortnight ago. Then it was Laurent Charvet who had given
away the spot-kick needlessly, this time it was Batty, who had also been the
culprit when England went out of the World Cup to Argentina, missing a vital
penalty on that occasion. This time, making his first start after
returning from suspension, he pulled the shirt of danger man Vladimir Ivic,
bringing him down in the Newcastle penalty area in the 52nd minute and the
referee had no doubt in awarding a spot-kick. All of Belgrade, it seemed, embraced Ivic
in hugs and kisses and Rasovic slotted the ball expertly passed Newcastle
keeper Shay Given. It was no more than the Yugoslavs deserved
on a night that could not have had less to do with Gullit's vision of
"sexy football". This was passionate, but it was also
frenzied, frantic, fraught and fragmented - but pulsating at every turn. The
Partizan fans are nicknamed "Grobari" - "The Undertakers" -
and it was apparent from the very first tackle that team and supporters alike
had come to bury Newcastle. Partizan boast a 100 per cent record in the
stadium in all competitions this season. They have won their last eight league
games and need just two more to set a Yugoslav record.
Four Newcastle players were booked, including Batty, firecrackers boomed out
all evening and flares lit up the night sky as 45,000 frenzied Yugoslavs turned
the JNA Stadium into a seething furnace.