El Arbi Hillel Soudani struck a wundergol on Sunday suitable for any league, level or country of play during Dinamo’s 3-1 win over NK Lokomotiva. The goal was properly assisted by youngster Borna Soša, who showed quite a bit of skill on his own in order to send the cross to Soudani.
Soudani also scored the opening goal of the match while Ivan Fiolić scored his first goal of the season for Dinamo against his former club since returning to Dinamo on August 29.
Dinamo retain second place with the victory.
Hajudk Split squeaked out a 2-1 win over HNK Cibalia in Vinkovci Saturday, thanks to two last-second goals scored by Marko Futacs.
Cibalia held the 1-0 lead from the 22nd minute after Edi Baša scored. Cibalia looked to take only their second win of the season, but were left deflated after two stoppage-time goals were scored by Futacs.
A statement from the club was released shortly after the heartbreaking loss. In the statement, Cibalia accused the referee of being sympathetic to the authority of Hajduk, and called it “disgraceful refereeing”.
Rijeka remain without a loss and retain the top of the table yet again after defeating RNK Split 2-0. Franko Andrijašević marked his return from suspension with two goals. His first goal came in the 71st minute and his second from a penalty shot after Josip Jurendić was red carded for taking down Goodness Ajayi n the penalty area.
Andrijašević easily converted the penalty and ended the match 2-0.
Goals from Antonio Perošević, Borna Barišić, and Muzafer Ejupi sealed the deal in Osijek’s 3-1 victory in Pula against Nk Istra 1961.
Istra took the lead just before the half-time whistle after a mistake led to Ejupi putting the ball in his own net. Perošević was able to negate the goal in the 58th minute, but it was Barišić who scored the game-winner. Ejupi redeemed himself after his blunder to pad the Osijek lead.
Osijek remain tied with Hajduk Split, but sit in fourth place on goal differential.
Slaven Belupo continue their recent form with a third consecutive win, fourth unbeaten with a 2-0 victory over Inter Zaprešić on Friday evening. After a 2-1 n over Hajudk Split, Slaven gained three more points thanks to goals from David Arap and Heber.
The Pharmacists remain in fifth place, 13 points behind Osijek, but are a safe five points ahead of Inter Zaprešić.
The Hrvatski Kup quarter finals have officially been set. The first leg ill take place on March 1 while the return leg will commence March 15, 2017.
After a shocking extra-time win over Hajduk Split, RNK Split will face another daunting opponent, Dinamo Zagreb. League-leaders Rijeka will face the ever-persistent NK Osijek.
Talks with UEFA have further indicated the possibility of a “Balkan League” as soon as 2018.
Several variations of the regional league have been talked about following talks of a reconfigured Champions League, which would exclude many nations’ top leagues in favor of regional winners. Talks have bounced back and forth between having a true regional league competition and having a sort of inter-season cup competition that would not affect domestic leagues.
Teams slated to participate in the hypothetical league include Slovania’s Olimpija Ljubljana; Croatia’s HNK Rijeka, Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split; Bosnia’s Zelkeznicar and Sarajevo; Serbia’s Crvena Zvezda, Partizan Belgrade, Vojvodina, and Cukaricki; Montenegro’s Buducnost; and Macedonia’s FK Vardar.
If acting as a cup competition, it would be played from February to May.
NEVER AGAIN.
Interesting that neither Zrinjski Mostar nor Siroki Brijeg are amongst the BiH teams listed for the Jugo-liga, even though both of them (especially Zrinjski) feature in the best 2 or 3 BiH club teams year in year out.
Is there a reason for this? Are they refusing to sign up on political grounds as they don’t want to recreate another Yugo experiment, or are they being excluded for other reasons? Either way it says a lot about the Jugo-liga, and none of it is good.
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Well, they are trying to negotiate with UEFA a Champions League spot for the winner of the league. Good luck with that.
I don’t care who they add to this league. We could merge with Serie A, and I would be against it.
I think the HNL (after so many random iterations and changes) has finally found a working solution with 10 teams. The league has become stronger, better players are coming out of it, they have some solid sponsorship, and even the uniforms look nicer.
It’s been a while since I’ve read anything about player salaries not being paid, and I would hate to see us go in the opposite direction via some failed Yugo experiment.
Regional league is dumb on a lot of levels.
Dinamo and Hajduk are against it. Rijeka still has not made their decision. Politics aside for a moment, this league would not bring any good to the Croatian league. Yes, it’s pitiful but it is better than any league in the former yu. The Croatian clubs wouldn’t benefit at all. Add politics back in now. Never again.
well of course it will be Hajduk, they do have a jugo history with Tito
For those that don’t understand, this Regional League will not replace the existing HNL.
It will be something similar to what we have in the Adriatic League in basketball.
It’s a separate competition that would go on at the same time (similar to how Europa or Champions League goes on at the same time as every country’s national league play).
If a team like Dinamo (for example) makes it to the Champions League or Europa…then they would abstain from this Regional League (since playing in three competitions at the same time is not feasible).
So the Regional League will really be something like a 12-16 team competition from all former Yugo countries, and it would pretty much exclude any team that has made it to Champions League or Europa.
If this is the case, it is very likely that it would probably never include Dinamo or Rijeka (as these teams are usually in at least Europa).
So it would probably end up being just Hajduk, Partizan, Zvezda, and a bunch of scrub Yugo teams.
Osijek would probably go on to win this thing, lol.
Never again.
They should stop beating around the bush and call it what it is, the YUGO league.
No Austria or Hungary in a regional league?
What about promotion and relegation?