Red Star's 18th triumph in the Cup

Triumph in the Cup for the 18th time: Red Star Belgrade

Belgrade, May 10 - Red Star Belgrade beat second disivion Napredak Krusevac 4-0 to win the Yugoslav football Cup for the second successive season.

Red Star dominated the game, attacking in waves and creating at least ten chances.

Ivan Gvozdenovic, Red Star defender

GOALS

1-0 (13th minute) - Red Star earned a penalty when Atanaskovic brought down Boskovic in the Napredak's area. Mihailo Pjanovic fired the Yugoslav league leaders in front from the penalty spot.

2-0 (38th minute) - Right back Ivan Dudic delivered a perfect cross into the box and Pjanovic doubled Red Star's lead with an unstoppable diving header.

3-0 (55th minute) - Dejan Ilic finished off a superb solo run with a low shot inside the near post in the 55th minute.

4-0 (58th minute) - Ivan Vukomanovic completed the rout with a powerful header after a well-taken corner kick from Boskovic.

RED STAR Belgrade - Napredak Krusevac 4-0 (2-0)

Red Star Stadium. Attendance: 30,000. Referee: Savo Cokanica (Novi Sad). Booked: Ilic, Boskovic (Red Star), Atanaskovic, Filipovic (Napredak).

Scorers: Pjanovic (13-pen, 38), Ilic (55), Vukomanovic (58).

RED STAR: Kocic, Dudic, Ilic, Vukomanovic, Glogovac, Bunjevcevic, Gvozdenovic (Vitakic), Lerinc, Drulic, Pjanovic (Micic), Boskovic (Gojkovic).

NAPREDAK: Krnjinac, Atanaskovic, Antic (Babic), Krstic, Mijatovic, Gajic, Vidojevic, Dragnjevic (Jokic), Stepanovic, Kojicic, Filipovic (Petrovic).

After the match

Slavoljub Muslin, coach of Red Star

"I congratulate to the audience that is one of the most meritorious for this won trophy besides players. This Cup, we won without received goal which tells enough. I congratulate players, who during the whole cycle showed maximum of fighting and played every match seriously." (Slavoljub Muslin, Red Star's coach).

"There is no happier man than me. This match, we played as we agreed with coach. It wasn't as easy as the result shows, but we showed however that we were rightly favorites in this match." (Mihailo Pjanovic, Red Star striker).

Red Star is the most successful Yugoslav club in the history of competition in the national Cup with 18 won trophies (1948, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1959, 1963/64, 1967/68, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1989/90, 1992/93, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1998/99, 1999/2000.). On its road to the 18th trophy in Yugoslav Cup, Red Star received no goal: Bor 3-0, Sartid 3-0, Radnicki (K) 1-0, Milicionar 3-0, Napredak 4-0. In the last eleven years, Red Star won even seven times Yugoslav Cup. Till now, 52 final games of the Yugoslav football Cup were played. Red Star was the finalist even 26 times.