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Red Star - Partizan 0-1
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| Players of Partizan celebrate victory over Red Star |
Belgrade, May 9 (agencies) - Partizan Belgrade won a Yugoslav Cup final with a goal from skipper Sasa Ilic 25 minutes from the end.
Red Star dominated the first half but Partizan fought back strongly after the break and importantly they took their chance when it came in the 65th minute. Sasa Ilic took advantage of a mistake by namesake Dejan Ilic and blasted the ball into the far corner.
Red Star top scorer, Mihajlo Pjanovic missed a number of opportunities. He got away twice early on but he shot narrowly wide from Milenko Acimovic's cross minutes after letting Partizan goalkeeper Radovan Radakovic close him down.
Goran Drulic also had chances, but Nisa Saveljic largely kept him quiet.
Sasa Zoric (Reed Star) jumps over Branko Bajic
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Partizan only chance of the half came on 41 minutes, when Jeremic set up a Miladin Becanovic header.
Just before the wining goal, Milenko Acimovic was denied by a fine save by Partizan's excellent goalkeeper.
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"We are disappointed with the defeat. I hoped that we would play better. We had more chances, but Partizan scored. That is football. The team that had more luck won and I congratulate them" (Slavoljub Muslin, Red Star coach).
"I don't remember how I received the ball. I first looked and saw Ilijev was free. Then I knew that I was alone in front of the Red Star goal. I just knew that ball was going in the net" (Sasa Ilic, scorer for Partizan).
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Police and fans injured in violent Yugoslav cup final
Belgrade, May 9 (Reuters) - Six police officers and 11 fans
were injured in fighting before and during the Yugoslav cup
final between Belgrade rivals Red Star and Partizan, officials
of Belgrade's Anlave clinic said.
"Six police officers sustained head and facial injuries from
wooden clubs, iron rods and stones before and during the match
and were taken to hospital for treatment," the clinc's manager
Slobodan Ivanovic told reporters after the match.
"A total of 11 fans were also injured by bottles, wooden
clubs and stones and four of them have been taken to hospital,
he added.
Rival fans fought each other and had running battles with
police shortly before the kickoff and some left the staduim
before the final whistle after tear gas was thrown into the
crowd on one of the terraces.
It was not immediately clear who threw it.
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Yugoslav Cup final violence leads to 28 arrests
Belgrade, May 11 (Reuters) - Violent clashes before and
during Wednesday's Yugoslav Cup final between bitter Belgrade
rivals Red Star and Partizan led to 28 arrests, Serbian police
said on Friday.
"Police took action and arrested 28 offenders in order to
prevent further riots and has pressed charges against 24 of
them," the Serbian Interior Ministry said in a written
statement.
It added that two police and 14 private vehicles were
damaged in the rampage that started on Wednesday morning with
rival fans fighting running battles with each other and police.
Six police officers and a dozen fans were injured in the
fighting.
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Yugoslav Football Cup final match
RED STAR Belgrade - PARTIZAN Belgrade 0-1 (0-0)
Red Star Stadium. Scorer: Sasa Ilic (65). Attendance: 30,000. Referee: Miroslav Radoman. Booked: Zoric, Ilic, Acimovic (Red Star), Duljaj, S. Ilic, Ivic, Jeremic, Becanovic and Saveljic (Partizan).
RED STAR: Kocic, Zoric, Vitakic, Lerinc (Boskovic), Lalatovic, Bunjevcevic, Gvozdenovic, Ilic (Markovic), Drulic, Acimovic, Pjanovic.
PARTIZAN: Radakovic, Rasovic, Jeremic, Saveljic, Bajic, Duljaj, Trobok, Ivic, Ilic, Becanovic, Iliev (Delibasic).
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Winners of the national cup of the FR Yugoslavia
1992 - PARTIZAN Belgrade
1993 - RED STAR Belgrade
1994 - PARTIZAN Belgrade
1995 - RED STAR Belgrade
1996 - RED STAR Belgrade
1997 - RED STAR Belgrade
1998 - PARTIZAN Belgrade
1999 - RED STAR Belgrade
2000 - RED STAR Belgrade
2001 - PARTIZAN Belgrade
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