Red Star stadium. Attendance: 35,000. Referee: Dragomir Panovic (Subotica).
Scorers: Boskovic (29) and Bogavac (53).
Booked: Bratic, Bogavac, Kovacevic, Markovic and Vidic (Red Star); Lazovic, Sasa Ilic and Delibasic (Partizan).
RED STAR: Randjelovic, Markovic (Dudic), Bratic, Vidic, Vitakic, Mladenovic (Milovanovic), Gvozdenovic, Kovacevic (Krivokapic), Boskovic, Pjanovic, Bogavac.
PARTIZAN: R.Ilic, Malbasa, West (Cirkovic), Savic, Bajic, Duljaj, Trobok, Vukic, Sasa Ilic, Lazovic (Delibasic), Iliev.
Belgrade, SERBIA-MONTENEGRO, April 20 (uefa.com) - Red Star ended FK Partizan's record-breaking 15-game national league winning streak as they claimed a 2-0 victory in the Belgrade derby to keep their slim title hopes alive.
Second-placed Red Star dominated the league leaders throughout the match, having not lost to Partizan for two-and-a-half years. Branko Boskovic put Red Star into a 29th-minute lead with a header from Dragan Bogavac's cross. Bogavac turned scorer eight minutes into the second half as he latched on to defender Marjan Markovic's 50-metre pass to shoot in from 12 metres.
Red Star coach Zoran Filipovic, whose team now trail Partizan by 16 points with eight games left, said: "We have proved that we are a better team then Partizan and that it is our own fault if we lack the points to reach the top spot."
His opposite number Lothar Matthäus admitted: "Red Star were the better side and they deserved this victory. I do not know what my players had in their heads, but important matches are surely not played this way."
