Index – Sport – We took the Maracana, we won away for the third time in a row

The Autokomanda district of Belgrade is an interesting part of the city, less than half a kilometer away are the two gigantic clubs, Crvena zvezda and Partizan, the former hosted the Serbia-Hungary soccer match in Group B, Group 3 of the Nations League on Sunday night, also in their third round. .

Zvezda’s 55,000 facilities are named after Rajko Mitics, the club legend who died in 2008, who scored 262 goals in 572 matches in the team’s colors and played in the London and Helsinki Olympics, as well as in the 1950 and 1954 World Cups. -North. It was the captain of the Yugoslav team that Puskás’ team beat 2-0 in the final of the Helsinki Olympic Games.

Now, just half a kilometer from the Zvezda stadium, is the rival court of the Partizan, a cathedral of Serbian nationalism. On the fence surrounding the track, the inscription immediately appears: Koszovo je szveta szrpszka zemlja. In English: Kosovo is a sacred Serbian land. Partizan fans seem not to have been content with the Albanian-inhabited province being torn from their country.

The stadium that hosts the Nations League match, the Marakana as its maiden name, was not built yesterday, but in 1963, the facility was bitten by the iron teeth of time, our eyes accustomed to our new Hungarian stadiums. They found the building a bit anachronistic. Not a single spectator was here on Sunday night, Serbian laws take protection against the coronavirus epidemic very strictly here, football matches are held behind closed doors.

The 23 members of the Serbian national team are legionaries, for one simple reason: talented footballers sign abroad almost like children, leaving only the “grid” at home. Five of the eleven starters (Rajkovics, Milenkovics, Gudelj, Tadics and Stefan Mitrovics goalkeeper) winners of the 2-1 winning team in the European Championship qualifiers in Oslo continued to be heralds, so the captain of the national team Ljubisa Tumbakovics remained standing:

Milinkovich-Savic, the Lazio star, who scored two goals for the Norwegians, didn’t even enter the 23rd box, apparently the Roman Guard ordered him to go home.

The starting eleven of the Hungarian team coincided with what our newspaper gave in the afternoon, so:

Even on the afternoon of the game, we met Nikolics Nemanja at the Hyatt Regency hotel in the Novi Beograd district (New Belgrade), home of the Hungarian national team, who was visited by a cute young woman and took a selfie with her. The teenager was the daughter of Niko, a former Chicago fitness trainer in Chicago, who showed how happy she was to be photographed with the former MLS goal king.

Who has been kicking and targeting goals in our national team since his return, and whose frankness and friendly human habitus might exemplify some of our stars.

At night the air cooled a bit, but there were no signs of cold and rain at home, at the ideal time for football, but the match started in the empty stadium, no less ideal, for Sandro Schärer of Switzerland . In the first quarter of an hour, not much happened, except for the fact that the Hungarian team bravely took the gloves and perhaps possessed even more ball than their opponent. Kalmár’s clever and technical game appeared, and Dunaszerdahely’s red driver stood out from the field for the moment.

In minute 20 we went ahead with a strange goal. After Kalmár’s cross pass, Serbian defenders – Milivojevics and Milenkovics – headed back and forth, kicking the ball at 16, before Norbert Könyves decided to make his first national team memorable. Sliding across the ground, he scraped the ball, pushed one more, that was the key move, and then when goalkeeper Rajkovics tried to climb after the ball on all fours, the 31-year-old forward ZTE fired from 15 meters into the center of the empty goal. 0-1.

The goal in the video:

We are now stagnant, but so far the Serbs have posed no threat. Rich got the first yellow card and went to the man instead of the ball.

The Serbian attack was quite weak, there was always a free Hungarian who could pass. Then halftime ended.

The second 45 minutes were started by Holender instead of Ant, so three of them (Nikolics, Könyves, Holender) in the Hungarian team understood what the Serbs were talking about among themselves. We almost scored a goal in the 51st minute, but we finally escaped. One after another, Serbian situations developed and domestic supremacy began to turn depressing. Rossi saw this too, sending Willi Orban to Bese in the 57th minute.

In the 61st minute, Nikolics curved beautifully towards Holender, was able to snatch the ball from him and then from a huge position, almost kicking a dachshund. It was a ball game …

Then the slightly injured Ádám Szalai was on the field, the scorer replaced the Contador, it seemed that Rossi took the game very seriously, he wanted to preserve our victory. Orbán turned yellow from a jerk, which could have been red, but luckily it wasn’t. Nego also entered, replaced Nikolics.

In the 75th minute, the post saved our team from the goal, the field almost overturned, Kalmár also got a yellow. In the 86th minute, the ball left Gulácsi, but we managed to free it for our defense. We stood heroically in the mud, we were not at war with luck and we defeated Serbia, for the first time in history, under that name; it’s true, we had never met.

Group 3 position: 1. Russia 7 points, 2. Hungary 6, 3. Turkey 2, 4. Serbia 1.

In the other group match: Russia-Turkey 1-1