Crazy game in Knez: Celje led after 17 seconds, Vitoria scored four goals, hosts grabbed a glimmer of hope in the 96th. minutes
A dream start, a worse end.
Celje
Celje took the lead after just 17 seconds of play in their first European match of the 2023/24 season! Luka Bobičanec scored one of the fastest European goals by a Slovenian club in history (if not the fastest). But Celje opened a Pandora’s box from which nothing good came later in the game.
Vitoria Guimaraes
demonstrated its individual strength in the capital, responded with four goals and won the game. But Albert Riera and his protégés can at least hope. V 96. In the final minute, they scored their third goal of the game and made the return leg anything but routine. A crazy seven-goal game ended 4:3 for Vitoria.
Celje played as expected, at least considering who had recently sat on its coaching bench. Albert Riera did not want to be pragmatic. And defensive. He wanted Celje to play. And it is. When you score three goals, it can’t be any other way. Of course, in Europe, the problem quickly arises when you are too playful: then you are all the more vulnerable. Celje was very vulnerable. Vitoria took advantage of both their individual quality and Celje’s defensive mistakes.
Matko Obradović is denied the first goal, beating the Croatian goalkeeper Jota Silva with a header from 15 metres! Even so, Vitoria scored quite “easy” goals that could have been prevented. But this is football too, and Celje actually played football that the spectators like. Probably few people remember the last time they saw 7 goals in Celje. Let alone in a European competition…
Luka Bobičanec shone for Celje; it was the Croatian who netted a great volley after 17 seconds to open the scoring for Vitoria. Even when Alyosha Matko scored, it was Bobičanec who hit the ball so hard from distance that Bruno Varela could only parry it away. Matko came and … scored! If the hosts scored their first goal in the first minute, they scored their last goal in the last minute. Bobic, who had also shaken the frame of Vitoria’s goal before leaving the pitch, was no longer on the scene at the time, but Edmilson, a newcomer who played in Portugal before coming to Slovenia, scored after a pass from the left wing, sending the ball between Varela’s legs. Edmilson scored after a pass from the left wing.
Although Celje showed an attractive side, the fact is that the hosts were too naive to succeed in a European competition. And this is something that Albert Riera will have to think about very carefully. The clearing is still open. But that’s certainly not the way it’s going to work in Portugal…
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