Saturday in the Telemach First League: Maribor prove that all is not lost in the battle for the national title
After
Friday’s draw
in the opening match of the 26th round of the Slovenian Championship between Gorica and Mura (1:1), the
Telemach First League
two matches will take place on Saturday. Maribor and Tabor will face each other at 17:30 in Ljudke vrt, while the European qualifiers between Koper and Celje will kick off at 20:15 in Bonifika.
In the capital of Styria, Tabor will have to defy both a strong opponent and a negative tradition. Since their first season in the Telemach First League, the club from Sežana has never won at Ljudski vrt! In eight matches, they have suffered six defeats, with a goal difference of 5:16.”Maribor is not a difficult match for us. Nobody expects anything from us against Maribor, but we are not going there to give up. We will probably play in a similar way to the last three games,“, Tabor coach Dušan Kosić told EkipoSN before the match against Maribor, who will not be able to count on Luka Šušnjaro due to the cards.
Maribor won the last round 1. SNL lost to Mura and is now 17 points behind Olimpija. “The team from Sežana has a completely different look in the spring and we have to pay due attention to it. But after the defeat against Mura, we want to get back on winning track in the championship. We had many important victories before the break in the series. We are determined to go forward, to win, to fight for European tickets, but we have not given up the fight for the title and we want to make sure we start another winning streak,” is for
club website
Marko Tolić, Maribor’s midfielder , told the club’s website and believes that all is not lost.
The match in Ljudski vrt will kick off at 17.30, Aleksandar Matković will be the referee.
Koper and Celje will play their 87th league match at the Bonifiki Arena, the statistics are on the side of the Primorje team, who have won 36 matches. Celje have won 23 times, 10 of them at Bonifika. They also won their last away game, when it was 2:0 for them. “The last two championship games have not been played at the level we are capable of and want to play at. We know that the condensed top part of the table leaves no room for error. We want to get back to winning ways against Koper.Given that Koper is in a minor crisis, I expect a very tough, low-risk encounter where just one chance will be enough to decide the game. We need to be ready and seize the first opportunity that comes our way. A win would mean a lot to us,” is for
club website
said Celje striker Gregor Bajde. Coach Roman Pilipčuk, who sits on a restless chair, will miss Luka Bobičanec. The Croat will be rested because of his cards.
“I wouldn’t judge Celje, we just know that they have a lot of quality for our situation and we have a very difficult task ahead of us. They have been better than us in both tests in the championship so far, and we are well aware of that. It won’t be easy, not by any means, but we will do everything in our power to keep the points in Koper,“, Koper coach Zoran Zeljković told EkipoSN before the match with Celje, who will not be able to count on the injured Ivan Novoselc again. Koper has no convictions, if we take the President Ante Guberc out of the equation…
The match in Koper will kick off at 20.15, refereed by David Šmajc from Kranj.
The 26th round of the Telemach First League will conclude on Sunday with the last two games. The Ljubljana Basin will be played in Stožice, with Domžale hosting the leading Olimpija team. Domžale will also play host to a “kotlina” match, Radomlje will host the injured Bravo, who were knocked out of the cup in the middle of the week, against second league team Bistrica at the Kamniški Bistrica stadium.
This text was automatically translated using AI.