Tabor now leads the 2. SNL standings: a showdown of rivals in the Primorska region goes the way of the Sežančani, Gorica away to neighbours without a win
Photo: Miran Polanc
The last match of the 6th round in the second division competition was played in Bilje. The local team hosted Gorica, who needed a win to stay at the top of the standings, but the outcome of the match was somewhat different than the guests from nearby Nova Gorica had hoped for.
The home team started better, and in the 5th minute of the match, Leon Marinič, who had transferred from Gorica to Bilje, scored the opening goal. Marinič played a total of 39 matches for Gorica (all in 2.SNL), scoring five goals and recording two assists, and now he celebrated his third goal in the Bilje jersey, his second this season. After a shaky start, Gorica quickly regained composure, and in the 15th minute, the light blues equalized through Luka Bulatović, who joined the team from Nova Gorica this summer, having last played for the Greek club Makedonikos, which competes in the Greek second division.
Just when it seemed that the teams would go into the break without further changes to the score, the home team struck again. Before the end of the first half, specifically in the 43rd minute, Bilje regained the lead, with 20-year-old Kenan Hadžiavdić, a former youth international for Germany who had developed in the youth ranks of Berlin’s Hertha, getting on the scoresheet. In the early stages of the second half, the visitors were more concrete, and they took their chance in the 60th minute to equalize again, this time to 2:2, with the goal scored by Luka Marjanac for Gorica.
Until the final whistle, the score remained unchanged, and just like the first Sunday match at the second division level – this one – also ended without a winner. Gorica surrendered the top spot to Tabor from Sežana, who now has 13 points, while Bilje, with 10 points, are in 8th place. (vm)
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Author: editorial Football Planet