Inter - Partizan 1:0 
I am extremely, extremely sad. This is one of the hardest defeats of my club in the last couple of years. I was hoping for only 1 point and only a tie + only a good performance and nothing more, and we could've got way more than that. Inter was actually very close to be defeated, and from what they have shown, these 3 points were lucky. But, still, they have shown why are they one of the biggest clubs in Europe. Lazar Markovic had a huge chance (actually two of them) to write his name in the golden history of our club, and the chance in the 87th minute came like the one you get when you PES or FIFA........but he missed that 1-on-1 situation with Handanovic, and then in the next attack Pallassio scores. What a brutal way to lose. I would've probably felt better if we lost 5:0.
Even though I was cursing Markovic after that last miss, the whole team of Partizan was excellent tonight. They played football against 20 x more expensive rival and were close to defeat him as well. I don't like Vermezovic as a coach but he prepared this match very well. Inter will beat us more easily in Belgrade than here, but it doesn't matter anymore. We didn't use a historical chance to make one of the biggest victories in the history of Partizan.
I am disappointed with the result and the way we lost, but not with the play of our team.
Yes dear brother it over both of us. However it is good experience for the time. I think we play just for rating score
Sadly, I knew that after the first match already. The match in Baku will decide the third place, but generally, it doesn't matter. I hope that both of us our teams will use this as a positive experience and try to win at least some more points for our countries' football. I also hope that Neftchi will enter the group stage next year as well. Same like us.
lucian-crusher said:
@Milos and Vratoslav: I know exactly what you need! You need to have a great European season, I don't know how you get that but you need to rise your ranking so your league gets a direct UEFA Champions League qualifying spot. That way people with money will invest in poor clubs knowing that if they win the Serbian\Croatian league the profit will be at a minimum of 15 million Euros.
The Romanian league was the same as yours until 2006 when we had the fantastic season with a 100 % Romanian quater-final in the UEFA Cup. That season granted a UEFA Champions League group stage spot for the Romanian championship and that's why we are so strong now, because high investments where made at CFR Cluj, SC Vaslui and Astra Giurgiu, clubs that almost didn't exist until 2006. There where some exceptions where Clubs like Unirea Urziceni and Otelul Galati won the league and after they got the money from UEFA Champions League the inbestor took them all and destroyed the clubs
Exactly, I totally agree! However, in Serbia, many clubs are still not privatized, and two biggest clubs (Partizan and Crvena Zvezda) are controlled by the state itself. We have a system that allows them to pull as much money from the club as they need. And as long as we have it that way.......only pure participation in the Champions League or the Europa League is a huge success. Also, Partizan is the only team that is doing something in Europe from
teams, and not only in football. So, the only points that
clubs are getting come from Partizan. Crvena Zvezda didn't enter a group stage since 2005, and I better not mention Vojvodina, Rad and the others. Vojvodina was knocked out by a team from Liechtenstein last season (Vaduz), so everything is clear
In basketball it is different. The president of our club is a club legend and he brings his own money, we have a coach that made a very good system, and that is why we are champions for 12 consecutive years there, and we even played in the final four of the 2010 Euroleague. Unlike, football, in basketball Partizan is one of the biggest clubs in Europe, and a magnet for many foreign players. Euroleague website even proclaimed our supporters as best supporters in Europe (only basketball included)
But, back to soccer, you are completely right.
league is way above the
one.
Oh, and also, when I mentioned the regional league, I made a mistake, I didn't mean ex-yu only, I would some other countries like Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria in as well!
