League Play-Off

Ratevo Gradski Stadi
Spectators: 36 (Terracing: 28, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Destan Acevski kicked off to start the match. Leontie Indov's late challenge caught a Lopatica Partizan's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Leontie Indov helped the player get up and apologised. Leontie Indov kicked well hit freekick during the 4th minute of the match. The audience was convinced that Luan Simonov's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Milovan Mladenovič was relentless in the 5th minute of the game. When the match clock showed 5 minutes, the score became 0-1 when Luan Simonov sped through Ratevo's defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Milovan Mladenovič. 18 minutes into the match, Lopatica Partizan's goalkeeper Slavko Nedelkov had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Leontie Indov. When Luan Simonov came up free with the goalie in the 22nd minute, the Lopatica Partizan fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Luan Simonov couldn't finish the play. Milovan Mladenovič made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Luan Simonov in the 24th minute of play. Milovan Mladenovič showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Luan Simonov in the 30th minute of the match. Živko Zmejkovski fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 34th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Slavko Nedelkov having to interfere. Milovan Mladenovič took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Dimče Slavev, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. If Destan Acevski had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 39th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 45th minute Luan Simonov shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Milovan Mladenovič saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 47th minute, Živko Zmejkovski got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. The Ratevo players were disheartened as they walked off the pitch after the first half. Lopatica Partizan were winning 0-1.

After a rather tough play, Ratevo's Nikodim Taškov got a free kick in the 57th minute. If Luan Simonov had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 58th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 63rd minute Dimče Slavev shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Milovan Mladenovič saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Destan Acevski might have been able to make a better finish in the 65th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Slavko Nedelkov. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Destan Acevski ran back to his position shaking his head. Slavko Nedelkov didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Destan Acevski went, in the 76th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-1 was the resulting score. If Živko Zmejkovski had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 82nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. The audience was convinced that Destan Acevski's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Slavko Nedelkov was relentless in the 86th minute of the game. After having played for 92 minutes, Luan Simonov managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Lopatica Partizan's supporters crossed their fingers, but Luan Simonov was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Destan Acevski blasted a shot towards the goal in the 94th minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Slavko Nedelkov having to make a save. After 96 minutes of play, Ratevo's Živko Zmejkovski made it 2-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Slavko Nedelkov was left in no man's land by his defense there!