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Red Star one step from group stage
Belgrade,
4 August 2004
Red Star Belgrade reached the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League as headed goals from Bojan Miladinovic, Milan Dudic and Nikola Zigic secured a comfortable victory against Swiss runner-up BSC Young Boys in Belgrade. The Serbo-Montenegrin champions will now meet Dutch side PSV Eindhoven in the next round with a place in the competition's group stage the prize for the winner.
Red Star players celebrate first goal against Young Boys
Author:
Fonet
In front of 45,000 spectators, the home side were quickly into their stride, with Milovanovic forcing Young Boys goalkeeper Marco Wolfli into a brilliant reaction stop as early as the fifth minute. Thirteen minutes later Young Boys forward Francisco 'Neri' Souza missed from 12 metres and, to compound his woe, injured himself in the process and Patrick De Napoli came on in his place.
With Red Star largely controlling possession and the visitors forced to rely on counterattacks, it was the home side who looked the more threatening. Striker Marko Pantelic cleverly worked space for himself inside the penalty area but failed to finish from ten metres. Zigic, who scored both Red Star's goals in the first leg, then missed a close-range header eight minutes before half-time.
Two minutes later, however, it was 1-0 as Serbo-Montenegrin Under-21 international defender Miladinovic scored his first goal for Red Star, heading Aleksandar Lukovic's free-kick into the corner of the net, leaving Wölfli with no chance.
It was a similar story four minutes after the restart as midfield player Bosko Jankovic's shot created the chance for Dudic to double the home side's advantage with another precise header into the corner of the net.
The goals visibly relaxed the home side, although Young Boys' Gabriel Urdaneta twice forced goalkeeper Vladimir Disljenkovic into action and former Red Star's forward Boban Maksimovic produced some promising moments.
With progress looking increasingly likely, Petrovic opted to make three substitutions and one of them, midfield player Marko Perovic, created the third goal for Zigic in the 69th minute. Jankovic missed a chance from Zigic's long ball three minutes later, as Red Star players and fans celebrated at the final whistle.
With Red Star largely controlling possession and the visitors forced to rely on counterattacks, it was the home side who looked the more threatening. Striker Marko Pantelic cleverly worked space for himself inside the penalty area but failed to finish from ten metres. Zigic, who scored both Red Star's goals in the first leg, then missed a close-range header eight minutes before half-time.
Two minutes later, however, it was 1-0 as Serbo-Montenegrin Under-21 international defender Miladinovic scored his first goal for Red Star, heading Aleksandar Lukovic's free-kick into the corner of the net, leaving Wölfli with no chance.
It was a similar story four minutes after the restart as midfield player Bosko Jankovic's shot created the chance for Dudic to double the home side's advantage with another precise header into the corner of the net.
The goals visibly relaxed the home side, although Young Boys' Gabriel Urdaneta twice forced goalkeeper Vladimir Disljenkovic into action and former Red Star's forward Boban Maksimovic produced some promising moments.
With progress looking increasingly likely, Petrovic opted to make three substitutions and one of them, midfield player Marko Perovic, created the third goal for Zigic in the 69th minute. Jankovic missed a chance from Zigic's long ball three minutes later, as Red Star players and fans celebrated at the final whistle.
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