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SPORT
March 18, 2000
 Belgrade: Milos Sestic - 1-0! |
Luck was not kind to the players of the Red Star in the final matches of the 1979 UEFA Cup, when they played against the Borussia from Monchengladbach.
In the first game, played in Belgrade, before some 80.000 spectators, after Slavoljub Muslin's pass, Milos Sestic (on the picture) hit the net of the Germans and the Red Star deservedly came into a 1-0 lead.
However, this is when bad luck started causing one slip after another - first they missed several good chances of marking a convincing victory, and then, half an hour before the end of the game, the Red Star Ivan Jurisic, from a perfectly harmless situation, gave a valuable gift to an already dazed opponent by hitting his own net. The Germans traveled home with quite enough staked in their pockets and peacefully awaited the second game.
Dusseldorf: Dusan Savic (left, Red Star) and Borussia's captain Berti Vogts change their jerseys after the second-leg match |
From the first minute of the second leg match in Dusseldorf, the Red Star showed determination to compensate for what it failed to do in Belgrade, but another mishap came very early on, when Borussia, from a controversial penalty kick, came into a 1-0 lead.
In vain were the guests better during the second half, having few good chances… The ball just did not want to enter the German net.
The result stayed unchanged, the Borussia captain, Berti Vogts, received the trophy of the winner of the UEFA Cup.
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