Match Report
24 points separated the sides: Mladost Novi Sad 1st on 72, Rad Beograd 2nd on 48. On recent form Rad Beograd sat only 14th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 2nd overall. Against a league average of 1.17 goals per team per game, Rad Beograd ran at 1.71 scored and 1 conceded, Mladost Novi Sad at 1.86 and 1.
Recent form was uneven: 4/15 points for Rad Beograd, 10/15 for Mladost Novi Sad.
With 38 matches recorded and 2.4 yellow cards per game, M. Jakovljević was the man in the middle. The venue was Stadion Kralj Petar Prvi in Belgrade, with room for 6,000 spectators. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Mladost Novi Sad led 1-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-2.