Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Velez 3rd with 61 points, Olimpic Sarajevo 12th with 25, 36 apart. Per game in the league, Olimpic Sarajevo were scoring 0.67 and conceding 1.76, Velez 1.52 and 0.91, against a competition average of 1.2 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Velez, winners of their last three. The five-game form split read 6/15 points for Olimpic Sarajevo against 13/15 for Velez.
The match was played at Olimpijski Stadion Asim Ferhatovic Hase in Sarajevo (capacity 34,500). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-1.