Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Smartno 6th with 43 points, Zreče 14th with 13, 30 apart. Smartno ranked just 14th in the league on five-round form despite their 6th table position. Per game in the league, Zreče were scoring 1.08 and conceding 2.54, Smartno 1.92 and 1.65, against a competition average of 1.73 goals per team per game.
Defeat had followed defeat for Zreče — five in succession. The five-game form split read 0/15 points for Zreče against 7/15 for Smartno.
Zreški Stadion in Zreče, capacity 1,000, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-1.