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Ten-man Red Star earn draw
Zurich,
28 July 2004
Two late goals from Nikola Zigic saw ten-man Red Star earn a 2-2 draw away against BSC Young Boys in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League second qualifying round tie.
Author:
Fonet-AP
Despite being a man down since the dismissal of Dragan Stancic for a second yellow card after 58 minutes, a late spurt saw two goals from the giant Zigic, who scored 27 goals for the Serbo-Montenegrin champions last season, cancel out efforts from Stephane Chapuisat and Adrian Eugster.
Hanspeter Zaugg's side took the game to their visitors from the start and were ahead after just six minutes as the 35-year-old Chapuisat took full advantage of a mistake by Slavoljub Djordjevic to open the scoring with an elegant left-footed shot.
Yao Aziawonou, Francisco Neri and Joel Magnin all passed up presentable opportunities to double Young Boys' advantage in the next 15 minutes of play and for a while it seemed that Red Star would be overwhelmed until Ljupko Petrovic's side began to find some bite on the right wind through Dusan Basta.
However, when a shot from almost 30 metres from Bojan Miladinovic forced Marco Wolfli to make a marvellous save after 29 minutes, the visitors came to life. Indeed, they could easily have gone into the break on level terms had Marko Pantelic not missed an easy header from close range in added time.
After Stancic was shown his second yellow card for a foul on Thomas Haberli, things seemed to be going downhill again for the Belgrade side, and although Petrovic tried to balance his midfield again, he could do nothing to prevent Eugster extending Young Boys' lead with a terrific 18-metre shot.
However, if the Swiss side thought their opponents were beaten at that point, they were in for a shock. Red Star were back in the game after 78 minutes when an innocuous-looking ball from Bosko Jankovic wrong-footed Ivan Knez and Fernando Carreno and allowed Zigic to steal through and score.
The Swiss side kept pressing forward in search of the strike that would help to cancel out that all important away goal, but after missing some promising openings, were made to pay as Red Star picked their way through seven Young Boys players to set up Zigic for his second of the evening. The teams meet again next Wednesday in Belgrade.
Hanspeter Zaugg's side took the game to their visitors from the start and were ahead after just six minutes as the 35-year-old Chapuisat took full advantage of a mistake by Slavoljub Djordjevic to open the scoring with an elegant left-footed shot.
Yao Aziawonou, Francisco Neri and Joel Magnin all passed up presentable opportunities to double Young Boys' advantage in the next 15 minutes of play and for a while it seemed that Red Star would be overwhelmed until Ljupko Petrovic's side began to find some bite on the right wind through Dusan Basta.
However, when a shot from almost 30 metres from Bojan Miladinovic forced Marco Wolfli to make a marvellous save after 29 minutes, the visitors came to life. Indeed, they could easily have gone into the break on level terms had Marko Pantelic not missed an easy header from close range in added time.
After Stancic was shown his second yellow card for a foul on Thomas Haberli, things seemed to be going downhill again for the Belgrade side, and although Petrovic tried to balance his midfield again, he could do nothing to prevent Eugster extending Young Boys' lead with a terrific 18-metre shot.
However, if the Swiss side thought their opponents were beaten at that point, they were in for a shock. Red Star were back in the game after 78 minutes when an innocuous-looking ball from Bosko Jankovic wrong-footed Ivan Knez and Fernando Carreno and allowed Zigic to steal through and score.
The Swiss side kept pressing forward in search of the strike that would help to cancel out that all important away goal, but after missing some promising openings, were made to pay as Red Star picked their way through seven Young Boys players to set up Zigic for his second of the evening. The teams meet again next Wednesday in Belgrade.
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