Metalac GM saw off OFK Bor 1919 2-0 in the First League's regular season round 11 on Monday evening. The away side took all three points to move further clear of the bottom half, while Bor remained rooted in twelfth place after ten matches. Goals from B. Mijailovic and P. Ntim did the damage, and the visitors kept a clean sheet against a home side that had struggled to find rhythm all season.
And here's the thing about the opening half — Bor looked shakier than the table suggests. Mijailovic broke the deadlock in the thirty-eighth minute, and the hosts had barely settled before a yellow card to P. Medic on the stroke of half-time suggested nerves were fraying. The substitution pattern at the break, with L. Peranovic replacing Medic, was an attempt to steady things, but Metalac had already planted their flag.
By then we knew this was going to be a match decided by moments rather than sustained pressure. We had called for an away win with 53 per cent confidence before kick-off, and it was the visitors who delivered when it mattered. Ntim struck in the seventy-third minute to put the game beyond doubt, and Bor's response was to throw bodies forward without structure. D. Belic picked up a booking in the sixty-third minute, but the damage was done.
The statistics, when they come, rarely tell the full story. Metalac did not dominate possession in any meaningful way, but they took their chances when they appeared. Bor created space in transition but lacked the composure to exploit it. That is often the difference between sides separated by six points in the table.
What the result means is straightforward. Metalac move further clear of the relegation zone with fourteen points from ten games, sitting in seventh place. Bor remain on eight points, still twelve, and the gap between them and safety looks wider with each defeat. The last five matches tell their own tale — four losses in a row now, including this one.
There is nothing dramatic about a two-goal win, but there is something telling about how it arrived. Bor had chances to respond, but they ran out of ideas and time. Metalac did not need to do much more than hold their shape and wait. By then, the outcome was never in serious doubt.
