Beltinci put four past Primorje in the Second SNL's Regular Season round three, securing a comfortable home victory on Saturday afternoon. The result leaves both sides on six points after four matches, though the table positions tell a different story with Beltinci seventh and Primorje eleventh. And here's the thing — when you watch the whole ninety minutes, you see how the rhythm shifted after that opening goal.
Vladimir Stefanec opened the scoring in the twenty-seventh minute, catching the defence sleeping. Three minutes later Ante Antolin doubled the lead, and by then Primorje had stopped trying to press high. The visitors were reduced to watching, not playing, and the home side knew exactly what to do with that advantage.
Klemen Mlakar added a third before half-time, the ball trickling in at forty-five plus two. To be fair, Primorje had created nothing meaningful all half, and the collapse felt inevitable once they conceded twice in quick succession. The coach would have known by then that this was slipping away.
Gregor Černe made it four in the eighty-ninth minute, a late flourish that said everything about the gulf between the sides. Beltinci could have added more — they had the tempo, they had the space — but four is enough when you're building momentum. By then the match was already a memory for the visitors.
Both teams sit on six points from four games, two wins and two losses each, yet the table separates them by four places. That's the cruel arithmetic of football — goal difference matters when everything else is level. Beltinci have shown they can score, Primorje have shown they can leak goals.
The recent form doesn't help either side. Beltinci lost their last two league games, including a heavy defeat away to Al-Faisaly, while Primorje's only win came against Dekani. This result doesn't fix anything, but it gives the home side something to build on before the next round.