Čelik 3-0 Velež: Masic hat-trick seals victory
Čelik beat Velež 3-0 in the Premier League's fourth round on Thursday evening. A. Masic took his hat-trick to the stadium as the hosts moved clear in the table. The visitors had won their opening fixture but the result changed their position.
The first goal came at twenty-eight minutes when Masic scored. Velež's A. Imamovic picked up a yellow card at eighteen minutes. The visitors worked the channels but found no way through.
And here's the thing — Masic had already marked himself by then. He added a second just before the break at forty-three minutes. By twenty minutes the visitors were already on the back foot, and the pattern held.
The third arrived at sixty-three, and Velež's A. Imamovic was replaced at sixty minutes for A. Besagic. The visitors threw everything at it after the break but Popovic was sent off at ninety-four minutes. Three substitutions at seventy-seven showed the desperation.
Čelik sit sixth with four points from five games, while Velež drop to ninth on three points. The hosts lost their last three matches before this win. To be fair, the gap remains small at the bottom.
Velež had beaten Sloga Doboj 2-0 most recently, but the visitors lost 3-0 here. Things came to a head when the red card fell. A. Nukic picked up a yellow card at sixty-six minutes.
