Macva held off IMT Novi Beograd in the Super League's regular season fourth round, securing a 1:0 victory at home on Sunday evening. The result lifted the hosts to ten points from eight matches, while the visitors remained third with fourteen points after dropping ground they had built up. To be fair, the away side had looked comfortable enough for much of the ninety minutes, but the home defence refused to go away.
The decisive moment arrived in the twenty-third minute when M. Vidakov found the net. By then, the game had settled into a rhythm the visitors seemed to prefer, controlling possession and probing for openings. The goal changed everything, though it took a while for the away side to accept they had lost control.
K. Tojcic picked up a yellow card early on in the third minute, a sign of things to come for the home side's discipline. Sladojevic joined him on the reservation list at forty-three, while Lainovic received his caution later in the match at eighty-three. The home manager made five substitutions across the final hour, bringing on T. Cojic at sixty-three and K. Tojcic himself at sixty-seven, before adding D. Djordjic, S. Sapic and S. Abdullahi in the closing stages.
The statistics told a familiar story. Possession belonged to the visitors at sixty percent, yet they managed only two shots on target compared to the hosts' two. The home side recorded four shots off target against six for the away team, with accuracy figures of twenty-two percent versus thirty-nine percent. It was a match decided by moments rather than volume, and the clean-sheet run came to an end for the visitors.
Macva moved up to ten points while IMT Novi Beograd stayed on fourteen, the gap between them narrowing by a single point. The hosts had not won in their previous two matches, losing to Vojvodina and Partizan, so this result offered something to build on. The away side had won four of eight games and could still challenge for the top spots, but they needed to convert their dominance into goals.