Primorje secured a 1:0 victory over Dekani in the Second SNL, the only result that mattered in a match decided by a single moment. The home side took all three points at the expense of their visitors, lifting them to seventh place while Dekani remained rooted in twelfth. It was a result built on one chance and nothing else.
M. Gulic broke the deadlock in the fifth minute, and that was the decisive episode of the entire game. By then the visitors were already pinned back, and they never found a way through. The score held for the rest of the ninety minutes, no more goals followed, and Primorje saw it out without trouble.
Seven points from five games puts Primorje in seventh, a position they could hold on to if they keep this level. And here's the thing — they have played one more match than the teams above them, which gives them a chance to climb if the results go their way.
Dekani sit on five points, one behind the side in eleventh and two off the safety zone. They have won only once in five games, and that single victory — a 3:0 against Slovan Ljubljana — looks like an outlier rather than a pattern. To be fair, they have drawn two and lost two, so the problem is not a lack of effort but a lack of conversion.
Primorje's recent form shows a team finding its feet: a 0:0 draw against Uljanik followed by this win, after a heavy 4:0 defeat to Celje earlier in the season. Dekani's run is less convincing, with losses to Rijeka, Bior Oradea, and Arges Pitesti breaking up their only positive result. The gap between them is real, and it shows in the table.