To meet the opponent - Napredak

MUTUAL MEETINGS

Crvena zvezda and Napredak have played a total of 64 games so far. Our team celebrated 45 times, 15 matches ended in a draw, while the Napredek team won only four matches. Also, the total goal difference is in favor of Zvezda and amounts to 142:48.

The first match between Zvezda and Napredek was played in Kruševac on November 21, 1948, in which our team won with a score of 4:1.

The last time Zvezda and Napredak met on March 19 this year in the 27th round of the domestic championship, and the match ended without a winner (1:1), while the only goal for our team was scored by Mirko Ivanić assisted by Osman Bukari.

ALWAYS BE WITH THE STAR

Our club always has incredible support from the stands, regardless of whether the matches are played at the "Rajko Mitić" stadium or away. There is no doubt that it will be the same on Wednesday, May 3, in Kruševac, when we will meet with Napredka in the quarter finals of the Serbian Cup. All star players can get their tickets today until 5 pm. Also, if someone does not manage to secure their ticket in time due to the holidays, we inform you that you will be able to get tickets for the southern stand in Kruševac as well.

The price of the ticket is 400 dinars.

All fans who will not be able to watch live the duel between Crvena Zvezda and Napredek in Kruševac will be able to follow the match through our studio program on Zvezda TV. The broadcast of the match is also available on the Arena 1 Premium channel from 6:30 p.m.

If you are not able to follow the live video broadcast, you can be with our footballers on Zvezda's application, via text transmission on our Match Center, which is active at every game, minute by minute, as well as on the official Twitter account of our club.

TEAM FORM

The players of Crvena zvezda are in the first position in the table with 89 points. We have achieved 28 victories since the beginning of the league and recorded five draws, and the goal difference of 89:15 proves that our team cultivates attacking football. In the last match in the third round of the playoffs of the national championship, we defeated Čukarički 4:0, and Kings Kangwa, Marko Rakonjac, Stefan Mitrović and Uroš Spajić, who returned in a phenomenal way after a long injury, scored. When it comes to the Serbian Cup, on the way to the quarter-finals we eliminated Mačva in Šabac (0:2) and Radnički in Sremska Mitrovica (1:3).

Napredak is also in first place when it comes to the Serbian Superliga play-out table with 37 points collected, with a goal difference of 24:32. The team from Kruševac is well on its way to survival, because they have seven points more than Javor, which is in the danger zone, and in the last match played over the weekend in the third round of the play-outs, they were defeated at home by Radnik with a score of 0: 1. On the way to the quarter-finals of the Cup, Napredak knocked out Inđija first on the away field (0:2), and then Spartak, also away (0:1).

OPPOSING PLAYERS

Napredak mostly plays in the 3-4-1-2 system, and that formation was exactly what Kruševlja's coach Dragan Perišić used in the last match against Radnički from Kragujevac. In goal is the experienced goalkeeper born in Čačak - Nikola Petrić. The trio at the back consists of captain Dejan Kerkez, Nemanja Đeković and Ognjen Mršić. The entire left side is covered by Nikola Vukajlović, by nature a left back, while on the other side, Uroš Ljubomirac acts on the right. The midfield is held by the experienced Marko Putinčanin and Nikola Stanković, our footballer who plays in Kruševac, while Nikola Knežević, also a Zvezda kid on loan to Napredek, has a slightly more offensive role in the middle of the field. Nebojša Bastajić together with Bojan Matić, a former player of Vojvodina and Partizan, form an attacking tandem. Bojan Čečarić, Đorđe Jovanović and Marko Šarić are certainly the home team's wildcards.

JUDGES

Chief referee: Milan Mitić

First assistant: Stefan Vojnić

Second assistant: Miloje Milićević

Fourth referee: Marko Srecković

VAR: Aleksandar Zivkovic

AVAR: Milan Minic

OTHER MATCHES OF THE SERBIA CUP QUARTER FINALS

Thursday:

- 16:00 TSC - Novi Pazar

- 16:00 Worker - Čukarički

- 18:30 Radnički (N) - Vojvodina