Yugoslavia round-up: Partizan take giant step

FK Partizan took a major step toward the Yugoslavian title with a 3-1 win against FK Sartid.

Seven-point lead
Two goals from Nenad Miskovic and a Vladimir Ivic strike cancelled out Boris Vaskovic's opener for Sartid in Belgrade and moved Partizan seven points clear of FK Crvena Zvezda, who could only draw 1-1 at FK Hajduk Kula.

Late equaliser
Crvena Zvezda looked favourites to take all three points against Hajduk in Kula after they took the lead through Dejan Ilic's header but they were forced on the backfoot when their Slovenian international midfield player Milenko Acimovic was sent off in the 66th minute after verbally abusing an assistant referee. The visitors battled to keep their lead but succumbed to the pressure three minutes from time when Dragan Stojisavljevic blasted home from 18 metres out.

Obilic triumph
FK Obilic moved level on points with third-placed Sartid after recording a 1-0 home win over FK Zvezdara, who look increasingly doomed to relegation with each passing week. Nikola Vujosevic scored the game's only goal after 18 minutes.

No joy for Lucani
FK Mladost Lucani's survival hopes took a knock after they were humiliated 4-1 in front of their own fans by FK Rad. The home side were comprehensively outplayed by the visitors with goals from Sladjan Nikolic (18), Aleksandar Rankovic (22), Dragan Stevanovic (28) and Ivan Jovanovic (30) putting Rad firmly in charge before Zoran Djuraskovic grabbed a consolation seven minutes from time.

Sutjeska overcome OFK
FK Sutjeska gave their survival hopes a boost and left OFK Beograd still hovering around the drop zone after recording a 1-0 win over their relegation rivals. Srdjan Radonjic was the man on target in the 62nd minute for Sutjeska.

Zeleznik stumble
Elsewhere, FK Zeleznik are still not out of the relegation dogfight after they slumped to a 3-0 loss at FK Rudar Plevlja, who in turn eased their relegation fears. FK Zemun scored a surprise 3-0 success against FK Cukaricki, FK Zeta beat basement club FK Mladost Apatin by the same scorline and FK Vojvodina won 1-0 at FK Radnicki Kragujevac.