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The NK Krsko Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lan Zajc

106 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. NK Krsko lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Jure Ribič keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” NK Krsko may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words at NK Krsko training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan Petrovič is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Sven Opačić’s goal not enough for NK Krsko

Sven Opačić scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Bistrica, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Taj Rožič Šuligoj

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Benjamin Oblak left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

NK Krsko pick somebody else ahead of Marko Zalokar

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Niki Radovič

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and NK Krsko will feel it on Saturday.

Market

The Niki Radovič question follows NK Krsko around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Niki Radovič’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief