Marked for Benjamin Oblak
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Crisis
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Kevin Lara
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Filip Mevlja delivers — 7.57
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Filip Mevlja scored, was marked 7.57, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Petar Kurtovic is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
Filip Mevlja scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to ND Gorica, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Petar Kurtovic, and the manager let it.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Vid Cerin wants to come home
“I did not go to Olimpija Ljubljana to sit and watch. I want to come back to NK Domzale and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Benjamin Ilicic dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
7 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 64. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Petar Kurtovic was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑2 to NK Celje, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad21 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and NK Domzale are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Denis Popović
Nobody at NK Domzale is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Kevin Lara runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Sep 2026
13 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Luka Zajc, 33, rolls back the years — 8.07
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Benjamin Oblak to ND Gorica has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to NK Domzale with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daniil Denisov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Christian Huérfano was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Luka Zajc’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to NK Domzale.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diego Otoya, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Christian Huérfano is living that version at NK Domzale, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
NK Zavrc come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and NK Domzale did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Petar Kurtovic was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Koper left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.