Tomas Birsa

Central Midfielder - NK Domzale
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Tomas Birsa

3 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andraz Vipotnik

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

Player ratings

Matic Sesko scores twice — 8.49

Two goals and a mark of 8.49 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Domen Skubic at 21 — 7.61

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Domen Skubic did not need any: 7.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

NK Domzale say no — this time

The offer from Veres for Domen Skubic was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Kevin Janza in a row with a teammate

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.

Match

NK Domzale find a way past Rudar Velenje

Rudar Velenje made NK Domzale work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Domen Skubic

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Tomas Birsa

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

José Luis Gamonal gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief