Marked for Robert Pasalic
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match10 Dec 2026
A chastening European night for NK Domzale
0‑9 against Shakhtar. The honest reading is not that the players were poor; it is that the distance between this club and that one is currently measured in things money takes years to buy.
Match10 Dec 2026
6 matches without a win for NK Domzale
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around NK Domzale are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 2 saves does not settle it either way.
Match10 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between NK Domzale and Shakhtar, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Dagerstål 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Juan Pablo Otálvaro 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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I did not go to NK Maribor to sit and watch. I want to come back to NK Domzale and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Robert Pasalic, and the manager let it.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Uneasy
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Nov 2026
A European lesson for NK Domzale
0‑1 against Westerlo. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Match9 Nov 2026
NK Domzale are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 25 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” NK Domzale may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Juan Pablo Otálvaro 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Jan Verbic runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Filip Ilicic
39 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Pasalic 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Rudar Velenje made NK Domzale work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. NK Domzale know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.68, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. NK Domzale had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Benjamin Ilicic took the headlines on an afternoon when everything NK Domzale tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Tomas Sesko again, and this time the name on the line is NK Krka. NK Domzale are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Robert Pasalic 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 18 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mate Vukovic 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matic Oblak commits to NK Domzale for another 1 years.