The NK Maribor Post
Match21 Nov 2035
Nobody wins at NK Maribor
42 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match21 Nov 2035
NK Maribor through in the cup
A 3‑1 win over NK Krka, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Matic Stojanovic breaks a bone — 24 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Nov 2035
Both of them Rui Nascimento's — 8.04
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market26 Nov 2035
Nik Belovič is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at NK Maribor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Tempers go at NK Maribor
György Komáromi 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.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Tio Cipot 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 terraces26 Nov 2035
The crowd has taken to Rui Nascimento
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.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Valentin Paltsev 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
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Nil Alonso at his very best
- Player ratings Afonso Mendes will replay that one
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Ramez Al-Attar