Natcho and Stevanovic on last night`s TSC game

Partizan started 2023/24 season with a six-goal thriller away to TSC.

Unfortunately, hosts scored the equalizer deep into injury time to make it 3-3 full-time score.

Goals for Partizan were scored by Natcho (`40), Belic (`43) and Saldanha (`79).

Keeper Stevanovic was disappointed with a final score.

“Praise to all our players! We showed how you battle for the Partizan shirt. This team is written off before the season but this team can show so much more. This was a true classic with lots of pace, runs and tactical maneuvers. Praise goes to TSC players too but, to be honest, we were supposed to win this one but I`m sure we`ll have more luck in future. I also hope we`ll have a better ref decisions in the future as this tonight was scandalous!

We are all disappointed but at least we know what we are fighting against. Our message is that we are going to be even stronger after this, we are not going to drop our heads down, although many would like to us defeated.

I wouldn`t go too much into my penalty save, coach Pantic and myself did good penalty scouting of TSC players. I almost saved the first one; luckily I did save the second. Eventually, it wasn`t enough for a win as we conceded on 97, two mins after the allocated five minutes added time.

What can you do, that football for you. But, this is the game principle we must stick with and I`m glad fans recognized it. Although we played a draw, we got words of praise and support from them and this will mean a lot to us in the future. They will be our 12^th player as we play against 12 players anyway”, said Stevanovic, with a bit of bitterness involved.