A much better game than in the first match, but even that was not enough to eliminate the champion of the league, which has professional and semi-professional clubs in its composition.
The Montenegrin champion did not manage to make the historic appearance in the Champions League qualifiers a nice memory - the Welsh New Saints were better in two matches, a solid team, but nothing more than that.
After a 3:0 defeat in Osvestrij, Dečić played 1:1 with TNS under Gorica.
For the fifth year in a row, Montenegrin clubs have not managed to skip the first round of qualification in UEFA's elite, more precisely since Sutjeska in the 2019/20 season, when the club from Nikšić was better than Slovan from Bratislava.
All this does not mean goodbye to Europe, as the team from Tuzi is now moving to the second round of qualification for the Conference League, where they will face the losers of the clash Ludogorets - Dinamo Batumi (the first match in Bulgaria ended 3:1).
Unlike the duel on the border of England and Wales, Milorad Peković's boys in hot Podgorica showed much more desire from the start, and if in the 14th minute Alen Mašović shook the net instead of the post after a great shot, the question was in which direction the match would have gone.
However, instead of the visitors' net at the end of the first half, the one guarded by Igor Nikić was shaken - Augusto fouled Ben Clark in his penalty area, and Brad Young was accurate from the penalty spot (0:1).
Dečić played well in the continuation, Bojan Matić had several chances, Luka Malešević shot dangerously, and the goal arrived with the assistance of VAR - the first time in history under Gorica.
After a strong shot by Asmir Kajević, the ball bounced off the crossbar behind the back of the TNS goalkeeper, and since the referees were not sure if it had crossed the line and since there was no famous clock that helps the referees in these moments, the video technology confirmed that Dečić equalized (1 :1).
Dečić tried even after that, but it remained a draw - TNS goes to Ferencvaros, the Montenegrin champion in the Conference League.
DECIC - NEW SAINTS 1:1 (0:1)
Podgorica - Stadium under Gorica. Spectators: 2.000. Referee: Atila Karaoglan (Turkey). Scorers: Kajević in the 74th minute for Dečić, Jang in the 43rd minute from the penalty spot for TNS. Yellow cards: Bajović (Dečić), Redmond, Daniels (TNS).
Decić: Nikić, Drešaj, Milić (46. Ljuljđuraj), Ujkaj, Malešević, Božović, Bajović (46. Sekulović), Augusto (63. Kajević), Puljeho (46. Striković), Mašović, Matić. (63. Camaj)
TNS: Robert, Pask, Bodenham, Daniel, Brobel (od 62. Baker), Redmond (75. D. William), J. William (Bradley 83), Clarke (Holden 62), Smith, Davies, Young (McManus 75).
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