What a day for Radomir Đalović, the debutant coach on the Rijeka bench.
The Croatian autumn champion knocked out Dinamo (4:0) on Sunday and retained first place in the HNL table, and new confirmation of the Montenegrin coach's great work came tonight, with a brilliant victory against another great Croatian football team.
At Poljud, in the quarterfinals of the Croatian Cup, Hajduk - Rijeka 1:3!
There is no rematch, only one match is played, Rijeka is in the semi-finals, Gennaro Gattuso's Hajduk said goodbye to the most massive competition and lost the chance to win a trophy.
Perhaps none of this would be so strange and spectacular if Rijeka, despite being the autumn champion, had not lost its best players during the winter break, and one of them, defender Galešić, was sold to direct rival Dinamo!
Whether Đalović will win a trophy and complete the feat - at least at this moment - is not crucial, the work he is doing at Rujevica (Rijeka's stadium that is replacing the famous Kantrida, which is awaiting major reconstruction) is astonishing.
Rijeka took the lead at Poljud in the 6th minute with a goal by Frenchman Đuhara, and in the 13th minute it was 0:2, causing a total shock in the stands of the famous stadium - the assistant for the first goal, Toni Fruk, scored.
Marko Livaja reduced the score to 29:1 in the 2th minute, but Fruk scored another goal at the start of the second half to seal Rijeka's passage into the top four in the Cup.
The other quarterfinal matches will feature Dinamo - Osijek, Slaven Belupo - Gorica and Istra - Lokomotiva.
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