BELGRADE, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Danish Brondby outplayed Spartak Subotica 2-0 in Belgrade on Thursday, preventing the home team from creating another surprise in the qualifications for Europa League.
The match was played in front of numerous fans of both teams at the Rajko Mitic stadium in the capital of Serbia because Spartak's home stadium in the city of Subotica is under reconstruction.
Although the runner-up of the Danish Alka Superliga started to take over the initiative from the beginning of the match, Spartak Subotica was close to scoring on two occasions, first after a counterattack in the 5th minute which failed due to an imprecise long pass, and the other in the 16th minute when Bojan Cecaric did not manage to forward Andrija Vukcevic's pass to the Brondby's goal.
The punishment for the fourth-ranked team of the Serbian Superliga arrived in 29th minute, when Dominik Keiser caught the long pass in front of the goal of Spartak's Nikola Peric and blasted it into the net.
In the 32nd minute Dejan Djenic created hope for the home team fans, when he scored an equalizer after a free kick, but the goal was denied by the referee, because the player was in offside.
It became evident that Spartak will not repeat the success they had against Sparta Praha in previous round of the competition when, in the 47th minute, Hany Mukhtar beat the unprepared defense of Spartak and scored with a powerful shot from the edge of the goal line.
Brondby will defend their victory against Spartak next week in Copenhagen, while the winner will face the better one between Genk and Lech Poznan. Enditem
