The Cup – Partizan and Velez reached the final. On the surface, two strong familiar names… reality was different. Both teams had so-so teams, Velez especially was rather weak. Partizan utterly destroyed them at the final – 6-1!
Velez (Mostar) managed to reach the Cup final, but winning the trophy was not up to them. Too bad, but such was the reality.
Partizan triumphed with the Cup and thus saved the season – a shaky otherwise season, but ending with a trophy, unlike their arch-enemies Crvena zvezda. And it was even significant success – strangely, Partizan did not do well in the Cup tournaments: this was their only 5th Cup and the previous one was won in the very distant 1956-57 season.
Partizan had some good players, but they did not have truly great team for a long time. Winning the Cup was good for moral and in the same time more or less showed the limits of this squad.
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