With an inspired performance and as many as three goals in the first half, Dinamo's players brilliantly built on their recent win against Anderlecht and celebrated again this Sunday, this time in a league fixture in Koprivnica. Mario Kovačević's side overpowered Slaven Belupo 5-1 in the Round 10 match of the SuperSport HNL. Dinamo thereby equalled their third-biggest away win against Slaven Belupo: the record victories are two by a five-goal margin, first 5-0 and then 6-1, and this is the third time the Blues have left Koprivnica with a 5-1 win.

However, it was the hosts who threatened first at the start of the match, and they did so twice. First, Josip Mitrović fired sharply from the left in the 3rd minute, but the ball flew past the far post.

Dinamo goalkeeper Dominik Kotarski halted Slaven's onslaught with two excellent saves, giving his teammates an extra boost of confidence. In the same move, he kept out two extremely awkward shots. Lovre Lončar crossed from the right, Kotarski parried it to Mitrović, who struck powerfully from the left, and the Dinamo goalkeeper turned the ball away once again. A corner routine followed, in which Mitrović once more delivered a cross from the corner of the penalty area on the left side, Jon Mersinaj headed it from the edge of the six-yard box, and Kotarski made a diving save to push the ball away.

Soon afterwards, Dinamo took complete control. In the 15th minute, Dion Drena Beljo turned and shot from 18 metres, but the ball flew narrowly wide of the goal. The Maksimir side took the lead a minute later. Mislav Oršić played a short pass from the left to Beljo, who was about twenty metres out with his back to goal; he controlled the ball with his chest and skilfully sent it out to the right wing, where Dani Rodriguez hit a first-time left-footed shot into the near bottom corner. Rodriguez, with his brilliant moves, runs and dribbling, was one of the heroes of this win. He also scored his first goal in a competitive appearance for Dinamo.

The Zagreb side were on the verge of another goal in the 21st minute as well. Kirill Kravtsov played in Beljo, who tried his luck from 18 metres, but the home goalkeeper, captain Ivan Čović, managed to stop the ball.

Soon afterwards came another clever combination from Kravtsov towards Beljo; the Blues' number nine headed the ball on to Luka Stojković. He returned it into the striker's path with a stylish touch to the lively, energetic Beljo, who found himself alone in front of the home goalkeeper. But once again Čović managed to prevent a goal.

In the next move, the ball did finally ripple the net. Rodriguez set off dribbling on the right side of the penalty area, Mersinaj brought him down, and Split referee Duje Strukan pointed to the spot. Beljo converted the penalty in the 31st minute for another goal.

In the 40th minute, the Blues pulled three goals clear. Once again, the tricky Rodriguez created “havoc” on the right side and played a through ball to Oršić, who crossed, and Beljo at the far post, from the edge of the six-yard box, headed the ball into the near corner.

The hosts “got back into the game” with a goal late in the first half. Lončar crossed from the corner, and Mersinaj flicked the ball on to the other side. Mitrović was waiting there and struck it powerfully, Kotarski made a brief save, but Mersinaj popped up once again right on the goal line and slammed the ball into the net.

In the second half, Dinamo found a route to the net twice more. Lukas Kačavenda launched a quick break in the 65th minute and played to the left for Oršić, who passed short to Beljo; he ran onto it to the byline and then curled the ball in from the left into the six-yard box. In doing so, goalkeeper Čović got a hand to his shot, and the ball bounced out in front of the goal, where Itsuki Urata managed to clear it, but Miha Zajc ran onto it and slammed it into the net from around ten metres.

The story was wrapped up in the 71st minute: Oršić crossed from the corner, and Niko Galešić headed the ball towards goal, with goalkeeper Čović only managing to graze it as it flew under the crossbar.

Koprivnica, 18 October 2026

SuperSport HNL, Round 10

Slaven Belupo – Dinamo 1-5

Ivan Kušek Apaš Stadium

Slaven Belupo: Čović – Krušelj, Kovačić, Mersinaj, Urata – Adeshina (78 Crepulja), Mažar (39 Bosak); Lončar (60 Zahora), Banovec (60 Bošnjak), Mitrović (78 Ratshukudu) – Nestorovski

Coach: Silvijo Čabraja

Dinamo: Kotarski – Valinčić, Galešić, McKenna, Goda – Mišić (74 Topić); Rodriguez (60 Almena), Stojković (60 Kačavenda), Kravtsov (60 Zajc), Oršić – Beljo (67 Prevljak)

Coach: Mario Kovačević

Referee: Duje Strukan (Split)

Scorers: 0-1 Rodriguez (16'), 0-2 Beljo (31' – pen.), 0-3 Beljo (40'), 1-3 Mersinaj (45'), 1-4 Zajc (65'), 1-5 Galešić (71')