line and moved far away to take a run and kick it into play. He moved so far away from the ball that Dynamo forward Hans-Jürgen Dörner had enough time to step in and nudge it into the unguarded net. The strange goal stood, and by the end Dynamo managed to score another one for 0–2 final score and thus take the match into extra-time. Dynamo won 4–5 on penalties thus eliminating Partizan as Borota faced a barrage of criticism from the Partizan faithful. The defending league champions were on a downward spiral in the league, too, as unexpected losses tied them firmly to the bottom half of the table. Only a few months later, Borota would repeat the calamitous mistake from Dresden, this time in on 29 November 1978 during the 63rd league edition of the Eternal Derby versus bitter cross-town rivals Red Star Belgrade. Playing in the snow-covered JNA Stadium in front of only 15,000 fans, the goalkeeper again collected the ball from a cross in front of opposing forwards while colliding with one of them, and again wrongly assumed that play stoppage had been called, thus placing the ball down unguarded. The referee Desimir Pavićević from Kragujevac actually didn't call a foul since Borota firmly held control of the ball during the aerial challenge so when Borota put it down, Red Star forward Miloš Šestić snuck in and pushed it into empty net for the match's opening goal. Red Star eventually recorded a 1–3 victory. Various urban legends persist about this event: from the one that Šestić actually mislead Borota on purpose by telling him, while the keeper was down on the ground with the ball in his hands, that the ref had called a foul to the one that Borota was confused by the sound of a whistle that came from a Red Star fan in the stands. Due to his shaky displays and the team's overall atrocious form, Borota lost the coach's trust, making only 16 appearances between the posts that season. Head coach Mladinić resigned two weeks after the derby in late December during the winter break as Florijan Matekalo took over from January. In March, before the season's end, with the team battling relegation threat, Borota (who was about to turn 27 years of age) got sold to Chelsea. Chelsea Borota signed for Chelsea in March 1979 for a transfer fee of £70,000