Serbia drove through Nico Elvedi's own objective in first-half stoppage time and Aleksandar Mitrovic multiplied the benefit before Predrag Rajkovic saved a punishment from Swiss striker Breel Embolo. Serbia took a giant stride towards survival in the UEFA Nations League top-flight by securing a 2-0 victory over near rivals Switzerland - their first-ever head-to-head win. With Serbia and Switzerland essentially competing against each other to avoid relegation from Group A4, you’d have been forgiven for expecting a brighter start from two sides desperate to beat the other. It turned out to be quite the opposite though, as the only bright spot in an incredibly dull start came when Veljko Birmancevic ’s tame effort was easily gathered by Gregor Kobel . It took until just after the half-hour mark for the game's first big chance to arrive, but it was wasted by Breel Embolo who skewed wide after he was teed up by Silvan Widmer . That ...
This World Cup was marked by penalties. Zidan said that it is not a lottery and explains why took his penalty in the final against Italy, 2006.. Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi in every sense marked the finale of the World Cup 2006. Was in Germany. Both positive and negative. Because of this inglorious episode in the finish of the match, when Materazzi vehemently cursed family of Zidane, and this "lost his temper" and hit Italians head to the chest, which is off today, few people mentioned that the two of them made a total of three goals in that game and one is particularly important. There are those who argue that Zidane goal from the penalty spot in the 7th minute, for 1-0, while the other side was his longtime teammate of Juventus' Gianluigi Buffon, derived craziest penalty in football history. When you take into account all the circumstances that preceded ... Zidane was then, "dead" Incense "," spurred "ball-tipped boots, a...