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 ...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is pushed completely into the background to which is the eighth consecutive year declared the best player of Sweden. He modestly withdrew into the background during the ceremony that has passed quietly, in memory of the prematurely deceased Klas Ingesson, Sweden's legendary players. Ingeson recently lost his long battle with cancer, so the announcement of the passage is not in a gala atmosphere as usual. When he came to accept the award, Ibrahimović said ... "This is a reward for doing something good, and that's fine, but it is completely irrelevant. Tonight, when we were all here, we need to honor the Klas Ingesson and Segestrom Pontus, who had left us," said Ibrahimovic. Segestr, football Bromapojkarn also recently died of a brain tumor. "We grieve together, somehow this year has passed so ... I lost a brother whom he won the same disease last spring. These are much more important things than football, it's real life. Let the glory ...