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 ...
Acting national football team coach said his players are winning in Greece demonstrated love for their country. Duel of two drowning in Crete, wounded severely painful defeats in qualification for EURO, went to the Serbian footballers. In a friendly match against the national team of Greece, "A" selection of Serbia won a triumph which is at least partially alleviated (especially myself) the pain of defeat by Denmark (1: 3) and catastrophic start fighting to qualify for the European Championship. The result was 2: 0 for Serbia and scorers were Radosav Petrovic and Nemanja Gudelj. Acting coach football team Serbia Radovan Curcic said he was satisfied with the reaction of the team in tonight's game against Greece after a tough situation after meeting with Denmark. "We managed to beat Greece in quite a good solid game. During these three days we managed to get ready for one of these, result-a very important match because we wanted a win to get out of this cycle,...