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 ...
Tottenham Hotspur head coach Andre Villas-Boas has praised his players' performance but bemoaned the referee's performance in their 0-0 draw against Lazio in the Europa League on Thursday. AVB: "Well I think first of all I am very happy with the performance. Obviously we played extremely well and I am extremely happy for the effort that we put in. We are in a competition that we are trying to change the way we look at it in this country. As difficult as it looks. I am extremely happy, the players put in a tremendous effort into the game, we were positive and attacking throughout the game and we managed to put the ball in the back of the net three times. But unfortunately from the mistakes of the ref [referee] we couldn't get the goals that we certainly deserved this evening. In the end we take a point against a team that has been performing so well in Italy and look forward to the away games, we will try then to get the first win to get us to qualification....