The success of Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Aleksandar Mitrovic, two football players playing in the Saudi Arabian league, led Serbia’s victory over Sweden, strengthening its preparation for its debut, as an independent team, in the final stage of a European Championship.
The Balkan team stormed into the Friends Arena in Solna against a rival that is still showing frustration at not being in Germany 2024 and that will be preparing its matches with sights on the Nations League that will begin to be played at the end of 2024.
Goodbye to bad stains
Serbia, who entered the competition on the back of a defeat against Austria last Tuesday (2-1) and have lost three of their five previous games, will be looking to do a good job in their debut at a European Championship after drawing group C with Denmark, Slovenia and England, their first rivals on Sunday 17th in Gelsenkirchen.
Dragan Stojkovic Featured today are Mallorca goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic, Nikola Milenkovic (Fiorentina), Atrahinja Pavlovic (Salzburg), Ivan Ilic (Torino), Sergej Milinkovic Savic and Alexsandar Mitrovic (both from Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia) and Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus) ).
Players like Nemanja Gudelj (Sevilla) remained on the bench, coming off in the second half, as well as Luka Jovic (Milan) and Filip Kostic (Juventus). The squad also includes Nemanja Maksimovic (Getafe).
Sweden also fielded well-known players in the Old Continent such as goalkeeper Robin Olsen (Aston Villa), Emil Krafth (Newcastle), Isak Hien (Atalanta), Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United), Jens Lys Ctrabajo (Naples) and Dejan Kulusevski (Tottenham). On the bench Alexander Isak (Newcastle), Matteo Pérez Vinlöf (Bayern Munich) and Carl Starfelt and Williot Swedberg, both from Celta.
Motivation, key
But the motivation of the painting Jon Dahl Tomasson nothing to do with his opponent, who took advantage in the 19th minute, with a cross from the right of Andrija Zivkovic that got past the entire defense and reached the far post where, Milinkovic Savic, header, perfectly defined.
The second was from his teammate at Al Hilal and second top scorer in the Saudi Arabian League behind cristiano ronaldo, Aleksandar Mitrovic, who placed his foot before his marker on a ball centered from the left of Filip Mladenovic.
He rounded off the score, in the 70th minute, Dusan Tadic, who replaced Mitrovic eight minutes earlier. It was in a counterattack led by Filip Kostic and it didn’t end. His shot was deflected by the defense, which also blocked the subsequent shot by Dusan Vlahovic. But Tadic did not disappoint inside the area.
Source: La Verdad
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