“As at Euro-2024 in June, the team was not able to please the scored goals, but in favor of the Scandinavian national team.”, — write: football.ua
As at Euro-2024 in June, the team was not able to please the scored goals, but in favor of the Scandinavian national team.
Serbia v Denmark, Getty Images November 18, 2024, 11:45 p.m
And then it became interesting, because everything depended on the result of the match in Leskovac between Serbia and Denmark in the context of the final distribution of places in the tournament table in this group. At the same time, the hosts had less chance of success, because they had only one scenario open to them – they had to win at any cost, while the guests could repeat the experience of the recent group match at Euro 2024, when they had to play a goalless draw , and they finally succeeded.
Did Brian Rimmer’s team have a strategy for this game other than trying to keep the score 0-0 and only if the opposition achieved any success, then start to invent something themselves? Judging by what we saw during more than an hour and a half of the game, no, Denmark took to the field with a clear goal and tried to keep a “Scandinavian” cool head.
Even when the defense of the “red guard” was more like a passing yard, as it was in the first half. In Serbia, a single pattern worked almost perfectly – the ball was given to Živković on the right wing, he performed passes, and Mitrović or Vlahović tried to finish. The Juventus player also tried to add something to the team in front of him with independent jerks, and it was also quite sharp and interesting.
But we still say “almost perfect” for the hosts’ attacks, because “almost” is about execution, and they were very poor with it. Because, on the one hand, Schmeichel figured out all the shots that flew into the plane of his goal, and those that did not fly were already problems with hitting a couple of attackers of Dragan Stojkovic’s team, and in no other way. Maybe the Serbs were a bit unlucky, but when you have a player from the swamp team in your application, it’s better not to complain about luck.
The Serbians will say after the game that it was a match won for them, although the scoreboard still ended up with “zero”, and it was, in general, really close to the truth, but in the second half, with each new ruined goal opportunity, it was noticeable , that the mood of Stojkovich’s team is evaporating more and more, and in the end, the hosts did not even have enough for an adequate final assault, although he asked very frankly with so many grenadiers on the field.
And in the end it turned out that Denmark kept the ball in the opponent’s half for most of the time exactly when the opponents should logically have done it, although before that Riemer’s team worked for one moment in total during the entire match and should have been happy only from the fact that opponents did not convert quantity into quality. However, who will say to the Danes if they got their way for the second time in a year with such an approach, and the Serbs… They got what they deserved. It may not be our last meeting with them in this Nations League draw.
German referee Felix Zweier’s final whistle left Denmark second in Group A4 with eight points, while Serbia finished third with six..
Serbia — Denmark 0:0
Serbia: Petrovych — Velkovich, Milenkovic, Pavlovich — Zhivkovich (Ivanovich, 82), Gudel (Zdelar, 72), Samardzhich (A. Maksymovich, 73), N. Maksymovich, Terzych — Vlakovich (Nedelkovich, 88), Mitrovich.
Denmark: Schmeichel — Rehrslev, Nelsson, Westergaard, Christiansen — Damsgaard (Grenbeck, 71), Uhlmann, Eriksen, Isaksen (Skov Olsen, 87) — Dolberg (Heilunn, 70), Poulsen (Nergaard, 53).
Warning: Terzych, Milenkovic, Zhivkovic, Pavlovic — Dolberg
In the 90th + 5th minute, Strahinya Pavlovich (Serbia) was sent off (second warning).