Football World Cup 2018 / Serbia

Football World Cup 2018 : Serbia
Trainer	Mladen Krstajić
captain	Branislav Ivanović
Qualified as	Winner Europe Group D
World rankings before the tournament	34
Tournament result	Out in the preliminary round
Games won	1
Games tie	0
Games lost	2
Gates	2: 4

This article covers the Serbian national football team at the 2018 World Cup . Serbia took part in the finals for the second time and was eliminated in the preliminary round.

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA . The Serbs, who did not take part in the European Football Championship in 2016 , prevailed against the three European Championship participants Ireland, Austria and Wales.

Games

Aleksandar Mitrović, top Serbian goalscorer in qualifying

Serbia met in Group D on Georgia , Ireland , Moldavia , Austria and Wales . In the ten encounters that resulted, the Serbian team won six, lost one game and drew three times. The Serbs only managed to qualify directly on the last match day with a 1-0 win against Georgia. The decisive goal was scored by Aleksandar Prijović with his first international goal. They missed early qualification due to their only defeat on the penultimate match day in Austria. They relegated the Irish, who had secured the relegation place in the last game against Wales, to second place. In the playoffs of the group runners-up, Ireland failed to Denmark.

National coach Slavoljub Muslin , who was dismissed at the end of October 2017 despite the successful qualification, used 27 players in the qualification. Only captain Branislav Ivanović and Dušan Tadić were used in all ten games. Nemanja Gudelj , Filip Kostić , Luka Milivojević and Antonio Rukavina have made nine appearances . Milivojević had to pause once after the second yellow card, which also applied to four other players who were not used in other games, among them goalkeeper Vladimir Stojković , who was the only Serb to receive three yellow cards and in the first game and the The forced break was represented by Predrag Rajković . In addition, Nikola Maksimović had to take a forced break after a red card . Four players only had one bet.

The Serbs' top scorer, who scored at least one goal in each game, was Aleksandar Mitrović with six goals, and Dušan Tadić scored four goals. seven other players scored two or one goal. In addition to Aleksandar Prijović, Filip Kostić , Mijat Gaćinović and Luka Milivojević also scored their first international goal in a qualifying match: in a 2-2 win against Ireland on September 5, 2016, in a 3-1 win against Georgia on March 24, 2017 and 2-3 against Austria on October 6, 2017.

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers for Serbia
09/05/2016	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Ireland	2: 2 (0: 1)	Filip Kostić (62nd), Dušan Tadić (69th / penalty)
10/06/2016	Chișinău	Moldova	-	Serbia	0: 3 (0: 2)	Filip Kostić (19th), Branislav Ivanović (37th), Dušan Tadić (59th)
10/09/2016	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Austria	3: 2 (2: 1)	Aleksandar Mitrović (6th, 23rd), Dušan Tadić (74th)
11/12/2016	Cardiff	Wales	-	Serbia	1: 1 (1: 0)	Aleksandar Mitrović (85.)
March 24, 2017	Tbilisi	Georgia	-	Serbia	1: 3 (1: 1)	Dušan Tadić (45th / penalty), Aleksandar Mitrović (64th), Mijat Gaćinović (86th)
06/11/2017	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Wales	1: 1 (0: 1)	Aleksandar Mitrović (73.)
02.09.2017	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Moldova	3: 0 (2: 0)	Mijat Gaćinović (20th), Aleksandar Kolarov (30th), Aleksandar Mitrović (81st)
05.09.2017	Dublin	Ireland	-	Serbia	0: 1 (0: 0)	Aleksandar Kolarov (55th)
06.10.2017	Vienna	Austria	-	Serbia	3: 2 (1: 1)	Luka Milivojević (11th), Nemanja Matic (83rd)
09.10.2017	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Georgia	1: 0 (0: 0)	Aleksandar Prijović (74.)

Final table of the qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Serbia	10	6th	3	1	020:100	+10	21st
2.	Ireland	10	5	4th	1	012: 600	+6	19th
3.	Wales	10	4th	5	1	013: 600	+7	17th
4th	Austria	10	4th	3	3	014:120	+2	15th
5.	Georgia	10	0	5	5	008:140	−6	05
6th	Moldova	10	0	2	8th	004:230	−19	02

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Serbian goal scorers
November 10, 2017	2-0	People's Republic of China	Guangzhou	Adem Ljajić (20th), Aleksandar Mitrović (69th)
November 14, 2017	1: 1	South Korea	Ulsan	Adem Ljajić (59.)
23 March 2018	1: 2	Morocco	Turin ( ITA )	Dušan Tadić (37th)
March 27, 2018	2-0	Nigeria	London ( GBR )	Aleksandar Mitrović (68th, 81st)
4th June 2018	0: 1	Chile	Graz ( AUT )
June 9, 2018	5: 1	Bolivia	Graz ( AUT )	Aleksandar Mitrović (4th, 23rd, 68th), Adem Ljajić (19th), Branislav Ivanović (42nd)

Remarks

Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup.

The games in November were played under interim coach Mladen Krstajić .

Quarter

The team's quarters were the “Royal Falke Resort & Spa” in Svetlogorsk , where the team used the Baltiya training site.

Squad

The final roster was named on June 1, 2018. Were canceled Aleksandar Jovanović (gate), Mijat Gaćinović , Nemanja Maksimovic and Matija Nastasić .

position	No.	Surname	birth date	Calls	Gates	society	debut	Last use						World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	23	Marko Dmitrović	01/24/1992	2	0	SD Eibar	2017	03/23/2018
	12	Predrag Rajković	10/31/1995	8th	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2013	06/09/2018
	01	Vladimir Stojkovic	07/28/1983	81	0	FK Partizan Belgrade P	2006	06/09/2018	3					2010	3	0
Defense	06th	Branislav Ivanović *	02/22/1984	102	13	Zenit Saint Petersburg	2006	06/09/2018	2		1			2010	3	0
	11	Aleksandar Kolarov	11/10/1985	76	10	AS Roma	2008	06/09/2018	3	1				2010	2	0
	15th	Nikola Milenković	10/12/1997	3	0	AC Florence	2016	06/09/2018	3
	14th	Milan Rodic	04/02/1991	1	0	FK Red Star Belgrade M	2018	04.06.2018
	02	Antonio Rukavina	01/26/1984	47	0	Villarreal CF	2007	06/09/2018	2
	05	Uroš Spajić	02/13/1993	5	0	RSC Anderlecht	2015	05/31/2016
	03	Duško Tošić	January 19, 1985	24	1	Beşiktaş Istanbul	2006	06/09/2018	2
	13	Miloš Veljković	09/26/1995	2	0	Werder Bremen	2017	11/14/2017	1
midfield	16	Marko Grujić	04/13/1996	8th	0	Cardiff City ↑	2016	06/09/2018
	17th	Filip Kostic	11/01/1992	23	2	Hamburger SV ↓	2015	06/09/2018	3
	22nd	Adem Ljajic	09/29/1991	29	3	Torino FC	2010	06/09/2018	3		1
	21st	Nemanja Matic	08/01/1988	40	2	Manchester United	2008	06/09/2018	3		2
	20th	Sergej Milinković-Savić	02/27/1995	4th	0	Lazio Rome	2017	06/09/2018	3		1
	04th	Luka Milivojevic	04/07/1991	28	1	Crystal Palace	2012	06/09/2018	2		1
	18th	Nemanja Radonjić	02/15/1996	3	0	FK Red Star Belgrade M	2017	06/09/2018	2
	10	Dušan Tadić	11/20/1988	53	13	Southampton FC	2008	06/09/2018	3
	07th	Andrija Živković	07/11/1996	10	0	Benfica Lisbon	2013	04.06.2018	1
Storm	19th	Luka Jović	December 23, 1997	1	0	Eintracht Frankfurt P.	2018	04.06.2018	1
	09	Aleksandar Mitrovic	09/16/1994	37	16	Fulham FC ↑	2013	06/09/2018	3	1	2
	08th	Aleksandar Prijović T	April 21, 1990	9	1	PAOK Thessaloniki P	2017	06/09/2018	1
Coaching staff		Mladen Krstajić	03/04/1974	59	2		2017							2006	3
Status of appearances and goals: June 9, 2018, after the game against Bolivia
↑ Positions according to the kicker squad list ↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ * = Player is Serbian national record player, T = Player was top scorer of the league in the World Cup year ↑ M = champions in the World Cup year, P = cup winners in the World Cup year, ↑ = club will play in the first division in the next season, ↓ = the club was relegated from the country's highest league, clubs in italics played in the 2017/18 season in the second highest division ↑ Also 1 game for Serbia & Montenegro ↑ As a player, 48 of them for Serbia and Montenegro ↑ a b c As a player for Serbia and Montenegro

Finals

Group draw

Moscow Samara Kaliningrad Svetlogorsk

Venues and quarters (blue / italic) of the Serbs

For the draw of the qualification groups on December 1st, Serbia was assigned to Pot 4 and could therefore be drawn into a group with world champions Germany, record world champions Brazil, vice world champions Argentina or host Russia. Serbia meet in Group E on Brazil , Costa Rica and Switzerland . Serbia did not meet any of the three teams in its only participation so far in 2010. One of the previous teams, Yugoslavia , met Brazil in their first World Cup match in 1930 and won 2-1. In the preliminary rounds in 1950 (0: 2), 1954 (1: 1 a.s.) and 1974 (0: 0) there were further World Cup games between the two. There were a total of 14 games against Brazil, two of which were won and six each ended or lost. There is also a defeat for the Serbs against Brazil. The Yugoslavs have also played a World Cup against Switzerland: in 1950 they won 3-0 in the preliminary round. Of a total of nine games against Switzerland, the Yugoslavs won five and played two draws and two losses. The Serbs, on the other hand, have never played against Switzerland themselves, but four times as a union of states with Montenegro (1 win, 3 draws). There have been no games against Costa Rica yet.

So far, the Serbs had only been able to gain experience in the Moscow stadiums of the World Cup; neither Serbia nor their predecessors had played in the other two group venues.

Group stage matches / Group E

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group E

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	2	1	0	005: 100	+4	07th
2.	Switzerland	3	1	2	0	005: 400	+1	05
3.	Serbia	3	1	0	2	002: 400	−2	03
4th	Costa Rica	3	0	1	2	002: 500	−3	01

Sun., June 17, 2018, 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Samara
Costa Rica	-	Serbia	0: 1 (0: 0)	56 ′ Kolarov
Friday, June 22, 2018, 8:00 p.m. (CEST) in Kaliningrad
Serbia	-	Switzerland	1: 2 (1: 0)	5 ′ Mitrović
Wed., June 27, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow (Spartak Stadium)
Serbia	-	Brazil	0: 2 (0: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: World Cup participant Serbia separates from Muslin
2. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
3. ↑ kicker.de: Nastasic didn't make it - Gacinovic's dream burst