Denmark-Serbia: Battle of life and death for qualification to the “16”

The curtain falls on his 3rd group Euro 2024with Denmark and Serbia face each other in Munich (22:00, ERT3, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr) for the 3rd and last matchday of the first phase of the competition, in a game that has the character of a final.

And this is because in the group England is in first place with four points and is the clear favorite for the first place, while from then on chaos prevails: the Denmark and the Slovenia with two points they are equal, however, the company of Sporar and Cerin is dueling with the “three lions” and is the outsider, while Serbia with one point, they want the “three points” to overtake them in the final and pass to the next phase.

Initially, in the home team’s camp there is optimism that the journey to the tournament will continue. His team Kasper Hulmant he showed an excellent face against England and not only was he not defeated, but he could have gotten the “three points” that would have secured the qualification ticket from the second round.

Despite conceding an early goal from Kane, Denmark responded and equalized with his superb goal Hulmantwhile overall she was confident, she also looked for a second goal, convincing her people that she will be in the “16”.

On the other hand, Serbia in another match she did not convince with her performance, but in the final she saved the game and stayed alive. In a race do or die with Slovenia she showed a deficit in the mental part, did not have the required concentration in her decisions in the final effort and saw her opponent open the scoring with Karnicnik.

Nevertheless, in the end the whole of Gacinovic, Živkovic and Mladenovic searched furiously for the goal and the Jovicwho had come on as a substitute, scored a goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time that was celebrated as a victory, something completely logical since in the event of a defeat, elimination was a foregone conclusion.

The need to improve the racing image is imperative in her camp Serbiawho may have a lot of talent on their roster, however, as a team so far they have been unconvincing and will need to perform better in all areas of their game if they want to be in the last 16.

Possible compositions:

Denmark (Kasper Hulmant): Schmeichel – Andersen, Vestegaard, Christensen – Mele, Christiansen, Hoibierg, Heulmant, Eriksen – Wied, Hoylund.

Serbia (Dragan Stojkovic): Raikovic – Velikovic, Milenkovic, Pavlovic – Zivkovic, Ilic, Lukic, Mladenovic – Tadic, Vlahovic – Mitrovic.

Referee: Francois Letesier (France)

Field: Allianz Arena, Munich