Serbia vs Switzerland Soccer Preview-Predictions
Head-to-head in Kaliningrad on June 22nd in an all-European clash will come two confident and enticing teams. Serbia is so fresh after the win of a 1-0 win over Costa Rica, and they are now facing Switzerland team that held group favorites Brazil to a 1-1 draw.
Fully aware that Serbians have lost only twice in 13 matches against Swiss they know what is at stake and will certainly not be lacking for motivation.
A win would not fully guarantee Switzerland’s place in the second round, but the three points would see them take some decisive step towards achieving that aim. They are coming up against resolute opposition. Whenever the Helvetians have previously drawn their opening match at a World Cup, they ended up qualifying from their group in 1938, 1994 and 2006.
Did you know that Malden Krstajic, Serbia’s manager has happy moments of taking on Swiss as a player? Winning 59 caps for his country and have scored his first international goal against Die Nati in September 2001, during the campaign for qualification for the 2002 World Cup Korea/Japan. At that match, Yugoslavia won 2-1.
Possible line-ups:
Serbia: Branislav Ivanovic, Nikola Milenkovic, Dusko Tosic, Aleksandar Kolarov, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Vladimir Stojkovic, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Dusan Tadic, Filip Kostic, Nemanja Matic, Luka Milivojevic.
Switzerland: Valon Behrami, Granit Xhaka, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Fabian Schaer, Manuel Akanji, Ricardo Rodriguez, Steven Zuber, Haris Seferovic, Yann Sommer, Xherdan Shaqiri, Blerim Dzemaili.
Serbia vs Switzerland Soccer Preview-Predictions
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