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In the group B of the EM Quali 2020 there is currently a wrong world. While Ukraine lead the table unbeaten after four matchdays, neither Serbia nor Portugal or Lithuania occupy the second place, but football dwarf Luxembourg. Of course, this is due to the fact that in a group of five there is always a team that has no play.
And in deference to the Nations League Final Four, in which the Seleção the Quinas Tugas took part in June, it was the last two times the reigning European champion, who only brings it to two completed competitive games. Nevertheless, both ended against Ukraine and Serbia – each at home in Lisbon – only draw. All the more is the troupe of Fernando Santos in Belgrade under pressure.
However, Serbia is against Portugal according to odds of bookmakers quite in the role of the outsider. So far, it has not been overly successful for the Orlovi. Although the players of Ljubisa Tumbakovic had to suspend once and therefore have a game less than the Ukraine and Luxembourg, won from the three previous qualifiers, however, only one.
Thus, the starting position plays a particularly important role between Serbia and Portugal for the forecast. If you lose this match, you lose a lot of ground in Group B.
The Portuguese are particularly under pressure. As reigning European champion and Nations League winner finally not to be allowed to participate in the European Championship in 2020, would be without doubt a giant setback. However, we believe that the men of Fernando Santos are mentally strong enough to survive in Belgrade, which is why we consider Serbia’s tip 2 as the best possible option against Portugal.
Serbia:
The Serbian national football team is run in terms of balance sheets as the official successor of the FR of Yugoslavia and the nation of Serbia and Montenegro, which was at the 2006 World Cup in Germany of the party. However, since the Orlovi start as an independent country, the success remained clearly manageable. Although Serbia was allowed to travel to the World Championships in 2010 and 2018, but was there in each case in the first round end.
At the previous three European Championships, in which the Eagles took part in the qualification, it was enough for not a single ticket for the finals. Bitter, especially since EURO 2016 for the first time was increased to 24 teams, which even football giants such as Albania, Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Wales or Iceland benefited.
It is all the more likely that the football nation with the golden past – Yugoslavia stood in 1960 and 1968, twice in a final of a European Championship – fox, even if it should not be enough for the EM 2020 again.
Still has Serbia, which has changed the coach again this summer and with the 67-year-old Ljubisa Tumbakovic a thoroughly experienced bank on the bench, however, five games in front of him, in which theoretically 15 points are to be fetched.
In conjunction with the four points so far from the first three games (one win, one draw and one defeat), this should be enough to be in the pot of the EURO 2020 at the end of the year. However, if there is no threesome at home in Belgrade against the reigning European champions, it will be extremely tight.
In the process, Serbia has to make do with the outsider role against Portugal, according to quotas. After all, play the Orlovi against the reigning European champion, but are equipped for this game staffing. Although Matija Nastasić (FC Schalke 04) is currently incapacitated with an infection and is still in question, with captain Aleksandar Kolarov (AS Roma) but at least the defensive boss is safe on board.
In the match, coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic can also build on his dreaded attack from Aleksandar Mitrović (Fulham FC) and Luka Jović (Real Madrid), while in midfield with Sergei Milinković-Savić (Lazio) and Dušan Tadić (Ajax Amsterdam) two more World stars pulling the strings. The potential in the squad is correspondingly large. Now it’s time to exhaust this and take your own fans to the sold-out scenery in the infamous stadium in Belgrade.
Portugal:
While most of the major European football nations are currently on course in the European Championship qualification, Group B is currently presenting a strange picture. The reigning European champion occupies only the fourth place in the group of five and is currently penultimate.
Of course, for the Seleção, Quinas Tugas had only two competitive games – and two fewer than the group leaders Ukraine and Luxembourg. Nevertheless, there have been at least two, if not four, important points.
After all, the reigning European champion and first Nations League winner of all time has played both matches at home in Lisbon and now has to play Serbia and Ukraine in the final stages of the European Championship next to the return matches against the underdogs from Lithuania and Luxenburg , Games that are by no means self-fulfilling – especially when Fernando Santos sends his men in the usual defensive order on the field.
After all, the Ukraine in first place at home should be able to live very well with the Seleção Quinas Tugas.
All the more is Portugal out of Serbia with her back to the wall and needed in the third qualifier the first three. Courage makes Fernando Santos access his undisputed secret weapon Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus Turin).
In the 2018/19 season, the superstar treated himself also because of the changeover to the Italian Serie A a longer break, but then shot his team in the Nations League promptly again to victory. In the June mini-tournament, CR7 scored three of the four Portuguese goals to win the title without further ado.
The attacker is thus set as it should be after recent impressions, the defensive around Nelson Semedo (Barcelona), José Fonte (Lille), Rúben Dias (Benfica) and Raphael Guerreiro (Dortmund). Add to that the stars of tomorrow like Joao Felix (Atlético), which is why in Serbia against Portugal tip 2 already appears as a hot topic. After all, the reigning European champions in all parts of the team brings a higher than average level.
And then there is still Cristiano Ronaldo, who – as mentioned by Danilo Pereira (FC Porto) in the interview – also stands out in bad play and can provide the required points with a direct free-kick goal. In short: The Seleção das Quinas Tugas is well placed for Serbia and also has a good record in the back.
There has been no defeat since the World Cup finals against Uruguay (five wins, five draws) and more than a single goal in a 3-1 win over Poland.
Serbia vs Portugal head to head matches
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