Serbia v England: Line-ups, stats and preview
Preview for Serbia v England
Thomas Tuchel is anticipating extra of the identical when England go to Serbia tomorrow night time.
The Three Lions made it 4 wins from 4 in World Cup qualifying Group Ok on Saturday with a 2-0 win over Andorra however it was one other torpid show with England struggling to interrupt down the European minnows at Villa Park.
It took 25 minutes earlier than the breakthrough got here by way of a Christian Garcia personal aim with Declan Rice nodding within the second from Reece James’ wonderful cross.
Andorra’s method, which was comprehensible given their relative lack of sources, was to take a seat again and include England and Tuchel is anticipating Serbia to undertake comparable techniques in Belgrade.
The German stated: “I count on one other sport with a number of possession for us in Belgrade towards a really totally different fashion of play however the identical deep low block.
“I count on us to once more have a number of ball possession. It’s then about the place to hurry up the sport, and to deal with the main points.”
A win will transfer England eight factors away from Serbia with their opponents having simply 4 video games to make up the deficit.
“We’re the favourites on this qualification group. We settle for it, we’ve the standard to win this group – we demand it from ourselves,” added Tuchel, who is aware of the house facet might be roared on by a partisan crowd tomorrow night time in what guarantees to be their most tough sport within the group.
“We wish to win and be powerful. We count on a really emotional stadium. We’ve to adapt.
“We’ll come up towards a really bodily group who I believe will assault us in a man-to-man scenario. They’ve top quality up entrance, they play very direct and we’ve to step as much as this and show we’re a powerful group in the precise means.”
Serbia received 1-0 in Latvia on the weekend, Dusan Vlahovic scoring the one aim, though they needed to survive a scare in harm time with the hosts’ Renars Varslavans hitting the bottom of the put up.
“Crucial factor is that we received, we’ve already forgotten the match with Latvia and turned to the match towards England,” stated Vlahovic. “We should be significantly better, we all know how robust our rivals are.”
Crew Information for Serbia v England
Aleksandar Mitrovic may return for Serbia whereas Nemanja Gudelj and Nemanja Maksimovic are set to bolster the midfield.
England will possible area the same line-up to the weekend, which means one other begin for Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson.
Anderson loved an excellent debut on Saturday, incomes reward from Tuchel.
“He’s only a very, superb soccer participant,” Tuchel stated. “He has the physicality, he’s very cell at No 6. He has the physique, he likes to defend, he likes to put his physique inside to duels. He loves passing, he loves to interrupt the traces, he’s very cell on this sport. It was a pleasure to see.
“I believe the group round him made it as simple as attainable for him and he had a really robust efficiency. I believe he confirmed immediately that he adapts to the scenario. Can he present what he confirmed in coaching? Can he present what he confirmed with Nottingham and the under-21s? He performed with a number of freedom. He was in a short time within the movement. I believe he has the physicality and he has the mindset to play in harder video games. And for this efficiency he’s clearly within the combine to play in Serbia.”
Marcus Rashford and Eberechi Eze could miss out after underwhelming shows towards Andorra. Morgan Gibbs-White and Morgan Rogers may are available in.
Predicted line-ups for Serbia v England
Serbia: Petrovic; Milenkovic, Erakovic, Pavlovic; Zivkovic, Gudelj, Maksimovic, Samardzic, Terzic; Vlahovic, Mitrovic
England: Pickford; James, Guehi, Burn, Lewis-Skelly; Rice, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Madueke, Rogers; Kane
watch Serbia v England: TV and on-line streams
Serbia versus England kicks-off at 7.45pm UK time tomorrow night time. It’s being proven on ITV1 and will be streamed on the ITVX app.
Stats for Serbia v England
- England received the groups’ final assembly, 1-0 finally summer time’s European Championship, Jude Bellingham scoring the one aim
- Their solely different conflict was in 2003 with England profitable 2-1
Prediction for Serbia v England
England might want to up their sport after 5 largely forgettable shows below Tuchel with Serbia ok to take benefit.
The guests should have sufficient to not lose however a win will rely on whether or not they can discover extra creativity within the remaining third.
Prediction: Serbia 1-1 England
