Serbia road to Russia 2018 World Cup
Serbia rides the FIFA ranking layout with a position of 37, and is scheduled to complete 12 appearances with its ticket to the Russian summer tournament. No titles to its credit, the Serbians best achievement was 2 appearances at semifinals, for a 4th place in both 1930 and 1962. Their first participation in a World Cup was in 1930, and their latest one in 2010. (This includes the participations executed by Yugoslavia & Serbia, and Montenegro.) Check Serbia Betting Odds here.
In the qualifier clash against Ireland, Aleksandar Kolarov emphasized his World Cup point of view by underscoring the goal shot with his potent foot and letting it slam into the underside of the bar past a very chagrined Irish goalkeeper. After promptly expediting the Ireland outfit in order to grab the golden ticket for Serbia and make it through to Russia 2018, they settled into Group E, alongside contenders such as Costa Rica, Switzerland, and Brazil; their matches are due to kick off on June 18th, 2018.
Serbia Key Players
Branislav Ivanovic has been skipper for Serbia since 2012; having reached 100 caps for his national ensemble and winning 3 titles with his English Premier League team Chelsea, he is key to his team. Coach Mladen Krstajic, a former international defender for Serbia and Montenegro at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Krstajic was appointed coach in October 2017 after caretaker Slavoljub Muslin stepped down, or rather was forced to step down. Krstajic had already served under Muslin’s coaching, so it was a matter of stepping up. As for the others, during the first half of the qualification round Dusan Tadic made sizeable contributions, while Aleksandar Mitrovic proved to be key to the team, having scored six times in the qualifiers, including two critical goals to equalize the board in the two draws against Wales. A considerable aid in qualifying was provided by goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic’s guarding ability.
In a team who has shown in the past that fear of the big stage is an ongoing thing for the Serbian ensemble, it will take quite a change of mind to offset the negativity at their new shot at making a better presentation of their outfit at the tournament. Furthermore, Serbia tends to be over reliant on the players that can pick up the slack where it’s needed or on the multitaskers that get them out of scrapes. For instance, what if Aleksandar Mitrovic is injured? What if he gets shackled and rendered inoperant? What if, what if? Having no truly thought-out backup answers is one of the many shackles Serbia will have to forfeit to truly enjoy this World Cup and have it reflect favorably on how the Serbia betting odds will roll this summer.
Ranking 20th at the betting favorites layout among the countries up for the World Cup betting odds, the outright winning odds for the Serbia national football squad range from 100/200 to 1.
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