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Rescue at the last second – Serbia fights for 1:1 against Slovenia
As of: 20.06.2024 | Reading time: 3 minutes
Serbia shocks Slovenia with last-minute goal – The draw in video
The second matchday of Group C gets off to a furious start. Slovenia leads 1-0 until injury time. But with his goal in the 96th minute, Serbian Jovic saves his team a point. The highlights in the video.
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The second matchday of Group C got off to a furious start. Slovenia led 1-0 until injury time. With the last move, ex-Frankfurt player Luka Jovic saved a point for the Serbs after a corner. Before that, the Serbs’ threatened withdrawal caused a stir.
Luka Jovic has given Serbia’s national football team hope of reaching the European Championship round of 16 and prevented Slovenia from winning their first game. With his late goal to make it 1:1 (0:0) after a corner kick, the ex-Frankfurt player dampened the mood of the Slovenian fans in the turbulent final phase, who had already loudly celebrated their national team’s first victory at a European Football Championship. Defender Zan Karnicnik had shone as a goalscorer in the 69th minute – before the last-minute shock came.
With two points on their account, Slovenia is currently in a better position in third place, which could also lead to the round of 16. However, the team led by Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko will face title contender England on the last matchday. Serbia (1 point) will then face Denmark.
After the 0-1 opening defeat against England, the Serbs were already under pressure not to fall behind in the fight for the playoff places in Group C. This pressure, however, seemed to hinder coach Dragan Stojkovic’s selection even more – in the first half, the Serbians appeared largely confused. Captain Dusan Tadic, who slipped back into the starting eleven after his surprise substitution against the English, repeatedly urged his teammates with outstretched arms to play more calmly.
Sesko has to wait
It took until just before half-time for Serbia to have its first big chance: striker Aleksandar Mitrovic got the ball in the penalty area, held onto it skillfully, but then failed to put any power behind his shot from close range. Slovenia’s goalkeeper Jan Oblak parried. His teammates had had the best chance of the first half just before. Timi Elsnik hit the post with a powerful shot. Leipzig striker Sesko put the follow-up shot over the goal. He now wants to score his first goal at the European Championships against England.
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In a match that was initially of a moderate standard, the sluggish Serbs could not have complained about falling behind. After the break, the picture changed. Immediately after the restart, the game picked up pace, thanks to the Serbs. Mitrovic was again thwarted by Oblak (47th minute), and shortly afterwards Slovenia’s Jaka Bijol almost scored an own goal. On the other side, Sesko tested goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic with a shot from outside the penalty area – the keeper deflected the ball past the post. After a cross, he was powerless against Karnicnik.
Association complains
Before the match, the Serbian association caused a stir on Thursday. After allegedly hostile chants by Croatian and Albanian fans, the Serbs lodged a complaint with UEFA and even flirted with withdrawing from the tournament. “We are demanding sanctions from UEFA, ultimately at the price of not continuing the European Championship,” said association general secretary Jovan Surbatovic on Serbia’s public broadcaster RTS.
UEFA was asked for a statement. Surbatovic was referring to chants from both fan camps in the second half of the 2:2 match between Croatia and Albania on Wednesday evening in Hamburg. The top official complained that his association had already been punished “for individual cases” and is now demanding consequences for the Croatians and Albanians. “If UEFA does not punish them, we will consider how we will proceed,” emphasized Surbatovic, claiming that Serbian fans are “gentlemen.”
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However, this did not stop some supporters from putting up flags in the stands, as they did in the match against England, showing the outline of Kosovo, filled in with the colors of the Serbian coat of arms. “There is no giving up,” was written above them – Serbian nationalists usually follow this with the sentence: “Kosovo is Serbia.”
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