UEFA European Championship Qualifying

FT Sunday, November 19, 2023
Bulgaria LLLLD 2
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Serbia LWLWL 2
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SRB112
Gradski stadion Dubocica · 7,325 att.

Match Report

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Serbia qualify for first European Championship after Bulgaria draw

Serbia qualified for Euro 2024 following a 2-2 home draw against Bulgaria in their Group G qualifier on Sunday, as Montenegro went down 3-1 in Hungary.

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Team Stats

10
Fouls
12
1
Yellow Cards
1
0
Red Cards
0
2
Offsides
4
3
Corner Kicks
11
6
Saves
0
42.4
Possession
57.6
4
SHOTS
18
2
ON GOAL
8
0.5
On Target %
0.4
0
Penalty Goals
0
0
Penalty Kicks Taken
0
303
Accurate Passes
421
393
Passes
496
0.8
Pass Completion %
0.8
1
Accurate Crosses
10
6
Crosses
42
0.2
Cross %
0.2
61
Long Balls
51
33
Accurate Long Balls
29
0.5
Long Balls %
0.6
2
Blocked Shots
4
11
Effective Tackles
12
20
Tackles
17
0.6
Tackle %
0.7
11
Interceptions
7
30
Effective Clearances
13
30
Clearances
13

Head to Head

SRB leads series 2-0-1

Lineups

SRB · 3-4-2-1

  1. 23Vanja Milinkovic-SavicG
  2. 13Milos VeljkovicCD
  3. 15Srjdan BabicCD-L
  4. 4Nikola MilenkovicCD-R
  5. 22Sasa LukicCM-L
  6. 6Nemanja GudeljCM-R
  7. 11Filip KosticLM
  8. 14Andrija ZivkovicRM
  9. 9Aleksandar MitrovicF
  10. 21Filip DjuricicCF-L
  11. 10Dusan TadicCF-R

BUL · 4-1-4-1

  1. 1Daniel NaumovG
  2. 15Zhivko AtanasovCD-L
  3. 5Alex PetkovCD-R
  4. 4Ilia GruevDM
  5. 2Viktor PopovLB
  6. 19Ivan TuritsovRB
  7. 8Andrian KraevCM-L
  8. 20Filip Yavorov KrastevCM-R
  9. 11Kiril DespodovLM
  10. 21Martin MinchevRM
  11. 17Aleksandar KolevF

Timeline

  1. 3' Aleks Petkov (Bulgaria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  2. 16' Goal! Serbia 1, Bulgaria 0. Milos Veljkovic (Serbia) header from very close range to the top right corner following a corner.
  3. 45' Substitution, Bulgaria. Georgi Rusev replaces Martin Minchev.
  4. 51' Sasa Lukic (Serbia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  5. 59' Goal! Serbia 1, Bulgaria 1. Georgi Rusev (Bulgaria) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolev.
  6. 62' Substitution, Serbia. Dusan Vlahovic replaces Filip Djuricic.
  7. 69' Goal! Serbia 1, Bulgaria 2. Kiril Despodov (Bulgaria) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Filip Krastev with a through ball following a fast break.
  8. 76' Substitution, Serbia. Ivan Ilic replaces Sasa Lukic.
  9. 76' Substitution, Serbia. Nemanja Radonjic replaces Andrija Zivkovic.
  10. 77' Substitution, Bulgaria. Ilian Iliev replaces Aleksandar Kolev.
  11. 77' Substitution, Bulgaria. Ivaylo Chochev replaces Andrian Kraev.
  12. 77' Substitution, Bulgaria. Preslav Borukov replaces Filip Krastev.
  13. 82' Goal! Serbia 2, Bulgaria 2. Srdjan Babic (Serbia) header from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Dusan Tadic with a cross following a corner.
  14. 85' Substitution, Serbia. Filip Mladenovic replaces Aleksandar Mitrovic.
  15. 85' Substitution, Serbia. Nemanja Maksimovic replaces Filip Kostic.
  16. 90' Substitution, Bulgaria. Svetoslav Kovachev replaces Kiril Despodov.

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