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Serbia vs Sweden – 24/09/2022

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The entire main European leagues have been placed on maintain this week because the UEFA Nations League motion returns with Serbia taking part in host to Sweden on this League B/Group 4 conflict on the Stadion Rajko Mitić in Belgrade with the hosts wanting to attract stage on factors with group leaders, Norway, whereas Sweden may also be seeking to scale back the present four-point hole between themselves and their hosts.

Serbia have produced a reasonably stable sequence of leads to latest instances total.

The hosts have misplaced simply two of their earlier 13 matches, which got here within the type of losses in opposition to Denmark and Norway.

However the hosts have additionally captured a complete of 9 wins within the course of as effectively.

On the Nations League entrance, Serbia have received two of their final three matches with victories collected in opposition to Slovenia 4-1 at residence and a 1-0 win away from residence at Saturday’s upcoming opponents, Sweden.

However the wider image suggests Serbia are under no circumstances a assured three factors right here.

The hosts have received simply three of their final 10 Nations League video games and objectives may be briefly provide as 5 of those 10 video games have additionally resulted in underneath 2.5 objectives.

Sweden path their 2nd positioned hosts, Serbia, by a four-point margin having managed to report simply the only win in Group 4 up to now which got here within the form of a 2-0 win away at Slovenia however the Swedes have since stumbled to a few defeats on the trot within the group stage.

Losses incurred in opposition to Norway (residence and away) and Serbia have left the guests only one level above the underside nation in Group 4, Slovenia, in order that they too will likely be eager to safe a results of some kind on Saturday night as they appear to keep away from relegation right down to League C for the subsequent marketing campaign.

Sweden have discovered life troublesome within the Nations League too because the guests have received simply two of their final 10 matches on this format, gaining wins in opposition to Croatia and Slovenia, while additionally being handed a complete of eight defeats as effectively.

So Sweden are anticipated to batten down the hatches once they make their approach to the Stadion Rajko Mitić for this upcoming encounter.

A tightly fought, low-scoring affair may subsequently unfold on Saturday.