GREECE - SERBIA 0:2 (0:0)

The National Team of Serbia defeated the National Team of Greece in a friendly match on Crete and it ended this year's matches.

In a friendly international match the National Team of Serbia has won tonight as a visitor, the National team of Greece by a score of 2: 0 (0: 0) in the Greek island of Crete.

The match was played on the Stadium “Dimotiko”, and the weather was pleasant to play the match in front of about 5,000 spectators. The referee of the match was: Doyle from the Republic of Ireland.

The Goal scorers were: Radosav Petrovic in the 60th minutes of play and Nemanja Gudelj in the 90th minutes of play

Yellow Cards: Kone, Maniatis, Christodolopoulos (Greece), Matic, Maksimovic, Tomovic, Dusko Tosic (Serbia)

It was a minute of silence before the kick-off and paid tribute to Ilija Pantelić the former goalkeeper of the Yugoslav National Team who passed away last night.

The 59th appearance for the national team for the goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic in tonight's match is the match where he reached the previous record holder among goalkeepers Vladimir Beara, whose record has been in place since October 1959. Beara was then replaced by Milutin Soskic who was the second best goalkeeper's record in terms of number of matches played for the NationaL Team – 50 appearances.

This match was the last match of the National Team of Serbia in 2014. The National Team of Serbia played nine matches in 2014 – three in the qualifying competition for the European Championship and six friendly matches. It has recorded four wins, three draws and two defeats

Greece: Glykos – Torosidis (from 60 min Bakakis), Manolas (from 73rd min Moras), Papadopoulos, Vyntra – Samaris (from 79th min Mandalos), Maniatis – Mavrias (from 71st min Kolovos), Kone (From 64th min Tziolis), Christodoulopoulos – Athanasiadis (from 64th min Gekas).

Serbia: Stojkovic – Tomovic, Ivanovic, Maksimovic (From 88th min Stefan Mitrovic), Dusko Tosic – Rad. Petrovic (From 82th min Nem. Gudelj), Nem. Matic – Zoran Tosic (from 89th min Rukavina), Jojić (from 66th min F. Duricic), Laz. Markovic (From 66th min Danko Lazović) – Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Under the management of new coach Radovan Curcic, Serbia has won the match against Greece in the game that can obtain the good mark. Curcic has, in comparison to its predecessor Dick Advocaat, made a few changes, which proved to be a good move, as the Greek National Team has not seriously attacked to our Goal at any time. The following players obtained the opportunity to play: Radosav Petrovic, Nikola Maksimovic, Nenad Tomovic, Milos Jojić, Antonio Rukavina and Aleksandar Mitrovic. The substitutions have contributed significantly to improve the impression that our players are left in the match against Denmark.

Most of the time during the match, the Serbian National Team controlled the game, it was good organised in the centre of the pitch, and it was very solid in defence. The Team Captain Branislav Ivanovic got a new role, as he moved from the position of the back to the central defensive player, and he closed along with Maksimovic all of the ways for the National Team of Greece to approach to our goal. In the centre of the pitch N. Matic, M. Jojic and R. Petrovic have completely dominated so the home team players had not too many opportunities to organize the serious attacks on the goal of Stojkovic.

The “Eagles” have tonight completely improved the image from the qualifying match, so we can expect the spring with optimism and the continuation of European Qualifying matches for the European Championships in France in 2016.