The place to observe Serbia vs. Spain: UEFA Nations League stay on-line, TV, prediction and odds

Virtually two months on from Spain’s UEFA Euro 2024 triumph, La Roja get again to enterprise towards Serbia for the opening sport of their UEFA Nations League marketing campaign at Rajko Mitic Stadium on Thursday. The Spanish are additionally defending UNL champions and discover themselves in League A Group 4 together with Denmark and Switzerland with this the primary outing for Luis de la Fuente’s aspect since they beat England 2-1 within the Euro closing in Berlin again in July.

Now four-time European champions of Europe having received all seven video games at a significant worldwide event which was a primary for a European nation, Spain additionally out-scored everybody in Germany. De la Fuente has a report of 17 wins from 21 video games to date with two titles to his identify which locations the Spanish third within the FIFA world rankings. Favorites to win League A Group 4, La Roja go up towards a Serbian aspect that they’ve solely confronted in a 2012 pleasant to date.

Dragan Stojkovic’s aspect had been at this summer season’s Euro as an unbiased nation for the primary time since 2000 this summer season however they flopped and didn’t make it previous the group stage. With no wins from six video games at main worldwide tournaments, Stojkovic wants enchancment. They did get promoted to this degree of the Nations League forward of Slovenia, Sweden and Norway and are thirty second within the FIFA world rankings. Topping Spain, Switzerland and Denmark might be a tall order although.

Listed below are our storylines, how one can watch the match and extra:

How you can watch and odds

• Date: Thursday, September 5 | Time: 2:45 p.m. ET
• Location: Rajko Mitic Stadium – Belgrade, Serbia
• TV: FS2 | Dwell stream: Fubo (strive without cost)
• Odds: Serbia +550; Draw +320; Spain -225

League A Group 4

Becoming a member of European champions Spain and Serbia in League A Group 4 might be Switzerland and Denmark. Though the Danes are declining considerably after a spell as a power to be reckoned with at main worldwide tournaments, the Swiss are establishing a really stable repute for themselves and made all of it the way in which to the quarterfinals earlier than shedding to eventual crushed finalists England on penalties.

Staff information

Serbia: Aleksandar Mitrovic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic are out injured whereas Dusan Tadic has retired internationally and Dusan Vlahovic in addition to Filip Kostic have been omitted. Kosta Nedeljkovic, Milan Aleksic and Mihailo Ivanovic are a part of a gaggle of 5 uncapped gamers known as up whereas Luka Jovic is anticipated to begin up prime. Sasa Lukic and Marko Grujic or Ivan Ilic might type a part of Stojkovic’s midfield.

Attainable Serbia XI: Rajkovic; Veljkovic, Milenkovic, Pavlovic; Nedeljkovic, Lukic, Ilic, Zivkovic; Samardzic, S. Mitrovic; Jovic.

Spain: Unai Simon, Mikel Merino, Alvaro Morata and Fermin Lopez are all out whereas Jesus Navas has retired internationally. Rodri will not be but again in motion for Manchester Metropolis and Pepelu has been known as up for the primary time. David Raya might begin in objective whereas Mikel Oyarzabal ought to lead the road flanked by Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams.

Attainable Spain XI: Raya; Carvajal, Le Normand, Laporte, Cucurella; Rodri, Fabian; Yamal, Olmo, Williams; Oyarzabal.

Prediction

It’s prone to be a tough return to motion for Spain however they need to get previous Serbia by a objective or two to launch this Nations League marketing campaign with a win. Decide: Serbia 0, Spain 1.