Scrappy Serbia fire blanks again

It was the second successive unimpressive performance by the Serbians, who lost 1-0 to New Zealand on Saturday and again looked bereft of ideas.

Their reshuffled line-up struggled in midfield and the strikers wasted the few good chances carved out on a rain-sodden pitch.

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Four substitutions at the interval upped the tempo of Serbia’s game as substitute Dragan Mrdja found space on the right flank and Zoran Tosic was lively on the left.

One of Mrdja’s darting runs presented Marko Pantelic with a simple chance but the long-haired striker blazed his shot from three metres over the bar with Poland’s goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski beaten.

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