“You know what we managed to do? To push Switzerland down, I’m really glad!”

SERBIA played a good game against Denmark, but it was not enough to win (0:0) and advance to the quarterfinals of the League of Nations. After the match, the head coach of the “Orlov” Dragan Stojković addressed Piksa at the press conference.

About the state of Mitrović and Vlahović.

– You are the media and you follow, people watch, judge for yourself. I have the responsibility to judge how we will play and who will play. It goes to my address, and you judge whether I can or not. But if they played three days ago and tonight, my opinion is that they can. I make the decisions at the end of the day, whether anyone likes it or not.

We showed that we can play with any team.

– This shows that Serbia can play with anyone. That’s my impression. Regardless, Denmark is a team from the European Championship, the World Championship. Those are the teams. We showed that we can play with such teams. The result did not see us off, it did not reward us. The relationship we had, the result did not see us through to the end. Football can be cruel sometimes. Then it turns out better to play badly, win and say the scoreboard is the yardstick. Or to play well and not reach the goal.

You know what we did?

– We managed something, do you know what? We managed to push Switzerland a little lower, and I’m really glad about that. On the other hand, we did not manage to win one Denmark again. We will wait for them sometime, when it is most important to them. We’ll get them sometime. I am satisfied with everything.

Should football move out of Belgrade?

– No, no…Serbia has several stadiums where it can hold such matches. Here in Leskovac, Serbia hasn’t lost yet, right? People from the association will decide where we will play, that is not my job.

O Atmosferi.

– You could see the sincere support, the guys recognized it. The atmosphere is top ten for the people, thanks for the great support, I’m sorry that we didn’t give them another pleasure to score a goal.

Can’t fault the players?

– I have nothing to blame the players. I would be malicious to look for some mistakes. If someone didn’t want to, didn’t want to or wasn’t focused. The boys did their best. I have to mention that we really missed players like Lukić, Ilić, Jović and Birmancevic today. It’s not an alibi or anything. We played extremely smart with patience. I kept asking for it to be played on one side or the other. We did that very well, the timing was outstanding. Lots of crosses into the opponent’s box. It was really lacking. We were very close to driving him over the line. Schmeichel defended excellently, hand to heart. He had his night. I think everyone played, but you don’t get back what you deserve. By all parameters, we deserved to win. Sometimes things like this happen in football, but you have to be positive. They showed an extremely good feeling towards the Serbian jersey, and that’s what makes me happy.

Tough rivals follow.

– Then we also had Portugal, so we went to Qatar. We’ll see how it goes.

Disputed situation in the first opportunity, playing with the hand of a Danish football player in his own penalty area?

– I don’t like to comment on referees and what they do on the field. There are people who deal with them. They told me that it was handball, and that VAR remained silent. I haven’t seen it and I better not see it.

As a reminder, the play-off matches will be played on March 20 and 23, 2025.

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