Serbia against England: line-up, statistics and overview

Andorra’s approach, which was understandable given their relative lack of resources, was to sit down and contain England and Tuchel expects Serbia to adopt tactics similar to Belgrade.

The German said: “I expect another game with a lot of possession for us in Belgrade against a very different style of play but the same deep low block.

“I expect that we have a lot of ball possession again. It is then a question of knowing where to speed up the game and to focus on the details. ”

A victory will issue England eight points from Serbia, their opponents only having four games to invent the deficit.

“We are the favorites of this qualification group. We accept it, we have the quality of winning this group – we demand it from ourselves,” added Tuchel, who knows that the local team will be roared by a partisan crowd tomorrow evening in what promises to be their most difficult game in the group.

“We want to win and be hard. We expect a very emotional stage. We have to adapt.

“We are going to face a very physical team which, I think, will attack us in a man’s situation. They have high quality in advance, they play very directly and we have to go to that and prove that we are a strong group in the right way. ”

Serbia won 1-0 in Latvia this weekend, Dusan Vlahovic marking the only objective, although they had to survive a fear of injury time with the rebirths of the hosts hitting the base of the post.

“The most important thing is that we have won, we have already forgotten the match with Latvia and we turned to the match against England,” said Vlahovic. “We must be much better, we know how strong our rivals are.”