Euro 2024: Slovenia Vs Serbia, Imbang Black Horse Duel

Slovenia has ambitions to make a surprise against Serbia (Instagram/@nzs_si).

JAKARTA - Slovenia vs Serbia will clash at the Allianz Arena on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 20.00 WIB.

Both teams came to Euro 2024 with the status of the black horse in Group C. Serbia is still at the bottom of the standings without points after losing to England 0-1.

Meanwhile, Slovenia survived defeat after ending their first match in Group C with a score of 1-1 against Denmark.

Although Slovenia is superior in the standings, Serbia remains a favorite. Slovenia is arguably a newcomer to the Euros.

Since separating from Neverset in 1992, Slovenia has only joined the Euros once, namely in the 2000 edition. After that, they failed to penetrate the finals until they finally managed at Euro 2024.

Slovenia has been a team that has not won a single match at the Euros since its participation in 2000. Noted, they packed two draws and lost one at Euro 2000 plus one at Euro 2024.

That experience made Slovenia less superior than Serbia. However, it could be a spark of enthusiasm for the Matjaz Kek troops.

They have ambitions to achieve their first victory in history at the Euros. Indeed, Slovenia had faced Serbia at Euro 2000, but at that time Serbia still had the name Serbia-Montenegro.

At that time, Slovenia almost won after winning 3-0. Unfortunately, the advantage in front of the eyes disappeared because Serbia-Montenegro were able to equalize 3-3 within six minutes.

The draw is one of six draws between the two teams' meetings in all competitions out of a total of eight of their last clashes.

Slovenia vs Serbia's head-to-head was evenly drawn. Each packing only one win in that period.

According to Opta, Slovenia's chances of winning were only 24.3 percent compared to Serbia (49.2 percent) and the rest had a draw chance.

However, Slovenia has the opportunity to make a surprise. They came to Euro 2024 on a note that they only lost twice to the last 22 matches in all competitions (13 wins and seven draws).

Indeed, Serbia performed well against England in the first match of Group C. Appearing in a high-determination meeting made the Three Lions work hard to get points and have difficulty creating opportunities.

Serbia only allowed the UK to make five shots, one more shot from Dragan Stojkovic's men.

With a total of 11 shots in that match, Serbia vs England made fewer shots than any other record match (since 1980) at the Euros.

Serbia also has far more experience from Slovenia. However, their latest record is far from expectations.

Since they were still part of Morocco, they reached the Euro finals in 1960 and 1968. However, since the time they only won once and lost nine times to 12 matches at the Euros.

However, Serbia still has many loopholes. One of the things that Slovenia can be exposed is the mentality of Dusan Tadic and colleagues.

Slovenia had to frustration Serbia to make its defense weaken and fall apart like it did against England.

When Serbia are frustrated, they will come out of the instructions and find it difficult to contain emotions (19 violations). The gap was used by Slovenia to score goals and surprises for ambitions to win for the first time at the Euros.