Austria vs Serbia Prediction 04.06.2024

• Competition: Friendly International
• Date: 04.06.2024
• Kickoff: 19:45 UTC +1 / 20:45 CEST
• Venue: Ernst Happel Stadion (Vienna)

As part of the preparations for the EURO, which starts in a week, the national teams will play several friendly matches. One of them is scheduled between the national teams of Austria and Serbia.

In addition to this game, Austria will also play against Sweden. This selection quite routinely qualified for the EURO. They finished second in their qualifying group, with one point less than Belgium and even 10 more than the aforementioned Sweden. This squad will compete in a very difficult group where their rivals will be France, the Netherlands and Poland, and their first rival on 17th June will be the current world vice-champion France. Despite the very difficult group, Austria will be looking for and lurking for their opportunity to advance to the next stage of the competition, but they will be terribly weakened by absence of David Alaba, as well as important members of the team Xaver and Alexander Schlager

On the other hand, Serbia managed to qualify for the competition with a lot of struggles, although at first glance it seemed that they should not have a difficult job in a fairly easy group. Like Austria, they will have a big test there, because this national team will measure their strength with the national teams of Denmark, England and Slovenia. Their first opponent will probably be the first favorite to win England, and that match could give us the answer to the extent of the team led by Dragan Stojkovic Pixi from the bench. This time also, typical for this national team, the list of players could not pass without dismissal.

Austria vs Serbia pick: UNDER 2.5 GOALS

There are still a lot of questions about what can be expected from these teams at the EURO. In a full squad, Austria could be a land mine even for the strongest teams in the group, but without Alaba and Schlager, the team's potential is much lower. But despite those absences, Austria is a very compact team that showed in the qualifiers it does not depend on one player and that they can successfully compensate for some shortcomings. It is to be expected that Ralf Rangnick will rotate a lot in this match and give a chance to more players, but he should not deviate much from his 4-2-3-1 formation. On the other hand, it is still unclear what can be expected from Serbia. In the past, this national team has shown that it can handle much stronger teams, but it also disappoints against conventionally speaking 'smaller' national teams. The formation with 3 players in the defensive line, which was forced by Stojkovic in the earlier games, did not show the best and we will see if something will change in that regard.

This could be a match where the coaches will first of all concentrate on playing defensive positions and we would be surprised with an attractive and efficient game