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12¹ A good effort from FERGUSON scraped the woodwork. 16¹ TADIC played the ball to MITROVIC who forced it just beyond the near post. 22¹ LUKIC headed the ball wide from just outside the area. 27¹ A strike from JOVIC held little difficulty for the Irish 'keeper. 29¹ The hapless Irish 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from O'SHEA dropped just wide. 30¹ CULLEN made space on the right and touched the ball to MANNING who clipped the ball over. 34¹ SZMODICS headed just beyond the far post. 36¹ A twenty yard shot from FERGUSON caused PETROVIC no problem. 38¹ GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed LUKIC to knock the ball to TADIC who drilled a right foot shot into the back of the net. (1-0 Serbia) 44¹ A mix up in the Irish defence enabled MITROVIC to thump an effort wide. 47¹ GAJIC rasped the ball through a ruck of players but KELLEHER was a match for it as he dived to his right. 1² A perfect strike from JOVIC was dealt with by a useful stop from the 'keeper. 6² A penalty box scramble resulted in MITROVIC cracking the ball wide. 10² GAJIC scuffed an easy chance. 13² A fine ball from PAVLOVIC on the right found TADIC who sliced his effort wide. 16² A shot from TADIC seemed a certain goal but KELLEHER managed to fist the ball clear. 20² A poor shot from ZIVKOVIC trickled agonisingly wide. 25² GOAL!! An outswinging corner kicked out by RISTIC was knocked home by SZMODICS. (1-1) 26² JOVIC shot wide. 30² RISTIC ran onto a great ball from ZIVKOVIC but fumbled his effort wide of the goal. 45² FERGUSON beat ZDJELAR and whacked the ball to SZMODICS who dragged his shot wide.

Republic of Ireland

Line-ups Caoimhin KELLEHER 6½ 1 7½ DJordje PETROVIC Dara O'SHEA 6½ 2 7  Milan GAJIC Ryan MANNING 5½ 3 7  Mihailo RISTIC Josh CULLEN 6½ 4 7½ Sasa LUKIC Anselmo GARCÍA McNULTY 6½ 5 6½ Strahinja PAVLOVIC (c)Shane DUFFY 6  6 7  Milos VELJKOVIC Jayson MOLUMBY 6  7 7½ Andrija ZIVKOVIC Sammie SZMODICS 6  8 7  Dusan TADIC(c) (p)Evan FERGUSON 6½ 9 8  Luka JOVIC(p) (f)Troy PARROTT 6½ 10 6  Sasa ZDJELAR(f) Adam IDAH 6  11 7½ Aleksandar MITROVIC Manager Jack TAYLOR    12    Dejan JOVELJIC Mark TRAVERS    13    Mile SVILAR Robbie BRADY    14    Darko LAZOVIC John EGAN    15    Nemanja MATIC Kasey McATEER 6  16    Nemanja NIKOLIC

Serbia

Statistics

Republic of Ireland 1 Serbia 1 (Half-time: 0-1) Szmodics 25² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Tadic 38¹ ParrottóMcAteer 18²           7 3 13 3 3 3 2 5 4 10 6 15 0 3 41% 59% ¶ Man of the match: Luka Jovic ¶