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Serbia's crushing 5-0 home defeat to England has led to calls for the departure of coach Dragan Stojkovic. The fans have once again turned against the team and the crushing defeat has brought the Serbs, who were hoping to challenge England for first place, back to earth.
But Stojkovic has been indifferent to the criticism directed at him. " Everyone has the right to their opinion, I'm also unhappy with the result ," he said after the match, referring to the boos and cheers for his departure.
" It's a very difficult night for us and a difficult defeat, but when you have an opponent like England, you have to understand and accept that they are better in all segments - speed, physicality, technique, individual quality. The epilogue of this is the result. What is most important, this is the absolute reality, where we are and who we are in relation to them. They belong to the cream of world and European football and it is not by chance that they are the European runners-up. You are simply helpless against such a team, it turned out that they deservedly dominated, scored goals. Plus, if you get a red card, then the defeat is even more convincing. We deserved nothing better, we could not have done anything.
What we saw is completely real, like Spain destroying Turkey the other day with a score of 6:0, that's that category. Do you know what scared me the most? The physical preparation of our players. We have a lot of problems, they don't play regularly, they are not in rhythm, in shape. The English are a much better quality team, on an individual level they play difficult and demanding matches in the matches from Wednesday to Saturday, and I see our players that we are slow, that we can't cope physically. The opponent can play better, but on that field, it's difficult for me to lose, but the reality is that we don't belong to this group, including Germany.
It's just like that, let's wake up at the right time, let's take it much more seriously and yes, it will be better than tonight, with all due respect to this England team. Let me also mention this, when the qualifications started, we knew that our main rival would be Albania for second place, that England were the absolute favorites, despite someone not believing, they were wrong. They are another dimension of football. Our goal remains the same, to win the other matches, to reach the number two position, and that will then be the realistic view of our representative football ", were the words of Stojkovic after the match.
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