Preview: Costa Rica v Serbia

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Serbia go into their initial World Cup compare in 8 years after a thumping 5-1 feat in their accessible opposite Bolivia and spirits in a organisation stay are high. The categorical articulate points are that there’s a good atmosphere in a organisation with many pivotal players carrying finished their bar seasons in tip form – and that’s accurately what manager Mladen Krstajic will be looking for his organisation to imitate opposite Costa Rica.

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Serbia have won all 3 of their prior World Cup fixtures opposite CONCACAF antithesis (all as Yugoslavia, and all in a organisation stage) — 4-1 v Mexico in Porto Alegre in 1950, 1-0 opposite Honduras in Zaragoza in 1982 and 1-0 v USA in Nantes in 1998.

Possible line-ups

Costa Rica: Keylor Navas; Giancarlo Gonzalez, Oscar Duarte, Johnny Acosta, Cristian Gamboa, Bryan Oviedo; David Guzman, Celso Borges, Bryan Ruiz, Christian Bolanos; Marco Urena

Serbia: Vladimir Stojkovic; Branislav Ivanovic, Nikola Milenkovic, Dusko Tosic, Aleksandar Kolarov; Nemanja Matic, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Dusan Tadic, Adem Ljajic, Filip Kostic; Aleksandar Mitrovic

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/preview-costa-rica-v-serbia