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The second fixture of Group B saw group leaders Germany take on Serbia with Germany looking to take a significant step in retaining their European Championship. The Serbian’s looked to get their first points on the board and the chance of getting to the semi-finals as the best second-place team from all the groups.
Serbia kicked off the fixture at the Stadio Nereo Rocco with both sides looking for a win but it was more important for Serbia to win as the three points would put them back into contention of finishing best runner-up or even topping the group.
It was Serbia who had the first chance in this game, Danilo Pantic passed the ball onto Miroslav Bogosavac whose cross flashed across the goal with none of the Serbian players able to reach the cross.
The first five minutes saw Germany dominate possession but neither side took a shot as of the fifth minute.
In the seventh minute, Marco Richter skipped away from the Serbian defence as he tried to fire a shot. The ball was blocked immediately by Milan Gajic.
In the tenth minute, Germany continued their pressure with the first shot of the game. Florian Neuhaus found some space 25 yards-out and fired his shot at goal with the subsequent shot going wide of the Serbian goal.
A minute later, great passing play from Germany saw Neuhaus play Klostermann through who passed the ball into the box with Maximilian Eggestein collecting the ball but the referee didn’t let play go on as he blew for offside.
Serbia then went up the other end with Nemanja Radonjic running onto the end of a through ball but his cross was gathered by Alexander Nubel.
It was Germany who opened the scoring through fantastic passing play. Levin Oztunali spotted the run of Richter and played the forward through who tapped the ball past Boris Radunovic to score his third goal of the tournament.
Germany carried on their dangerous attacks with Benjamin Henrichs passing the ball through to goal-scorer Richter who shot the ball three times goal-wards but all the efforts were brilliantly saved by Radunovic.
On the half hour mark Germany doubled their lead. A mistake from the Serbian’s saw Neuhaus intercept the ball who passed it to Richter with the forward squaring the ball to his striking partner Luca Walschmidt who tapped the ball into an empty goal.
With ten minutes left in the first-half Oztunali received a through pass which he passed across goal but Mahmoud Dahoud’s fancy heel shot not troubling the Serbian goalkeeper.
Waldschmidt got his second and Germay’s third goal. A beautiful pass from Henrichs into Waldschmidt which saw the striker skip past the Serbian defenders and smash the ball into the bottom right corner.
Germany could have made it 4-0 through Richter. Great passing play from the Germany team saw Dahoud pass it onto Richter who fired his shot wide of the post.
Germany continued to attack with their whole team. Henrichs put a wonderful ball into the box for Oztunali who fired his shot at goal which rebounded off the crossbar.
The referee blew his whistle for half-time. Germany demolished the Serbian’s in the first-half in all departments and were subsequently 3-0 up. Serbia lacked any possession and real attacking threat.
Germany kicked off the second-half as they looked to be more dominant in the match and score more goals against the weak Serbia team.
The substitute, Nadiem Amiri had a chance to score but his effort went well over the bar after a mid-range shot from the midfielder.
With 15 minutes into the second half, Germany were still extremely dominant in the fixture with the Germans having five times the shots that the Serbians had and 65% possession.
In the 63rd minute, the creator of all the troubles, Marco Richter, made his way down the wing and squared the ball to Amiri who fired his shot at the roof of the goal which was saved by Radunovic but it was a wasted chance for Amiri which could have seen Germany go 4-0 up in the fixture.
Germany did though make it 4-0 in the 69th minute. Dahoud received a great ball and the midfielder shifted the ball onto his right foot and curled the ball into the back of the net.
Serbia had a rare chance to score with Dejan Joveljic gathering a pass but saw his shot went wide of the left post.
Despite taking a battering on the score-line, Serbia created another chance when Lazar Randelovic picked up the ball in a dangerous area but his shot went well over the bar.
Waldschmidt completed his hat-trick in the 80th minute. He ran onto a pass with the striker moving the ball onto his left foot and ending up in the back of the net.
In the 85th minute, Serbia scored a consolation goal through a Andrija Zivkovic penalty.
In stoppage time, the substitute Arne Maier scored a great goal from outside the box to make it 6-1.
The referee blew the whistle for full-time. An amazing performance from the Germans who smashed Serbia 6-1 and currently top Group B as Serbia stay at the bottom of the group.
Team Line-ups
Germany: Alexander Nübel; Lukas Klostermann, Jonathan Tah (c), Timo Baumgartl, Benjamin Henrichs; Maximilian Eggestein (Arne Maier 67′); Levin Öztunali (Nadiem Amiri 46′), Mahmoud Dahoud, Florian Neuhaus; Luca Waldschmidt, Marco Richter (Lukas Nmecha 74′).
Austria: Boris Radunovic; Milan Gajic, Nikola Milenkovic, Srdjan Babic, Miroslav Bogosavac; Sasa Lukic, Uros Racic, Danilo Pantic (Lazar Randelovic 46′); Andrija Zivkovic (c), Luka Jovic (Dejan Joveljic 69′), Nemanja Radonjic (Aleksandar Lutovac 85′).
