Portugal have also made a few changes, six in total, with Cedric, Fonte, Fernandes, Oliverira, Danilo and Jota all coming into the team and they have replaced Duarte, Mendes, Moutinho, Neves, Neto and Andre Silva.
Serbia have made five changes to their side, with Lazovic, Milinkovic-Savic, Gudelj, Kostic and Mitrovic all coming into the starting line-up, with Racic, Lukic, Mladenovic, Duricic and Gajic missing out.
PORTUGAL SUBS: Renato Sanches, Pedro Neto, Joao Palhinha, Luis Neto, Rui Silva, Rafa, Nuno Mendes, Domingos Duarte, Andre Silva, Ruben Neves, Jose Sa, Joao Felix.
PORTUGAL (3-5-2): Anthony Lopes; Cedric Soares, Jose Fonte, Ruben Dias, Joao Cancelo; Danilo Pereira, Bruno Fernandes, Sergio Oliveira; Bernardo Silva, Diogo Jota, and Cristiano Ronaldo.
SERBIA SUBS: Mihailo Ristic, Nemanja Maksimovic, Andrija Zivkovic, Uros Spajic, Nemenja Radonjic, Djordje Nikolic, Nenad Krsticic, Filip Djuricic, Marko Grujic, Predrag Rajkovic, Marko Petkovic, Luka Jovic.
SERBIA (4-2-3-1): Marko Dmitrovic; Nikola Milenkovic, Stefan Mitrovic, Strahinja Pavlovic; Darko Lazovic, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Nemanja Gudelj, Filip Kostic; Dusan Tadic; Dusan Vlahovic, Aleksandar Mitrovic.
These two sides are likely to battling out for top spot come matchday 10, so today’s game could show us who has the advantage. Serbia are unbeaten in their last five games, their last defeat coming against Scotland in the Euro qualifiers, which saw them miss out on qualification. Meanwhile Portugal were unable to defend their Nations League title, after finishing runners-up in their League A group, following a defeat against France.
Both teams got off to winning starts in Group A, with Serbia beating Republic of Ireland 3-2 and Portugal securing a 1-0 victory over Azerbaijan on Wednesday.
Hello and welcome to our LIVE match commentary of the Group A World Cup qualifying clash between Serbia and Portugal.
