{"id":58215,"date":"2026-11-14T07:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=58215"},"modified":"2026-11-14T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:54:32","slug":"germany-beat-serbia-3-1-to-keep-nations-league-quarter-final-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/germany-beat-serbia-3-1-to-keep-nations-league-quarter-final-hopes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany beat Serbia 3-1 to keep Nations League Quarter-Final hopes alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Nov 14:<\/strong> Germany secured a crucial 3-1 victory over Serbia in the UEFA Nations League on Friday night, keeping their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals alive.<\/p>\n<p>An own goal from Strahinja Pavlovi\u0107, along with strikes from Florian Wirtz and Brajan Gruda, sealed the victory for Germany. Strahinja Pavlovi\u0107 scored Serbia&#8217;s only goal of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Germany got off to a flying start when Pavlovi\u0107 inadvertently put the ball into his own net in the third minute. Wirtz doubled Germany&#8217;s advantage in the 14th minute, giving the visitors a comfortable 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Brajan Gruda extended Germany&#8217;s advantage with a goal in the 50th minute. Pavlovi\u0107 pulled one back for Serbia six minutes later, but the hosts failed to mount a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia&#8217;s task became even more difficult in the closing stages as they were reduced to nine players. Vanja Dragojevi\u0107 was sent off in the 74th minute before Andrija \u017divkovi\u0107 also received a red card in the 89th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The victory takes Germany to eight points from five matches, placing them third in Group A2, level on points with second-placed Greece. The Netherlands lead the group with 11 points and have secured their place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia remain bottom of the group without a point from five matches, with their relegation from League A confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Nov 14: Germany secured a crucial 3-1 victory over Serbia in the UEFA Nations League on Friday night, keeping their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals alive. An own goal from Strahinja Pavlovi\u0107, along with strikes from Florian Wirtz and Brajan Gruda, sealed the victory for Germany. Strahinja Pavlovi\u0107 scored Serbia&#8217;s only goal of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58217,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58215\/revisions\/58217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}