REC DIVISION 2C: Austria v Serbia

18.04.2015

	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	DIFF	B	PT
SLOVENIA	2	2	0	0	64	13	51	1	9
LUXEMBOURG	2	2	0	0	54	13	41	1	9
AUSTRIA	2	1	0	1	42	45	-3	1	5
DENMARK	2	0	0	2	37	45	-8	2	2
SERBIA	2	0	0	2	3	84	-81	0	0

Venue: Makis Stadium, Belgrade

Referee: Ionut Bodea (Romania)

Preview
Serbia will be looking to improve their recent disastrous test rugby record. This team is but a shadow of the teams Yugoslavia produced in the seventies and eighties.

Austria should have little difficulty winning this one but I’d expect Serbia to put in a good first half performance.

Previous Encounters
Austria played the then Yugoslavia back in 2002 and lost 8-26

Austria Last Five P 5, W 3, L 2
08.11.2014 v Luxembourg L 13-18 in Luxembourg (REC 2C)
11.10.2014 v Denmark W 29-27 in Vienna (REC 2C)
07.06.2014 v Bosnia Herzegovina W 26-12 (ENC 2C Playoff)
03.05.2014 v Slovenia W 20-8 in Vienna (ENC 2C)
12.04.2014 v Hungary L 12-23 in Esztergom (ENC 2C)

Serbia Last Five P 5, L 5
25.10.2014 v Luxembourg L 0-36 in Belgrade (REC 2C)
18.10.2014 v Slovenia L 3-48 in Ljubliana (REC 2C)
12.04.2014 v Denmark L 19-33 in Belgrade (ENC 2B)
29.03.2014 v Andorra L 13-23 in Andorra La Vela (ENC 2B)
19.10.2013 v Israel L 6-18 in Belgrade (ENC 2B)

Serbia has lost their last 8 test rugby matches, last winning against Latvia in October 2012.

GWC Rugby Rankings
Europe Table: Austria 29th, Serbia 32nd

World Rugby Ranking Points
Austria 38.61, Serbia 33.60

Prediction: Austria by 16 points. Score 19-3

TEAMS

Serbia Squad

Front row
Vladimir Đukić (Rad, 23 caps)
Istok Totić (Crvena zvezda, 4)
Predrag Vraneš (Rad, 13)
Aleksandar Mađanović (Crvena zvezda, 6)
Nikola Rodić (Rad, 6)
Branimir Petrović (Rad, 14)
Dimitrije Terzić (Rad, -)
Uroš Martinović (Rad, - )

Locks
Aleksandar Krstić (Partizan, 17)
Vlado Radeka (Rad, 5)
Mirko Ranković (Rad, - )
Đorđe Preradojević (Partizan, 1)

Back Row
Boris Martić (Crvena zvezda, 27)
Milan Marinković (Ardrossan Academicals - SCO, 4)
Marko Gvozdenović (Massy RC - FRA, - )
Andrija Panić (Crvena zvezda, 1)
Zlatan Sadiković (Crvena zvezda, 4)

Scrum halves
Igor Dejanović (Partizan, 15)
Dejan Karatrajkovski (Crvena zvezda, 29)

Backs
Andrija Janković (Crvena zvezda, 10)
Aleksandar Đorđević (Crvena zvezda, 21)
Andrej Banduka (Crvena zvezda, 1)
Aleksandar Nedeljković (Crvena zvezda, 5)
Miladin Živanov (Rad, 23)
Nikola Arsić (Crvena zvezda, 2)
Vitor LJubičić (Crvena zvezda, 8)
Marko Knežević (Rad, -)
Danijel Kajan (Crvena zvezda, 1)
Marko Kapor (Rad, 41)

Coach: Aleksandar Mihajlović, 1st game on bench.

Thanks to ‘Luka37’ at http://t2rugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=209&start=200

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