Serbia and Lithuania kick off their Euro 2024 qualification campaign when they meet at the Rajko Mitic Stadium on Friday night.

It is the first competitive meeting between the two nations since October 2019, when Friday’s hosts ran out 2-1 winners after a brace from Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Players to watch: Having recently created unwanted headlines by shoving the referee in his FA Cup quarter-final loss for Fulham, Serbia’s Aleksandar Mitrović may look to banish those against a team he accrued five goals from his last three H2Hs.

The visitors could be praying for action from Fedor Černych who scored a brace in their last competitive win in October 2021.

Hot stat: All but two of Serbia’s last 14 European Championship qualifiers at home saw both teams score on the day.

Serbia form (all competitions):

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Lithuania form (all competitions):

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Serbia possible starting lineup:

V. Milinkovic-Savic; Milenkovic, Veljkovic, Pavlovic; Zivkovic, Lukic, S. Milinkovic-Savic, Kostic, Tadic; Mitrovic, Vlahovic

Lithuania possible starting lineup:

Gertmonas; Mikoliunas, Satkus, Slivka, Girdvainis, Barauskas; Novikovas, Vorobjovas, Simkus, Golubickas; Cernych

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Serbia should be able to kick off their qualification campaign with a comfortable victory, and given the disparity between the two sides, it is more likely to be a question of how many they can win by.

With the likes of Mitrovic and Vlahovic to choose from in attack, it would not be a surprise to see the Eagles rack up a victory by a sizeable margin.