U21 Euro 2007: Matchday 1 Reaction

Serbia coach Miroslav Djukic said his side "played like a team and could afford to wait for one brilliant individual moment" - a superb winning goal from Dejan Milovanovic - as they overcame Italy to move top of Group B.

Despite his charges setting the early pace, however, Djukic believes the Azzurrini and England, who were held 0-0 by the Czech Republic, remain favourites to progress.

Miroslav Djukic (Serbia coach): I'm satisfied because we showed we can play against a strong team like Italy. This is special from two aspects - tactically and because of the discipline shown during the game. After that, success always follows and I said beforehand that if we could do that, we could win. We played like a team and we could afford to wait for one brilliant individual moment. We got that, a great move and a great goal from Milovanović, but that was the product of our efforts throughout the game. I still think Italy and England are favourites in this group - we've got three points but that's nothing special. At the moment we're top but we'll continue with the same approach and look to play the same way, and if we do that we can expect to earn a place in the semi-finals. But we're not champions yet, it's just one match and we have to remember that.

Pierluigi Casiraghi (Italy coach): We played quite well tonight, we had several chances but unfortunately, we could not make use of them. We had a lot of the game and more of the possession, but we did not manage to fight back after falling behind and I think the result did not really reflect the performance of my team.

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