World Cup 2018: 3 things Serbia did wrong in defeat to Switzerland

#3 The defense abandoning their position

There was nobody to deal with Shaqiri's run

With the game almost sewn up, Switzerland made one last ditch effort to turn the match around. Gavranovic collected the ball near the halfway line and despite being surrounded by a horde of red shirts, found space to lay a defense splitting pass for an on-rushing Shaqiri who bombed forward and killed the game by nudging the ball under Sommer.

The problem here was, barring Tosic, the rest of the back-line abandoned their position and went too far ahead. So when Gavranovic put the Stoke City man clear, they had a lot of ground to cover which they obviously couldn’t, leaving Tosic to deal with Shaqiri alone.

And even though the 31-year old was along the defensive lines, he was some distance away from Shaqiri on the right and by the time he could catch up with him, the latter released the ball to leave a distraught Tosic in a heap on the floor.

This one moment of defensive error cost Serbia the match. And going forward, maybe even a place in the last 16.