Serbia 1-3 Germany - Nations League result as Florian Wirtz leads Jurgen Klopp's men to win over nine-man hosts

Serbia were relegated from their Nations League group after a dreadful performance saw them beaten at home by Germany.

The home team were playing behind closed doors, with just 5,000 schoolchildren in attendance, having been punished for racism from fans in a previous match.

That gave rise to a muted atmosphere in Belgrade and Jurgen Klopp’s men, with Premier League stars Florian Wirtz and Kai Havertz starting, needed little time to take advantage.

Srdan Babic put the ball through his own net after just three minutes when Havertz headed an effort that appeared to be going wide, with the defender's instinctive touch turning it goalwards.

11 minutes later, Wirtz had two attempts to toe the ball home as Serbia were easily opened up, and the home side had little to show for it in the first half.

Brajan Gruda, the RB Leipzig winger on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion, needed just five minutes after the restart to make it three with an adept solo run from deep which ended with a smart, low shot.

Six minutes later, Babic scored as he finished off a set-piece move for the home side, but Vanja Dragojevic's late tackle on Joshua Kimmich saw him sent off on 76 minutes, and just before full-time Adrija Zivkovic also got himself expelled for what appeared to be dissent.

Germany’s next match in Group B is on Monday at home against Netherlands, who beat Greece 7-0. 

The Dutch are top of Group B with 11 points, with Greece and then Germany both on eight, and Serbia have zero points from five games.

A woeful and indisciplined Serbia fall apart under little pressure.

They are relegated, while Germany can still reach the quarter-finals as they move onto their next match, against the Netherlands.

But it drifts wide.

A straight red as Serbia go down to nine. Behind closed doors and now the visitors are turning it into a farce.

It seems he simply swore too much.

And Kostov is on for Serbia as Sergei Milinkovic-Savic is brought off.

The former Manchester City player replaces Florian Wirtz.

Serbia will, on their efforts so far, struggle to hold Germany off for the next 10 minutes.

The referee takes a look in slow-motion, and he goes to a straight red instead.

You can't argue, it was clumsy and pointless, so off he goes.

He stands on Kimmich's ankle as he plays the ball around the corner. A booking initially...

Treu, Havertz, Pavlovic off, Fullkrug, Baku, Bischof on.

Normally, he scores. He reaches a cross at the back post and powers a header at goal, but Ter Stegen is able to save easily enough.

Cvetkovic off.

Scherhant crisply strikes across the ball from the left-hand side of the box, and Milinkovic-Savic tips the ball onto the post with a brilliant save.

The strike from the edge of the box flies under Havertz, in an offside position, and it's ruled out.

37-year-old captain Tadic is taken off.

He cleans out Gruda with a high arm across the face, and he can have no complaints.

Tadic drinks the ball to the forward and he misses the first, but Mittelstadt flails at the clearance and Cvetkovic fluffs his second opportunity too.

A cross from the right comes to Tadic, and Ter Stegen flaps it away with a smart reaction, and Babic is on hand to stab it home.

That is that, then. The Leipzig man, on loan from Brighton, runs from his own half, opens up a wan Serbia defence and fires home low from the edge of the box.

From Germany. They are not interested in losing the ball here.