“Our stats are much better, from chances created to shots on target. But goals are the ones that count. It is important that we secured that draw, even though the starting line-up shows that our idea was to win and to score goals – to play attractive, attacking football.”

Clear favourites heading into the game, Serbia refused to accept a shock loss to Slovenia. While not the win he had wanted, Stojkovic declared himself satisfied.

“The number of opportunities we created – ball possessions, shots on goal – we want an offensive game, we want to create opportunities. This is a result that keeps us in the game and we are looking forward to the last match.”

“Even before the goal, we should have scored. I’m not quite sure how [Aleksandar] Mitrovic’s chances didn’t turn into a goal,” the coach said.

“I don’t like boring football. I want to see my team attack, create chances, I want to see Serbia with full determination. Can we score? I think yes. But sometimes you have to be lucky also. I am very satisfied with the performance, because to create seven, eight or nine occasions with big chances to score – this is something that is very important.”

Serbia captain Dusan Tadic was less upbeat.

“[I have] mixed feelings. We wanted three points. Slovenia had more initiative. We have missed too many [chances] for our standards,” he told Serbian television.

Stojkovic is expecting an open game against the Danes.

“We know how they play,” he said. “They also drew 1-1 with the Slovenians, they are not invincible, but they are strong and of good quality.”

Earlier, the head of the Serbian football association threatened to pull the team out of the Euro 2024 over chants made during Wednesday’s draw between Albania and Croatia.

Jovan Surbatovic – the General Secretary of the Football Association of Serbia (FSS) – told Serbian broadcaster RTS the country demanded action from authorities over remarks made during the match, including the chant: “Kill, kill, kill the Serb.”

Surbatovic told RTS the FSS would seek sanctions from Uefa “even at the cost of not continuing the competition”.

On Thursday, Serbia coach Dragan Stojkovic said the issue was “not important” after his side’s 1-1 draw with Slovenia to stay in contention for the next round.

“Please ask me about the game. For me this is not important, I’m just focusing on the game,” he told reporters.

“Honestly, I didn’t read anything. Believe me or not, but it’s true.”

Serbia has had tense relations with both Albania and Croatia in past decades.

In the 1990s, a string of wars broke out across the former Yugoslavia that saw bloody fighting in Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia.

Many blamed late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic for instigating the conflicts.

Serbia also fought a war against ethnic Albanian insurgents in the breakaway province of Kosovo in the late 1990s, which triggered a Nato intervention in the conflict.

Serbia are competing in their first European Championship since the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse