“Emotions will be high,” said Stojanovic. “We need to hide them and save them for after the game. We expect huge support from Slovenian fans and we’re very proud of that.”

Neither side can progress from the group stage on Thursday, but Serbia will be unable to reach the last 16 if they lose and Denmark beat England in the 17:00 BST kick-off.

Slovenia have never won a European Championship game and have just one victory from 10 matches at major tournaments – a 1-0 victory against Algeria at the 2010 World Cup.

Manager Matjaz Kek said it would be “too optimistic” to expect too much from his side, but hopes they can show their strengths against Serbia.

“This team will grow from minute to minute in these surroundings. It’s too optimistic to expect too much from this team, bigger teams have failed.

“We all want to achieve a positive result and we want to prove tomorrow that we deserve to be here, that we qualified for Germany on merit.”