Aleksandar Jovanovic

BELGRADE - Partizan Belgrade are through to the semi-finals of the Serbian football cup after defeating Vozdovac 4-3 on penalties at home in the quarter-finals on Wednesday afternoon.

The match ended 1-1 at full time.

After missing a phenomenal chance in the 13th minute, Samed Bazdar put Partizan in the lead two minutes into first half injury time.

Serbia's ruling party, the Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, won the most votes of any party in Sunday's election for the Belgrade Assembly, but it is still not clear who will eventually form a new city government.

After Serbia's government on Wednesday revoked a key decree greenlighting Rio Tinto's controversial lithium mining project, activists said they did not trust government promises that the mining project is over for good, fearing what might happen after elections in April.

23 players will make it to the team that will travel to Russia on June 11, and this final list will be known on June 4.

Serbia will on that day play the first of the two friendly matches as part of the team's preparations for the tournament in Russia.

The friendlies against Chile (June 4) and Bolivia (June 9) will both be played in Graz, Austria.