Outright Odds: 50/one
Group B Winners: nine/four
Sweden battled their way by means of an ungainly qualifying team which provided Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Iceland and certified as one of many two most effective placed runners-up. The Swedes lost narrowly 1-0 to Croatia equally house and away but eight wins from eight versus the remainder of their opponents saw them level on points.
The Swedes boast excellent organisation in the again and their defence delivered just 4 targets in 10 qualifying matches. Goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson was a revelation in qualifying, arguably building one miscalculation versus Iceland in a match Sweden won comfortably. The Rennes stopper is actually a deserving substitution for your veteran Thomas Ravelli who received in excess of a hundred caps for his region.
Sweden also have great attacking solutions to go with a resolute back again line. The present darling of Swedish football, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, blasted in eight goals in ten qualifying game titles whilst his creativity authorized the marauding Fredrik Ljungberg to score 7 aims from midfield.
Ibrahimovic arrived of age at Euro 2004 with a surprising back again-flick goal versus Italy which result in Juventus purchasing him for approximately eleven million the subsequent August. He proved his mettle for scoring when it matters by far the most with an damage-time winner away at Hungary inside a cruch-qualifier.
Veteran striker Henrik Larsson, a member of your Sweden squad who completed third from the 1994 finals, also provides an additional possibility in attack as he seeks one particular ultimate hurrah prior to retiring from the game.
Inspite of thrashing their opponents in qualifying, rattling in 27 objectives, thirteen of which arrived towards very poor Malta, the defeats towards Croatia elevate issue marks more than whether they can repeat their superb appearances on the earlier.
That is Swedens eleventh overall look at the entire world Cup finals. They hosted the Match in 1958 and scored after 4 minutes in opposition to Brazil in the ultimate. Nevertheless, a 17-yr-aged Pele scuppered their designs along with the Brazilians ran out five-2 winners. They've got also attained the semi-finals in 1950 and 1994 so You will find there's lot to live approximately.
The fans will assume them to boost on the disheartening overall look during the 2002 finals whenever they topped the first round group in advance of each England and Argentina but lost in the 2nd spherical soon after more-time from shock offer Senegal.
Suggested Bet:
It'll be a decent struggle involving Sweden and England to get Team B, with either side likely to choose who tops the team when they meet up with in the ultimate game. Previous conferences are close plus they drew 1-1 whenever they performed in Group Fs opening fixture 4 many years in the past. A repeat effectiveness will be the advised bet.
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