Sheffield. There is talk of a crisis in the Swiss national team before the match against Sweden.
But a change is expected only initially, according to information from Sportbladet.
-If you travel far and start thinking it’s going to be easy tomorrow because they got a bad charge, you don’t need to play the match, says Caroline Seeger.
Union captain Nielsen wasn’t too optimistic during this Switzerland Press conference before the meeting with Sweden.
– Well, I know at least we’ll start with eleven. But in the name of honesty, I don’t know which ones, says Nielsen and puts more than one hundred percent of the favorites (well – more than 90 percent anyway) in Sweden.
Former Damallsvenska star Ramona Bachmann has at least tried to find a positive angle in the mess with a stomach ailment that plagued the team earlier this week.
– Now it is. This brought us together as a group, says Bachmann.
During training the day before the match, three players Rachel Kiwich, Julia Sterley and Lara Marty ran alongside them. The latter came down after only a few minutes.
only one pink
We will have more information and 75 minutes before kick-off we know for sure. 22 players in Switzerland were in training today. Sweden captain Peter Gerhardsson says that when we get our eleven start, some corrections can be made.
– Sometimes we try to double the number of players because we feel that ‘here we can make it difficult for them’. It can be a part, of course, if we see that it has been replaced there.
Among those affected on Monday, two have played from the start: Kiwich and Eyoza Igbogon, who together make up the left side of the backline.
Sportbladet sources believe, however, that Aigbogun, who has trained with other players, is ready to start. This means that Switzerland only needs to make a change compared to their eleventh match against Portugal (2-2).
‘Too many touches’
Caroline Seger believes that many things should be improved in the match against Sweden compared to the match against the Netherlands, despite the lower ranked opposition.
– The tempo was too slow, it was too slow. The captain says that too many touches on the ball made us not get out of positions.
We didn’t have the forward-leaning scrolling game we were used to. That’s what we agreed, that we need to look forward and play faster.