Good match, disastrous result – and what poems should we write about the Swedish national team that he was so proud of today?
There were no goals and no meaning in our journey.
And the road was nonsense, too.
In the coming months, Slovenia will hold presidential elections, regional elections and three referendums. And now we have no choice.
Slovenia, at home, win or lose. Two years ago it was Jan Anderson He was able to run for Parliament with decent chances of being elected dictator, but after a whole hell of a year and a half, he stood on the sidelines in the square of friends and forcibly twisted his wedding ring.
Was he hoping to be Frodo? That he would turn invisible if he twisted hard enough?
Even when the line-ups were read a quarter of an hour before kick-off, you could hear sporadic boos as they came to the name of the national team captain, he knew exactly what awaited anything but a win here. Division C in the Nations League, shame walk all the way to Lidingö in anticipation of a minor storm like the necessary one that will inevitably follow.
He’s made four changes compared to Belgrade’s Belgrade Spray, and he’s well paid. Jesper Karlström needed two minutes to win more games than he did the Swedish midfield in the first half against Serbia, and Christopher Olson Back again, old Christopher Olson with bravery, eyes and soft feet, the one who chooses two options and dares the third, who divides a part of the team. Sweden is assembled again. Victor Claison showed intensity in everything he did, Diane Kulusevsky and Emil Forsberg He wanted and got the ball.
Watch: Swedish national team.
What to do with it in Kazakhstan and the Faroe Islands.
That’s all that matters. About saving face. Five meters in front of me stood Jasmine Kurtic, 33, with an impressive career in the Italian league and behind him 81 caps. He was suspended, but he flew here anyway. Now he stood up and coached his teammates, and Slovenia played for their lives as well. So much heaviness tonight, there was so much at stake.
To see Sweden run, to have a balanced midfield, to win duels, to see Christopher Olsson shine, Kulusevsky and Forsberg played in the lead, to be Victor Nelson Lindelof who took on more and more responsibility, increasingly higher, to see Victor Claesson running chances to advance on the right and left.. what is it?
Ten thousand spoons, all you need is a knife.
Half an hour later, she had a long game against Joel Anderson, who dropped the offside streak to join prodigy Benjamin Sisko. No danger on the surface, it wasn’t even a chance – but Cisco swung his foot and caught the most beautiful shot this arena has seen since Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s England win.
And Jane Anderson stood with her wedding ring.
This was the year he was supposed to take a team to the restroom, but it just didn’t work out. Then he switched the controls and changed the gameplay a bit, and that didn’t work either. In the end, he would only preserve the honor and status as a second-rate nation in Europe.
No one who does an honest analysis of this evening can accuse Sweden of not playing an excellent football match, it is the road here that sets everything apart. Injuries, pokes, fouls, a pale evening in Belgrade, two broken weeks this summer, a botched defensive match and a stagnant offensive match. Of course, accident commissions have to be added, which results in something other than Sweden not being so lucky (even if this team had it this year).
To the captain of the national team: Was it wrong to launch a changing style of play amid the injury crisis? Was she naive? For the association: a basic question like how did Sweden stop training international class skaters?
Some questions could have been made up with the win here, and Sweden really tried.
Christopher Olson broke, Victor Nelson Lindelof moved forward and Emil Forsberg rushed forward fifty meters and appeared at a wide 1-1 side just before the break. There was the whole formula for a successful Swedish national team in 2022, and the problem was that it took until September before they counted it home. 2022 is the year Jesper Karlström was unnecessarily sent off in Poland, when the defensive match fell into something porous and unreliable while the national team captain searched the phone book letter by letter to find someone who could go and possibly play central defence. During this group, Isak Hien played alongside Lindelöf, and was excellent at 95 percent, but where five percent slips, snags and small margins means more.
This didn’t work either.
Sweden chased a redeeming goal throughout the second half, Claesson missed everything he put forward, Christopher Olsson’s reluctance to finish seemed an ideological choice in life, and up front ran a de-energized Robin Quaison and became increasingly frustrated. Nine million Swedes can relate.
In with Elanga, with Svanberg, with Gyökeres, with Ishak, with everything but the ball. Ilanga set the cross signal and walked straight off the field, the rest of the team fell into a sad pile, a lonely bottle from the stands and fell into Robin Olsen’s penalty area.
1-1 against Slovenia, in the dark. It was a pretty impressive Swedish effort, punctuated by a Slovenian goal, but – as they say – there was plenty to take away.
Now we take it with us to Torshamn, Astana and all the backyards of Europe.
This is shame.