Oslo. Loss against Norway in Friends.
Tonight, Sweden will try to avoid a second loss against “little brother” in less than a week.
– If you want to use it as a catalyst, that’s fine, says Emil Forsberg.
Sweden lost against Norway In Friends a week ago when Erling Braut Haalaand decided with his two goals in Norway’s 2-1 victory.
Tonight the teams meet again.
This time in Ullevål. The Swedish players are doing their best to avoid the second loss to “younger brother” Norway in less than a week.
– You can say something like this, new matches, new terms. And if you look at the Norwegian national team, it’s a very good team. You can talk about older brother and younger brother. But if we talked about Sweden a few days ago, it is below us but it is a very good football country.
– We must start from the current situation. If you previously looked at the match against Norway, there were even matches against Norway. I’ve met them four times during my time as captain of the national team and we’ll see tomorrow, says Jan Andersen.
Emil Forsberg He believes that rivalry makes the match more important.
It’s how you feel individually. If you want to use it as an incentive, that’s fine, but I always want to win. These are our neighbors and competitors and we will do everything we can to win the match.
‘It’s a great prestige’
Ludwig Augustinsson believes that the rivalry with Norway motivates Swedish players.
– It’s a niche and there are a lot of gaps between them. It will be fun to play the match as there will be good pressure. For us, it takes a better match than last time for us to have a chance to win, he says.
How much not to lose to little brother Norway in a short time?
– No, absolutely no one. I think positively and enter the game with a big card. It’s the last game before the holidays so it’s empty. These thoughts do not exist at all.
He has a good balance in the team
Swedish scout Lars Jacobson thinks Sweden should try to stop post-Norway play.
Norway played the same in all three matches. They were really good at counter-kicks and we continued some because we didn’t have a really good balance. It’s something you should pay attention to. Then there’s the post-match which I think we coped with pretty well.
– They want to get vacancies and get a lot of people in the background and put them with Ödegård especially those with sensitive left feet.
How will you stop counterattacks?
– To have a good balance in the team and I think we achieved that against Serbia. Match by game, we improved on the parts that were not good against Slovenia and which improved a little bit against Norway.