Is the League of Nations something you should own?
It’s time for the League of Nations again and what did Jan Andersson get for the answer against Slovenia tonight?
That Dejan Kulusevski is in good shape, that Emil Forsberg is Emil Forsberg and that it’s hard to play defensive matches when three out of four young defenders are in context.
Bonus: to score Sweden away from home again, for the first time in fifteen months.
Four caps in June. The UAE World Cup just in time for the Christmas banners. A summer without tournaments despite an even year. These are certainly new times in men’s football, but at least some things are the same as before. Jan Anderson He continues to lead this Swedish national team, despite the curve of the figure has fallen over the past year, and before the start of the Nations League, he had promised to set the scale at zero and start from the beginning.
The question was, of course, to what extent the reboot, or “acquisition” of Janne Anderssonska, was announced, and which was voluntary. The Sweden captain made it clear up front that the selection of the first team in many positions was around very small margins. The three tenors Ibrahimovic, Eckdal, and Nelson Lindelof were not available, and he also had to rely on old war veterans, so Jan had to be a bench plant and rock Starfelt, Andersson and Karlström.
The benches made all the agreed efforts, but of course the whole thing struggled at times when two players who had never played together tried to synchronize press matches, setbacks and offensive intent. We are also at the end of a long international football season, with the Nations League becoming a kind of extension rather than a break. we will.
I became a singer and dancer for the gang
For just over 35 minutes, this was little more than a trivia story, with Slovenia taking two spots in the Ljubljana. But it was Victor Claesson who fixed the penalty for Sweden less than ten minutes before the break, when he was sent off – or dropped – in the attacking penalty area, and it was captain Forsberg who fired. To wear it, of course I was writing. for Emil Forsberg This side of 2020 leads his national team, wearing the bandage with that honor and spreading penalty kicks when they come his way. Slightly sour, sensible and somewhat misunderstood, Foppa has undergone a transformation in recent years and has become this gang’s mover, singer, and dancer.
This is not Sweden’s first away goal since 3-0 against Kosovo in March 2021.
But even Emil Forsberg cannot do everything himself. Not to make things easier before the second half, Karl Starvelt tied the injury at the end of the first half and was replaced by Aleksandar Milosevic. It was as if Sweden met Slovenia and played advanced pickpocketing with itself at the same time. They were going for a setback five minutes into the second half, but Robin Olsen made himself big, Benjamin Cisco fired and, most importantly, blew the referee off for offside.
In Sweden’s first qualifying attack in the second half, Viktor Claasson was released in the penalty area, but he played a bit with the ball and Jan Oblak controlled everything.
A few minutes later, the Atletico Madrid goalkeeper had to stretch hard when Dejan Kulusevsky encountered a real smoker out of almost nowhere towards the far corner. And then Sweden came together. Slovenia was allowed to grab piece by piece, the Swedes looked uninterested and finished playing, and when half an hour of the game was left before the Stožice half, the question inevitably arose: the Nations League, is it really something we should have?
Google should be shy every time
On the plus side: it gives off a form of competition, in itself a bit fuzzy, which previously ate the tired, friendly international players.
On the downside: every time you start you have to google what the purpose of the tournament is now back in the world.
Fortunately, Dejan Kulusevsky woke us up from stillness and doubts when the match got into riots and he himself went on the attack and started dribbling. And from almost no corner, very close to the goal and with the wrong foot, Dejan scored 0-2 behind Jan Oblak, as if it was the culmination of the Premier League. A star, a ghost figure, a luxurious setting for a rather quiet Swedish story.
