Like the meeting with Switzerland on Friday, the first half did not offer any exuberant football. A choppy combination play was interspersed with pointless attempts to finish when the half-chances did appear.
At the same time, Italy stood up and threatened the Swedish defense and Zecira Musovic a couple of times.
– I’m worried, they feel dangerous. We saw it in the away game that they can create a lot. A careless Sweden that offers many near-chances, said SVT Sports expert Daniel Nannskog during the break.
Cold shower early in the second
Ten minutes into the second half, Sweden started to play and created some chances. But instead of a long-awaited dividend came the cold shower. A long sweeping pass reached Valentina Giacinti who took the ball down and rolled it in past Zecira Musovic.
– It is not a completely impossible ending to take, commented SVT Sports expert Hanna Marklund.
Receipt in the final minutes
Then Peter Gerhardsson chose to act. After just over an hour, Anna Anvegård and Matilda Vinberg came in instead of Kosovare Asllani and Stina Blackstenius.
Later, Sofia Jakobsson and the debutant Rosa Kafaji also entered. However, it was Linda Sembrant who stepped forward and nodded in the equalizer in the final minutes for Sweden.
“Frustration”
Despite the late equalizer, it is a heavy Swedish point loss in the Nations League group in the hunt for an Olympic place.
– Frustration. I don’t think we will reach the performance we want. At the end we force and we are quite good there when we have to