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The men’s national team stands with the back against the wall after the 0-1 failure against Luxembourg.
Therefore, Tuesday night’s meeting with Northern Ireland suddenly has a completely different meaning.
– It is good that we have the chance to bounce back, says federation captain Jon Dahl Tomasson.
Ideatibly forward, defensively vulnerable, teams that were not synchronized. The sum of the tasteless cardamom:
– We really weren’t good. We didn’t play our football. The most important thing we follow our principles. We want to play quickly, with few strikes. We have to play ahead, lie in the right positions and play through the lines. Not everyone did it last Saturday, says the Confederate Captain Jon Dahl Tomasson.
– We need to see another Sweden
Enormous criticism
The criticism, not least on social media, was spiked out on Saturday night, when disappointed Swedish national team supporters in a more or less musty language weathered their dissatisfaction – and that rightly.
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Losing is one thing, that was the way it happened that caused the net to overflow by saws. The hope for the future that this fall’s play in the Nations League aroused disappeared when a badly functioning Swedish collective went away at Stade de Luxembourg.
In just over five months, the national team enters a sharp position when the World Cup qualifier starts with away matches against Slovenia and Kosovo. After two missed championships, there is no room for another qualifying failure.
Sweden’s fiasco
Therefore, suddenly a training international at the end of March becomes important. The meeting with Northern Ireland is not just an opportunity to immediately crawl out of the ditch and up the road that was used last fall.
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It is a necessity. Friday’s 1-1 at home against Switzerland says that Northern Ireland – for which Sweden has historically had a hard time – is a potent opponent.
The union captain Michael O’Neill Gets their players from clubs such as Huddersfield, Sheffield W, Wigan and Leyton Orient – not from Nottingham, Manchester United and Newcastle.
Lindelöf’s words
O’Neill builds his team of proud and hard -working football workers from the divisions during the Premier League – the type of player who was not gifted with outstanding talent but compensates with will, attitude and loyalty to the team.
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It is possible to get a long way. As for an eighth final in the European Championships 2016 – Northern Ireland’s latest success in a championship.
Jon Dahl Tomasson announces that there will be a large part of another team against Northern Ireland. Clearly is that Viktor Johansson standing in goal and Victor Nilsson Lindelöf Plays in the three -back line.
– We are definitely not satisfied with what it looked like on the pitch last. Everyone felt well afterwards that it is not the level we want to lie on, says Lindelöf.
Clearly is that Alexander Isaac Starts in the attack.
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