Football World Cup 2018 / Sweden

Football World Cup 2018 : Sweden
Trainer	Janne Andersson
captain	Andreas Granqvist
Qualified as	Winner of the European playoff against Italy
World rankings before the tournament	24
Tournament result	Quarter finals
Games won	3
Games tie	0
Games lost	2
Gates	6:42

This article covers the Swedish national football team at the 2018 World Cup . Sweden has entered the finals for the twelfth time. The last time the Swedes were at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA .

Games

Marcus Berg, Sweden's top scorer in qualification

Sweden, which by since Vorrundenaus at the European Championships 2016 Janne Andersson is trained, met in Group A on Bulgaria , former world champion France , Luxembourg , the three-time runner-up Netherlands and Belarus . In the ten games that resulted, the Swedish team won six, lost three games and played one draw. Despite the highest number of goals in this group, Sweden finished in second place behind France in front of the Dutch with the same number of points and had to play in the group runners-up. Here they met Italy. After a 1-0 home game, they survived the second leg goalless and qualified for the finals. Italy, on the other hand, was the only ex-world champion unable to qualify.

A total of 27 players were used, of which only three had only one bet. Six players were taken over from the squad of the U21 team that had won the U-21 European Championship in 2015 ; 15 players were also in the squad for the EM 2016 . Three players were used in all twelve games: captain Andreas Granqvist , Emil Forsberg and goalkeeper Robin Olsen . Marcus Berg and Victor Lindelöf made eleven missions

The top scorer with eight goals was Marcus Berg, who took over the role of Zlatan Ibrahimović , who retired after the 2016 European Championship . Emil Forsberg contributed four goals. The first international goal came in the qualifying games Christoffer Nyman in the 4-0 win against Belarus, Victor Lindelöf in the 3-0 win against Bulgaria and Jakob Johansson in the first playoff game against Italy, which brought Sweden the World Cup ticket. A total of eleven players scored for Sweden.

The Swedes played all home games in the Friends Arena in Solna .

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Sweden
09/06/2016	Solna	Sweden	-	Netherlands	1: 1 (1: 0)	Marcus Berg (43.)
07/10/2016	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	-	Sweden	0: 1 (0: 0)	Mikael Lustig (58th)
10/10/2016	Solna	Sweden	-	Bulgaria	3: 0 (2: 0)	Ola Toivonen (39th), Oscar Hiljemark (45th), Victor Lindelöf (58th)
11/11/2016 1	Saint-Denis	France	-	Sweden	2: 1 (0: 0)	Emil Forsberg (54th)
03/25/2017	Solna	Sweden	-	Belarus	4: 0 (1: 0)	Emil Forsberg (19th / penalty, 49th), Marcus Berg (57th), Isaac Thelin (77th)
06/09/2017	Solna	Sweden	-	France	2: 1 (1: 1)	Jimmy Durmaz (43rd), Ola Toivonen (90th + 3)
08/31/2017	Sofia	Bulgaria	-	Sweden	3: 2 (2: 2)	Mikael Lustig (29.), Marcus Berg (44.)
09/03/2017	Baryssau	Belarus	-	Sweden	0: 4 (0: 3)	Emil Forsberg (18th), Christoffer Nyman (24th), Marcus Berg (37th), Andreas Granqvist (84th / penalty)
07.10.2017	Solna	Sweden	-	Luxembourg	8: 0 (3: 0)	Andreas Granqvist (10th / penalty, 67 / penalty), Marcus Berg (18th, 37th, 54th, 71st), Mikael Lustig (60th), Ola Toivonen (76th)
10/10/2017	Amsterdam	Netherlands	-	Sweden	2: 0 (2: 0)

¹The game was originally supposed to take place on November 13, 2016, but since the game was not played on the first anniversary of the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015 , the game was brought forward to November 11, 2016.

Final table of the qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	France	10	7th	2	1	018: 600	+12	23
2.	Sweden	10	6th	1	3	026: 900	+17	19th
3.	Netherlands	10	6th	1	3	021:120	+9	19th
4th	Bulgaria	10	4th	1	5	014:190	−5	13
5.	Luxembourg	10	1	3	6th	008:260	−18	06th
6th	Belarus	10	1	2	7th	006:210	−15	05

Playoff games

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorer for Sweden
11/09/2017	Solna	Sweden	-	Italy	1: 0 (0: 0)	Jakob Johansson (61.)
11/13/2017	Milan	Italy	-	Sweden	0-0

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Swedish goal scorers
January 7, 2018	1: 1 (0: 0)	Estonia	Abu Dhabi	"Kalle" Holmberg (79th)
January 11, 2018	1-0	Denmark league selection	Abu Dhabi	Gustaf Nilsson (90th + 3th)
March 24, 2018	1: 2	Chile	Solna	Ola Toivonen (23.)
March 27, 2018	0: 1	Romania	Craiova
2nd June 2018	0-0	Denmark	Solna
June 9, 2018	0-0	Peru	Gothenburg

Remarks:

• Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup
• Only players from the Swedish and Danish leagues and one player from the NEC Nijmegen were nominated for the two games in January, none of whom played more than 14 international matches. It was the first international match and goal for the goal scorer Kalle Holmberg against Estonia. FIFA does not count the matches as official internationals. For Denmark came the league selection (ligalandsholdet).

Quarter

The team's quarters will be the “ Kempinski Grand Hotel” in Gelendzhik , where the team can train in the Spartak Stadium.

Squad

The 23-player preliminary World Cup squad was announced on May 15th. The final roster had to be reported to FIFA by June 4th. None of the nominated players have yet participated in a World Cup finals. Captain Andreas Granqvist made his debut for the national team in January 2006, but was not considered for the 2006 World Cup. All other players made their debut after the last World Cup participation.

With Ludwig Augustinsson , John Guidetti , Filip Helander , Isaac Kiese Thelin and Victor Lindelöf , Andersson appointed five players to his World Cup squad who won the title with the Swedish U-21 national team at the U-21 European Championship in 2015 . All of them were on the field in the final against Portugal , which was decided by a penalty shoot-out , with the exception of Helander they were also among the five participating and four successful penalty takers ( José Sá parried against Abdul Khalili ). All players from the squad were playing at a foreign club at the time of the World Cup, with captain Andreas Granqvist moving to Helsingborgs IF in Sweden after the tournament .

position	No.	Surname	birth date	Calls	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goal	12	Karl-Johan Johnsson	January 28, 1990	005	00	EA Guingamp	2012	03/27/2018
	23	Kristoffer Nordfeldt	June 23, 1989	006th	00	Swansea City ↓	2011	March 24, 2018
	01	Robin Olsen	January 8, 1990	018th	00	FC Copenhagen	2015	06/09/2018	5
Defense	06th	Ludwig Augustinsson	April 21, 1994	008th	00	Werder Bremen	2015	06/09/2018	5	1
	04th	Andreas Granqvist	April 16, 1985	072	06th	FK Krasnodar	2006	06/09/2018	5	2
	14th	Filip Helander	April 22, 1993	004th	00	Bologna FC	2017	03/27/2018
	18th	Pontus Jansson	February 13, 1991	015th	00	Leeds United	2012	02.06.2018	2
	16	Emil Krafth	2nd August 1994	013	00	Bologna FC	2014	06/09/2018	2
	03	Victor Lindelof	17th July 1994	013	01	Manchester United	2016	06/09/2018	4th
	02	Mikael Funny	December 13, 1986	066	06th	Celtic Glasgow D	2008	06/09/2018	4th		2
	05	Martin Olsson	May 17, 1988	043	05	Swansea City ↓	2010	02.06.2018	2
midfield	17th	Viktor Claesson	2nd January 1992	011	01	FK Krasnodar	2012	06/09/2018	5		1
	21st	Jimmy Durmaz	March 22, 1989	045	03	Toulouse FC	2011	02.06.2018	1
	08th	Albin Ekdal	July 28, 1989	034	00	Hamburger SV ↓	2011	06/09/2018	5		1
	10	Emil Forsberg	October 23, 1991	036	06th	RB Leipzig	2014	06/09/2018	5	1
	15th	Oscar Hiljemark	June 28, 1992	022nd	02	CFC genoa	2012	06/09/2018	2
	07th	Sebastian Larsson	June 6, 1985	100	06th	Hull City	2008	06/09/2018	4th		3
	19th	Marcus Rohden	May 11, 1991	012	01	FC Crotone ↓	2015	06/09/2018
	13	Gustav Svensson	February 7, 1987	013	00	Seattle Sounders	2009	06/09/2018	3
Storm	09	Marcus Berg	17th August 1986	057	18th	al Ain Club M	2008	06/09/2018	5
	11	John Guidetti	April 15, 1992	020th	01	Deportivo Alavés	2012	03/27/2018	2
	22nd	Isaac Kiese Thelin	June 24, 1992	020th	02	Waasland-Beveren L	2014	06/09/2018	4th		1
	20th	Ola Toivonen	3rd July 1986	059	13	Toulouse FC	2007	06/09/2018	5	1
Trainer		Janne Andersson	September 29, 1962				2016		5

1. ↑ Positions according to information from the Swedish Association.
2. ↑ Numbers according to the official squad list
3. ↑ ^{a b} Status: June 9, 2018 after the game against Peru
4. ↑ Clubs in italics play in the season before or during the World Cup in the second division of their country, D = champions and cup winners in the World Cup year, M = champions in the World Cup year, M * = champions in the previous year (current season is still running until autumn), P = cup winners in the World Cup year, ↑ = club will play in the first division in the next season, ↓ = the club was relegated from the highest league in the country, L = club was the last of the relegation playoffs, but relegated through Avoided bankruptcy of another club

Finals

Group draw

Sochi (VR) Nizhny Novgorod (VR) Yekaterinburg (VR) Saint Petersburg (AF) Samara (VF) Gelendzhik

Venues and quarters (blue) of the Swedes

For the draw of the qualification groups on December 1st, the Swedes were assigned to pot 3 and could therefore be drawn into a group with defending champions Germany, record world champions Brazil, vice world champions Argentina or host Russia. Sweden meet in Group F on world champions Germany , Mexico and South Korea .

Sweden and Germany met in the quarter-finals of their first joint World Cup participation in 1934 and Sweden lost 2-1. 24 years later Sweden was able to return the favor and stop the defending champion's path with 3-1 in the semi-finals and reach the final for the only time so far. In 1974 both faced each other in the second round and Germany won 4-2. 32 years later, Germany won the World Cup round of 16 2-0. Overall, the balance sheet with 12 wins - of which only one competitive game - nine draws and 15 defeats is negative. Most recently they both met in two memorable qualifying games for the previous World Cup, which ended 4: 4 after 0: 4 deficit and 3: 5 after 2: 0 lead, which prompted the German national coach to comment after the group draw: “This time we want to lead 5-0 so that we are safe. ”The Swedes have played nine times against Mexico with four wins, including three draws and two defeats at the first meeting in the preliminary round of the 1958 World Cup. The last time they met was in January 2009 in the USA, where the Mexicans play many of their friendlies and Sweden won 1-0. The Swedes have played against South Korea four times so far. The first time at the Olympic Games in 1948, with a score of 12-0, one of the two highest wins in Swedish international history was achieved. The results in the three other matches were then much closer to 2: 0, 1: 1 and 2: 2.

The Swedes have not yet played in any of the preliminary round venues.

Group stage / group F matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group F

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sweden	3	2	0	1	005: 200	+3	06th
2.	Mexico	3	2	0	1	003: 400	−1	06th
3.	South Korea	3	1	0	2	003: 300	± 0	03
4th	Germany	3	1	0	2	002: 400	−2	03

Mon., June 18, 2018, 3:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Nizhny Novgorod
Sweden	-	South Korea	1: 0 (0: 0)	65 ′ / penalty Granqvist
Sat., June 23, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Germany	-	Sweden	2: 1 (0: 1)	32 ′ Toivonen
Wed., June 27, 2018, 7:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Yekaterinburg
Mexico	-	Sweden	0: 3 (0: 0)	50 ′ Augustinsson , 62 ′ / penalty Granqvist, 74 ′ Álvarez

Knockout round

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / final round

Round of 16

Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Sweden	-	Switzerland	1: 0 (0: 0)	66 ′ Forsberg

In their 50th World Cup game, the Swedish team was able to offset the negative record against Switzerland with 10 wins, 7 draws and 11 defeats and also won two World Cup games in a row for the first time since the home World Cup in 1958.

Quarter finals

Sat, July 7, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Samara
Sweden	-	England	0: 2 (0: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoffer Nyman's international matches
2. ↑ Victor Lindelöf's international matches
3. Jump up ↑ Jakob Johansson's international matches
4. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: Jannes januaritrupp uttagen
5. ↑ Program Ligalandsholdet 2018
6. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
7. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Anderssons VM-trupp spikad" (accessed on May 16, 2018)
8. ↑ dfb.de: "Joachim Löw:" An exciting group ""