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“Gustav was sadder in the whole arena”
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Gustav Svensson stuck his chin out and said Portugal could get worse as a team with Cristiano Ronaldo.
Both came to play leading roles.
Svensson was sent off in the first half and Portugal won 2-0 after two goals from Ronaldo.
Cristiano Ronaldo was not present when his Portugal beat Croatia 4-1 in the Nations League premiere on Saturday. In a press conference this weekend, Gustav Svensson understood what he thought about Ronaldo’s participation in the Portuguese eleven.
– Hopefully the case that they get a little worse as a team (if he’s with him). Perhaps it is the case that if he does join, the team will be worse and there will be a little more individual play. It might be good for us, he said.
“He applauded it”
But against Sweden he was with him and it did not suit Sweden and Gustav Svensson very well. And Svensson, who made his first national team start in two years, had a rough night. He received two yellow cards and was sent off in the first half.
– I haven’t talked to Gustav. I patted him during the break because he was the saddest in this arena. I experienced the first yellow card as quite cheap, the second as clearer. Unfortunately, that put the game on hold and until then it’s pretty close, says the captain of the national team, Janne Andersson, at the press conference.
Two goals from Ronaldo
At the same time, the man who would hopefully make Portugal worse played Portugal’s leading role.
First, Cristiano Ronaldo took advantage of the free kick that resulted in Svensson’s red card. With a perfect shot down the center from the left, he made it 1-0, his 100th goal for the national team. Then he punctured the game to 2-0 with a precise shot in the second half.
He has now scored seven goals in four international matches against Sweden.
– Is incredible. Today he scores two fantastic goals. Such a player can explode at any moment and we saw it today, says Alexander Isak on C More.
“It will be difficult for us”
The Swedish forward assures that the expulsion changed the panorama of the party.
– We started very well. We take them where we want and we play good football. Then we have a bit of bad luck with a red card and the image of the match changed. So it becomes quite difficult for us to disturb them and create something, he says.
Janne Andersson:
– Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world and his two performances determine the match, he says.
Thus, Sweden has lost the first two games of the Nations League. They lost to France 0-1 on Saturday.
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