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Despite being a less experienced team, Sweden was the winner in the international training match against Russia on Thursday night. This after goals from Alexander Isak and Mattias Johansson, who made his first international appearance since 2014.
Next week double games await in the Nations League. On Sunday, they will face Croatia on the road and three days later Janne Andersson’s national team will visit Portugal in Lisbon.
On Friday afternoon, the Football Association announced that the 24 players who played against Russia are available and are traveling to Zagreb. Also joined by Dejan Kulusevski and Ludwig Augustinsson, who missed Thursday’s training match. Kulusevski due to quarantine with his club team Juventus in Turin, and Augustinsson due to ahAuthorities in his hometown of Bremen would force him to quarantine him on a return trip to Russia.
At a digital press conference on Friday night, the assistant captain of the Swedish national team, Peter Wettergren, said that Kulusevski and Augustinsson are already in Zagreb.
– They have come down. They are isolated in the hotel room and have been tested for covid. We feel safe in that, Wettergren says.
Sunday’s match between Croatia and Sweden starts at 6:00 p.m. and is broadcast on TV4, C More Football and broadcast on C More.
