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In extra time, Sweden brought the whole team up, including goalkeeper Robin Olsen, to draw against France in connection with a free kick, to score a 3-3 goal that would later have kept them in group A.
Juventus pro Dejan Kulusevski took the lead on the right wing to find a nod for any Swedish player. The free kick missed and landed short on the forward French defense who was able to make a quick change and put the final 4-2, Kingsley Coman in the 95th minute, on an abandoned goal.
– Such free kicks happen in soccer. It was a mistake. I whipped it too short and there is nothing else. I will make another billion mistakes in my life, Kulusekvski says in the subsequent press conference.
“We could have crossed over”
– We got a goal quite late (Robin Quaison in 88). If my free kick had been better, we could have crossed the game too, he continues.
Kulusevski had to jump into the final quarter of the international match against Denmark in Copenhagen last Tuesday and then played from the start against Croatia on Saturday, where the 2-1 goal conceded ten minutes from time with the result in hand forced Sweden down from Group A. After the successful effort against last Saturday, Kulusevski played early on in a desolate Stade de France where Viktor Claesson scored 1-0 through a French defensive leg and gave Sweden a dream start after five minutes.
– There were two tired teams, understandably, we played every other day. It is difficult to recharge. We should have done better after Claesson’s goal, but then we lost the ball in some unnecessary situations that France used incredibly well, says Kulusevski.
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