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He missed an important match in the UEFA Nations League when Sweden went to Zagreb to face Croatia, which in 2018 played in the World Cup final. Both teams were at zero points before the game after losing both games of the starting group.
After 32 minutes of play, Alexander Isak leveled things for Mikael Lustig with an impressive goal down the middle. Croatia turned the game around and Ivan Persic found Nikola Vlasic who headed in the goal.
Blue and yellow came out in the second half as a completely different team. In the 65th minute, Sweden took a 0-1 lead after an attack from the right, triggered by a defensive blunder. Mikael Lustig found Emil Forsberg. Once there, most thought the midfielder was coming to an end, but Forsberg found an independent Marcus Berg at the far post. The forward caught the ball and from very close he was able to score the tie.
Berg recognized
In the 65th minute, Sweden took a 0-1 lead after an attack from the right, triggered by a defensive blunder. Mikael Lustig found Emil Forsberg. Once there, most thought the midfielder would go all the way, but Forsberg found an independent Marcus Berg at the far post who could easily tie it up.
Sweden had a couple of good scoring opportunities, but they never managed to put it there. Instead, the home team responded and Ivan Persic ended up dueling Pontus Jansson. The Swedish midfielder left and Persic found Andrej Kramaric who easily made it 2-1. The result held and meant that Sweden remains last in the group.
– We weren’t happy at half-time, but we had a good chat at half-time and we caught it in the second half. So it’s us for the whole penny. In hindsight it’s incredibly bitter and we have three losses in a row.
– It’s incredibly sad and upsetting. It is a ball that I have to solve. I raise my hand and say it’s my fault. I usually do better. A random goal. I take it one hundred percent, says Jansson.
Forsberg: “Too damn”
Emil Forsberg, who represented a dream assistant, was of course disappointed after the match.
– It feels very good. The first half I don’t know what we do, we have nothing to contribute. He is passive, bad, naive. But then we go 1-1 and we play pretty good, but they get a shitty goal, says Forsberg.
– The positive for the team was the second half. Because then we play well and we go over them. But it shouldn’t happen until the second half. We have to get involved from the beginning. We are very good when we play like we did in the second half. It’s about the mindset. We want to feel them and so on. We talk about it after the first 45, that such things should not happen. It is positive that we created it, but now it is important to focus on the Portugal match, says Dejan Kulusevski.
