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Sweden had a good game against Croatia at the Friends stadium on Saturday night.
Dejan Kuluesveki gave the team the lead in the first half when he scored his first goal for Sweden’s A team.
After that, Marcus Danielson also nodded in a corner and Sweden went into the break with a 2-0 lead.
With a 2-0 lead, Sweden also topped Croatia in the Nations League group with better goal difference and conditions looked good ahead of the decisive matches on Tuesday.
“It’s silly of course”
But Croatia would have an important reduction target. The 2-0 nod Marcus Danielson was unhappy as the ball bounced off his shoulder and looked towards Sweden’s goal without goalkeeper Robin Olsen having time to react.
The match ended 2-1 and the result means that both Sweden and Croatia have three points in the group. In addition, the team has the same goal difference (-6) and therefore a real thriller awaits on Tuesday in which Sweden will have to achieve a better result than Croatia in the respective team matches.
– It’s silly, of course. In the highlights you can see that it is Sweden that produces goal after goal, says expert Lotta Schelin on C More.
– This 2-1 is very cloudy. It’s a shame, says Kim Källström.
Dejan Kulusevski was not too unhappy with the goal scored after the game.
– That’s what happens in football. We won the match. That was what we were going to do and that was the important thing. We have a match against France and we will do our best in that match.
Right now, Croatia is ahead of Sweden because the team has more goals scored (7-13 goal difference) while Sweden has 3-9 goal difference. The team that finishes last in the group leaves group A of the Nations League and ends in group B next time.
Wettergren: “We could have gone crazy in the end”
At the same time that Sweden took on Croatia, France beat Portugal 1-0 and thus secured the group victory. Sweden take on France away on Tuesday at the same time as Croatia play Portugal at home.
National team assistant captain Peter Wettergren led the team in Janne Andersson’s absence and believes that victory was the most important thing.
– We have always said that you should live in France and we have received criticism that we have not won matches in the group. The most important thing for us was to show that we can win. We met the team that took silver in the World Cup, we feel better and we deservedly won. That’s why victory was the most important thing, says Wettergren.
The captain of the Croatian national team Zlatko Dalic:
– Both games against Sweden ended 2-1, so the goal we scored was very important to us. It changes the dynamics of the group and gives us a lot in case it is decided.
