Sweden vs Chile [R]

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Sweden is almost using their best team today vs Chile. Should be interesting.

Zlatan FTW!

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1-0 larsson

[JAIME CHILE]

Better chilean player today: Pablo Contreras.
In Sweden: Lucic and Larsson.

Lazy match, the best: chilean people on the Rasunda St.

Nilsson, Källstrom and Jonson in, Ljungberg, Wilhelmsson, Källstrom, and Alexandersson out.

No changes in Chile.

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Better chilean player today: Pablo Contreras.
In Sweden: Lucic and Larsson.

Lazy match, the best: chilean people on the Rasunda St.

Nilsson, Källstrom and Jonson in, Ljungberg, Wilhelmsson, Källstrom, and Alexandersson out.

No changes in Chile.

40000 chileans live in sweden.

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i dont understand why hysen want to see allbäck? He is too old and worthless and he didnt score a single goal in world cup 2002. I'd rather see rosenborg or elmander.

[Jahaja]

i dont understand why hysen want to see allbäck? He is too old and worthless and he didnt score a single goal in world cup 2002. I'd rather see rosenborg or elmander.

You'r right but hes more reliable. very disapointed by zlatan though. very bad attitude for this game. seems totally uninterested.

[Big balls]

This match made me nervous, I hope they gave 20% on the pitch today because the WC will be a disaster if they play like today. Win or lose, I always believed friendlys meant absolutely nothing, I hope the players had that mentality today as well. Of course they shouldn't give their all, if someone would get injured it would be terrible but still, last friendly before the WC.........well we'll see

[JAIME CHILE]

Just draw I think, 1:1 .
Sweden was a bit better in the 1rst half, and Chile was a bit better in the 2nd half.

I did like Lucic (1rst half), Larsson and Källstrom (2nd half) in Sweden, and P.Contreras, Valdivia and Suazo in Chile.

Chile won in Ireland, and made 2 draws with Ivory Coast and Sweden, with good football, specially in Dublin, 2nd half against ivorians, and 2nd half against Sweden:)

[Big balls]

Just draw I think, 1:1 .
Sweden was a bit better in the 1rst half, and Chile was a bit better in the 2nd half.

I did like Lucic (1rst half), Larsson and Källstrom (2nd half) in Sweden, and P.Contreras, Valdivia and Suazo in Chile.

Chile won in Ireland, and made 2 draws with Ivory Coast and Sweden, with good football, specially in Dublin, 2nd half against ivorians, and 2nd half against Sweden:)

Yeah you can walk with your head up high, good results there for Chile. IMO, player of the match for the 1st half was clearly Ljungberg. He cut through the defense time after time (then he got subbed in half-time which was decided before the match started). Nilsson was absolutely terrible, he was responsible for Chile's goal and I hope he won't play in the WC. He got the chance in the EC and was absolutely terrible. Valdiva was very good throughout the match.

Chile is definetly not a bad team and it's not as if I expected Sweden to completly dominate, but I'm feeling worried. They can't play like this in a WC. Larsson & CO said in the interviews that this was just a training match and it's difficult to find 100% motivation. Sweden has a history of performing very poorly in friendlys so I hope it will be different in the WC but can it really be ?. This was the very last match before the WC. I understand that they wouldn't give 100% because nobody wants to get injured but England will undoubtedly get their first win in 38 years against Sweden if we play anything like today.

[Kung-dea]

I still feel, even though it wasn´t an impressive result, that this match gave us lots of answers. First of all, Alexandersson seems to be more adapted to the role as defender now then he was in the finland-game. Svensson is not as good as he has been, wich should open the door for Källström, who didn´t really impress either, but Sweden as a whole performed better in the first half, before Ljungberg left the field. he really showed how important he is to our game.
Zlatan didn´t really impress but he seemed to take the day of, and didn´t really work that hard so it doesn´t worry me, he will be better in the WC.

All inall a merely ok result, but not that worrying after all. I´m still confident.

[STHLM]

I dont understand why Stenman was not atleast given a shot at rightback in one of the two games. I think he would have been very capable in this role.

[Jombajomba]

Or why not at leftback? Edman been poor for quite a while.

[Kukilon]

The worst part is that Chile IMHO lacked their best player in that game. Mark Gonzalez. I'm worried.

If Zlatan plays that crappy against T&T he should be benched for the rest of the WC.

[Jahaja]

The worst part is that Chile IMHO lacked their best player in that game. Mark Gonzalez. I'm worried.

If Zlatan plays that crappy against T&T he should be benched for the rest of the WC.
abvious that Zlatan was just not interested in playing that game... I'm confident he will be more interested in the WC games :)

[Kung-dea]

abvious that Zlatan was just not interested in playing that game... I'm confident he will be more interested in the WC games :)

But still, isn´t it time for Zlatan to play a good game soon, he has been off for a long time. I´m a huge zlatan-fan myself and everyone knows his potential, but he hasn´t been good for several months. I used to believe that his weak performance in italy was just an effect of Juve struggeling, and being used in a different role then he´s used to, but he needs to snap out of this fast. For the first time i´m actually a bit worried about zlatans performance. Sure, Zlatan has always had a mind of his own, and only played great when really motivated, but I´ve never seen him with such bad control of the ball before. Even when taking it easy you could always see right away that he had it in him, but lately he doesn´t really seem to be comfortable with the ball. Hope I´m wrong though.