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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Portugal-Sweden match report

Back in the day (and I am talking 94 here for anyone who remembers) the Swedish national team was known for its defense. That is how we did so well and got ourselves a bronze at that World Cup. Since then our defense has gone back and forth and not been as stable (note in 94 we also had someone named Brolin need I say more). Nowadays we don´t have Brolin, but instead Zlatan (who is better all around I think). Yesterday we also found out we have a spectacular defense. Granted Johansson didn´t exactly play at tops, but then again Christiano Ronaldo didn´t exactly score either so there isn´t too much to say there. Mellberg and Majstorovic proved that playing together, there won´t be too many teams who can break through. That means we just have to get our offensive qualities a bit sharpened. That means that we need to let R. Elm play more and it means that Anders "Taco" Svensson is probably not far from the end of his career on the international stage. Anyway we tied Portugal in a game that anyone who wasn´t rooting for Sweden will call ugly and defensive. It doesn´t matter if we can beat Denmark twice and Hungary one more time, we will be in South Africa.

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