Jun 18 2008
Euro 2008 Match Prediction: Russia - Sweden
The ‘Swede” Candy!
Sweetest things
Sweden only needing a point to guaranteed their place in the last eight while Russian need to win in order become the group top 2 to qualify. An impressive record from the Swedes is that they haven’t failed to qualify from a tournament’s opening stage in the last three attempts, their previous first round exit coming at Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands. But can the yellow boys do it again this year in Austria- Switzerland? Do not forget that the Swedes midfield has been ruin by injury both before the tournament and during. Beside, whether Ibrahimovic will start in the match is still a doubt. You can see how important he is to the team from the last 2 games played. On the other hand, their opponent –The Russian side managed qualification against all the odds when they eliminated England last year, and it would be fitting if they were to pull off the same here.
Head to Head
Based on history record, the two sides have met on three occasions since the dissolution of the USSR. 1994 World Cup finals match - saw Sweden run out 3-1 winners. A friendly four years later ended in a 1-0 home win, and a further four years elapsed before the most recent encounter, a 1-1 draw in Moscow.
Team Line up
Russia
Probable Line-up: Akinfeev; Anyukov, Kolodin, Ignashevich, Zhirkov; Torbinsky, Semak, Zyrianov, Saenko; Arshavin, Pavlyuchenko.
Sweden
Probable Starting XI: Isaksson; Stoor, Mellberg, Hansson, Nilsson; Elmander, Svensson, Andersson, Ljungberg; Larsson, Rosenberg.
Player to Watch
Sweden - Henrik Larsson Again!
Tonight, it’s almost certainly a final game to Hendrik Larsson in the yellow shirt if Sweden loses to Russia and fails to qualify to the next round. As such the 36-year-old forward will need to use every degree of his experience to prevent his team from losing.
MY PREDICTION
Russian side have injuries and fitness problems to deal with and it definitely do not have the 1st 11 key players to play in tonight match and so do Sweden. I more concern on Sweden team aging problem as I believed they are going to play safe tonight, can they managed to deny Russian attack in the 90 minutes? I think so……
Russia 1-1 Sweden
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