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Sweden are the very best ranked workforce going into Euro 2022 and are among the many favourites to go residence with the trophy on the finish of July.

With back-to-back Olympic silver medals, a 3rd place end on the 2019 World Cup and a settled squad filled with skilled, defensively sturdy and tactically good gamers, the Swedes have a lot going of their favour.

However having so usually fallen on the ultimate or penultimate hurdle, will they recover from the road this time? Here is every part you could find out about Sweden forward of Euro 2022.

Sweden secured their place at Euro 2022 by profitable Group F forward of Iceland.

The Swedes dropped solely two factors from their eight video games, drawing 1-1 with Iceland in Reykjavik halfway by way of the marketing campaign. They typically cruised their manner by way of, profitable by 5 or extra objectives in opposition to Hungary residence and away, Slovakia residence and away and Latvia at residence.

Anna Anvegaard and Lina Hurtig scored 5 and 4 objectives respectively, however defenders Linda Sembrant and Magdalena Eriksson additionally chipped in with 4 and three objectives respectively. However Sweden’s greatest energy was defensively, conceding solely twice in eight video games.

Sweden received the primary ever Girls’s European Championship again in 1984, however it stays their solely main match triumph up to now, regardless of often being a real contender.

Euro 1984: Winners
Euro 1987: Runners up
Euro 1989: Third place
Euro 1991: Didn’t qualify
Euro 1993: Didn’t qualify
Euro 1995: Runners up
Euro 1997: Semi finals
Euro 2001: Runners up
Euro 2005: Semi finals
Euro 2009: Quarter finals
Euro 2013: Semi finals
Euro 2017: Quarter finals

Sweden have been to each Girls’s World Cup, reaching the ultimate as soon as in 2003 and getting so far as the semi-finals on three different events. Solely as soon as have they failed to succeed in the knockouts.

​​1991 World Cup: Third place
1995 World Cup: Quarter finals
1999 World Cup: Quarter finals
2003 World Cup: Runners up
2007 World Cup: Group stage
2011 World Cup: Third place
2015 World Cup: Spherical of 16
2019 World Cup: Third place

Loads of Swedish hopes this summer time shall be pinned on the shoulders of versatile Barcelona ahead Fridolina Rolfo. The left-sided star, who moved from Wolfsburg final summer time, completed the membership season in a full-back position however is predicted to be one of many high attackers at Euro 2022.

Rolfo chipped in with 9 objectives and 10 assists in 26 league appearances for Barcelona final time period, She has been a part of Sweden’s two silver medal-winning Olympics squads – netting three objectives in Tokyo final summer time – and at 28 is at her peak.

Keep watch over 19-year-old Hanna Bennison, who’s the one participant within the Sweden squad youthful than 24. Regardless of her age, the Everton midfielder already has a powerful quantity of senior worldwide expertise – she extra caps below her belt than a number of older members, and can convey aptitude, intelligence and creativity to the match.

Peter Gerhardsson has been Sweden coach since 2017, masterminding final summer time’s journey to the Olympic ultimate and spectacular opening victory over america,

The 62-year-old was working in males’s soccer earlier than that, having been in cost at Hacken for seven years till 2017. Since 2002 he has additionally been Underneath-17 males’s nationwide coach and an assistant coach at Helsingborg.

Sweden’s teenage midfielder Hanna Bennison was the costliest feminine participant on this planet in 2021, costing Everton a ‘six determine’ sum when she made the swap from Rosengard within the autumn.

Netherlands vs Sweden

Date & time: Saturday 9 July, 20:00 (BST)
Venue: Bramall Lane
watch on TV: BBC One (UK)

Sweden vs Switzerland

Date & time: Wednesday 13 July, 17:00 (BST)
Venue: Bramall Lane
watch on TV: BBC Two (UK)

Sweden vs Portugal

Date & time: Sunday 17 July, 17:00 (BST)
Venue: Leigh Sports activities Village
watch on TV: BBC iPlayer (UK)

Sweden should not have any bother getting by way of the group stage, with wins over Switzerland and Portugal to be anticipated. However they’ll have a more durable time in opposition to reigning champions Netherlands and their opening conflict in opposition to them might decide who finishes high of the standings.

Topping the group would arrange a quarter-final with the runner up of Group D, which is prone to be Italy or Iceland. The semi-final on that facet is the winner of Group A or the Group B runner up, which is predicted to be England, Germany or Spain.

Ending as Group C runner up would imply 1 / 4 ultimate in opposition to Group D’s winner, doubtlessly France. After that, it could be a semi-final in opposition to the runner up for Group A or the Group B winner; doubtless Norway, Spain or Germany.

Goalkeepers: Hedvig Lindahl (Atletico Madrid), Jennifer Falk (Hacken), Zecira Musovic (Chelsea).

Defenders: Jonna Andersson (Hammarby), Linda Sembrant (Juventus), Hanna Glas (Bayern Munich), Amanda Nilden (Juventus), Magdalena Eriksson (Chelsea), Emma Kullberg (Brighton), Amanda Ilestedt (PSG), Nathalie Bjorn (Everton).

Midfielders: Filippa Angeldahl (Man Metropolis), Caroline Seger (Rosengard), Hanna Bennison (Everton), Elin Rubensson (Hacken), Olivia Schough (Rosengard).

Forwards: Lina Hurtig (Juventus), Kosovare Asllani (Actual Madrid), Sofia Jakobsson (San Diego Wave), Stina Blackstenius (Arsenal), Rebecka Blomqvist (Wolfsburg), Fridolina Rolfo (Barcelona), Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (Hacken).

Sweden have been the ‘almost’ workforce on so many events during the last 35 years, however 2022 shall be when that lastly all adjustments and so they get their fingers on a primary main trophy since 1984.

They’ve been Europe’s highest ranked workforce by FIFA for a while and that is an skilled squad at its peak – glory for them is now or by no means.

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