Int. Friendly: USA 2-0 Sweden (19/01/08)

[Vic]

Lagerbäck combs Swedish fringe

Sweden coach Lars Lagerbäck has named an experimental 22-man squad for the friendly games against Costa Rica and the United States on 13 and 19 January respectively, as he ponders his UEFA EURO 2008™ options.

Fringe players
Ten members of the party are in line to make international debuts, with the likes of Hammarby's Louay Chanko and Malmö FF's Behrang Safari eyeing a first cap. "It's fantastic that we can get this chance to give the players valuable international experience, and credit to the clubs for making this co-operation work," said Lagerbäck. More experienced home-based players will also be available, including the 103-times capped Niclas Alexandersson and 83-times capped Anders Svensson.

Sweden squad

Goalkeepers:
Johan Wiland (IF Elfsborg)
Rami Shaaban (Fredrikstad FK).

Defenders:
Mattias Bjärsmyr (IFK Göteborg)
Peter Larsson (Halmstads BK)
Mikael Lustig (GIF Sundsvall)
Oskar Rönningberg (Helsingborgs IF)
Behrang Safari (Malmö FF)
Fredrik Stoor (Rosenborg BK)
Jimmy Tamandi (AIK Solna).

Midfielders:
Niclas Alexandersson (IFK Göteborg)
Daniel Andersson (Malmö FF)
Louay Chanko (Hammarby)
Andreas Dahl (Helsingborgs IF)
Viktor Elm (Kalmar FF)
Samuel Holmén (Brøndby IF)
Stefan Ishizaki (IF Elfsborg)
Andreas Johansson (Aalborg BK)
Anders Svensson (IF Elfsborg).

Forwards:
Johan Oremo (Gefle IF)
Rade Price (Aalborg BK)
Dusan Djuric (FC Zürich)
Pontus Wernbloom (IFK Göteborg).

[Vic]

Sweden will start like this against USA.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/136/start520144wbb7.jpg

[nb-legenda]

lol United States is going all out and fielding its best players :lol:

Twelveman, E. Robinson, Donovan, etc.

[Vic]

We're down 2-0 after 70minutes. 1-0 on a corner and 2-0 on a penalty (Donovan's goal meant that he's the best goalscorer in alltime for US).

[Vic]

FT

USA vs Sweden 2-0

[giorgiob8]

lol United States is going all out and fielding its best players :lol:

Twelveman, E. Robinson, Donovan, etc.

Of the USA starting 11 only Donovan is first choice in his position, the rest are not even in the reserve of the first team for the most part as those spots will be occupied by the players in England, Scotland, Belgium, Germany, Holland, etc.

[samnite]

Good to see we avenged the loss earlier to you guys

[Viking_81]

Good to see we avenged the loss earlier to you guys

Hahaha, it's amazing that you've actually managed to find a football forum and yet you know nothing of the game. Did you notice that in the match Sweden won, you faced, Zlatan, Källström, Elmander etc. etc.

In the last game, Sweden fielded a bunch of domestic debutants that may or may not get to sit on the bench in a Euro.

But yeah, glad to hear you feel good haha :)

[samnite]

Hahaha, it's amazing that you've actually managed to find a football forum and yet you know nothing of the game. Did you notice that in the match Sweden won, you faced, Zlatan, Källström, Elmander etc. etc.

In the last game, Sweden fielded a bunch of domestic debutants that may or may not get to sit on the bench in a Euro.

But yeah, glad to hear you feel good haha :)

LOL @ the whining :lol:

[Vic]

Relax Viking. He was only satisfied with the win against our team. A win is always a win.

Btw congrats on the win samnite!

[Viking_81]

Relax Viking. He was only satisfied with the win against our team. A win is always a win.

Btw congrats on the win samnite!

Yeah because I was so amped up :rolleyes:

A win is always a win ?, well no if it's an avengeance to an earlier loss where the best players were fielded. If Sweden would defeat Italy's D-team, I couldn't care less.