Int. Friendly: Turkey 0-0 Sweden (06/02/08)

[Vic]

This will be a good test for our boys. Turkey are solid and a good opponent. I wonder which kind of squad we will have for this one. Will the stars participate? Hmm I doubt it but you never know.

[Vic]

Sweden's squad against Turkey


Goalkeepers:

Andreas Isaksson, Manchester City

Rami Shaaban, Fredrikstad FK

Defenders:

Mikael Nilsson, Panathinaikos

Peter Larsson, Halmstad

Behrang Safari, Malmö FF

Matias Concha, VfL Bochum

Petter Hansson, Rennes

Daniel Majstorovic, Basel

Fredrik Stoor, Rosenborg BK

Midfielders:

Samuel Holmén, Bröndby

Kim Källström, Lyon

Kennedy Bakircioglü, Ajax

Rasmus Lindgren, Ajax

Sebastian Larsson, Birmingham City

Christian Wilhelmsson, Deportivo la Coruña

Anders Svensson, IF Elfsborg

Forwards:

Johan Elmander, Toulouse

Dusan Djuric, FC Zürich

Marcus Berg, FC Groningen

Markus Rosenberg, Werder Bremen

[Fenerliyim]

lookin foward to losing to sweden. Turkey never plays good in friendlies, are players dont give a shit unless its like brazil or italy or some other big team.

[Vic]

lookin foward to losing to sweden. Turkey never plays good in friendlies, are players dont give a shit unless its like brazil or italy or some other big team.


Same with Sweden bro. We always lose in friendlies for some reason.

I'm curious about the Turkish squad. Do you have any info about it?

[Fenerliyim]

nope no infos been released yet

[Vic]

Aight man!

[13Ballack13]

Sweden will probably win this game

[Fenerliyim]

The Turkish Squad:

Goalkeepers: Rüştü Reçber (Beşiktaş JK), Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahçe SK), Serkan Kırıntılı (MKE Ankaragücü).

Defenders: Servet Çetin (Galatasaray AŞ), Hakan Balta (Galatasaray AŞ), Gökhan Zan (Beşiktaş JK), İbrahim Kaş (Beşiktaş JK), Emre Aşık (Ankaraspor AŞ), Gökhan Gönül (Fenerbahçe SK), Giray Kaçar (Gençlerbirliği Oftaşspor).

Midfielders: Mehmet Aurélio (Fenerbahçe SK), Uğur Boral (Fenerbahçe SK) Hamit Altıntop (FC Bayern München), Caner Erkin (PFC CSKA Moskva), Mehmet Topal (Galatasaray AŞ), Mehmet Topuz (Kayserispor), Tümer Metin (Larissa FC), Emre Belözoğlu (Newcastle United FC), Gökdeniz Karadeniz (Trabzonspor), Yıldıray Baştürk (VfB Stuttgart).

Forwards: Nihat Kahveci (Villarreal CF), Semih Şentürk (Fenerbahçe SK), Halil Altıntop (FC Schalke 04), Gökhan Ünal (Kayserispor), Mehmet Yıldız (Sivasspor), Serhat Akın (RSC Anderlecht).


This Squad is pretty loaded.

[13Ballack13]

where the df is zlatan imbrahimovic for Sweden :)

[nb-legenda]

damn Turkey will kill Sweden in that game

[Vic]

That's an impressive squad right there man but one thing that stroke me was the absence of Tuncay Şanlı of Middlesbrough. Is he being rested or is he injuried?

[Vic]

where the df is zlatan imbrahimovic for Sweden :)

He's being rested together with Freddie Ljungberg, Olof Mellberg and Erik Edman. Those are all starters for the Swedish team.

Linderoth is also a regular but he's unfortunately injuried.

[Fenerliyim]

tuncay is injured

[Vic]

Rasmus Lindgren(Ajax) and Christan Wilhelmsson(D.la Coruña) won't participate against Turkey.

Lindgren got injuried against Feyenoord and Wilhelmsson has been sick.

[Vic]

Sweden's starting 11 against Turkey

Isaksson, Man City
Nilsson, Panathinaikos
Majstorovic, Basel
Hansson, Rennes
Stoor, Rosenborg
A.Svensson, Elfsborg
Seb.Larsson, Birmingham
Kennedy, Ajax
Källström, Lyon
Berg, Groningen
Rosenberg, Werder Bremen

[alishir123]

IM gessing it would be like this for Turkiye

Volkan D.
Cetin Altintop Hakan Balta Gokhan Gonul

M. Aurellio
Emre B. Basturk

Tumer Metin/Gokdeniz??

Nihat K. Halil Altintop

What do you think?

[Vic]

How many regular starters do you guys miss in this turkish squad?

[Fenerliyim]

like 1

[Vic]

Game over: 0-0

Seb Larsson and Kennedy was for me the two best players in the Swedish team this night.

Solid performance overall with the conditions that the Swedish team had this evening.

[Viking_81]

Not too exciting, I think the Swedish commentator's summarization was quite accurate. You could tell it was a training match. Other than passion, Sweden lacked an edge with some of the regulars being rested. Berg made an unimpressive debut but I think he still should get to play every training match before the Euro. Rosenberg's place on the bench should come into question, he never creates anything whenever he gets a chance.

Larsson made a good debut and hope to see him in future training matches.