We have at least received a beautiful frame.
When Sweden came to Ottawa, the wind was a caress, the water mirror and the surroundings a midsummer night’s dream. Canada’s capital is one of the most architecturally interesting thing I’ve ever walked through, if we were here to see the buildings, we would have needed more than 90 minutes to see our fill.
Now is 90 minutes everything we have to see what Pia Sundhages national team building is really worth.
Pia came as a primordial force and blew life into Swedish football, with conviction and ideas and a love that infected from the center circle and out to a full, hungry country.
Now she sits in Ottawa facing what may be her last game as coach, blaming unworthy of their closed national team at the press woman Rebecca Hedin and trying to revive a team that has not won a single World Cup game.
They have approached the World Cup with his back first, without giving any signals that they are here to conquer the world. Players have been hidden, the system has been changed, and I think after all those things belong together. You show players that the world is dangerous, they will never dare to win it.
Never easy, is often impossible
In the evening, they are at Lansdowne Park, a dense arena plate stands, and will try to outmanoeuvre Germany. It is never easy, it is often impossible, but it makes me pessimistic is the Swedish disability rather than German domination.
We’re here because FIFA does not even bothered to pretend that they want make the World Cup to an open and fair tournament, but have chosen to steer together Germany, France and the United States on a half to give the home side a Canada an easier trip through the playoffs. For the audience, PR, for the money.
It is what it is.
We are where we are.
Tokpressande, aggressive German women
And since it is after all still football there’s always a chance. Sweden will smash right into a customary furious German first quarter, with tokpress and aggressiveness. Yesterday I saw a German Hosts heating – the rest of the workout was closed – but it was enough to see their sharpest weapon.
my pelvis Annike Krahn stood and fed the classic “Flo-balls” towards the main game phenomenon Alexandra Popp on the left. They will look for the path, and both the individual (Elin Rubensson) and collective defense game you have raised several levels of Swedes will keep up.
Defensively, I think of course that some embarks itself. Just as the United States – Sweden’s only top performance in the World Cup – Sweden will get free organization in many ways. They will be pressed together in their defense games, and it need not be negative.
The key is what they do once they get the ball, what they do with the knowledge that they have the speed guns Lotta Schelin and Sofia Jakobsson at up, while Germany has its slowest players at the back.
The fault is not only Schelin
There has been much talked about Schelin been unseen thus far in the World Cup, but that’s a discussion which has been flat and simplified.
The problem is not Schelin been bad.
The problem is that she barely had a chance to be good.
Yesterday I saw for the Australia match (a kinder resistance than Germany, of course) to see exactly what the best Swedish footballer got to work with. And you know, it was not much.
When Australia ran out 1-0 Lotta had not even touched the ball. After there was a scenario that Swedish game idea more than anything searches – to find Schelin upright with the ball towards goal.
Answers? When the match was over, she had received 33 times, 28 of them upside down and harmless. In the second half, when Sweden chased segermål, got Schelin ball half-turned towards goal one (1) time.
No matter how good a striker is: What are the requirements we set then?
Sure, it happens after all the players (we can call them Ibrahimovic) do not have anything to do something, but there’s nothing we can count on.
If Sweden wants a chance to dance further in the World Cup, they must manage to put together the two or three passes required to play the pointed end stick up around the target. Then Caroline Seger push up the game speed on artificial turf, then backlinje- balls come quickly and correctly, then the outer slopes do other than to scoop up the ball, and then the post game from the edges … well, anyway exist.
Pia know what to say
Tonight is Swedish women’s football match from a feat and the wind in the sails, but also a match away to go home from the World Cup, away from the Olympics and away from Pia Sundhages ledarera with a sour taste in the mouth.
It would be too sad.
Sweden went to bed with their mid- summer night dreams of yesterday, and even a pressed Pia Sundhage knows what should be said on the way to the big blow:
– Now is the time, now is the time, she said. We were going to go home to Sweden. The feeling is that we got a second chance, and the people and teams that get a second chance can do wonders. That’s what we should do now.
That is exactly what it is. A late, sloppy Swedish teams to go out to masterfully resistance, and attempt to remind us why we once fell in love with it.
You have not a chance. Go out and take it now.
