Pettersson, Sweden is better at every point – Expressen

Winnipeg. Actually, it is only to take place just behind Sweden’s goals and then look to the future. In a straight line, you see the four backs to carry his team through the World Cup.

They must never be bent. They must never be broken.

So now stretch to you, Hedvig Lindahl, Nilla Fischer, Caroline Seger and Lotta Schelin.

It is you we lean against the night.

– It’s just a game, says Lotta Schelin .

We sit on the international press conference in the catacombs in Winnipeg Stadium when Schelin get a question about how to prepare for the World Cup premiere.

The Swedish attacking ace talking about not konstla to it. Just following procedures. To do everything as normal.

And then ends with:

– It’s just a game.

Which of course is a lie. The white lie that the players themselves have to try to believe in order not to crack the thoughts of millions of TV viewers, favorite prints, and the leaden weight of the three points against Nigeria.

This is obviously not “just a match. “

This is the game that will give Sweden a dream start to the World Cup.

This is also the game that can ruin everything.

To easy:

Want Sweden go far in this championship, you want to create a World Cup summer á la 2003 & amp; 2011, need to win the group.

And if Sweden win the group must in all probability be the victory of the night.

Number. The end.

Of course you know all the players that. And just as obviously it is the player with the greatest pressure on himself to perform in the evening.

The Gang of Four.

A goalkeeper in search of revenge. A retrained powerhouse. An engine that never slows. A flyfotad spearhead.

Or, if you like: Hedvig Lindahl , Nilla Fischer , Caroline Seger and Lotta Schelin .

I want to see them dominate their part of the plan the night. I want to see them radiate safety and class. I want to see them lead Sweden to victory.

The alternative would be devastatingly sad.

One day before the kickoff seems protagonists themselves anyway not particularly nervous faced with the task.

– No, actually not. I’ve had a lot of pressure on my shoulders for a long time now. It’s nothing new to me, says Lotta Schelin.

– Right now I am enjoying only. And I do not think about anything other than that we win this, says Caroline Seger .

What the opponents while considering is a bit more unclear.

Nigerian press conference a few hours after Sweden gave no direct answers.

Well, by the way.

The same answer came back time and time again.

– We know nothing about Sweden, reiterated both prohibitions Captain Edwin Okon player Evelyn Nwabuoku .

Hey.

But in all honesty, it should be no matter if the detail studied every match Sweden played in the past year. If they learned everything there is to know about all of Lindahl in the back to Schelin up front.

If so, they may just have come to exactly the same thing that all of us:

The fact that Sweden is a better team at each point.

So now only remains to show it in the night. To take the Nigerian thief knocks (yes, there will be many) with a shrug. And then give the Swedish TV viewers a distinctive statement about why they should night vigil through the next few weeks.

Should we say 2-0?