Well, and so we stand here and look Austria jump in the ring for the first time ever to have qualified for the European Championships.
Wipes we look we see Erik Hamrén standing with his arms crossed over suit , busy trying to take in what has happened and what will happen.
Can we start by agreeing on a few things?
Stop talking about the playoffs, if the results if the gaming system, for under-21 players who hypothetical savior. Stop initiate lagpresentationerna home at the Friends Arena by reading ten names normally and then yell Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Stop everything, and go back to basics, starting, step one on the training course.
A Swedish national team has just gone with open eyes straight into the chaos and cacophony, come out with a 1-4 -förnedring against Austria, and it should reasonably be nothing more than to pull the handbrake now.
Build a team, organize, put a basic game.
Then, we possibly begin to talk about the rest.
– It was not so bad in the beginning, said Erik Hamrén, and it made me think of the late Anders “Tich” Eklund.
It was little man who went out to Tim Witherspoon in a title match, ran into a nasty knockout after 71 seconds, and afterwards summed it up like this:
– It worked well, I thought. Then it happened little things.
Sweden pressed with energy from the beginning, chose an easier game with long lift to the two strikers, locked the attacks and forced Austria to knock down. Sure, it was not so bad.
But then it happened little things.
Sweden is no stable team
Austria received a throw and little Zlatko Junuzovic pulled behind Martin Olsson. Kim Kallstrom came five meters by four meters, running, stretching out a leg and gave Austria a penalty which David Alaba skedade in.
Austria received a throw-in to the entire enlightened world know that Christian Fuchs usually throw them far towards Marc Janko, but Janko had to win a header towards Kallstrom and Martin Harnik could push the 2-0.
Would you be kind one could say that Sweden has invested and passed away on cheap mistake. If you want to be critical, it can be said that they invited up to give-and-take football with a dripping Kim Kallstrom, long play and quick Austrian shifts toward an abandoned Albin Ekdal in midfield.
A couple of thousand raised Austrians sang it apart Solna:
– Oh, wie ist das schön! Oh, wie ist das schön!
Sweden had bet and lost, but stable team can recover and come back. It’s just that Sweden is not a stable team, it has just been so Sweden is barely a team at all.
It’s like that game where you run down the head , spins ten laps around a stick and then trying to find the right place.
Removing your left back who has been given as a right, send down your right midfielder instead, replace three players, shift the game system again, and ask they then play automated, safe football.
Is it a coincidence that the player is wrong when they barely recognize pal who ended up next to them at this game? Is it a coincidence that a team as total collective crashing when Zlatan Ibrahimovic does not happen to be magical enough to send in a goal or three?
I do not believe it. And I do not think the football coach who believes it.
Erik Hamréns countermove when Sweden was about to perish with all hands were not to go back to basics, stabilize, tight midfield and finding a method to work up the balls. His choice was to belatedly push everything he had on roulette, please offensive players. One, two, three.
It was there that Englishmen call to “move on lounge chairs on the Titanic,” a coaching made for reality shows on television. Full speed ahead. Shajning de luxe.
hopelessness pours into
Austria were allowed to play until the right turn midfielders against the defensive line in almost every attack, it was like seeing a allsvenskt teams against one from division three, you know, that kind of game where everything is so easy to get too excited because it feels like that every attack is a neutral position.
And of course, we can line up the poor individual efforts, if that makes any happier . The exception a somewhat heroic Andreas Isaksson and deserted but valiant Albin Ekdal was hardly a player who reached the pass. There were mismatches, positional, but more than anything it was a team that collapsed as a collective, and a coach who spun so many laps over that stick that he no longer finds its way home.
Austria won 4-1, it could have been seven or eight. The qualifying session is designed so that it is harder to miss the European Cup than to go there, but where we are sitting on a blank Friends Arena and feel the fall and hopelessness pouring in, it is not the EM odds we’re counting on.
I do not want Erik Hamrén will be sent out before qualifying is over, there is no way to work on, but it makes me depressed when he refuses to see a relationship between the rotation of the circus and the lack of continuity in the game.
Sweden coach found it difficult to even understand the questions, he thought it was strange that the Moscow debacle called flat match, said that he was most disappointed at the lack of efficiency and individual mistakes against Austria.
The national team lost 4-1 after the greatest collective crash in modern times.
It worked well, thought Erik Hamrén. But then it happened little things.
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