– Norway is a little further ahead – Dagsavisen
Ståle Solbakken thought Sweden “complained badly” about the many injuries and exclusions in the national league earlier Saturday. He was tired of all the excuses. During the Swedes’ press conference, Andersson replied.
– In that case, he can take over my job as Swedish national team manager and take out that team. I have the greatest respect for Ståle. He is a good national team coach. I answer when I ask myself. I think I have said for the last fourteen days that I am happy to answer about the players who are here.
Andersson presented at the press conference together with Sweden’s captain Emil Forsberg. Andersson repeated several times during the session that the reason why there has been a lot of talk about the players who are not there, because he only answers the questions that are asked.
About the match tomorrow, Andersson said, among other things:
– We are in different processes. Ståle has had the national team manager job for a year and a half and got his way of playing. They’re pretty clear on that now. If you look at our last six months, it has been very moving with a lot of injury problems, Andersson said.
– We have done a turnaround operation, and they are a little further ahead right now, said the national team manager.
The revolving door in the Swedish squad has gained momentum during this gathering. In recent days, Pavle Vagic, Aiham Ousou and Magnus Eriksson have been called in to fill vacancies.
Kristoffer Olsson and Mattias Svanberg received their yellow card numbers against Serbia and have left the squad. Dejan Kulusevski and Emil Krafth faced Serbia with yellow cards and are again relevant for games.
Solbakken, on the other hand, has all its players available. Brede Moe has been laid off and has joined the training camp at Bodø / Glimt in Denmark.
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