Zlatan Ibrahimovic is representing Sweden again.
Zlatan Ibrahimović came on as a substitute, but couldn’t save Sweden. EPA/AOP
Sweden opened the European Championship qualifiers on Friday evening at home against Belgium.
The match played in front of almost 50,000 pairs of eyes was a huge disappointment for the home team, because Romelu Lukaku led Belgium to a 3–0 victory with a hat trick.
When Sweden was down by two goals, it was barely 20 minutes before the end of the match Zlatan Ibrahimovićwhich replaced Alexander Isakin.
The 41-year-old striker surprisingly praised his team’s performance, even though Sweden was the worse side in the match in all other statistics besides the result.
– I think we played a good match. It’s a shame that we didn’t get a goal, Ibrahimović commented according to the Swedish public broadcasting company SVT.
SVT expert Daniel Nannskog was Janne Andersson completely disagree with the group’s excerpts.
He said that the blue-and-yellows failed in their scouting and that the game performance exuded indifference.
– It was close to humiliation, Nannskog summarized.
Sweden continues the qualifiers on Monday against Azerbaijan.