Sweden met while south Africa already last week. But then it was an unofficial international match, 3×30 minutes, which was in Cape town.
The match won Sweden with 4-0. When it was fighting ”for real”, it was not as much fun.
the teams met on Tuesday night. When was Sweden a draw.
” It feels a little bit stressed, said the new Djurgårdsspelaren Olivia Schough to C More in the break.
” It feels like we just hit the ball in depth and thinking that it will solve itself.
Sweden searched for Stina Blackstenius in the assault and Frankrikeproffset got some halvchanser. But south Africa defended itself well on its home ground, and was related quickly in his omställningsspel.
Sweden was in control defensively, but came initially to some really dangerous situations. Just before the break went the team captain Caroline Seger in addition to a whack in a melee and was lying. It looked for a while worrying out when the midfielder took to the neck, but the Victory completed the half before she left the place for Piteåspelaren Julia Karlernäs.
– We chose to take her, for safety reasons, ” says head coach Peter Gerhardsson to DN after the match.
But exactly how it is with her, we come back to.
the dismembered up changes, but Sweden finally got a couple of sharp opportunities forward.
After 70 minutes got Schough a jätteläge that was saved to corner kick and in the final stage of the match was debutante writer Madelen Janogy, Piteå, chance for his first goal. It even had högerbacken Hanna Glass, but the ball went in the bar and the match ended 0-0.
thus large compared to last year, when Sweden played 3-0 against south Africa during a similar januariläger.
– You notice that the south Africa has been developed, said mittfältsstjärnan Kosovare Asllani to C More.
” They have a man-man defense, they made it tight for us, but it is good for us to practice on. It is such resistance, we can meet in the world CUP.
continued Asllani:
” We knew that we would not have all the technical pieces in place, it was the first international of the year, but it was a good workout. And there are five months left for the world CUP. We have time on us.
Peter Gerhardsson agree with.
– We are not good enough to create scoring opportunities. But the players need to get started in their club teams and get the continuity.
– It is possible to draw the equal sign with both Chile and Thailand that we have in the group stage. They are also very markeringsinriktade and have the quick, nimble players. So we need to meet this type of resistance. It is important, ” says Gerhardsson.