Bring it on @saintbristol , with no Zlatan in the squad you is going down…
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Sweden and South Korea meet in a World Cup for the first time on Monday when they begin their campaigns in Russia.
The Europeans have a fully fit squad to choose from but have only scored one goal in four games and none in their past three matches.
South Korea will be captained by former Swansea City midfielder Ki Sung-yueng, while Tottenham forward Son Heung-min is one of their main players.
World champions Germany and Mexico are the other two teams in Group F.
This match will take place in Nizhny Novgorod and there are reports that less than 2,000 fans have travelled from South Korea to Russia, while more than 30,000 Swedish fans have travelled to the tournament.
We will be playing in our ninth successive World Cup finals and will be hoping to do better than four years ago when we finished bottom of our group with only one point (a 1-1 draw against Russia) from their three matches.
We didn’t do that well in qualifying, only winning four of 10 qualifying games in the third round of Asian qualification, we needed a 0-0 draw away in Uzbekistan in our final match to secure a place in Russia.
We’re not in the best of form, we have only won one of our last six matches, including a 2-1 loss to Northern Ireland in March.
How did Sweden miss that?
South Korea are my new favourite team
While we’re on the subject of South Korea, their coach has admitted to telling his players to wear different numbers on their shirts in recent warm-up matches because their opposition couldn’t tell one player from another.
The BBC reports that Shin Tae-yong used the tactic in friends against Bolivia and Senegal, with only star forward Son Heung-min and skipper Ki Sung-yueng in their standard kit.
“We switched them around because we didn’t want to show our opponents everything and to try and confuse them,” Tae-yong said.
“They might know a few of our players but it is very difficult for Westerners to distinguish between Asians and that’s why we did that.”
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Forget it, it didn’t c&p very well…
Late to the game, but get in you lovely Swedes. I guess Anders Svensson has retired now he seemed to kee on playing.
Little Dragon are Swedish 
