microcosm

Russia defeated Sweden, but this result doesn't tell the whole story. I don't think it was a bad performance of by the Swedish players, maybe Russia was a little bit better. Surely, Ibrahimovic didn't play on his maximum level with his injury and Larsson wasn't lucky in his opputurnity of scoring in the first half. The team fightened a lot to go through the group into the quarter finals.

Lagerbäck should focus on younger players for the future to build up a squad which can qualify for the WC 2010 and go far there.