Sweden meets Germany, round of 16, today, June 24 in Munich at 5:00 PM German time (11:00 AM EST)
Germany- Sweden head to heads:
31 matches, with 12 wins each, and 7 draws. Germany has scored 56 goals and conceded 53.
The Germany vs Sweden matches have always run close. This Swedish team has its share of offensive weapons with Ibrahamovic, Ljungberg, and Larsson. Marcus Allbeck filling in for Ibrahamovic scored a beautiful header against England. Larsson has been missing in action in the last couple of games but if he comes alive, he could provide Sweden with most of its chances.
Klose has been absolutely phenomenal in front of goal. He also does not hesitate to come out to midfield to create his own chances. Swedish goalie Isaksson has to be on top of his game. Edman and Lucic who effectively shut down England’s attack on the right have to contend with Schneider and Ballack.
Germany: Lehmann, Friedrich, Metzelder, Mertesacker, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Frings, Ballack, Schneider, Podolski, Klose.
Subs: Jansen, Huth, Kehl, Nowotny, Hanke, Neuville, Kahn, Asamoah, Hitzlsperger, Borowski, Odonkor, Hildebrand.
Sweden: Isaksson, Alexandersson, Mellberg, Lucic, Edman, Ljungberg, Linderoth, Kallstrom, Jonson, Ibrahimovic, Larsson.
Subs: Nilsson, Anders Svensson, Alvbage, Hansson, Stenman, Karl Svensson, Elmander, Andersson, Allback, Wilhelmsson, Rosenberg, Shaaban.
Referee: Carlos Eugenio Simon (Brazil)
Penalty shootout stats:
Germany are the best when it comes to winning matches decided by penalty shootout having won all three and converting 13 out of 14. Sweden has also won its only match decided by penalty shootout.
Germany won the World Cup in 1954, 1974, and 1990. Sweden’s best finish is second place to Brazil in 1958.
3 comments on “Sweden vs Germany: This might go to a penalty shootout.”
Referees are trouble in this world cup. I’m not enjoying the matches any more. The red card in today’s match was too harsh and unfair. Now, the match is a joke. If Germany plays against Argentina in Qfinal, do we expect someone of Argentina seeing red card ???
Yesterday the goal against Korea was a joke, what a mockery of world cup match. We are seeing some world class players, but not world class referees. FIFA should be responsible for this. I guess, soccer fans like to see a match of 11 vs 11, red card ruins a match.
I thought the goal v Korea was a bad call too but if you scroll down and check out the video there’s a closeup shot that shows the ball deflect off a Korean defender before the goal, so it wasn’t offside afterall.
The point was that the linesman raising the flag and bringing it down immediately is disturbing. No team will like that. In the Mexico vs Arg match a yellow card was also very confusing, could not understand who made the foul and who got the card.