A friendly match between the national teams of Sweden and Uzbekistan will be held in Stockholm on Sunday. We offer you a forecast for this meeting.
Sweden
The Swedish national team was a little unlucky at Euro 2020 – they flew to the 1/8 finals from the Ukrainians, conceding the decisive goal in the 120th minute of the match. Janne Andersson's team managed to recover from this shock, and last Thursday made a big step towards the final part of the World Cup in Qatar, beating the Spanish team in the qualifying match (2:1). Now in their group, the Swedes are ahead of the Spaniards by 2 points, while having a match in reserve.
Uzbekistan
For the first time in a long time, the Uzbek team failed to get into the final part of the Asian qualifying cycle. In the second round, they not only lost twice to the Saudi Arabian national team (2:3, 0:3), but once we lost to Palestine (0:2), which played a fatal role in not going to the next stage. Of course, Vadim Abramov was dismissed from the post of head coach, in whose place came the most experienced Slovenian Srechko Katanets.
Statistics and figures
- Sweden has won 8 matches out of the last ten, losing only once, and then in extra time;
- Sweden has a 6-match winning streak in home matches;
- Sweden has won 4 matches out of the last five friendlies, losing once;
- Uzbekistan has a 17-match unbeaten streak (10 wins + 7 losses);
- Uzbekistan has won 3 matches out of the last four away matches, losing only once;
- Uzbekistan has won only 1 match out of the last four friendly matches, losing three times.
Forecast
It is an extremely rare situation when the national team of Uzbekistan plays in Europe. Over the past 10 years, the Uzbeks have played here only once, in 2019, losing to the Turks in Alanya (0: 2). With a new status coach, they will certainly give everything 110%. Srechko Katanets will not radically change the tactics of the main team of Uzbekistan, because he always prefers the defensive game, which he practiced for three years in the Iraqi national team. The Swedes will definitely not give their best after the hardest match with the Spaniards, and the reserves will play in this meeting, because in three days the "yellow-blue" will have an away selection match for the 2022 World Cup with Greece. I will not risk betting on the outcome of the match – I recommend paying attention to the lower total.
