Sweden would start their next UEFA Nations League campaign League C after they were demoted from League B. For this season’s UEFA Nations League, the Swedes were drawn in Group B4 alongside Scandinavian rivals Norway, Slovenia and Serbia.
Celtic have completed the signing of Rubin Kazan attacker Sead Haksabanovic on a five-year deal. The Montenegro international has penned a long-term deal with the Scottish champions to become Ange Postecoglou’s eighth summer capture. Haksabanovic was on the Hoops’ radar last summer after catching the eye with Swedish outfit IFK Norrkoping, where he made an impressive 46 goals contributions in 76 games.
Sweden national team striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has signed a new contract at Italian Serie A champions AC Milan thus extending his stay with the club until next summer. He has signed a one-year contract extension with the Rossoneri. The club legend was a free agent after his previous Milan deal ended in June. The new Milan contract for the Sweden international was confirmed by the Italian Serie A side via an official statement earlier in the week.
Reports in Italy suggest Southampton have put in a bid for Bologna midfielder Mattias Svanberg who has attracted a lot of interest after impressive performances in Serie A. La Gazzetta dello Sport suggest the Rossoblu have received a €10million (around £8.5million) bid from Saints for the Swedish international. The 23-year-old impressed last season for Sinisa Mihajlovic’s side who finished 13 th in Serie A last season. In 36 league appearances, Svanberg scored three goals and three assists including the winner against Jose Mourinho’s Roma in December. He also scored the opener and provided the cross for the winning goal in a 2-1 win at Sampdoria a month earlier.
Brighton and Hove Albion have cemented their spot in the top nine of the Premier League after their emphatic win over Manchester United last weekend. The Red Devils were on the receiving end of a thrashing from the Graham Potter-led Brighton side at the Amex Stadium on Saturday. Brighton were able to record their biggest Premier League ever at the expense of Manchester United thanks to the convincing 4-0 win.
Sweden national team star Dejan Kulusevski could have written his name in the Premier League (PL) record books when his Tottenham Hotspur side entertained Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday lunchtime during the last set of Premier League games. The Sweden international has made a big impact at Spurs since his loan move from Italian Serie A giants Juventus at the start of the year.
Sweden have won six successive games against Poland and they could make it seven wins in a row when they meet in Chorzow next week Tuesday with a place at the World Cup 2022 tournament up for grabs.
England international Theo Walcott made his return to the Southampton squad for the Premier League clash with defending champions Manchester City at home last weekend. Walcott featured in the Saints team for the first time in 2022 against the Citizens having recovered from Covid-19. He had not been involved in the Southampton squad since the start of the year on the back on him testing positive for Covid-19.Theo Walcott started the visit of Manchester City on Saturday evening on the bench.
Sweden national team icon Zlatan Ibrahimovic was one of the goalscorers as his AC Milan team ended on the wrong side of a seven-goal thriller at the end of the Italian Serie A trip to Florence to face Fiorentina. Ibrahimovic scored two of the three Milan goals but it was not enough to claim at least one point thanks to the red-hot form of the highly rated Serbian striker DusanVlahovic. Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur target Vlahovicscored twice to lead Fiorentina to a 4-3 victory over Milan.
Hosts Fiorentina scored the first goal of the game on 15 minutes thanks to Ghanaian footballer Alfred Duncan. Riccardo Saponara then scored a second Fiorentina goal on the stroke of half-time to deliver a big blow to the hopes of Milan getting a win that would take them three points clear at the top of the Italian Serie A table. Saponara was able to get a goal against his former team.
Sweden are the team to beat in Group B of the European qualifiers for next year’s World Cup tournament on Qatari soil after they opened up a three-point lead at the top of the standings. Sweden are ahead of favourites Spain in the running to see who will finish at the top of the group with two games left for the two teams.
