Swedes mashed by Russia
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The Swedish players are crestfallen at the final whistle.
Russia produced their best performance of Euro 2008 just when it was most needed on Wednesday, beating Sweden 2-0 to snatch second place in Group D and earn a quarter-final meeting with Netherlands. Russia, who had never beaten Sweden in their five previous meetings spanning 95 years, had to win to progress while a draw would have been enough for the Scandinavians.[+]
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| Current Squad | |
| G1 Andreas Isaksson | M18 Sebastian Larsson |
| G12 Rami Shaaban | M6 Tobias Linderoth |
| G13 Johan Wiland | M9 Freddie Ljungberg |
| D23 Mikael Dorsin | M2 Mikael Per Benny Nilsson |
| D15 Andreas Granqvist | M8 Anders Svensson |
| D4 Petter Hansson | M21 Christian Wilhelmsson |
| D14 Daniel Majstorovic | F10 Zlatan Ibrahimovic |
| D3 Olof Mellberg | F20 Marcus Allback |
| D5 Fredrik Stoor | F11 Johan Elmander |
| M7 Niclas Alexandersson | F17 Henrik Larsson |
| M19 Daniel Andersson | F22 Markus Rosenberg |
| M16 Kim Kallstrom | |
| · Complete Squad | |
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| Latest Fixtures/Results | |||
| DATE | OPPONENT | RESULT | Competition |
| Sat 6/14 | H- Spain | L 1-2 | European Championship |
| Wed 6/18 | A - Russia | L 2-0 | European Championship | · Complete Team Fixtures/Results |
| 2008 Tables: European Championship | ||||||
| TEAM | P | W | L | D | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| Russia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -1 | 3 |
| Greece | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
| · Complete Tables | ||||||
| 2008 Leaders: Euro 2012 | |||||
| PLAYER | Goals | ||||
| Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 2 | ||||
| Petter Hansson | 1 | ||||
| PLAYER | Yellow Cards | ||||
| Johan Elmander | 1 | ||||
| Andreas Isaksson | 1 | ||||
| Anders Svensson | 1 | ||||
| · Complete Statistics | |||||
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