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| Swedish and AC Milan striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic |
Zlatan Ibrahimovic hadn't played with Sweden for 3 weeks before he came on in the 24' minute of their 5-0 UEFA qualifying win over Finland. Ibrahimovic came on in the 25' minute as Ola Toivonen was forced off with a toe injury. Zlatan then scored 2 goals in the space of 10 minutes, and a third one in the second half, moving Ibrahimovic into 3rd place on the goal-scoring leader boards for group E and giving him his first hat-trick of the qualifying stages.
Sweden is now within touching distance of 1st place in group E, as the win over Finland puts Sweden 3 points behind the Netherlands.
With 4 games remaining in the qualifying round Sweden will look to reach 1st place in their group and secure a Euro 2012 spot in Ukraine, instead of trying to qualify through the group-runners-up playoffs. With Zlatan leading the way it will be hard not to.
Why the Swedish posts?
ReplyDeleteI'm half Swedish Christian
ReplyDeleteVery cool. I din't know that, but I figured it was something like that.
ReplyDeleteThanks. You're half Serbian or something right?
ReplyDeleteHaha...no. I wish. Why'd you think that?
ReplyDeleteYour dad's club is named after a Serbian club. Plus, Knopf sounds European.
ReplyDeleteAh, OK. That's very true. I do have family from Europe, like England, Germany, Russia, and Poland. 'Knopf' is German, I believe.
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