Sweden beat Switzerland and return to World Cup quarter-finals after 24 years



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SÃO PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (FOLHAPRESS) – After 24 years, Sweden returns to the quarterfinals of a World Cup.

The Swedes are now expecting the winner of England and Colombia, who also face off Tuesday at 3 pm, (19659003) Sweden has not reached the quarter-finals since 1994, when she went into the semifinals and lost to Brazil in the United States.

In 2002 and 2006, they progressed to eighth place, but fell respectively to Senegal and Germany.

The winning goal of Sweden was scored by Emil Forsberg, who started at the edge of the box and made a mistake at the Swiss Akanji for the ball to stop at the corner of Sommer.

SWEDEN

Olsen; Lustig (Krafth), Lindelöf, Granqvist and Augustinsson; Claesson, Svensson, Ekdal and Forsberg (Olsson); Toivonen and Berg (Thelin). T: Janne Andersson

SWITZERLAND

Sommer; Lang, Djourou, Akanji and Rodriguez; Behrami and Xhaka; Shaqiri, Dzemaili (Seferovic) and Zuber (Embolo); Drmic. T .: Vladimir Petkovic

Location: St. Petersburg Arena, St. Petersburg (RUS)

Judge: Damir Skomina (SLO)

Yellow card: Lustig (SUE); Behrami and Xhaka (SUI)

Red card: Lang (SUI)

Goal: Forsberg (SUE) at 20min of the second period

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