Swedish National Team Faces Criticism After 0-2 Loss to Switzerland

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Swedish National Team Faces Criticism After 0-2 Loss to Switzerland
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Boos poured in from the stands after 0-2 against Switzerland. And they continue in the newspapers' chronicles. "Is it possible to continue believing in anything that the national team is doing?", wonders Expressen's Therese Strömberg.

This is what Aftonbladet's Simon Bank is also wondering.

"This was a starting eleven selected by roulette, trying to play a game they were not close to grasping," he writes.

Bank would like to know what Sebastian Larsson and Kim Källström think about the choice of Jon Dahl Tomasson as Sweden's national team manager now.

"He sold a dream of a new Sweden, and both players and the association jumped with excitement. They all have a responsibility for the path they have chosen, for the choices they have made," he writes.

Olof Lundh claims in TV4 Fotbollskanalen that Jon Dahl Tomasson's promised revolution has required a sacrifice – Swedish football.

"This revolution has completely fallen apart and it's hard to see any bright future. It remains to be seen how the association's board will act, but the reasonable thing is to question the direction Swedish football has taken," Lundh writes.

Dagens Nyheter's Johan Esk urges the Swedish Football Association to act quickly if the win would be absent even against Kosovo on Monday:

"Tomasson's contract expires after the World Championship qualification. Firing him would not have to sink a shaky association economy. Missing the World Championship would cost infinitely more."

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