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At the Konya Büyüksehir Stadium in the city of Selçuklu, Turkey will receive the national team of Sweden on Saturday night. Currently, the Russians are with seven points in the first place of the group. Turkey follows in second place with three points. The Swedes are currently in last place with only one point on the account. The Turks need a victory, otherwise they are threatened by relegation from the league B. The Swedes have yet to play two games and could Russia even with six points from the last two games even make the group victory. In a draw, the decision to relegate only in the last match between Sweden and Russia. On Tuesday Tre Kronor receives the Sbornaja.
The first leg against Sweden on 10 September, the Turks were able to win 3-2 away in Solna. In the two games against Russia, however, the Turks went out as losers. The Swedes played after the defeat against Turkey still 0-0 in Russia. Eleven games have been played between Turkey and Sweden. With five wins, four draws and two defeats, the direct comparison speaks quite clearly for the Milli Takim. For four international matches, the Scandinavians are waiting for a victory against the Turks. During this time, there was a draw and three wins in a row for Turkey.
Turkey:
Since August 2017, the Turkish national team is supervised by the Romanian coach legend Mircea Lucescu. Nevertheless, under the new coach, Turkey could not qualify for the World Cup in Russia. In the qualifying group with Iceland, Croatia, Ukraine, Finland and Kosovo in the end it was only enough for fourth place. So the Turks missed the fourth of the last five major football events. At the beginning of the calendar year 2018, Turkey had stabilized somewhat. In recent months, however, the services of the Milli Takim were again very unsteady. Of the recent eight internationals you could win only two, against Sweden and Iran. Against teams such as Montenegro, Tunisia and Bosnia-Herzegovina it was only enough to division of points.
Lucescu was to work on the national team on the upheaval and the makeover, but after some failures, the voices of critics became louder and louder. One can not recognize a plan or a philosophy. The coach almost always lets his team play in the 4-2-3-1 system. A great morale showed the team of coach Lucescu in the Nations League first leg at the Swedes. The team had lagged behind with 0: 2. In the 88th minute it was still 1: 2 against the guests. In the final phase, the Turks turned the game and won by a double by Joker Emre Akbaba 3-2. In the last two internationals Turkey scored but no goal. In the squad of the Turks are players of international top teams like Hakan Calhanoglu (AC Milan), Cengiz Ünder (Roma), Cenk Tosun (Everton FC) or Caglar Söyüncü (Leicester City). From the Bundesliga Kaan Ayhan and Kenan Karaman (both Fortuna Dusseldorf) and Yunus Malli (VfL Wolfsburg) were appointed.
Sweden:
After the great performance of the Swedes at this year’s World Cup in Russia with reaching the round of the last eight, Tre Kronor is not doing so well. In four games after the finals, they drew only two draws (against Russia and Slovakia). In addition, they lost two games (against Austria and Turkey). Thus, the Blagult waiting for five internationals for a win.
Since the end of the Euro 2016 in the preliminary round, the Swedish national team is coached by Janne Andersson. He was the successor of longtime trainer Erik Hamren. Under Andersson, the Scandinavians usually run in 4-4-2 with double six. On Saturday, the Sweden must again renounce Emil Forsberg of RB Leipzig. In contrast, Robin Quaison (Mainz), Isaac Kiese Thelin (Leverkusen) and Ludwig Augustinsson (Werder) are in the squad of the Tre Kronor from the Bundesliga.
Turkey vs Sweden head to head matches
10.09.18 UNL Sweden Turkey 2 : 3
24.03.16 FI Turkey Sweden 2 : 1
05.03.14 FI Turkey Sweden 2 : 1
06.02.08 FI Turkey Sweden 0 : 0
05.09.01 WC Turkey Sweden 1 : 2