Euro 2020 team guides part 20: Sweden

09-Jun-2021 11:00:48 | Guardian

There will be no Zlatan Ibrahimovic but Alexander Isak could fill his boots and, as always with Sweden, the collective is key

This article is part of the Guardian’s Euro 2020 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 24 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from two countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June.

“The return of the God,” Zlatan Ibrahimovic tweeted modestly when it was announced he would end a five-year exile from the national team. But then God got injured and the Swedish national team were back where it started the year – which, in fairness, is not a terrible place.