UEFA Euro 2020 Highlights, Sweden vs Slovakia: Forsberg scores winner; Sweden 1-0 Slovakia at FT

Emil Forsberg’s goal from the spot separates the two teams. Sweden picked up a sweet, sweet win. FT – It’s Sweden 1-0 Slovakia.

CORNER! Duda’s cross from corner leads to a melee inside the box, but nothing comes off from it.

CHANCE! Isak sets up a chance, but he kept ball to himself, becoming selfish, too late pass, and shot went awry.

GOALLL! Forsberg scores from the penalty spot.

PENALTY! Dubravka takes a dive and drops Quiason. He has been given a yellow card and a penalty.

SAVE! Isak dribbles inside Slovakian box and takes a shot, but it was just saved by a soft touch by Slovakia keeper.

CHANCE! Isak gets a cross inside the box and he almost headed it again!

Sweden SUBS:

Marcus Berg OUT

Robert Quaison IN

Olsson off

Claesson IN

Slovakia SUBS:

Pekarik off

Haraslin IN

SHOT! The game has come alive! Isak takes a shot, but it was deflected wide by Slovakia defender.

SAVE! Dubrbka makes a fantastic left-handed save as a brilliant header on target by Augustinsson almost gave Sweden the lead.

FREEKICK! Hamsik gets a free kick from a dangerous area, it was headed on target by Kucka but it was saved by Swedish goalkeeper.

OFFSIDE. Would not have counted anyways.

CHANCE! Duda dribbles past Swedish defence, takes a shot, but it was hit with a side of the foot, missed the goal post by a few meters.

CORNER! Sweden on instant attacking gear, and they are gettign back to back corners, but nothing come off it.

Play begins at second half -can both teams increase the volume up?

It’s an end to a dreary first half of the match. No goals at all – but it was a very timid and unimpressive first half.

Nothing coming off for both teams. The lack of quality in attacking prowess for both teams

CORNER! Hamsik takes the corner — and it saw a moment of trouble for Sweden defence, but in the end, nothing came out of it.

Slovakia have not been the positive team they were against Poland. There has been no sense of attack going on from Slovakia.

The match has really slowed down and the clouds are trying to pump up their teams. But as of now, both teams are struggling to get any attack going.

A long throw-in from Lindelof inside the box, and it was well defended by Slovakia.

YELLOW CARD! Olsson gets booked for a nasty challenge on Kucka, who looks to set up a counter-attack.

Sweden stitching together a few attacking efforts, but it has been defended well by Slovakia.

Both teams are being cautious. Slovakia started with some dynamism but are nos sitting well deep enough inside their half

FOUL! Hubocan trips Berg inside a dangerous area for no reason — gives away a FREE KICK. Will anything come out of this set piece?

Larsson plays it in and it is headed above the goal by Lustig. MISSED!

Koscelnik sends across a cross trying to find a Slovakian leg to tap in, but it just reahed Swedish goalkeeper.

CHANCE! 6: Hamsik sends across a dangerous ball into the box, but it was dealt well by Lindelof.

CHANCE! A cross inside the Sweden box almost saw Slovakia get the goal. On the other end, a counter-attack saw Berg getting a shot on target.

FOUL! Skriniar has taken a hit from Olsson in the early goings, but nothing too nasty about it. Still could have been booked, lucky to escape

KICKOFF! The ball is set rolling and the play begins – It’s Sweden vs Slovakia!

Time for National Anthems — both teams have come out to the middle as they prepare for the kickoff.

Sweden captain Seb Larsson:

“We are very secure in ourselves… People will always have opinions, criticism or not, somewhere our basic feeling is that we took a point from Spain away in our Euro opener, which as a result is good for us and gives us opportunities.”

Sweden coach Janne Andersson:

“They have played in a clear way in a number of games now, our analysis is that it’s not a Spain type of game that we’ll meet, it’ll be a different type of game.

“We expect to have a little more ball in the build-up phase and we’ll have to drive the match forward more. They sit quite deep and they are very good in their counter-attacking phase… I believe they’ll back home a bit, but you can never know for sure.”

Sweden drew their game against Spain, they are playing the same side tonight. A loss or a draw would hamper their chances of qualifying further in the tournament.

Slovakia have never beaten Sweden in their five previous encounters (D3 L2), with their last four games never producing more than two goals.

(Source: Sky Sports)

Slovakia need one more win to qualify for Round of 16. If they beat Switzerland, if would be a big win for them, reaching past group 16 for first time in history.

Sweden Starting XI: Olsen, Lustig, Lindelof, Danielson, Augustinsson, Olsson, Ekdal, Larsson, Forsberg, Berg, Isak

Subs: Johnsson, Nordfeldt, Bengtsson, Svensson, Helander, Sema, Krafth, Claesson, Jansson, Kulusevski, Quaison, Cajuste

Slovakia Starting XI: Dubravka, Pekarik, Satka, Skriniar, Hubocan, Kucka, Hrosovsky, Koscelnik, Hamsik, Mak, Duda

Subs: Kuciak, Rodak, Valjent, Gregus, Weiss, Bozenik, Benes, Hancko, Haraslin, Duris, Lobotka, Hromada

Hello and welcome to our live blog on Euro 2020 football match between Sweden and Slovakia. Skriniar starred in Slovakia’s win over 10-man Poland and he will be the key as they look to reach the Round of 16.