It is a measure of Sweden’s growing confidence and form that England’s dramatic progress to the semi-finals of Euro 2022 should be regarded as an enticing rather than intimidating prospect. Their coach, Peter Gerhardsson, was bullish about the possibility of confronting the host nation at Bramall Lane on Tuesday.
“I decided to stay in my room to watch the game and I thought it was a really good game of football,” the Sweden coach said of the competition’s first quarter-final. “I wasn’t thinking about England, only the game, but I did think to myself: ‘I would like to play this team and I would prefer to play them here in England’. But I’ll have to revisit that after Belgium.”
