Group E of the 2021 European Championship features Spain, Poland, Sweden, and Slovakia. On the 18th of June, we have a meeting between Sweden and Slovakia at the Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg and it is a huge game for both teams in terms of their qualification chances to the knockout stages.
Sweden come into the match having picked up a point in a 0-0 draw against Spain in their opening fixture of the group. It was a good result and leaves Sweden knowing a win in this match could be enough to see them progress in the competition.
Despite being a good result against Spain, Sweden were made to work hard for the draw and they had long spells of the match without touching the ball.
However, that result means Sweden are undefeated in their last 6 games. They have picked up victories over Georgia and Kosovo in 2022 World Cup qualifying plus wins against Estonia, Finland, and Armenia in friendly matches.
Trends show Sweden have failed to win any of their 4 most recent fixtures at the European Championship. They were defeated 1-0 by Italy and Belgium in 2016 plus were held to a draw by Republic of Ireland in the group stage.
Sweden have not managed to score a goal in their 3 most recent matches in the European Championship and have won only 1 of their last 9 European Championship matches.
Slovakia will come into this game full of confidence following their 2-1 win over Poland. Slovakia were tipped by many to finish bottom of this group they now have a great chance of reaching the knockout stages.
Slovakia took the lead after 18 minutes of the game and despite conceding an equaliser just after half-time, they kept going and scored the winning goal in the 69th minute.
That result means Slovakia are undefeated in their last 6 games. In addition to the win over Poland, Slovakia have beaten Russia in 2022 World Cup qualifying.
However, they were also held to draws against Cyprus and Malta in their World Cup qualifying group, which were disappointing results.
Trends show Slovakia have lost only 1 of their last 4 European Championship fixtures. They defeated Russia in the group stage of 2016 plus picked up a point in a 0-0 draw against England.
Team news and Sweden could opt to go with the same starting XI from the match against Spain. One change could see the inclusion of Robin Quaison in attack.
Slovakia unlikely to make any unforced changes from the team which started the match against Poland. That means Ondrej Duda will play up-front with support out wide from Robert Mak and Luka Haraslín.
Both teams are going to be difficult to breakdown in this game and we could see few clear cut goal scoring chances created.
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