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Match
Summary |
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Officials |
Sweden |
Type |
England |
Referee
(black blazer) - Giovanni Galeati
x (-), Italy.
Linesmen -
Oskar BjÖrn� and
Finn Br�then, both Norway
Teams presented to the Swedish Crown Prince
The FIFA ruling of allowing a substitute to replace an injured player prior to the 44th minute, and a goalkeeper at any time, is in place.
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Goal Attempts |
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Attempts on Target |
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Hit Bar/Post |
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Corner Kicks Won |
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Offside Calls Against |
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Fouls Conceded |
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Possession |
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Sweden
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 5th to 4th |
Colours: |
Yellow jerseys with blue collars/cuffs, blue shorts, blue socks with
two yellow thin hoops. |
Capt: |
Henry Carlsson |
Manager:
Trainer:
George Sidney Raynor, 42
(13 January 1907) |
Selection committee, headed by J. Rudolf E.
Kock, 47 (29 June 1901) |
Sweden
Lineup |
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Svensson, Karl-Oskar |
23 |
11 November 1925 |
G |
Helsingborgs IF |
1 |
1
GA |
2 |
Nordahl, Knut E.A. |
29 |
13 January 1920 |
RB |
IFK Norrköping |
17 |
1 |
3 |
Nilsson, Erik |
32 |
6 August 1916 |
LB |
Malmö FF |
24 |
0 |
4 |
Rosén, Kjell |
28 |
24 April 1921 |
RHB |
Malmö FF |
18 |
6 |
5 |
Leander, O. Börje |
31 |
7 March 1918 |
CHB |
AIK Stockholm |
20 |
3 |
6 |
Andersson, Sune I. |
28 |
22 February 1921 |
LHB |
AIK
Stockholm |
16 |
1 |
7 |
Jónsson, Egon |
22 |
25 October 1926 |
OR |
GAIS Göteborg |
1 |
1 |
8 |
Gren, J.
Gunnar |
28 |
31 October 1920 |
IR |
IFK
Göteborg |
38 |
24 |
9 |
Jepsson, Hans |
24 |
10 May 1925 |
CF |
Djurgårdens IF |
1 |
1 |
10 |
Carlsson, N.G. Henry |
31 |
29 October 1917 |
IL |
AIK Stockholm |
25 |
17 |
11 |
Bäckvall, Bertil K. |
26 |
22 February 1923 |
OL |
AIK Stockholm |
2 |
0 |
unused substitutes: |
G.Sjöberg (AIK), C.E.Andersson (Djurgårdens), B.Rosengren
(Norrköping), K.Franck (Helsingborgs), A.Hjalmarsson (Elfsborg),
according to the matchday programme. |
team notes: |
Committee Chairman Pette Kock played against England in 1923.
Börje Leander was the brother-in-law of Lennart
Johansson, UEFA President 1990-2007. For the first time, two
players have scored on their debuts against England. The first
opposition debut goal since Scotland did so in April 1947. |
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2-3-5 |
Svensson - Nordahl, Nilson -
Ros�n, Leander, Andersson -
Jónsson, Gren, Jepsson, Carlsson,
Bäckvall. |
Averages: |
Age |
27.5 |
Appearances/Goals |
14.8 |
4.6 |
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England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 4th to 5th |
Colours: |
The 1949 home
uniform -
White collared jerseys, blue shorts, black socks with white
tops. |
Capt: |
Billy Wright, fifth captaincy |
Manager:
Trainer: Jimmy Trotter (Charlton Athletic FC) |
Walter Winterbottom, 36 (31 March 1913), appointed as FA national director of coaching/team manager on 8 July 1946;
20th
match, W 14 - D 3 - L 3 - F 68 - A 20.
Party chosen by Selection Committee headed by Arthur Drewry, on Monday, 2 May
1949, team chosen on Wednesday, 11 May. |
England
Lineup |
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Ditchburn, Edwin G. |
27 |
24 October 1921 |
G |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
2 |
3ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Shimwell, Edmund |
29 |
27 February 1920 |
RB |
Blackpool FC |
1 |
0 |
3 |
Aston, John |
27 |
3 September 1921 |
LB |
Manchester United FC |
5 |
0 |
4 |
Wright, William A. |
25 |
6 February 1924 |
RHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
20 |
0 |
5 |
Franklin,
Cornelius |
27 |
24 January 1922 |
CHB |
Stoke
City FC |
20 |
0 |
6 |
Cockburn,
Henry |
27 |
14 September 1921 |
LHB |
Manchester
United FC |
10 |
0 |
7 |
Finney,
Thomas |
27 |
5 April 1922 |
OR |
Preston
North End FC |
16 |
13 |
8 |
Mortensen, Stanley H. |
27 |
26 May 1921 |
IR |
Blackpool FC |
11 |
14 |
9 |
Bentley, T.F. Roy |
24 |
17 May 1924 |
CF |
Chelsea FC |
1 |
0 |
10 |
Rowley, John F. |
30 |
7 October 1918 |
IL |
Manchester United FC |
2 |
1 |
11 |
Langton,
Robert |
30 |
8 September 1918 |
OL |
Preston North End FC |
9 |
1 |
unused substitutes: |
no reserves were named. |
team notes: |
Billy Wright, at 25 years and 96 days, becomes the youngest player to
reach twenty appearances, beating Cliff Bastin's ten year-old record.
This defeat marks England's first post-war back-to-back defeats. |
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2-3-5 |
Ditchburn - Shimwell, Aston - Wright, Franklin, Cockburn -
Finney,
Mortensen, Bentley, Rowley, Langton. |
Averages: |
Age |
27.3 |
Appearances/Goals |
8.8 |
2.5 |
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Match Report
by Mike Payne |
It
really was a case of unlucky 'Friday the thirteenth' when England met
Sweden in Stockholm in the first game of their summer tour of Scandinavia.
The Swedes dished out quite a football lesson to their illustrious
visitors and fully realised the potential they had shown at Highbury two
years ago.
The first two minutes contained two of the games important moments. After
90 seconds, Roy Bentley all but scored when he followed on to a bad
back-pass by Leander and lobbed the ball over Svensson. The goalkeeper,
though, somewhat luckily managed to keep it out of his net.
It was a crucial miss as Sweden then went straight up the other end and
opened their scoring. Gren, lively throughout, caught England out with a
fine pass for Carlsson to run on to and score a good goal.
England
were stunned and it showed again in their play. On 35 minutes Gren was
again the playmaker as a brillinat four-man move ended with Jepsson
crashing home a shot on the run. The, three minutes from half-time,
Johnsson volleyed home spectacularly after receiving yet another cross
from Gren. That goal brought the near 40,000 crowd to their feet and they
gave their players a standing ovation at the break. Mortensen had hit a
post just before then end of the half, but England trooped off bemused and
bewildered.
To their eternal credit, England rallied after the
restart and in the last 25 minutescontrolled the play. When after 67
minutes, Tom Finney scored to round off a fine dribble and pass by Bentley
it seemed that a miracle may be possible.
However, it was at this
stage of the game that the ball began to run very unkindly for England.
Bentley saw a shot cannon off a post and Finney was twice dispossessed
when seemingly about to score. Then, in the last minute, Svensson saved
bravely at Mortensen's feet when a goal seemed certain as the inside-right
strode clear.
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Match Report
by Norman Giller |
Even without
the great Italian-based Gunnar Nordhal, Sweden were able to produce the power
and precision that had brought them the 1948 Olympic gold medal. They scored
their three goals
in the first
half, with Eddie Shimwell being given a torrid time in his only international
appearance at right-back. Chelsea centre-forward Roy Bentley was unlucky not
to mark his debut with a goal in the opening minutes, and both he and Tom
Finney hit the woodwork in the second half as Sweden battled to hang on to
their three-goal lead. It was a Bentley dribble that set up Finney for
England's only goal in the sixty-seventh minute. Skipper Billy Wright lost
the toss and ir proved crucial. The Swedes chose to play with a setting sun
behind them and goalkeeper Ted Ditchburn complained of being blinded for two
of the three Swedish goals.
But
overall England could not complain about the result. The football Sweden
played was a credit to English coach George Raynor.
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Source Notes |
TheFA.com Svenskfotboll.se Original newspaper reports Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author
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