The 2026 World Cup is getting closer day-by-day, and that has our crew taking a look at one of the most polarizing nations throughout World Cup Qualifying, Sweden, who managed to qualify without winning a match until their final playoff game vs. Ukraine. Join Claudia Pagan, Nico Cantor, Chris Wittyngham & Geoff Shreeves as they preview Graham Potter’s Sweden squad, discussing which players are most likely to make an impact and help the likes of Viktor Gyökeres & Alexander Isak score the goals necessary to escape Group F with the Netherlands, Japan & Tunisia. Plus, the crew take a closer look at the career of Graham Potter, discussing how his performance with Sweden could benefit his reputation as a manager
0:00 Sweden’s Group F CHANCES
1:44 Graham Potter’s Reputation
4:22 Gyökeres & Isak ISSUES together
4:50 Sweden Projected Starting XI
5:56 BREAKOUT STARS
6:45 Group F Schedule PREVIEW
8:52 Can Sweden bounce back?
9:29 Is Isak still World Class?
9:49 BETTING ANALYSIS
11:46 Watch More!
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Lol we have a Potter Swedish hater
Just a heads up, pink guy shirt is makeing it impossibale to watch your show
This guy has no clue haha, its funny seeing americans talk about football
There is a distinct lack of forwards in the squad, especially given Isak's injury concerns. No excuse for not having more forward options when you can choose 26 players. Bardghji, Swedberg, and Larsson are bizarre omissions.
Sweden will go far. We have good coach with good players and a deep squad.
My god, these ”experts” doesnt have a clue. Svensson will Never ever play rwb.
Wanting Sweden to get to quarter final to call it a success is a bit much. We lost to Luxembourg a year ago!
They wont play together, it will be elanga gyok and nygren
4 points guarantees you go through to the round of 32 in basically every single scenario. That much should be obvious knowledge if you’re analysing the WC as a professional pundit.
Worldcup 94 in usa sweden won bronze medal third place
Pink guy is a bonafide hater, lol, you can tell the rest of them can't stand him.
Guy in pink doesn’t know much about Potter obviously. Would love for us to prove the guy wrong and then maybe he’ll not be on air anymore.
Qualified thanks to the referee
We had injuries on all of our key players in that qualification and on to of that coach that didnt know how to play defence. Now we still have injury on Dejan and Isak (?) but it feels alot better now. When Gökeres and Isak are fit they are both top strikers in the world, you cant argue against that.
I am from sweden but I feel the pink guy here… I prefer to see us as underdogs
Jeez that happens when americans try to talk about football. That Isaak guy had probably 3 goals the whole season?
gyokeres? the guy who becomes non-existant when up against defenders who actually know how to do their job?
They scored 2 goals together in 15 matches 😂
The guy in pink shirt needs a snickers so angry, dumb takes. Potter turned a broken team into something now if he can adapt that in World Cup who knows how far they can go,
Sweden almost always perform well when in the world cup. Played it 12 times. Top 8 8 times, top 4 4 times and 3 medals. For exampel Sweden not only has more world cup medals than England and Spain they have more than England and Spain combined.
Sweden also has been better in tough groups.
Why is the pink shirt guy so upset? Relax.
This is just hilarious, just shows how ignorant americans are to european football. JDT got sacked for the fiasko gameplan he implemented when Sweden returned to their roots with Potter they started to win again.