With the World Cup draw over and done with we sent some chaps down to Saudi Arabia to show them how Human Rights work and to play some football. To my mind the starting XI in tomorrow's game features only three players that are probable to start in the World Cup, Teddy Lucic of BK Häcken Anders Svensson of Elfsborg Losers FC and Niclas Alexandersson of Blowit, Gothenburg.
In fact the number of potential World Cup travellers are easily numbered if numbering is your kind of thing and not that there's anything wrong with that. Apart from the previously mentioned trio the back four (the other three apart from Teddy Tranquility Lucic) all have a chance of making an impression. We need defensive players and I think that these are the best we've got behind Mellberg, Edman and Östlundh, along with Mikael Nilsson of Panathinaikos.
I don't see Martin Ericsson, Fredrik Berglund or, actually, Tobias Hysén making it into the squad. Hysén is good but might not make it since he's competing with Elmander (Bröndby), Jonson (Animal Farm IF FF) and The Chip (Anderlecht) for a spot behind Alexandersson and Ljungberg. Alexandersson, easily the most versatile player in the squad, will probably be a backup for Linderoth AND be the starting choice at either right midfield or right back. Up front I'm guessing on Jonson and Rosenberg to back up the most obvious choices in the team after Isaksson, Zlatan and Henrik. That would give us the following squad:
Isaksson, Eddie and probably Alvbåge who doesn't cut it in my mind.
Östlundh, Mellberg, Teddy Tranquility, Edman, Nilsson, von Schleebrügge, Hansson, Curly Andersson.
Linderoth
El Chip, Källström, Anders Svensson, Elmander, Ljungberg, Alexandersson
Larsson, Ibrahimovic, Rosenberg, Jonson
And one more guy. Thing is, Mikael Nilsson is an excellent right midfield player and since Alexandersson can play everywhere ... I need to sleep on this.
Starting lineup for tomorrow's game:
Eddie G
Curly A, Teddy Da Man, Karl Svensson (his debut) and Maximilian von Schlipperknödel
Alexandersson
Martin Ericsson, Anders Svensson, Tobias Hysén
Son of Jon, Freddy Berglund
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