Sweden and South Korea are set to kick-start their World Cup campaign by achieving victory in Nizhnij Novgorod on Monday afternoon.
Despite the fact that both teams know have previously reached the latter stages of the tournament, neither of them has been tipped to achieve any sort of remarkable success in Russia this year.
The Swedish team once reached the third place of the tournament at the USA 94. Few years later, South Korea finished fourth when they co-hosted the tournament at the Korea-Japan 2002.
The Swedish team will only have to worry about John Guidetti’s foot problem. However, he has been declared fit to play after successful training sessions with the squad.
On the other hand, South Korea have a plethora of injury problems to worry about. Veteran attacker, Lee Keun-ho, play-maker, Kwon Chang-hoon and Kim Jin-su have been ruled out of the match day squad due to various injury problems.
Possible lineup:
Sweden: Olsen; Lustig, Granqvist, Lindelof, Augustinsson; Claesson, Larsson, Ekdal, Forsberg; Berg, Toivonen
South Korea: Kim SG; Lee Y, Jang, Kim YG, Park JH; Lee SW, Ki, Jung WY, Lee JS; Hwang, Son
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