The worst loss ever

Yesterday our Swedish football team played a heroic gane against world champions and world #1 ranked Germany. It became our worst loss ever. Since we deserved more.

Germany had to win. Sweden scored 1-0 in the first half, an fantastic goal by flrmer Malmö FF player Ola Toivonen.

We also had a an open goal chance when Berg came alone towards the goal but was 100% fouled by a German defender. A very clear penalty and a red card for German defender Boateng. Everybody saw it. The televion displayed it clearly. But the referee decide no penalty wothout even considering to check the video system VAR. Why? Nobody knows.

I am sure this would never had been the case if it happened to a big football nation like Argentina, Spain, France, Brazil…or Germany. Then he would have checked the video and seen what the rest of us saw. A penalty.

The German team recovered and played well in the second half, scored a well deserved 1-1 goal. The clock was slowly moving towards 90 minutes and Sweden defended well.

Now the second problem and strange thing happened. The referee decided to add 5 minutes of extra time. Nobody knows why. Why 5 minutes? Almost no World Cup games so far has been pro-longed that long. Nothong happened in second half to motivate this. It was certainly not mandated by the game. Howver Germany needed all minutes to stay on the tournament.

In the last 5th minute of extra time Germany scores 2-1. Bravo. An amazing goal by Toni Kros. Nobody can deny that. But what an ending for Sweden.

It is easy to ask was this fair? Would the referee act the same way of the positions were reversed? I don’t think so. This is big time football. FIFA knows what they want. The big teams in the tournament as long as possible. Well, at least they got that.

We are proud of our Swedosh team. They did what they could and they deserved more.