18:30 Sweden – Ivory Coast

Sweden arrived in Abu Dhabi yesterday, but this is not the only problem for the Yellow-Blues ahead of this clash.

Erik Hamren has a group of twenty one players, most of whom have no experience on international level and only three of them have more than two games for the Sweden national football team.

Cheick Tiote (midfielder / 1 goal), Max Gradel (midfielder / 5 goals), Seydou Doumbia (striker / 2 goals) and Wilfried Bony (striker / 11 goals) will miss this match for Ivory Coast, but even without those four players, this team own enough potential to win today.

An interesting fact is, that Ivory Coast took a 1-0 victory in the previous friendly match between these two teams, although it was back in 2006 (Sweden – Ivory Coast 0-1 on 15.11.2006).